50th Anniversary, Vasu Murti, Real Men Eat Plants, Food Revolution Relaunch
Thank you, friends, for your many efforts to build respect for the web of life on this beautiful Earth. We like to take a moment to honor the inspiring memory of a friend and colleague who has been a long-time vegan advocate and prolific writer, Vasu Murti, who just recently passed away.
Just a few weeks ago, Vasu attended our lecture presentation in Mill Valley, just north of San Francisco, and even purchased 20 copies of our new book, The World Peace Way, to give to friends and colleagues. Following the presentation, we had an inspiring conversation together about veganism and spirituality. Now we will never see him again (at least in human form), but his passion for our movement for animal liberation and his humble, kind, generous, and ever-caring presence live on as a precious force in our world. Please check out Vasu’s writings (and the announcement of the upcoming Prayer Service for him in Berkeley), and let’s heartfully give thanks for this beautiful spirit’s many gifts to our world.
We also like to announce that the Real Men Eat Plants YouTube Channel just interviewed us and this program, “Exploring the Philosophy of The World Peace Diet with Dr. Will Tuttle,” provides an overview of some of the key ideas in both The World Peace Diet as well as our new book, The World Peace Way, and includes some original piano music as well.
Additionally, we are delighted to announce the upcoming relaunch of the 2025 Food Revolution Summit Docuseries: Healthy People, Healthy Planet, which will be live online in a week, from September 17–24, free of charge. Ocean Robbins and his team help clarify the many nutritional questions around healthful vegan living and bring in experienced voices, including Joel Kahn, Michael Klaper, Dotsie Bausch, Neal Barnard, and many more.
And finally, yesterday, September 9, marked the 50th-year anniversary of the pilgrimage my brother Ed and I undertook in 
1975 that transformed my life. On September 9, 1975, we said good-bye to our dear parents and walked down the driveway of our family home in Concord, MA. Ed had just turned 20 the day before, and a few weeks earlier, I’d turned 22. We had put together a couple of small backpacks (with even some fresh-baked cookies from my mother), and were intent on heading west, hopefully to California, and were committed to a spiritual path of daily walking and meditation and to do it all without using money.
1975 that transformed my life. On September 9, 1975, we said good-bye to our dear parents and walked down the driveway of our family home in Concord, MA. Ed had just turned 20 the day before, and a few weeks earlier, I’d turned 22. We had put together a couple of small backpacks (with even some fresh-baked cookies from my mother), and were intent on heading west, hopefully to California, and were committed to a spiritual path of daily walking and meditation and to do it all without using money.It was a remarkable adventure of walking about 15-20 miles daily on small back-country roads and sleeping most nights on the floors of churches in rural towns in NY, PA, WV, KY, TN, and eventually, by December, we arrived at The Farm, south of Nashville, the largest hippie commune in the world. We still ate meat when we arrived at The Farm, but being with the roughly 900 people there, all following a plant-sourced diet, I have never eaten meat in my life since then, and a few years later, after living in meditation centers in Alabama, Georgia, and then northern California, I became vegan in 1980, and the tremendous blessings of those early years continually unfold more and more in my life today.
When we made that fateful leap on that September morning 50 years ago, little did either of us know what the future would hold, or if we would ever see friends and family again. It created an initiatory opening, and launched a new trajectory, leaving behind our indoctrinated selves as best we could, and seeking spiritual realization, which we were convinced, would be the only foundation for lasting happiness in the life ahead of us. Thank goodness we followed our intuition on this, and the blessings keep compounding, it seems, every day, 50 years later, as my beloved spouse Madeleine and I continue now in our 32nd year of our marriage and our commitment to helping to liberate animals and all of humanity from the scourge of herderism, and to share the spiritual understanding that one Life lives through us all.
When we trust our inner knowing and free ourselves from cultural conditioning, we can leap into new possibilities we could never imagine, the way a caterpillar could never imagine itself as a butterfly. Madeleine, a young artist in Switzerland in 1975, also chose to commit to never eating meat at the same time I did at The Farm, and Ed has blossomed beautifully in his life and is the founder with his Ecuadorian wife Tania, of Centro Samai, a healing and consciousness retreat center near the Pacific coast in Ecuador.
May you thrive in every way, and may we all continue to leap over our shadows, beyond our programming and fears, and continue to work together to reveal the many ways we can bring healing to ourselves, to animals, and to our world.
That’s it for now…
With appreciation and love,
Will & Madeleine
Dr. Will Tuttle
Author, The World Peace Diet and Food for Freedom
PS – We have scholarships available for our online World Peace Diet course.
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