The Power of Plant-Based Living to Transform Body and Spirit with Dominick Thompson

Wow.

You know, nowadays, Dominic, some people sort of label...

the social media, all the noise out there, people say, oh, the angry vegans and the animal rights activists and things like that.

And so they almost gets polarized.

But like you said, there's this innate part of us in this connection, this world of, you know, we could say our true identity is love and we're connected by oneness.

When there's harm being inflicted, it's very unnatural to ignore it or to pretend it's not there.

Right.

Yes, I agree.

Back to the philosophy of Gandhi and how he talked to, he was such a big proponent of vegetarianism and this idea of yoga, himsa, not doing violence, because if that's what we want to see in the world, all our choices and how we live, including what we're supporting and what we're eating is woven into that.

So if we really believe that we can't, turn it on and off.

It just becomes this through line of our life.

I agree, especially when you receive the information and you see things, what happens in factory farming or you read things or even you hear.

I don't know if you ever had experience to be near a actual slaughterhouse or a factory farm or a gas chamber.

And I had had a couple of experiences during my activism, but you just can't unhear those screams of those animals.

And it moves something inside of you that It's just something that makes you want to be proactive and educate people as much as you can to just make the connection that animals are not here for us.

They're here to coexist with us if you really think critical about it.

So it's funny you say that about this, you know, the scenes.

I haven't seen it personally, but my sons have been raised plant-based.

And at a certain point, you know, they're kind of educating them about one of the reasons that we are.

There's also the environmental reason, you know, health reasons there's so many reasons and they coalesce in this one

great reason

way it's just you know pro pro pro but i did show my older son who's 10 now my little one just turned six so he's a little bit on the younger side but i did go on youtube and i showed him clips of these factory farmed you know the the ways animals are treated and he just ball Dominic, you know, and it was just snippets.

I didn't want to overexpose his nervous system, but it was so impactful that he literally was, I understand, I will never eat meat.

And I think too many children get turned off from their natural empathy and told, you have to eat this.

You need the meat to get big and strong.