It is time for us to realize that we are indeed being severely punished for this ongoing crime of animal agriculture. The Furies are exacting retribution. It’s urgent that we question materialistic narratives, spread the word, refuse to comply with injustice, liberate animals, and liberate ourselves. Future generations are depending on our efforts.
In ancient Greek mythology, the three Furies (the Erinyes) were
goddesses of retribution who punished human beings for committing
crimes against the natural order. It is long past time for us to
awaken to the basic fact that our enslavement, sexual abuse, and
killing of billions of cows, chickens, and other fully sentient
animals is a dreadful and massive crime against them, against the
Earth and the natural order, and, ultimately, against ourselves.
It is time for us to realize that we are indeed being severely
punished for this ongoing crime of animal agriculture. Animal
agriculture is the hideous spinning fury at the core of our culture,
sowing seeds of disease, exploitation, and conflict that we can see
erupting as tyrannical oppression and as mental, physical, and
social disease virtually everywhere in our world. To free ourselves
from this ongoing punishment that we inflict upon ourselves and each
other, we are called to liberate animals from human maltreatment.
This is the essential and hidden pre-requisite to peace and freedom.
The consequences of failing to understand this basic lesson are
multiplying exponentially. As we reduce animals to livestock and as
we track, force medicate, and exploit them, we inevitably face
retribution for these crimes and find ourselves similarly tracked,
coerced, and exploited as mere livestock. As the old saying goes,
the punishment fits the crime.
Although we’ve all been given the gift of physical bodies that don’t
require any animals to suffer to get all the nutrients we need, the
problem is that we are all born into a culture where we are
compelled from infancy to participate in meals that include the
flesh and secretions of severely abused animals. We are all thus
wounded in profound and intractable ways.
Art for Awakening by Madeleine Tuttle
As discussed in The World
Peace Diet, meals are actually rituals that inject into us, without
our permission or awareness, a toxic narrative that erodes our
compassion, intelligence, and self-respect. Because our meals are
our most intimate connection with nature and with our culture, with
every meal we effectively disconnect from discomforting implicit
realities, and practice ritually dismantling our inherent capacities
to look deeply, listen deeply, care deeply, and understand deeply.
Chickens by visionary artist Madeleine TuttleVirtually everyone in
our society suffers from these same wounds, and consequently we
collectively fail to realize how devastating and self-enslaving our
killing machines are, and fail to understand and discuss what is
actually happening, and why. Animal agriculture ravages and harms
not just the animals, ecosystems, wildlife, indigenous populations,
hungry people, and industry workers, but also the inner landscape of
our consciousness, which is poisoned by the denial, and by the
suppressed guilt and sorrow, that this killing machine requires.
Now, as we reach the two-year anniversary of the launch of the
pandemic narrative as a pretext to decisively strip away the last
remaining fibers in the fabric of human sovereignty, freedom and
dignity, we face tremendous dangers and challenges, because
governments are notorious for not returning freedoms once they have
been taken away. What we sow, we inevitably reap, and the Furies are
relentless in demanding retribution, just as our enslavement of
animals has been relentless and hideously brutal over the past
several centuries. The irony is that without our basic freedoms of
speech, assembly, and the press, our efforts to liberate animals are
severely impeded.
It only takes a relatively small handful of people with
sophisticated technological systems to manage the breeding and
processing of millions of individual livestock animals.
Correspondingly, a small and powerful elite that has gradually
captured the financial, corporate, governmental, medical, military,
educational, and media systems can relatively easily control the
narrative and behavior of billions of people similarly viewed as
livestock. All the above-mentioned social institutions interconnect,
and they are pyramidically hierarchical, with every level simply
enacting orders that come from “above.” The upper layers are
horizontally integrated through interlocking directorships and many
other devices, imposing their will and plan on the levels below.
As technocratic medical tracking systems proliferate amid sinister
mandated injectables, the situation is critical. The beckoning
doorway to a world of harmony, justice, abundance, and freedom is
still available, but the longer we fail to question and decisively
stop our commodification of animals, the more it fades from view.
