Last year at the North American Vegetarian Society’s annual
“Summerfest” in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, we met Will Tuttle in person.
Previously, we had only known him through his excellent “Food for
Thought” articles published in VegNews and through our association with
Prayer Circle for Animals. Not only did we get to meet him, we got to
hear him play his own wonderful piano compositions on the stage of the
Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center!
Now I want to tell you that his book, The World Peace Diet,
Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony, is a “must read”
for anyone who is searching for an honest account of what we know deep
down inside is the truth. And I say this as a born again believer in the
Lord Jesus Christ. Truth is universal and has no boundaries. Anyone, of
any faith (or no faith), who reads this book will understand what I
mean, if they have what Christians call “a teachable spirit.”
There are ever so many passages from this book that stand out, and
that I’d like to quote. Here are just a very few:
This first quotation from The World Peace Diet has special
meaning for me (for why, see paragraph 5 and photo of
http://all-creatures.org/heart/blog-20060217.html ):
“Of all the mammals, it is the cow whose maternal instinct has been
perhaps the most obvious and celebrated: her gentle and patient eyes,
her natural mothering way with her calf, licking and feeding and
watching over her baby, and her loud lamenting when her calf is
taken from her. She cannot fight the hands that steal her offspring
away, or speak to us in human words, telling us how deeply it hurts her.
But it is obvious to anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear. For us to
ignore her suffering, and the suffering of her calf – hundreds,
thousands, millions of times over – is to ignore and deny our own
decency.” (Page 115) [Emphasis mine]
“Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make
connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of
others. Like cognitive intelligence, it is suppressed by the practice of
eating animals. The ability to disconnect, practiced at every mealtime,
is seen in perhaps more chilling guise in the modern scientist slowly
freezing dogs to death to learn about human physiology, in modern
soldiers looking straight into the eyes of helpless civilians and
killing them, in hunters deceiving and chasing defenseless animals and
killing them for sport, and in countless other legal and approved
cultural activities.” (Page 11)
“It would be difficult to conceive of a more wasteful, toxic,
inhumane, disease-promoting, and destructive food production system than
our farmed animal industry. (Page 183)
“Our theories about animals will be seen in the future as quaint
balderdash, as we now view the medieval theories of healing through
bleeding and leeches and of an earth-centered solar system.” (Page 201)
In The World Peace Diet, Will Tuttle puts into words what we
know to be true, whether we admit it or not. As he brings together the
whole picture, I think that you will say, “Yes!” in recognition of this,
as I did.
See:
http://www.all-creatures.org/book/r-worldpeacediet.html
