MEAT&RACISM

A womyn once told me the eating of MEAT is a racist act.when she first told me that many moons ago i did not get it now i do and can really understand why meat should be kept out of and(LHD in wimmin-only space)it goes along with the idea might is right and white,the idea that we must eat chickens because there are so many of them and if we dont eat they will run us out of here with there sheer numbers,what is the difference in that attitude and the attitude that humans of color are inferior and there numbers must be kept at low amount? or the attitude too many black babies in the society is dangerous? or nazism too many jewish people in the society must be eliminated? and on and on and on.To quote C.J.Adams"The hearty meat eating that characterize the diet of Americans and of the Western world is not only a symbol of male power, it is an index of racism.Racism and sexism together upheld meat as white man's food".Yes and immediately we can see the need to remove it from all (LHD in wimmin-only space) Can we do it? is it really possible? is it done once forever? do we have to constantly pay attention to this effort? o.k.so again we face the decision to be plant based in our diets,we make an effort to encourage wimmin to go for one plant based meal a day to assist in the de-toxing from an animal based diet and to make an effort to do this for at least one month,then increase it to two meals a day for a month and so forth and so on,doing it this way seems to make the de-toxing less pain-full,yes we do have to de-tox from an animal based diet and it is not always fun.when we first begin to practice using a plant based diet we thought we would die we did not,we had to then and do now remind ourselves like everything else becoming vegetarian is just that becoming and is always a process happening,again like sex and a bath once is never enough we must do it over and over and over,and in a(LHD in wimmin-only space) plant based foods help assure us that our economics are more likely to be equally used and shared by all of us,we will not allow any plate or bowl of food to be more valued than another,any womon to be more valued than another,and this help us to learn how to become not only vegetarians but non- discriminating in our distribution of our resources what-ever they may be,indeed this is a never-ending task one that we as lesbian wimmin know that we can execute,and we know this can be accomplished over a period of time with perseverance