RE: Sweet 🍯 Salt ⏳Spice 🌶️ and all things nice, The Alladin's cave for foodies.
Wow what an experience, this reminds me of the spice shops I visited in Istanbul!! :)
Epic diversity, I use to only use curry as a superfood spice, but the more raw (and vegan) foods I keep getting into making, the more I am loving all the spices! <3
Literally infinite flavors!!!! <3
I always though being vegan just meant not eating anything animal related, though by the definition I just learned here, that excludes even more than just animal products!!
As GMO's are hardcore animal exploitation... and if you count humans as animals you could get even more extreme about it!! x)
Essentially only leaving room for purely sustainably harvested produce, whether repurposing "waste" or growing and/or harvesting your own food in the wild, which in a would imply being vegan, while still potentially (not necessarily) eating animal products O:
For example; meat that wasn't purchased and is going to be sent to a landfill is like double animal exploitation (since they not only exploited the animals life but ended up wasting it...).
However, since that meat would go to waste and rot, polluting and damaging the planet even more... eating it would be more sustainable for the planet and simultaneously salvaging that animals life...! So... that could be considered vegan by definition then...? O:
Thanks for such a thought provoking reply. I have not always been 'vegan" so i totally understand what your saying. When I was moving from eating meat to vegan, I was eating honey without a thought (but then i read its not a sustainable practice here.
if you are living with nature like some people in the jungle and go an collect the honey yourself (this is different because these types of tribes need honey to sustain themselves and have no alternative, they take one hive to feed the village thats it until they need it again. Maybe also another ethical practice would be to have your own hives and only take very little amount of honey from the hive.
as for the vegan label it depends why u r vegan. theres the health people, the animal rights ppl, the sustainability people and also the spiritual people, and all the above (like myself)
I'd say what you are talking about with the meat no going to waste isn't vegan, simply because of what the term vegan stands for, but i totally get what your saying and i would imagine that to be in a world that is not like a built up western paradigm, a place with no supermarkets, living life in a rural and sustainable way.
But to be honest I could not kill an animal myself now, and I definitely don't want to eat dead flesh on a spiritual level, it is energy i dont want to take in my body. for example, if your dog died would you eat it? another way of looking at it would be would you want someone to eat you when you die? nothing is wasted if it is biodegradable, it will go back to the earth or another animal would eat it.
Thanks for the discussion, i hope u discover a world of more spices because they have many healing properties and would be great in your raw recipes.
Well that's what I mean, everything is a step forward as we are always doing what we feel is best, tuning in to our values, priorities, getting better at honoring and respecting with conscious awareness/living!
I went from "normal" to vegetarian, then vegan, thinking the labels were healthier and more ethical and energetically positive meanings, and to an extent it can be true.
Though someone buying GMO's, toilet paper, petroleum, plastic, and other unsustainable products, is essentially supporting and destroying the planet just as much as someone buying meat... and essentially anything purchased and consumed is energetically tied to its source...
That's when I dropped the labels as a form of personal identification and restriction, though they're still usable and helpful for communication.
So the next step to be would be positive energy alchemy! Which can be interpreted in infinite ways!
To me the highest vibrating energy is LOVE, FREEDOM, and HAPPINESS, which adds to the infinite forms of relative interpretation... which are all easily shifted by perspective learned through experiences!
(Hence presently being raw vegan, as organic and local as possible! Until upgrading and even better is possible! :)
I like your vibration :) I'm so tired of these labels but it is useful for some ppl, im kinda sad when i see mindless veganism ppl buying products from unethical companies and junk foods, but everyone is on their own journey of awakening and us humans can be quite slow from all this conditioning going on. I have to admit i use toilet paper (i didn't in india) and here in the summer its ok, but its too cold now. I try to keep all other stuff to a minimum but we cant drink the tap water here, so there is endless plastic from bottles, im always recycling properly and in general because i don't go to supermarket all my veg is not in plastic etc. I hope i can be as mindful as possible, im always compelled to try harder! I have a raw recipe by the way.... it's chocolates, be nice if you have the time to check it out here :)
unfortunately the cacao isn't local but i don't use it /buy it often, now not all really, this is when i had to cut down on my chocolate addiction, i really taught me the true value of cacao and that it is a very rare treat not an everyday addiction, otherwise i keep to being as local as possible, except maybe bananas but i will choose the canary bananas which are much closer than some other types :)
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Hahaha yeah I feel the same and agree!
That use to be my grandma, she was so proud to be vegan in an almost superior sense, but she was buying GMO's.. I haven't seen her for a while but I feel like she's evolved a lot since then!
