The World Peace Diet

Knowing, feeling, and projecting love

VegInspiration
We may discover that we can “think” with our hearts, without words, and we may learn to appreciate the consciousness of animals and begin to humbly explore their mysteries.

There is perhaps much we can learn from animals. Not only do they have many powers completely unexplainable by contemporary science, but they are fellow pilgrims with us on this earth who contribute their presence to our lives and enrich our living world in countless essential ways.

In fact, without the humble earthworms, bees, and ants whom we relentlessly kill and dominate, the living ecosystems of our earth would break down and collapse―something we certainly cannot say about ourselves!

May all beings be free and at peace,  Will

New offering: Prayer Circle for Saturday
Prayers for animals enslaved in entertainment, such as, zoos, circuses, rodeos, aquariums, theme parks, canned hunts, etc.

May compassion and love reign over all the earth for all the beings used in the human entertainment industry.

Dear dolphins, whales, horses, bulls, elephants, bears, lambs, pigs, sea otters, fish, elks, deer, rhinos, hippos, alligators, snakes, polar bears, lions, tigers, gorillas, chimpanzees, and all of you who are incarcerated when you want your freedom so much; who remember your parents being killed so that you could be captured; who are forced often with whips, chains, and electric prods to perform unnatural tricks; who are treated without respecting the dignity of your true nature.

Together, we bear witness to your suffering, take action to bring it to a permanent end, and send out our energy field of love and compassion to comfort you and to transform the hearts and souls of those who support the violent oppression of all of you.

Our love is all around you. Compassion encircles the earth for each of you and for all beings.
( 7 daily prayers by Judy Carman)

http://worldpeacediet.com - our daily VegInspiration For The Day
http://circleofcompassion.org - our Prayer Circle For Animals Weekly Update
http://worldpeacemastery.com - our new online self-paced WPD Facilitator Training

Original watercolor painting by Madeleine Tuttle
http://willtuttle.com/madeleine.htm

 

The essence of love

VegInspiration
Post-rational intuitive knowing can be born as a sense of being connected with all beings.

No longer being merely a parade of conditioned thoughts revolving around a sense of being a separate self, we can sense more deeply into the nature of being and begin to know outside the limitations of linear thinking.

With this comes an understanding that our essential nature is not evil, confined, selfish, or petty, but is eternal, free, pure, and is of the essence of love.

May all beings be free and at peace,  Will

New offering: Prayer Circle for Friday
Prayers for wild animals being trapped, hunted, caged and/or killed for fur, flesh, leather, trophies, the pet trade, etc., and for wild animals being forced into stress and extinction due to loss of habitat.
May compassion and love reign over all the earth for all free-living animals.

Dear bears, foxes, cougars, deer, alligators, wild horses, prairie dogs, primates, mink, bison, beavers, elephants, birds, fish, and all the other magnificent beings born in freedom and suffering now at the hands of human beings, living in fear of human beings, and mourning the loss of loved ones who have been tortured and either imprisoned or killed.

Together, we bear witness to your suffering, take action to end it forever, and send out an energy field of love and compassion to comfort you and to transform the hearts and souls of those who support the violent oppression of all of you.

We send our tears and prayers on wings of love to you.

Our love is all around you. Compassion encircles the earth for each of you and for all beings.
( 7 daily prayers by Judy Carman)

http://worldpeacediet.com - our daily VegInspiration For The Day
http://circleofcompassion.org - our Prayer Circle For Animals Weekly Update
http://worldpeacemastery.com - our new online self-paced WPD Facilitator Training

Original watercolor painting by Madeleine Tuttle
http://willtuttle.com/madeleine.htm

 

Looking into the “black box”

VegInspiration
Our minds and consciousness are almost completely unexplored territory because we have been raised in a herding culture that is fundamentally uncomfortable with introspection.

Our science blatantly ignores consciousness as an unapproachable, unquantifiable and unopenable “black box” and distracts us with focusing solely on measurable phenomena.

Our religions discourage meditation and reduce prayer to a dualistic caricature of asking and beseeching an outside, enigmatic, and projected male entity.

May all beings be free and at peace,  Will  

New offering: Prayer Circle for Thursday
Today let us send our prayers and love to all aquatic animals.

May compassion and love reign over all the earth for all the water beings living in the seas, lakes, and rivers.

Dear fish, whales, dolphins, crabs, lobsters, starfish, jellyfish, shrimp, coral, and all the other amazing beings who make the waters of earth their home.

