How I Became a Healthy Black Sheep.

Decades ago, before I stopped eating sweet, innocent herbivores, aka, meat, such as baby cows, teenage cows, chicken tots, piglets, and moms and dads, I had chronic fatigue symptoms, severe thyroid and pancreatic issues, a taxed liver, and chronic bouts of anxiety and depression.

When I switched to a flesh-free diet, my physical health morphed in less than a year into near excellent health which I still enjoyed decades later.

I realized back then, that my new meatless diet re-awakened and nourished an awareness in me, that we are all connected beyond the superficial separation of species. The awareness we all had as wee children, open and receptive to the wonder and joy of life.

I was moved once again to interact, commune more deeply, more specifically, with nature, be it a mouse, a tree, a patch of clover, or you.

To this day, connecting with all life, as I did during my childhood spent mostly in nature, surrounded by animals tame and wild, is as full of wonder, compassion, and awarness, if not more so. It’s as though my physical sensors were recharged, as well as my awe and love of all life.

Though my growing awareness of the suffering of animals in human hands spurred me into vegetarianism way back then, I still, until I switched to a vegan diet, suffered from feeling stuck in anxiety and depression. Guilt from doing needless harm to the planet and her children, included.

When I cut out dairy, my health made a beeline from near excellent to excellent in a few weeks. And my cravings for creamy comfort foods vanished.

Aside from the tranquilizers, pus and other bad stuff in dairy, there’s pain…the horror the bovine mother experiences when her calves are torn from her side, the loneliness she has to endure tethered to milk machines stripping her udders raw and causing painful puss-filled infections.

No wonder I was depressed for years. I was literally taking in the the puss and the pain of enslaved, battered cows. My psyche knew what I was doing. My conscious mind did not, until a few years before I finally kicked the addiction.

If you are still a meat and/or dairy consumer, please remember that the harm we cause to one being, we cause to our own.

The river of sorrow flooded with our conscious or unconscious complicity in the suffering of our animal relatives, of all our relatives, planet included, runs through our veins, our neurons, physically and metaphorically speaking.

The horror in meat and dairy alone, ‘coarsing‘ through our brains, our hearts, every cell in our being, is toxic enough to make anyone sick.

A well-balanced vegan diet and lifestyle does not make you sick. It makes you clear. It makes you healthy. It makes you feel whole.

I have more energy than healthy people half my age, I am told by those half my age.

Please don’t just eat vegan, be vegan. Be a healthy and wise little black sheep. And the other sheep will follow.

BTW, my vegan diet is cheap, healthy, and pretty darn tasty, since I stay clear of the processed meat mimickers.

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