Introducing the Vegan Love Triangle Concept
Hi, my name is Mike and I started Vegan Love Triangle with my wife Reina. The title Vegan love triangle is definitely a play on words, but this love triangle has no drama attached to it. When you adopt the values of the vegan love triangle your life has benefits for yourself, the wellbeing of the planet, and the animals. The three points of the triangle are Humanity, Ecology, and Spirituality.
We’re using spirituality here as a major point of the triangle to emphasize that animals have a real purpose as soul possessing beings just the same as humans. It goes beyond just animal welfare or the cruelty-free treatment of animals. And accepting this truth puts our society on the right track to realizing a future free of systemic violence.
Humanity has lifted itself from the whims of nature and we now are the creators of our own destiny. We’ve created unnecessary problems of excess and not using our resources efficiently. A major part of that is our food and how we use land. Another part is that this excess consumption has affected our bodies. We have so much emphasis on where we get our protein and we forget to take care of our heart. Scientists tell us that we evolved because we eat meat. This is not reflected in our biology. Lions don’t get heart disease. Dogs don’t get heart disease. Maybe we evolved despite the fact the we survived on meat. We are natural vegans.
We aren’t predators physically or behaviorally. We are creative animals. We are gardeners. We are caretakers. Animal agriculture is the agriculture of invaders who did not take the time to learn the ways of the land. To connect with the local spirit of the place and instead imposed their own imagination onto a landscape that already had its own spiritual and cultural atmosphere. The first climate change activists were the indigenous people of the world who resisted the colonists destructive and extractive enterprise.
Vegan Love Triangle is the antidote to the ideology that got us to the current crisis we have created. And that means changing how we think of ourselves as humans.
Our true nature is that of caretakers of the earth’s ecosystem. The last point of the triangle. We have to not only stop the destruction that we’re creating now, but we have to regenerate the earth’s ability to foster life. Wild life. We can never get there if we’re using most of the land to feed the billions of animals in our captivity. The result of this destruction lands on the breakfast, lunch and dinner plate everyday. How can we ever stop if we continue to be unaware of what we’re doing. There’s no fingers to point. We have to wholeheartedly embrace our true nature as caretakers.
We are not passive consumers of flavorful commodities. Our closest connection to the ecosystems of the earth is what we put into our mouths. It is all generated by biological and ecological processes. How we grow and feed our food affects the earth and it also affects our bodies.
When we optimize the vegan love triangle we create synergistic affects that make our lives better, saves animal lives, and cleans up our ecosystems. If we fail to make a major impact we will continue to see animals humans and ecosystems suffer. It’s really important that we continue to realize that we can eat, and exist purposefully despite any pressure from society.