Your homes and your very lives are being devastated by huge fishing fleets, by trash, oil, sewage, runoff, and other poisons dumped into your waters, by cutting off your fins, and by capturing you and your loved ones for aquariums and the pet trade.

Together, we bear witness to your suffering, take action to end it permanently, and send out an energy field of love and compassion to comfort you and to transform the hearts and souls of those who support this violent oppression.

Our love is all around you. Compassion encircles the earth for each of you and for all beings.
( 7 daily prayers by Judy Carman)

http://worldpeacediet.com - our daily VegInspiration For The Day
http://circleofcompassion.org - our Prayer Circle For Animals Weekly Update
http://worldpeacemastery.com - our new online self-paced WPD Facilitator Training

Original watercolor painting by Madeleine Tuttle
http://willtuttle.com/madeleine.htm

 

Inner peace

VegInspiration
Disconnecting and desensitizing in comfort is not the same as inner peace, which is the fruit of awareness and of living in alignment with the understanding that comes from this awareness.
May all beings be free and at peace,  Will  

New offering: Prayer Circle for Wednesday
Today let us send our prayers to all animals vivisected in laboratories and classrooms.
May compassion and love reign over all the earth for all animals used in experiments.

Dear primates, dogs, cats, mice; rats, pigs, lambs, rabbits, frogs, and all of you who are imprisoned in cages, tortured in useless experiments, separated from your loved ones, and suffering constant pain, fear, and loneliness, sometimes for many long years.

Dear ones, we bear witness to your suffering, we take action to permanently end it, and we continually send out an energy field of love and compassion to comfort you and to transform the hearts and souls of those who support this violent oppression.

We send our tears and our prayers on wings of love to you.

Our love is all around you. Compassion encircles the earth for each of you and for all beings.
( 7 daily prayers by Judy Carman)

http://worldpeacediet.com - our daily VegInspiration For The Day
http://circleofcompassion.org - our Prayer Circle For Animals Weekly Update
http://worldpeacemastery.com - our new online self-paced WPD Facilitator Training

Original watercolor painting by Madeleine Tuttle
http://willtuttle.com/madeleine.htm

 

Cincinnati Freedom, the fugitive cow

From Yesterday's Cincinnati Enquirer: 

Fugitive Cow Passes Away 
By Barry M. Horstman 
bhorstman@enquirer.com 
January 10, 2009

Cincinnati Freedom, the fugitive cow that drew worldwide 
headlines when she escaped from a Camp Washington 
slaughterhouse in 2002 and eluded authorities for 11 
days, has died at an animal sanctuary in New York. 

The 2,000-pound white Charolais, "adopted" by 
internationally renowned artist Peter Max after her 
stirring escape in Cincinnati, was put down Dec. 29 at 
the Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen shortly after being 
diagnosed with spinal cancer. The quickly spreading 
cancer, which becomes apparent in cows only when the 
size of the tumor puts pressure on the spine, caused 
the cow - often called Cinci or Freedom for short - 
to lose the use of her back legs. 

The day before Cinci's death, Farm Sanctuary officials 
noticed her stumbling, and by the following day, she 
was paralyzed and couldn't walk, said Susie Coston, the 
Farm Sanctuary's national shelter director. Even so, 
Cinci, always shy around humans, tried to crawl away 
when a veterinarian arrived to examine her, Coston said. 

Cinci's closest pals in the sanctuary's herd of about 50 
cattle - other slaughterhouse escapees that included 
Queenie from Queens, N.Y., Annie Dodge from Vermont and 
Maxine from New York - were no more thrilled to see the 
vet and dented her car, Coston said. 

The evening before, when her immobility kept Cinci in 
the pasture, her cow buddies spent the night with her. 

"She had some very good friends who were very 
protective of her," Coston said. 

After the vet determined there was no hope Cinci would 
recover use of her legs, sanctuary officials decided 
to humanely euthanize her. 

Again, the herd surrounded Cinci, with one of the oldest 
steers, Kevin, licking her face, while Iris, an older 
female, licked her back to soothe her in her final 
minutes, said Natalie Bowman, the sanctuary's 
communications director. They remained with Cinci 
until she was buried, after initially chasing a worker 
who arrived to handle the sad task back to his tractor. 

"It was very moving," Coston said. "I've never seen 
anything like it. You really saw all those basic 
emotions at work." 

Cinci became a folk hero in February 2002 when, 
moments before she was to be slaughtered, she jumped 
a six-foot fence at Ken Meyer Meats in Camp Washington 
and evaded police and officials from the Society for 
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for a week and a 
half while foraging in Mount Storm Park. 

