The Vegan Era

DEAR JEFF thanks for the invite to comment. For me the angst ended when becoming a whole person became the day I decided to become Vegan. That was just 2 months ago. When I want to go back to old ways of eating something inside me says no, and carries me thru. Now I am meeting vegan friends and we share recipes, males, females. THE real joy of your book is it arrived in my life at this time of my choices. THE gift YOUR BOOK arrived on the landscape of my life. That solidified my decision for all time and answered all questions I had inside of my mind. For this I thank you from my heart to yours. I have a best seller 10 years From Problems to Profits (pet related) business management and I can see the delightful use of words and your mind laid it all out, beyond question, all we go thru before we can make that major decision. Vegan. Your book captures my attention. It lets me rest now in my choice, therefore it is a true gift. WARM REGARDS MADDIE to friends. Madeline B Ogle PhD 5/3/2007

Thank you for this blog. Thank you for helping me to again start thinking. I am an "aspiring" vegetarian; then on to veganism. I am about to read your book, "The Real Forbidden Fruit". This blog posting, to me, is truth. I've listened all of my life to others' "truths". When reading this post, I felt within my spirit that this made so much sense. How can I sit idly by when so much needs to be done. Thank you for waking up my thought processes so that I can try to help. My true wish is for peace and happiness for all sentient beings. Take care ~ Linda

I really appreciate what you are doing here. My big desire is for more and more people to open their eyes and see what they are really doing when they eat meat. I have been vegan for allmost two years now and I can't walk down the mean isle in the grocery stores anymore. Most people go through life with closed eyes and I think you are one of the great people who has the abilbity to help people open their eyes. Once again Thank you and I will always do my part to spread veganism. namaste michael

I sent your website to all of my friends and family. Hurray for veganism - the ONLY way to live.

Thanks for changing my life. I have toyed with vegetarianism for years, then your very rational call to the truth of what is really going on in the slaughterhouses and consequently in our bodies as a result of this mayhem began my almost instant quest into veganism. There are some difficulties in dealing with family and co-workers who think I have finally lost it. This promises to be a very interesting journey, especially during vacation and family birthday parties. My extended family does meat at every meal. Peace and all good to you.

It is so great to see someone with a passion for animals and actively doing something to help them! Thank you for doing your part to spread the word that vegans are not "weirdos" but in reality the ones with the answer to so many problems (chronic illness, animal suffering, pollution, spiritual emptiness and hypocrisy, etc.) I will be getting your book for members of my family (I have been vegan since the mid-'80s myself) -- still working on them! God bless you in the work you are doing! Andi

It was most generous of you to offer your new book to be downloaded for free!! I have been almost completely vegan (some dairy and eggs) for six years, but have gone completely vegan recently. All this for health reasons. Your book was so very informative. I sent emails recommending it to all my friends and family. Thank you so much. Keep up the good work, and may God richly bless you. Jan H.

I read your article in response to Ted Nugent's article. Interesting reading but were you actually saying in the article that firing somebody for eating meat in the company lunch room is OK? I'm sure that would not be the case, especially since man has eaten meat as far back as the cavemen. There might be other diets a person could follow. Ted might also be a polarizing person but there is no way anyone could say firing someone for eating meat is ok. Before I go what do you mean by "Meatism is causing all of our problems"

Nugent says that I'm weird for not eating animal parts and fluids ? I suppose he thinks it's normal to cut off the head and pop out the eyeballs of another being, and then eat their flesh. Talk about weird, and radical ! That's just plain sickening. Thank you very much for all you are doing on behalf of the voiceless, on behalf of our planet and the betterment of humanity.

I had a "vegan awakening" about 6 months ago. I realized that the brutality of the Holocaust was not in the past, but was alive and well and visited upon billions of animals 24/7, every second of every day. I appreciate Jeff's writings because he weaves together all of the reasons to be vegan: ethical, health, environmental, social and spiritual.

Jeff, keep up the great work you are doing. You have my deepest admiration. You are a good ally to the animals; they need any little help they can get. And they are going to continue to need it. The incredibly selfish humans of this world are not going to change their ways. Sometimes I think I am going insane when I try to point out to people what they are doing when they say, "I would NEVER hurt an animal," and then they turn around and boil a lobster and say, "I could NEVER live without eating lobster." And when they eat eggs after watching a video of the sad, sad lives of battery caged hens. What crimes did these once magnificent jungle fowl commit to be imprisoned and tortured for life? What have we reduced these beautiful creatures to? But humans just don't get it. I really think that 99.9 percent of the human (disg)race will never see the selfish and hypocritical lives they lead, and the immense suffering they cause to the innocent animals. I try to ask them, "How much suffering do you think an animal should endure to end up on your plate?" Does it have to be denied everything that could conceivably be considered normal to it's species, even before it is born (as in the case of developing chick embryos in incubators), and then to live a brutal life, and die a horrible death, so that a person can eat a scrambled egg, or wear a leather belt, or wear a fur coat? When there is absolutely no need to do so? When there are so many alternatives? It is all selfishness. It is done because people are too indifferent to ask themselves the hard questions, because they are too lazy to try a different lifestyle, because they are too used to the money they get (if they have a business that uses animals) by abusing animals to change. I see life in different colors now than I did when I was not vegan. It is as though the colors (the cruelties) were all there; I just didn't notice them. And they are all around me. How blind I was! I just watched something on a PETA website about the Chinese fur trade. How they skin the raccoon dogs alive - and it was so heartbreakingly sad, I screamed in my room, and cried all night. The only spec of consolation I have is that animal species do not last very long in geological terms; vertebrates average about two million years. So, although it won't be soon enough, we will eventually be gone, and whatever species are left will hopefully not be as completely destructive as we have been.