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The world peace diet, eating for spiritual health and social harmony, Will Tuttle

Includes bibliographical references

The world peace diet

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Will Tuttle

eating for spiritual health and social harmony

Machine derived contents note: Table of Contents -- Preface -- Our Meals: The Hidden Key to Understanding -- The Practice of Connecting -- The Call to Evolve -- Chapter 1 - Food's Power -- Food as Metaphor -- Sacred Feasts -- Food, Life, and Death -- The Origin of Our Food: Either Plants or Animals -- The Culture of Denial -- Inheriting Cruelty -- The Withering of Intelligence -- I-Thou vs. I-It -- We Are All Mysteries -- Love Is Understanding -- Chapter 2 - Our Culture's Roots -- The Herding Culture -- The Pythagorean Principle -- The Vegan Revolution -- Chapter 3 - The Nature of Intelligence -- On the Taboo against Knowing Who You Eat -- Intelligence: The Ability to Make Connections -- Intelligence, Telos, and Chickens -- Destroying Intelligence and Purpose -- Intelligence Is Species-Specific -- As We Sow, So Shall We Reap -- Chapter 4 - Inheriting our Food Choices -- Our Inheritance: Infant Indoctrination -- The Importance of Leaving Home -- The Power of Social Pressure -- Contemplating Taste -- Defending the Fortress -- Chapter 5 - The Intelligence of Human Physiology -- The Gift -- The Dark Side of Animal Protein -- The Fat of the Matter -- Drugs, Pollution, and War -- The Meat-Medical Complex -- The Placebo Effect -- Our Body, Our Friend -- Chapter 6 - Hunting and Herding Sea Life -- Toxic Wastes, Toxic Flesh -- Herding Fish -- Floating Death Ships -- Chapter 7 - The Domination of the Feminine -- The Dairy Nightmare -- Pushing Cows to Produce -- The Toxins in Milk -- Four Pathways to Hell -- The Mustache Mask -- Eggs: More Domination of the Feminine -- The Web of Connections -- Reviving Sophia -- Chapter 8 - The Metaphysics of Food -- Eating Vibrations -- With the Eyes of an Angel -- Masks and Fear -- Cultivating Compassion -- Chapter 9 - Science and Religion -- Sons of the Herding Culture -- Science and Slavery -- Religious Reductionism -- Chapter 10 - The Dilemma of Work -- Doing the Dirty Work -- The Living Roots of Our Work -- Work as Joy, Work as Burden -- Resurrecting Work -- Chapter 11 - Profiting From Destruction -- The Industrialization of Farming -- Eating Fossil Fuels -- The Toxins in Animal Agriculture -- Healing the Earth and the Economy -- The Consequences of Evading Consequences -- Chapter 12 - Some Objections Answered -- Nurturing Objections -- Animals as Ethically Trivial -- The Myth of Human Predation -- The Justification of Science -- The Justification of Religion -- Other Objections -- Chapter 13 - Evolve or Dissolve -- The Two Limited Perspectives -- The Cycle of Violence -- The Shadow -- Ends and Means -- The Intuitive Imperative -- Some Traditions of Intuition and Compassion -- An Example: Samadhi and Shojin -- Is Shamanism an Answer? -- The Vegan Imperative -- The Emotional Miseducation of Boys -- The Birth of Post-Rational Consciousness -- Chapter 14 - Journey of Transformation -- The Jeweled Web of Journeys -- Seeds of Inspiration -- The Organic Dairy at Camp Challenge -- Seeds of Understanding -- Leaving Home -- Seeds of Community -- SonggwangSa Temple -- The Power of Community -- Chapter 15 - Living the Revolution -- The Holograph -- Victims, Perpetrators, and Bystanders -- Our Connection with Animals -- Paths Away from and Back to Sanity -- Implications for Further Research and Conversation -- Privilege and Slavery -- The Last Days of Eating Animals -- The Movie of Life on Earth -- The Elk's Message -- From Obsolete Exclusivity to All of Us