Like you said, everyone is on their own journey! So it's not worth getting sad except as more motivation to be the change!!! 💖
Just like that everyone and everything will change as the whole world is already consciously evolving and upgrading hardcore everyday! :)
You can always buy water filters and big glass jars to filter tap water! And for toilet paper you can use water and a towel! There's always another way! It just has to feel good and worth it or it won't happen :p
No need to judge or feel ashamed about anything! I also use toilet paper sometimes though also try to keep it to a minimum, and avoid using the toilet in general whenever possible :P hahaha
I can tell you are definitely more mindful than a lot of the population, especially in the USA! :P
Progress is all that matters, no matter how fast or slow! ;) Actually better to go slower than "too fast" in some cases haha, like for my ankle now! x)
I'll open that recipe now before I go make my coconut yogurt so I can read when I come back! :)
And I feel you on the cacao, I LOVE CACAO so much hahaha but I've been cutting back for the same reasons, hehe, and good choice on the closer bananas! 💖
Keep up the positive conscious healthy life choices! 💖
wow your grandma sounds really ahead of her time! my gran still thinks meat is healthy, she is 92 and was brought up on a farm, it prob was alot healthier back then unlinke now days. ur right about the water, i used to filter it in england but im really not sure about the water from our tap, it stinks! unfortunatley i dont have the money for high quality filtration system atm, i dont think a standard filter is good enough for this kind of water.normally tap water is recycled toliet water (at least that what i heard in the uk) because ppl take the contraceptive pill, these hormones get recycles in the water. personally im not a big fan of that either. Wish i could live next to a fresh spring :)
On top of being vegan, she's SUPER spiritual in the sense that she LOVES to meditate SO MUCH!!!! She use to literally spend every day meditating and often times "forget" that reality even existed! O: 💖💖💖💖
Indeed, ALL FOOD has been over 50% nutritionally depleted in the last 100 years unfortunately u.u
92 years old is still quite impressive!!!! ;)
Everything in nature in the "wild"/"wilderness" is essentially SUPER HEALTHY (unless polluted by humans as humans LITERALLY INVENTED POLLUTION...)... but the ways humans have learned to reproduce these wild things has been more and more corrupted... luckily everyone is becoming conscious and aware of these malpractices and upgrading daily! (At least that's what I choose to believe/hope is going on since there's no way of REALLY knowing what's going on all over the world all the time! Haha!) 💖💖
Daaaaaang, recycled toilet water for tap water?! That sounds pretty insane!!!! Not only contraceptives but EVERY pharmaceutical drug will leave some sort of residue in there, thats A LOT of toxicity to filter...... no wonder it stinks!!!! O_O
In the USA tap water is literally poison, I can taste and smell it... :S
It's so delusional that people take the time to harvest clean water, filter and clean it, then re-contaminate it intentionally with poisonous toxins and heavy metals...
Regardless of the insanity, it is still truly an amazing luxury to be grateful for to have "clean" "enough" running water on command every day whenever we want! 💖💖💖
Wow your grandma is amazing! what an inspiration.
My gran is also spiritual but she has only ever learnt and understood the catholic religion but even tho she is just a simple lady, she is also very knowing and wise. She has alot of pain in her body from a life of hard physical labor, its only medication that keeps her going but she wants to leave this earth now especially now my granpa past away last year, he was climbing up trees at 87 and had a fall, had a broken hip and didn't recover which is incredible to think he was so active at that age. Both of them had a very tough physical life, him working with forestry and she spent half her life working the land, she said she had to carry 50kilos of corn for one hour to the nearest villages and its up and down the mountains. Everything back then had to be made yourself and would at least spend half the day in the kitchen using wood burning fire oven. Its no wonder that when modernization reached that part of the world, these older generations brought into the ease and convenience of all the store brought products. Even tho my grandparents gave up the farm, they still grew in the garden and had many organic delights, salad, potatoes, herbs, berries, tomatoes, apple, pears, apricots, plums. It was so wonderful to be there as a child!
We are so lucky that we should never take anything for granted, there are ppl who still live such a tough life, like u said no access to safe water and have to carry it for miles!
like u said as more ppl are waking up, the better the world is becoming! unfortunately as my gran says the world has been poisoned and its a tipping point its almost gone too far, ppl have to make some radical adjustments! I really want to see the end of exhaust fumes from cars! I'd like it to happen now.... i just can barely breath, even in the mountains where my gran lives, it is disgusting the cars that pass through and this is a big problem with large lorries transporting goods, another reason why we should buy as locally as possible.
Do you live in the USA btw...? You should join ur vegan chat room on discord https://discord.gg/RVAN4bK
Your grandma seems pretty bad ass herself! What kind of medication is she taking and what's it for? o:
Though your grandpa sounds more like what I'm aiming for, climbing trees 'til I die! Hehe <3
Mmmm it's interesting how much christianity has influenced the world... even though it's based on a corrupt manipulative system, thankfully people are naturally full of love so some still manage to turn it into a positive outlet!
Hahaha it's funny how the generations change so drastically! I love that hard work and wish more people saw that kind of "hard work" as play instead! :)
Your grandparents knew/experienced how to live for real! ;)
50kg is not an easy job, especially for any "normal" person now a days! :P
For real though, and the only way to see the end of such crazy "normalities" like all the insane ecological footprints human have invented/created is to be the change, and every day that change is being more and more implemented! :)
My grandparents use to live in Santiago, which is basically a super nasty smog valley, insane to see how many fumes get trapped in that city and even start tainting everything with its dark residues...... fortunately they finally moved to the south in the open super fresh divine air of the virgin forested mountains! <3
So I can relate to that hard-to-breath sensation from overwhelming toxicity in the air, somehow that's also become "normal", it's insane to think that in Beijing for example its "normal" to wear a gas mask while walking around the streets... pure insanity...
Buying local definitely helps, its ridiculous to think that places like Australia that grow tons of their own mangoes would import mangoes from another country, or same in the USA where Florida COULD grow mangoes so easily yet instead they're removing especially public mango trees and then importing them from Mexico... delusions have taken over, but thankfully are being exposed and overcome thanks to raising awareness! <3
I haven't used discord in ages haha but I am in the USA, sounds fun and already joined while writing this! Haha!
Awesome idea and creation, you seem really enthusiastic and active for creating, encouraging, and promoting positive change, love it! <3