Food for Freedom Foreword and Upcoming Tour Events

Dr. Will Tuttle

Veganism is a practical response to injustice, disease, conflict, and environmental devastation, and I’ve found that a regular practice of cultivating meditative awareness is an excellent way to deepen and embody the essential dynamic underlying vegan living, which is respect and kindness toward others as the spontaneous expression of our sense of interconnectedness with the living web of life on this beautiful Earth.

This is one of the themes in our book, Food for Freedom, and we are delighted to announce that the acclaimed German physician and best-selling author and researcher, Dr. Michael Nehls, has written the Foreword for the new German-language version of Food for Freedom.

We have now incorporated it into the English version as well and it i already available online on our website and at Amazon (for a discounted price), and soon in all bookstores. We are including a short excerpt at the end of this email, and provide you here are the four closing sentences in Dr. Nehls’ Foreword to Food for Freedom:

“I recommend this book to everyone who no longer wants to delegate health and merely demand freedom, but actively cultivate it. Dr. Will Tuttle shows how daily nutrition can become the key to a healing revolution – one that begins with the individual and extends to culture. Those who read this work with an open heart will recognize that the liberation of animals is the defining test of our time – and the breakthrough to a culture that once again takes us seriously as human beings.

“May we follow the paths outlined in this book – mindfully, courageously, and resolutely – so that knowledge becomes self-determination and self-determination becomes freedom.”

Madeleine and I are now on the third leg of our 5-month Health and Harmony for All Tour, with many presentations coming up soon here in Florida—in West Palm Beach, Key West, The Villages, Mt. Dora, Port Richey, St. Petersburg, and Tallahassee—and then heading back west on the final leg of our tour. You can join us in Louisiana, south Texas, southern Arizona, southern California, and Santa Cruz before we return home in mid-April.

We are deeply grateful to the many advocates and caring people who are helping to arrange all these events and also to those attending.

This coming Wednesday (tomorrow, one day early) we will be hosting our monthly World Peace Meditation via Zoom, and you can join us if you like on Zoom at 5 pm Pacific, 8 pm Eastern. We’ll come together for a time of spiritual teaching and reflection, and take time for meditation together. One hour max.

Finally, we are delighted to share several new videos we have cocreated:

Is Veganism the Missing Link to World Peace? | Dr. Will Tuttle on Food, Compassion & Consciousness with the Plant-Based Support Podcast

Spiritual Roots of Healing and the Vegan Message with Will Tuttle, Ph.D with The Real Truth about Health online summit.

Here is the promised excerpt from the Foreword to Food for Freedom by Dr. Michael Nehls (just the first three paragraphs):

Freedom begins in the mind—yet it often falters at the dinner table. This book by Dr. Will Tuttle demonstrates with admirable clarity how closely our daily eating rituals are linked to our intellectual autonomy, our physical and mental health, and ultimately, to the freedom of entire societies. Tuttle reveals that the routine exploitation of animals not only causes immeasurable suffering but, as a fundamental cultural pattern, trains our acceptance of dominance, reductionism, and control—a pattern reflected in medicine, media, politics, and economics. Those who recognize this understand why food can be a lever for liberation.

Tuttle’s five-dimensional view of health (environment, culture, physical, mental, and spiritual-ethical health) and freedom (ecological, cultural, physical, mental, and spiritual freedom) is particularly compelling. These dimensions form an interconnected web: what we do with one dimension affects all the others. This is precisely where my Methuselah Formula comes in – an overlapping map of life domains that I originally presented in The Methuselah Strategy and later further elaborated as the “Formula Against Alzheimer’s” or the “Hippocampal Anti-Indoctrination Formula.” It shows how a species-appropriate lifestyle, via the hippocampus – our autobiographical memory center and seat of our mental immune system – protects our cognitive plasticity, resilience, and freedom of choice. These systems perspectives provide a practical roadmap: those who strive for true freedom must learn to see connections instead of focusing on supposed isolated factors – especially those hidden behind seemingly harmless, widespread habits.

Tuttle describes a crossroads of our future: a technological path of development that – where it is stripped of its ethical orientation – leads to surveillance, centralization, and alienation. In contrast, there is a path of spirituality that strengthens insight, self-determination, and compassion. He doesn’t cast suspicion on technology in general, but rather soberly reminds us that technology is value-blind—it serves or enslaves, depending on the underlying conception of humanity and the cultural model it embodies. The pastoralism analyzed by Tuttle—dominion over animals as a cultural archetype—provides the template for the instrumentalist use of science and technology that ultimately degrades us to mere “livestock” in a technocratic order.

(The full Foreword can be read in the book itself).