I believe that eating simple food in a healthy body with a clean conscience is more pleasurable, and infinitely more satisfying, then eating decadent food that makes you and your world ill.
Interpretation
Healthy eating and a clear conscience contribute to greater satisfaction than indulgent but harmful food.
This quote by John Robbins emphasizes the importance of consuming simple and nutritious food while maintaining a healthy body and a clear conscience. It suggests that true pleasure and satisfaction come from making choices that are beneficial not only for oneself but also for the broader world, rather than giving in to the temporary gratification of decadent foods that have detrimental effects on health and the environment.
In practice
In a presentation about nutrition, you could use this quote to advocate for healthy eating habits.
Our food chain is in crisis. Big agribusiness has made profits more important than your health—more important than the environment—more important than your right to know how your food is produced. But beneath the surface, a revolution is growing.
Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.
The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.
The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world.
Every time you make a choice that expresses respect for life, you bring a little more love in your body, into your family, into our society, and into a world that is calling out for this blessing.
A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources.
In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)
Because the biological mechanisms that affect our health and well-being are so dynamic, when people change their diet and lifestyle, they usually feel so much better, so quickly; it reframes the reason for changing from fear of dying to joy of living. Also, the support that patients give each other is a powerful motivator.
The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.
People who are in a position of finding out that they're at risk for some illness, whether it's breast cancer, or heart disease, are afraid to get that information - even though it might be useful to them - because of fears that they'll lose their health insurance or their job.
If you consciously let your body take care of you, it will become your greatest ally and trusted partner.
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