A World Peace Diet
By Heather Larson | July 2, 2011 at 3:00 pm
Anna Ferguson
There are many reasons to go vegan; many choose an animal-free lifestyle because they want to be kind to animals, the environment, or both. Kindness is central to this way of life and according to Anna Ferguson, the driving force behind veganism is ahimsa, or non-violence. Ferguson is the co-founder of World Peace Yoga in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Healdsburg, Calif., and she believes that peace in the world is completely reachable. But it starts with what we eat.
Reducing Violence
Ferguson says peace begins with “what we create our body out of.” She explains that a body that exists on animal products is a body that is made out of violence. “When we stop eating animal foods we connect more deeply with our intuition which in turn opens us up to our unlimited capacities to love, to show compassion and empathy and to understand the interconnectedness of all of life,” she said. By following our intuition, we are able to, “sense how to relate with others, how to resolve conflicts, how to create solutions, how to live in harmony and how to live in peace.”
Healing & Peace
Teacher at World Peace Yoga Healdsburg, “Yoga Dan” Gottlieb, also believes peace on our planet is possible through a vegan lifestyle. He calls it, “being part of the solution rather than perpetuating the pollution.” “Yoga Dan” said he knows that many choose to eat vegan because they love animals, but he personally chose this way of life to heal his body and mind. “I was thinking about my body,” he said. The yoga instructor said he went vegan overnight and immediately saw his depression and anxiety lift. He attributes that to going meatless because when an animal is killed for food, it is tortured. Humans, in turn, consume that pain and torture and it becomes a part of our own bodies.
Way of Life
Ferguson said, “We must create our body out of peace.” That’s the first step to creating larger changes in the world. Choosing a vegan lifestyle allows people to stop using animals for entertainment, food, clothing, and experimentation. The kindness and compassion contribute to world peace from there exponentially. “We will abolish human slavery once and for all as well as abolishing slavery of all other beings. We will stop using people in the various ways that create toxic relationships and we will stop misusing the Earth.”
World Peace & Yoga Jubilee
Gottlieb advises those who wish to make the transition into a vegan lifestyle to attend the World Peace & Yoga Jubilee in Cincinnati, Ohio, from Oct. 20-23. He said it’s the easiest way to “be the change” since the Jubilee is an environment where an individual can be surrounded by those who also want to be inspired toward world peace through veganism.
Learn more about going vegan for world peace, the Jubilee, and don’t miss Anna Ferguson and Mark Stroud’s “Connecting with the Source to Achieve World Peace.”
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