News outlets from Canada, England, France, Germany 
and Australia covered the elusive cow's saga, which 
also repeatedly made the national news, including 
ABC-TV's "Good Morning America," where then-Mayor 
Charlie Luken pledged to give her a key to the city. 
In the course of that coverage, reporters left no pun 
unturned, milking the story for all it was worth. 

After her capture, Max, saying he was "very touched 
by this cow's run for freedom, for life," bought the 
animal from Meyer Meats and paid to send her to the 
sanctuary in upstate New York, where hundreds of 
animals rescued from slaughterhouses, stockyards and 
factory farms receive lifelong care. 

Max named the cow Cincinnati Freedom. He also often 
called her Cindy Woo, Coston said. 

Sanctuary officials were not certain of Cinci's age, 
but estimate that she was 6 to 8 years old when she 
arrived in April 2002, meaning she would have been 
13 to 15 when she died. "That's a pretty good life 
for a Charolais," Coston said. 

At the sanctuary, Cinci apparently found that it was 
more fun to eat when one did have not to worry any 
longer about being eaten herself, gaining more than 
500 pounds. 

"She was a bit of a chunk," Coston said, laughing. 
Still, to the end, Cinci could clear a five-foot 
fence from a standstill position, she said. "It was 
an amazing thing to see," she said. 

Something of a celebrity at the sanctuary, Cinci drew 
countless visitors familiar with her story. 

"People from Ohio were always visiting," Bowman said. 

Coston thinks she understands why. 

"She symbolized the will to live, to enjoy life and not 
be messed with," Coston said. "We can relate to that."

McCain and Palin Must be stopped!

Despite intense scientific, ethical and public opposition to aerial hunting, Governor Sarah Palin continues to champion this awful practice. It's time to end this most despicable, barbaric act against the wolf. Learn more and Take action.

A new Oprah-tunity!

Dear friends,

More signs of progress - Oprah is now on a 21-day vegan "cleanse". This is potentially great news because multitudes will be participating with her, and hopefully learning about the plight of animals in our food production system, and of the enormous benefits of a plant-based diet for our health and the health of the Earth and for future generations. And that it's dee-licious, too!

Over the past 2 years since my book, The World Peace Diet, was published, so many people have told me that I "need to be on Oprah." After her hugely successful class with Eckhart Tolle, I've been hearing this from people even more. It seems that we humans are ripening spiritually, and I believe that there is nothing more important at this stage of our spiritual evolution than developing compassion for all living beings, and transforming our eating habits to reflect more compassion and awareness.

The World Peace Diet, of all the books out there, presents the spiritual, cultural, and psycho-social dimensions of our meals and would provide a solid foundation for Oprah's (and the world's) transition to a plant-based way of eating. We have to understand the "big picture" in order to make major changes in our lives, and when we do, it's easy to make the changes. So many people have told me that they've gone vegan after reading The World Peace Diet, and I think this is why.

So, people have asked me to encourage all of us to go to Oprah's website and suggest that she read The World Peace Diet. I hope you'll take a few minutes to do this! Use your own words and speak from your heart. The window of opportunity over the next 3 weeks days is beckoning! If Oprah reads The World Peace Diet and "gets it," we will have hundreds of thousands more people "getting it" also, which could lead to amazing and rapid improvements in the lives of all of us -- people, animals, and future generations. And if there are other vegan speakers, writers, chefs that you feel would illuminate, please let Oprah know of them as well!

Please do it now, if possible. The link is:
http://www2.oprah.com/email/reach/email_reach_fromu.jhtml

The link to the discussion message board:
http://www.oprah.com/community/thread/64750

The link to her show with Kathy Freston on the Pillars of Wellness:
http://www2.oprah.com/spiritself/slide/20080520/slide_20080520_350_201.jhtml


Upcoming retreat: "Creating A New Culture Of Peace:"

We are delighted to report that on our upcoming World Peace Diet weekend retreat, July 18-20 in southeastern Michigan, we will be joined by Mark Stroud of Cincinnati! Mark will help facilitate the retreat, and he is a dedicated advocate for compassion. Mark has already taught 2 classes on The World Peace Diet through the New Thought Unity Church in Cincinnati, and he has created an excellent Study Guide for facilitators of The World Peace Diet. So, if you are feeling an inner pull to help our world by facilitating a class or study group on The World Peace Diet in your area, I hope you will be able to join us on this retreat. While it is especially designed for people who would like to become certified facilitators of The World Peace Diet, it is open to anyone who would like to deepen their connection with and experience of the transformative ideas in the book. Mark is an award-winning chef, restaurateur, and educator.

