This one might be a bit of a stretch, but reading it just made me so happy that I thought I should write about it.
Sadie Nardini is a big-time yogi (for my loyal readers, this is someone who practices yoga). Typically the thought of yoga people makes me sick. They often carry a holier-than-thou attitude and usually a vegetarian diet comes along with it. Nardini, however, has recently outed herself as a meat-eater to buck the trend.
In her article in The Huffington Post, she calls out all the pretentious yoga studios who almost force their teachers and students into a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle. She recounts a particularly depressing story:
Students come to me all the time afraid to tell me about their darkest, dirtiest secret: they are omnivores. One even cried when I told her I eat meat too. She had been so traumatized at a top studio by having to watch unannounced Meat is Murder videos before being taught her yoga class.
Some things just aren’t right. Being a reformed vegetarian herself, Nardini knows how tough life is for vegetarians. Lucky for her, she has since given herself a new life that includes meat in her diet. On eating meat again after six years as a vegetarian, she says, “I felt vitality surge back into my body.”
I may not have lived a life of vegetarianism in the past, but I surely feel that way every time I bite into a delicious meaty meal.
For showing the world that not all yogis are absorbed in radical vegetarian tendencies, and being proud of it, Sadie Nardini, you are a true Unvegan Hero!
(via The Huffington Post)
Hmmm, radical vegetarian tendencies….also known as compassionate living.
lokah samasta sukhino bhavantu ….oh, except for animals we want to eat and wear…then f-them…keep on with the ultimate disconnect if it’s working for you. But cognitive dissonance can only last for so long. Sadie a Hero?? Hell no…Worship someone of merit, someone of compassion…someone who actually lives their ahimsa for others and not just what suits them.
“I cannot believe we live in a world where I have to ask my friends to stop imposing pain and death upon other beings when there is no need to. I cannot believe I have to ask, and I cannot believe the answer is ever “no”.” ~ Marlana Mazmanian McCliman
“I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will survive—nor will we deserve to.” – Leonard Peltier
There’s nothing heroic about being like 99% of the world and eating the flesh of enslaved animals. I’ve never heard of a studio forcing students to be veg – maybe an ashram that practices the yamas and niyamas of yoga. And there’s so much delicious, non-harmful food out there. Why celebrate the slavery and consumption of another sentient being?