Living Among Meat Eaters

[Guest guest]

Have you read Carol Adams' book, " Living Among Meat Eaters " ? I

highly recommend it. I'm curious whether others have read this book

and followed the guidance ... what results did you experience?

 

I think this book can be helpful for anybody who has ever wanted some

practical advice on how to cope with meat eaters, from spouses to

kids to other family members to co-workers.

 

Adams suggests that we view meat eaters as " blocked vegetarians " ,

meaning something is blocking them from giving up meat and becoming

vegetarian or vegan. I have already found this perspective helpful

in dealing with my meat eating spouse and her family (my family is

mostly vegetarian).

 

The book is filled with a lot of constructive ideas on how to handle

various situations and types of people.

 

What I liked best was Adams suggestion that we need to convey a sense

of the abundance and fulfillment that we experience and feel in our

meals and our lives because of the choices we (veg*ns) have made.

Whether we are veg*ns because of health, compassion, and/or the

environment, we show meat eaters that they can become unblocked

through heightening their awareness, reflecting on what they know,

and taking action. In our dealings with meat eaters, the focus

should be on them and their blockage. Being blocked, they often try

to shift the focus to us, projecting their fears onto us, looking for

execuses to stay blocked. But when our lives reflect happyness,

abundance, peace and ease ... then they can only return their focus

to themselves and confront their own guilty concience. In this way,

we avoid getting in the way of their personal awareness, reflection,

and transformational journey. We save ourselves a lot of grief, too!

 

Of course there is much more to the book, but those were some of the

highlights from my perspective.

 

- Alan