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Food is our most intimate and telling connection both with the living natural order and with our living cultural heritage. By eating the plants and animals of our earth, we literally incorporate them. It is also through this act of eating that we partake of our cultureÂ’s values and paradigms at the most primal levels. It is becoming increasingly obvious, however, that the choices we make about our food are leading to environmental degradation, enormous human health problems, and unimaginable cruelty toward our fellow creatures. <P>Incorporating systems theory, teachings from mythology and religions, and the human sciences, The World Peace Diet presents the outlines of a more empowering understanding of our world, based on a comprehension of the far-reaching implications of our food choices and the worldview those choices reflect and mandate. The author offers a set of universal principles for all people of conscience, from any religious tradition, that they can follow to reconnect with what we are eating, what was required to get it on our plate, and what happens after it leaves our plates. <P>The World Peace Diet suggests how we as a species might move our consciousness forward so that we can be more free, more intelligent, more loving, and happier in the choices we make.

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Will Tuttle has a masterÂ’s degree in humanities from San Francisco State University and a Ph.D. in the philosophy of education from the University of California. A professional pianist and teacher, he has for the last thirteen years toured progressive churches, vegetarian and macrobiotic conferences, and intentional communities throughout the country. He trained in Korea as a Zen Buddhist monk and has worked extensively in Tai Chi, yoga, massage, and dance and movement. He lives in Healdsburg, California.

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  • Paperback: 350 pages
  • Publisher: Lantern Books (July 1, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1590560833
  • ISBN-13: 978-1590560839
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
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Since time immemorialgoing back at least two and a half millennia to Pythagoras in Greece, the Old Testament prophets in the ancient Levant, and Mahavira and Gautama Buddha in India, as well as later luminaries such as Plato, Plotinus, and the early Christian fathers social reformers and spiritual teachers have emphasized the importance of attending to our attitudes and practices surrounding food. Read the first page
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herding culture, eating animal foods, reductionist science, killing animals for food, farmed animals, slaughterhouse workers
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United States, Food's Power, San Francisco, Mahatma Gandhi, Some Objections Answered, The Domination of the Feminine, Albert Einstein, Golden Rule, Andrew Weil, Camp Challenge, Colin Campbell, Heifer Project, West Virginia, Adolf Hitler, Bronson Alcott, Keith Akers, Mahayana Buddhism, North America, Old Testament, Thich Nhat Hanh
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44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A book to raise consciousness and bring peace to our world., October 13, 2005
This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to grow spiritually, who wants to live a conscious and compassionate life, and who wants to contribute to world peace. I have read many books on the topic of vegetarianism, animal rights and animal welfare, spiritual growth, and peace and nonviolence. This book stands alone in its ability to make the connection between all of these subjects.

Will Tuttle, Ph.D. is a rare combination of extraordinary compassion, scholarly research and education, spiritual commitment and wisdom, intuitive insights, and the courage to challenge a worldview which goes back 10,000 years

In this book, Tuttle explores humanity's relationship with the foods we eat. He points out, very convincingly, that when humans began herding animals, it began to create a consciousness of exploitation which then spread to the control and domination of other humans, as well as animals. So the roots of human's violence to humans are found in the practice of seeing animals as objects to exploit for our own purposes: for food, furs, labor, entertainment, "sport" and experimentation. The use of humans as slaves and the subjugation of women followed the subjugation and enslavement of animals.

One thing that sets this book apart from any of the others that describe the problems associated with a meat-based diet is the focus on the spiritual aspects of our diet. When we take food into our bodies, we are also ingesting the energy contained in this food. Animals that are tortured and filled with terror and agony as they are killed are filled with this very negative energy. When humans eat their flesh, we are also ingesting this fear and anger. This affects us deeply. We cannot live with peace in our hearts as long as we are filling our bodies with the pain and suffering of other beings.

Tuttle helps us to see that none of us have actually chosen a diet based upon meat. Our mothers fed us meat from our infancy. As we got old enough to understand that we were eating animals, we were told that animals were put here for us to eat, so it was okay. We didn't question this, any more than we questioned wearing clothes or taking baths. Thus, we absorbed the acceptance of exploitation of animals so naturally that we didn't know it was happening. And being unconscious, it is hard to recognize the violence that is part of our everyday lives through the eating of animals. Therefore, it is also hard to recognize how insensitive we have become to violence, because we have to protect ourselves from an awareness of the violence we are part of 3 times a day.

