Why Agreeganism

1. What is Agreeganism?
2. Why is it important?
   • The Meatrix
   • Compassion, Awareness & Freedom
   • Anti-Slavery & Cruelty-Free

3. How do you become one?
   • Declare your ethics.
   • Set intention to improve your choices every year and learn as you go.

1. What is Agreeganism?

Agreeganism is a diet based on the principals of consumer responsibility and morality. It is the combination of 2 words: "Agree" and "Vegan", and in the most simple sense means the person agrees with vegans, but may not be strict enough to be considered vegan.

You define your own ethics & morality to live by, and then seek to understand the food process to see if certain foods violate your personal ethics. It is inclusive, empowering, and focuses on the positive. A way to convince people to change is to let them know, we are on the same team! let's work together. You are a part of this as much as I am.

Agreeganism is not veganism. It is a less strict, self regulated diet that takes ethics and responsibility for the effects of diet on your body, your community, other beings and the environment.

Agreeganism praise and respect vegans, for veganism is the best mentality and diet for the 21st century, now that all our meat comes from factory farms. Those who are vegan are wonderful, but it is not realistic for everyone. That's where Agreeganism comes in. All are welcome as Agreegans. Even those who occasionally eat meat. As long as the person recognizes it's wrong, and the vegan perspective is the best way to be.

Agreeganism implies you are against factory farming since it is such a massive ethical atrocity. Only those who don't have awareness of factory farms, or lack any kind of compassion for anyone except themselves could agree with it's ethics.

Agreeganism is a discussion, not a dogma.

Factory

• Factory Farms is the number 1 worst problem in society that every day, good-hearted people are funding while the consequences and being hidden from them.
• How can I help solve this problem in society in an empowering way?

"Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials,
but always by inspiring the people. Imagination rules the world."
- Napoleon

2. Why is Agreeganism important?

"There are no passengers on spaceship earth.
We are all crew."
- Marshall McLuhan

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Survival vs Thriving. If you are struggling to survive, then eating anything at all is good. If you are past survival mode, then raising your awareness is your responsibility as a privileged being.

Recognize your place in the pyramid of power, and in what degree do you take part in oppressing those below you:

thejuicemedia.com

Your relationship with animals should change from being a predictor, to being a guardian.

"When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts,
the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open,
and love steps forth to heal everything in sight."
- Michael Bridge

Speciesism involves the assignment of different values, rights, or special consideration to individuals solely on the basis of their species membership.

Compassion & Awareness

Those who ignore this topics, are limiting their ability to be aware and compassionate. When you add awareness and/or compassion to a situation, it improves for all those involved. If you want to live a meaningful life, go in this direction, even if you have to make sacrifices to grow.

"When your fear touches someone's pain, it becomes pity;
when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes compassion."
~Levine

Our Society relies on systems of control

You are a prisoner of systems that you are not aware of. Awareness sets you free.

As consciousness beings, we seek to be aware of these limitations, and break free from them.

 

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Leo & Moopheus

Many people who are trapped in the Meatrix believe that the human body benefits from animal products, and will fight to defend that cultural myth.

The truth is, humans evolved from Herbivorous:

Only in the past 100,000 years have human ancestors started to eat meat, and became omnivore. That is after Millions of years of evolution as an herbivore. That is why our digestive system, teeth, and dietary preference favors plant based food.

In order for humans to eat meat:

• Requires Tools, such as knives, because as an herbivores don't have claws or sharp teeth.
• Requires Fire and cooking food, Since our digestive systems is herbivore, our bodies can potentially become sick from eating raw meat.

There is no doubt that eating meat was a very good thing for our ancestors survival. That is no longer the case in the 21st century, with factory farming, books and grocery stores. We no longer need meat or animal product for health and wellness. In fact, animal products are more harmful than good. Unless you are dying of hunger or malnutrition.

Humans do not need meat or animal products to be health.

Imagine we lived in a society that stealing was social acceptable, and you could pay people to steal stuff for you. Some people might say the only way they can survive is if they steal, or pay others to steal because it's too hard to earn all their money from working. But we all know that's not true. We don't have to steal to live a good life. We know this because stealing is wrong in our society. But stealing from animals is socially acceptable.

Break free of the Meatrix and become an Agreegan.

3. How does one become an Agreegan?

It is not about changing society. It is only about changing yourself.

“The world is changed by your example,
not by your opinion."
― Paulo Coelho

Requirements to be an Agreegan:

1. Declare your ethics
   • What are you for, and what are you against?
   • Write down on a piece your ethical declaration.
   • What companies and types of food do you want to support.
   • What companies and types of food do you want to boycott.
2. Accept that your ethics are most likely higher than your ability to live by those ethics.
   • Your ethics may be that you don't want to fund a factory farm. But every so often you buy something with animal products in it. You are still an Agreegan if you break your own rules. The goal is to improve as you go
   • You can boycott a process instead of a type of food. For example, some people may say they will buy grass fed beef, because that's where they are on their ethical stance. They are taking 1 step away from the atrocity of factory farming, and demanding a slightly higher standard of living for the cows they consume. That is a powerful choice and should only be encouraged and respected.
3. Improve as you go.
   • Keep learning and be aware of what you buy and eat.
   • Strive to be better each year.
   • Talk about it with friends.

"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."
- Marshall McLuhan

Call To Action:

• Watch the Meatrix animation at: theMeatrix.com
• Break free of the Meatrix by expanding awareness, wisdom and knowledge with regards to what you eat. Free your mind from their control, ignorance, and deception.
• Talk about it with your friends and family. Share with them your ethical stance.
• Talk to me about it after. Let me know what you think of this idea and how it could potentially be better. Do you think this could be a movement that would work?

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