No idea if I even answered your points here but look, I am taking the spotlight off of your article which I don't want to do.

You've given me a very clear education on your POV and I am grateful for the expanded perception on this issue. I can now see some gaps where my view was/is simplistic! As for spotlight, lol: as you more or less said to me a few days ago "seems like it's just you in this audience" 🔆 .

You know, just today when I was cycling back from town I stopped to get some juice. Along with the juice I fancied some chocolate. This is something I do once in a while when I give in to an urge and the opportunity is there ie consume products that contain dairy. As I was eating it, I thought of our conversation. I realise that I am always aware of consuming dairy when I do it, a gut feeling which I kinda put aside, kinda ignore. I used to consume VAST quantities of dairy, and it's been 2-3 years 'off' them. Felt like I was shown a parallel, whereby I could get a better picture of what you were saying about your (not)meat eating through this insight into my own habits and gastronomic elasticity 😌. It was a nice little gift.

I have also in the past acted with food in the manner you describe - bought a pack of Pink Lady apples a few years ago and when I took a bite, I had a similar kind of intuitive disgust; same with Jordan's cereal; threw them away and never bought them again.

I'd love to come and visit you on your farm, maybe tend to some of the animals for a while and explore some herbal or psychedelic prospects of a new paradigm ;) ... a setup like the one you describe is very very far from the depictions of Dominion and Earthlings, and one I can picture being in harmony with Nature and natural processes. It sounds idyllic, and realistic 🔆

I also wonder about the effect of culture and conditioning with regard to this issue - and with regard to, say our differences - yours and mine. I grew up in India, where non-meat eating is the norm, catered for and accepted everywhere. I lived in Munich in 90/91, where I lived off bread and cheese and tinned lentils lol. Non meat-eating was most certainly something that Germans were not sensitive to (especially the Bavarians ;)._{I am assuming you grew up in G}. What I'm saying is it's much 'easier' for me to be in my position viz-a-viz content of this post. I have not fully appreciated how much further it is to travel from a background where it was pretty much ubiquitous and unquestioned.

Your story is remarkable, thanks so much for sharing it brother 🔆