There is the old saying "You are what you eat". So, if one eats dead animals, one is a dead animal. And we are, really. Hair grows even after consciousness expires and the heart stops beating. We walk through life full of illness and misery, growing despite our state of dying. Do we really believe that is living? It is dead and dying, producing "spores" during our dying process (having children who also begin dying from inception are born full of disease and in their DNA nothing but death and disease as potentials). And really, what would posses us to eat another dead animal's flesh? I mean, really. If we stop and think about it; ever walk up upon something dead in the woods or on the side of the road? It would take some serious deprivation and desperation to put that to our mouths and ingest it. We are a bunch of dead cannibals running around competing, attacking, killing, consuming anything and everything from one another's ideas, attention, affection, physical resources, etc.
"The soybean conspiracy"-not that I am thinking there is a real conspiracy by individuals, but thinking about the soybean and how parts of it are used in just about everything packaged we consume led me to believe it would be a good conspiracy if it were one. The reason tofu, a soy product, is used as a source of protein in foods is because it takes on the flavor of what it is added to. So, it gives texture and supposedly protein in the place of meat, what is believed to be so necessary in our diets. Something that takes it's character from everything around it is something that is highly suggestive, has no individuality. If we are what we eat and this is in everything, we would be highly suggestive, not having our own opinion, only capable of absorbing ideas and qualities from our environment. Any "protein" we would be contributing would be basically worthless because it has no character, it and we would only take more than we would be capable of giving.
All this put together would make the majority of meat-eating mankind, and even it's soy eating vegetarian counterparts, just a bunch of zombies walking about parroting deadly ideas and concepts.
Biblical basis for becoming vegan: the lion shall eat straw like the lamb. If even non-human animals will become vegan, of course humans would as well. Of course the lion and lamb are metaphors for the spirits/natures of the human being. Spiritual is always reflected in physical so that which is spiritual also becomes physical, so the spiritually vegan shall be literally vegan.
Doing a quick look online, one discovers many already have soy-free, wheat free, vegan fed pets mistakenly believed to be carnivores such as dogs and cats.
First instinct may be to look up a bunch of vegan recipes online, buying a bunch of ingredients, etc. Turns out it might be best in transitioning diets by keeping it simple. Doing it gradually, but not too gradually. And keep it real: you buy your nuts and dried fruits in the baking aisle instead of paying marked up prices for the same thing specially packaged in the health food aisle. Dairy-free chocolate bars are found in the regular candy isle if you look closely for the high % dark chocolate bars. There are potato chips and corn chips in the regular snack isle that meet our needs, Read labels and you'll find regular spaghetti sauce that fits, canned veggies if circumstances require pre-cooked things. Otherwise, cooking yourself, dried beans are dried beans and in the normal food isles along with brown rice, etc.
The point of it all being: existing as a person of peace, in every spiritual and physical fiber of our being. If our cells are made up of ill-gotten energy, murder is written, marked upon our skin, our organs, the very cells of our body drawing to us death and disease. Instead we can foragers of the abundance, pruners of the garden, a part of the natural order of things.