Celebrity chefs! We are thrilled to have on the retreat the services of Deer and Justice Fields, who will be preparing the organic vegan meals that we'll be savoring. Deer and Justice are legendary, world-traveling vegan chefs who have prepared scrumptious feasts in their own restaurants in Maui and San Diego, as well as cooked for countless conferences, expos, Rainbow gatherings, and events throughout North America and New Zealand.

For more information on this July retreat, and to register for it:
http://worldpeacediet.org/retreat.htm

We are now in Virginia Beach, heading north and then west for the summer - you can see details of our tour on our website at: http://willtuttle.com/schedule.htm. We do over 150 events per year, and have been traveling full-time in our "rolling home" now for over 12 years. It just keeps getting better! We have added some more events to our schedule, including a second lecture in New York City in June.

Finally, we have been sending out our free daily "Veg Inspiration For The Day" since May 1st, so if you'd like to begin receiving that every morning, you can sign up on The World Peace Diet website:
http://worldpeacediet.org

Deepest thanks to all of you who are blessing our world with your efforts to build a new society of kindness, peace, and harmony. We hope our paths will cross with you and people you know, so please check our tour schedule from time to time, as well as our Worldwide Prayer Circle for Animals: http://circleofcompassion.org.

Hope to see you all on Oprah! And at the July retreat! And in your area when we come through...

That's it for now. Thanks for being the blessing you are!

Will & Madeleine

Thinking of Drinking Cow's Milk? Think Again!

The production and consumption of dairy products is remarkably destructive to the earth, to our health, and to animals. One main problem is that dairy products—like meat—use and waste large amounts of plant matter. For example, researchers estimate that 2.5 acres of land can meet the food energy needs of 20 people eating potatoes, cabbage, or corn, but of only 2 people eating dairy products or chicken. Thus, 10 times as much plant material must be grown to eat dairy products, and this means much more pollution of streams from fertilizer and pesticide runoff than if people ate vegetables and grains directly. It also means that land is cleared of forests for growing grain to feed to dairy cattle, and for grazing. Forests provide wildlife habitat, build soil, and naturally purify streams. By reducing and eliminating dairy consumption, we could reforest large areas of land, purifying our air and water, and increasing habitat for birds, fish and other animals.

Cheese is especially destructive because it requires from 30 to 60 litres of milk to make just 1 kilo of cheese. The other high-fat products such as butter, cream, and ice cream also require enormous amounts of land, water, and fossil fuels, because so much grain is required for their production. This grain, and the land and resources used to grow it, could go instead to feeding hungry and starving people. Thus, eating milk products contributes to the shortage of food our world is experiencing, and the conflicts that this causes.

Dairy products also contribute significantly to global warming because the millions of cows imprisoned for milk production convert grass and grain into methane gas, which retains atmospheric heat even more efficiently than carbon dioxide. Milk products also require especially large amounts of petroleum as well, to run farm machinery needed for growing grains and grass to feed the cows, for housing and heating the animals, processing the milk, and keeping it refrigerated. These factors contribute to global warming and resource depletion.

Besides the obvious and unavoidable waste of land, petroleum, and grain, and the ecological devastation this causes, dairy operations produce products never intended by nature to be consumed by humans. Cows’ milk is intended for infant herd animals that weigh 150 kilograms in just 14 weeks! It is highly toxic to humans for many reasons, especially the fact that we have no rennin hormone like calves do to break down the casein protein in milk. Milk products have thus been linked with allergies, eczema, asthma, ear infections, sinus infections, diarrhoea, anaemia, kidney disease, gastrointestinal disease, multiple sclerosis, bronchitis, arthritis, leukaemia, and dental decay, as well as diabetes, arteriosclerosis, obesity, and other diseases of excess fat and protein.

Huge quantities of toxic pharmaceuticals are swallowed and injected to fight these diseases, and these toxins, once excreted, end up polluting the water. This is a serious source of water pollution surrounding urban centres.

Finally, there is the suffering of the cows, who are pushed to give more milk than they would naturally, and are forcibly inseminated (raped) against their will, with their beloved new-born babies being stolen from them so that we can steal their milk. All this misery pollutes the milk and our mental atmosphere, and gentle cows, who normally live 25 years, are worn out and sent to slaughter after only 4 to 5 years, to be replaced by their unfortunate daughters.