It’s imperative that we awaken from the culturally-imposed trance of
animal exploitation and from the mentality it requires. If we
continue to insist on eating meat, dairy, and eggs and vivisecting
and otherwise abusing animals, we will continue experiencing the
fury of the boomerang effect. Stealing the purposes and sovereignty
of animals, we’ll continue to find ours stolen from us.
Compassionate Harvest - Art for Awakening by Madeleine Tuttle
A vegan
world of respect for animals is the essential foundation for a
positive future. However, it is clear that, just as we can be vegan
and be unhealthy because we insist on eating a harmful diet of
processed, chemical-laden plant-based foods, we can also be a vegan
and be completely deluded about the situation playing out every day
all around us, especially if we drink from the deceptive trough of
mainstream media and trust the misleading medical narratives spewing
from doctors and health authorities, including vegan ones,
unfortunately.
Gradually, over the past 120 years, the mainstream medical community
has been virtually completely captured by the pharmaceutical
industry (a subset of the petrochemical industry), and the wealth
and power of this industry has allowed it to co-opt and subvert the
environmental movement and the vegan movement, among others. A
shallow faux veganism is now promoted by nonvegans like Bill Gates
and it emphasizes a centralized approach to food production that
subjects the Earth to harmful chemicals and humans to toxic,
engineered factory-foods.
In contrast, the foundation of authentic veganism is respect for the
sovereignty of individual beings, both animal beings and human
beings. The essence of veganism is refusing to comply with social
mandates that attack and harm the sovereignty of individual beings,
and vigorously questioning the narratives put forth by animal
agriculture’s primary supporter, the
meat-medical-pharmaceutical-media-banking complex that is also
driving the rollout of this pandemic.
As a vegan activist for over 40 years, it has become obvious that
the pharmaceutical-chemical industry is the chief enemy and
destroyer of animals and nature, both through vivisection and
through the primary markets for their products, which are
petrochemical medications for exploited animals and indoctrinated
humans. It clearly follows that vegans and the vegan movement should
be the “first-responders” and would logically rise up and form the
immediate and primary resistance to the rollout of
freedom-destroying lockdowns, mandates, and coerced pharmaceutical
interventions. But unfortunately, the vegan movement has been
infiltrated, like all justice movements have been, and a large
number of vegans, like everyone else, fail to question the
materialism of animal agriculture and of science and of our entire
society, which reduces nature to mere random processes, and animals
to material commodities that are sold by the pound.
Faux veganism never questions materialism and even celebrates it. It
is not surprising that so many vegans are gullible to mainstream
narratives, like the general population, because all of us have been
wounded and deceived by the dominant materialistic narrative that
pervades our educational, scientific, media, and other social
institutions, and it takes a lot of effort and awareness to
successfully question and unravel the falsehoods inherent in
materialism.
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Zebras - Art for Awakening by Madeleine Tuttle
These efforts are more
essential than ever before. There are two basic steps we are all
called to take. The first (outer) step is to transform our life,
bringing our life into alignment with our values, so we are
supporting, as best we can, only plant-based, organic, whole, and
locally-sourced food and products. Becoming more self-sufficient and
decentralized in terms of food, energy, and information, and
supporting local producers is essential to creating a healthy
alternative to the ever-expanding centralized technocratic
totalitarianism. The second and more difficult (inner) step is to
undertake the great adventure of spiritual discovery. We are called
to examine and introspect our own consciousness, and free ourselves
from the vise-grip of the colonizing conditioning of materialism
that has insinuated itself into our thoughts, feelings, and
perceptions.
This debilitating materialism pervades every aspect of our herding
culture and going vegan doesn’t magically remove it from our
consciousness. Questioning all the stories we’ve been told our
entire lives is essential, especially those that reduce living
beings to mere material objects and blind us to our true nature as
magnificent expressions of infinite and eternal consciousness. We
are called to question our internalized materialistic convictions
about health, spirituality, success, sexuality, freedom, science,
history, food, relationships, reality: all of it. Transforming our
world starts with each of us, and the liberating and necessary
revolution in our world is ignited through us as individuals, and
proceeds from there.
The time is short. The Furies are exacting retribution. It’s urgent
that we question materialistic narratives, spread the word, refuse
to comply with injustice, liberate animals, and liberate ourselves.
Future generations are depending on our efforts.