A Declaration of Dissent Against A History of Murder

ARE YOU READY?

Suspend your opinions for 30 seconds, and let this into your mind:

On YouTube recently, I watched a radical Veganist declare to Byron Katie:

"I am horrified with the meat industry because it is the largest, most accepted form of violence on earth today. I want the meat industry to be revealed as an industry as shameful as we now look back at the slave industry."

OK. That's clear. BUT…

In case we missed that, she went on to cite a study done in her small country - Holland - that showed that every day, the "murdered animal" count was 1.7 million.

The Buddhist in me shudders. And of course, Katie wasn't putting up with this. She went even more radical. But not how you think. Search "The Meat Industry is Violent" for Katie's unexpected advice.

And for others? Whatever. It is what it is - what are we supposed to do, not eat?

I have a personal interest in this.

At the start of 2016, my daughter Grace became a Vegan.

Not for health reasons. Her YouTube heroes led her to watch horror after slaughterhouse horror - who needs vampires? - until her conscience got the better of her; and Vegan it was.

Initially, I was frightened for my little girl.

She was 13 years old, in a critical stage of development, and was about to embark on a diet not based on any health principles; rather it was an adolescent declaration of dissent against a history of carnivorism.

Blood tests every 6 months, I countered. She agreed.

And I started my education. I have been vegetarian longer than I care to think - but do admit dairy and eggs. Even occasionally fish when I am run down or accommodating someone. I worried if she could get the protein she needed, so she sent me to a video.

There was an Alabamian doctor standing on a high rise balcony as the interviewer asked him:

"Some people say: you cannot get the protein you need from plants alone?"

The doctor - who spoke like a choir-singing tenor from a black congregation - declared:

"Oh please! Pick me up and throw me off this balcony!! All protein comes from plants!!!"

It struck me for the first time.

Yes. The Plant Kingdom. Photosynthesis - producer of 9 essential amino acids from which every kind of protein is produced.

How could anyone think plants don't make the grade?

It's my theme this week - animals and plants. Animals move, and it started the whole orientation thing that Alexander's discovery is based upon.

We were looking for plants! We all started out as Vegans!! Wow!!!

Which is why I often characterize FM's main contribution as a discovery. It's not his "Technique" which most teachers are always fussing about, but rather his simple and underrated discovery that unless you have your head and spine orientated efficiently, you will be unable to fulfil the primary animal function for which you evolved: to move.

Alexander's discovery is a Kingdom-level insight; it is a biological breakthrough in behavioural management. It helps make sense of how our cognitive revolution began.

All this and more - part of my reboot of FM's work.

ThinkingBody Module Two

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