Month: October 2019

Are you ?
Not necessarily, but you are more likely to be more mindful about what you eat.
In this blog, I’m continuing my story about how I became a vegetarian and then a pescatarian. 
The first part was called “Do You Have to Be Vegan to Be Spiritual?” And you can read or re-read it HERE.
The second part was called “Does Your Diet Affect Your Spirituality?” And you can read or re-read it HERE.

So, let’s continue.
Do I feel guilty about being pescatarian? About eating fish and seafood? To a degree – yes. And so I have pretty well stopped ordering anything other than vegetarian in restaurants or for takeout. Will I become a vegan? Don’t think so, since for me, it’s too dramatic a step to take. At this point in my life anyway.
However, I stopped drinking cow’s milk and switched to almond or coconut beverages.
But I still enjoy cheese and yoghurt and even cottage cheese. We generally only buy eggs from free run chickens. And I still bless the animals in the transport trucks that I see on the highway as they make their way to the slaughterhouse.

But I have also listened to messages by Abraham-Hicks about food and eating.
That it’s not the food we eat but our belief about it. That it’s all about vibration. 
And I understand what people mean when they say: 
“Weren’t animals put on earth to serve human kind?”
 “Isn’t the purpose of a chicken to lay eggs and a cow to give milk?”
“Everything in moderation”. 

Well, the human diet appears to be a continuum. Carnivore, omnivore, pescatarian, vegetarian, vegan, and fruitarian.  All the way to subsisting only on water and the rays of the sun [as some yogis and mystics can apparently do]. And everything in between.
I figure that my purpose in this existence is to have fun, and be happy. And to become a better person every day. It is also to experience joy and savor the succulent sweetness of life.
I am not what I was yesterday, or what I may become tomorrow. So, today I’m a pescatarian on the cusp of being vegetarian again.
And I love vegans for their good intentions. And I love my omnivore friends and family. And our carnivore, predator pets. You see, we all make our individual choices. And tend to do our best with what we have from where we are.

So no, you don’t have to be vegan to be spiritual. Or vegetarian or pescatarian. You just need to be grateful for whatever you eat.

Keep manifesting good things 🙂

Tony

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Does a vegan or vegetarian diet make you more spiritual?
I don’t think so.
But it makes you more mindful about what you eat.
In this blog I’m continuing my story about how I became a vegetarian.
And then a pescatarian. 
It was called “Do You Have To Be Vegan To Be Spiritual?”
And you can read or re-read it HERE.

Anyway – I still have a hard time facing pasta primavera, which seemed to be the only vegetarian main course option available at the numerous conferences and conventions I attended over the years as part of my job.
By the way, my last “meat meal” was steak tartare served at a high-end steakhouse in London, Ontario.
I loved it, as I did blue steak, bacon, chicken and anything with ground beef in it.
I was quite the carnivore!

It was a tough journey to vegetarianism at times, given that my daughter decided to start eating chicken and shrimp again after a few months.
And no one else in our household of six [including cat and dog] was willing to give up “meat”.
Being the chief barbequer [is that a word?] and assistant cook for the family meant that I was regularly frying for and serving meat to pretty well everyone but myself.
I usually gave a blessing and expressed gratitude to the dead creature that I was cooking, thanking it for sacrificing its life for our nutrition.
I must admit that often the smell of burning meat made me somewhat nauseous. 
And still does.

Eventually the kids grew up and left home, my wife continued her omnivore lifestyle, and I my vegetarian one.
Admittedly she ate “meat” only rarely and pretty well gave up pork after seeing the movie “Babe”.
She also became the primary cook in our home.
But it wasn’t easy for my wife to make two separate proteins at dinner whenever she chose to eat “meat”.
One for me and one for her.
And it wasn’t that easy to split an appetizer or entrée at a restaurant if she decided to select a non-vegetarian option.
So, a number of years ago I began to occasionally eat fish and seafood.
After all, we live on the lake where fish are abundant.
So I guess that made me a pescatarian.

Have I ever cheated and eaten meat?
Yep, a couple of times.
I tried alligator fritters in Florida [I rationalized it as a type of seafood], and once at a Thanksgiving dinner I surreptitiously tasted a piece of dark turkey meat.
It left a greasy, unpleasant taste in my mouth.

OOPs- I’m running out of time again, so I’ll continue this blog in a couple of weeks.
Stay tuned :-).

Keep manifesting only good things 🙂
Tony

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