This is a very important book for everyone who wants their lives to contribute to more peace in the world, rather than more suffering and violence.

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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful and passionate., March 6, 2006
What would happen if everyone ate with consideration of the damage they are causing the environment and other creatures? According to Will Tuttle, author of The World Peace Diet, we would all be vegan, and a lot less hostile.

Tuttle's hypothesis says that if people really stopped to consider how sacred the act of eating is, the fact that you are literally taking on the energy and life force of another piece of matter, people would be a lot more mindful of their choices. And naturally following from that would be a meat-free diet.

As long as we continue to try to dominate the animals we share the planet with, we will continue to have violence. He takes the idea of reaping what you sow to the ultimate end, arguing that humans live in cramped, ugly conditions with no joy because that is what we force animals to do; we have diets of highly processed, chemical-filled foods because that is what we give to animals; we are fat as we fatten our food unnaturally; we suffer more disease, chronic worry and pain because we give these things to animals.

"Our cultural predicament - the array of seemingly intractable problems that beset us, such a chronic war, terrorism, genocide, starvation, the proliferation of disease, environmental degradation, species extinction, animal abuse, consumerism, drug addiction, alienation, stress, racism, oppression of women, child abuse, corporate exploitation, materialism, poverty, injustice, and social malaise - is rooted in an essential cause that is so obvious that it has managed to remain almost completely overlooked," he writes.

It's a powerful, passionate argument, one that many who are already vegetarians or vegans will read and find themselves nodding their heads over. It makes sense that in addition to the environmental damage and the health problems meat-based diets cause on a personal level, eating meat can also cause social ills across societies; it's just not something a lot of people have expressed this clearly before.

It may not be an argument that will convert many meat-eaters, but this is a thoughtful, well-reasoned book that draws on mythology, physiology, religion, science, systems theory and more to get people to think about what they put in their bodies, not just for individual health but for the well-being of society at large.-Sarah White

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5.0 out of 5 stars World Peace Diet: Eat for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony, September 15, 2005
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Doctor Will Tuttle's World Peace Diet is unlike any other "diet book" that I have ever read. Books such as Dr. Atkins' Health Revolution, The Zone, Protein Power, and The South Beach Diet attempt to give the reader guidance on how to lose weight. However, they fail to spell out the psychological health, ethical, environmental, and spiritual implications of their guidance.

The World Peace Diet does give information to the reader on how a balanced vegetarian diet can help someone improve their health and lose weight. However, this book is much more than simply a self help "diet book." This book illustrates the many dark sides of eating just to lose weight without considering how we ( and other creatures) are affected emotionally and spiritually by our eating habits.The diet books mentioned above include animal foods as well as plant foods.This book does not consider animals, their milk or eggs to be suitable food for humans. Eating animals causes suffering to the humans eating them as well as the animals being eaten.

Dr. Tuttle's book is based in veganism which is not simply a set of food preferences but is actually a form of ethical vegetarianism. Vegans only eat plant foods and are thereby able to show "Reverence" for all forms of life. In the process they practice ahimsa (harmlessness) and contibute to world peace. No animals or " animal products" are consumed. This approach to eating is really a way of being in the world and not simply a set of food preferences.

This author brings great compassion and a very scholarly/ethical approach to his writing. At the same time he offers practical suggestions on how to eat in ways that enhance physical, emotional and spiritual health. I recommend this book to anyone interested in improving their own health in ways that also show respect and consideration for all animals and the planet itself!
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5.0 out of 5 stars This Book Changed my Life!
The World Peace Diet by Will Tuttle is perhaps the most remarkable book I have read. It is remarkable because it welds together a single solution to all the problems that plague... Read more
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Tuttle takes a simple, reasonable and rational response to the violence we inflict upon non-humans and turns it into a big guru path-to-enlightenment rant. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book
This book was nothing short of amazing. It wasn't life changing for me just because I already identified with many if not all the causes that were discussed and am a vegan... Read more
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