Let’s Shift Towards A Plant Based System.

Why is there not more of a shift towards a plant-based way of eating, surely this is the way of the future?

There is a beautiful quote by the Dali Lama which says

“It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the world in which we all live.”

In the current condition that the world is in, it astounds me that there is not more action to collectively preserve this one home we have and the people and animals who live in it.

I wrote recently about the lack of urgency, so I apologise if I’m belabouring the point.

No one appears to be looking critically at intensive animal farming and the apparent links to diseases and the environment. Animal agriculture’s impact on our environment and health is being swept under the carpet. Perhaps dismantling it would affect too many people, both the corporations and the ordinary folk who love their meat and dairy and vote in their government representatives.

The science cannot be more exact, with studies being published frequently on how a plant-based diet can improve one’s health. Hand in hand are the reports on climate change, and one of the biggest things we can do is stop animal agriculture. Our waterways, here in…