LIVE LIFE LOVE By Kelly Childs ©

We all have choices. Everything we don’t do has implications for us. You decide.

As we move through this life, we can decide if we want to be healthy or sick, live on a clean planet or continue to destroy it, and we can also decide if we want to eat animal products and be responsible for their lives or NOT.

It was an ethical choice for me to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that what was on my plate were living things, with feelings, just like our pet cats and pet dogs. And I just couldn’t disconnect myself from it any longer. I read books like “Diet for a New America” and saw documentaries like “Earthlings” and “Meet your Meat,” and it became an easy choice for me.

My health was also a major reason for me to go vegan. There are poisonous herbicides, pesticides, growth hormones, antibiotics, pharmaceuticals and bacterial contamination and diseases found in ALL factory farmed meat, fish and dairy products. I decided I didn’t want that in my body, nor should you want it in your body or your loved ones. You can choose to live a longer, healthier, more energized and vibrant life. It’s up to you.

Another reason I chose to go vegan is for the well being of the environment and our planet. The meat and dairy industry are responsible for one-third of all CO2 emissions in our atmosphere. It simply doesn’t make sense to funnel food through animals when the one in six inhabitants of this planet is starving. The regeneration of natural farmland and forests that comes with organic and plant based farming is critical to our survival, our future and all living things.

A whole-food plant based diet is the REAL food. Real vegetables, Real Fruit, Real nuts, grains and seeds, spices and herbs…. Creative, yummy and totally effective. If you choose to educate yourself, it’ll be an easy choice for you, too. The health implications are astounding with a whole food, plant-based diet.

I’m in the process of finishing a website that is an educational forum with support columns, brilliant ideas, awesome recipes, and informative videos to help you through every step of the way.

Destiny, or karma, depends upon what the soul has done about what it has become aware of.

~ Buddhist proverb