Vegans Must be Stopped!

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Being straightforward works.

Not from my experience. Talking about food and health, in my experience, is wrought with tensions and defenses. I hardly ever do it unless I'm really pressed. Here, it is a forum, so it would seem safe to be straightforward; but as I said, I've had to tread very carefully in order to get any info or opinions across without stirring up defenses. Then it ceases to be a straightforward exchange; it becomes a struggle of sorts.

My advice is to "be the bigger person" and remain straightforward and factual without the silly cherry picking. Appealing to reason works too.

And if being the bigger person or being straightforward doesn't work, perhaps one can simply accept the matter.

Acceptance is of the moment; It is important to believe you can change the future. I would add however that free will of others is important, and while you can change other's choices and constrain their will, such infringement closes the heart. So I think a balanced yellow/green acceptance is one where (1) you accept the present in its entirety, (2) believe you can change the future while at the same time recognizing that changing the free will choices of individuals is inconsistent with an open green ray, and thus we refrain from exercising our yellow in a way inconsistent with the green ray.

At the end of the day, I want to bring about a world of peace, of love, and I believe I can help do that, but I don't want to bring it by infringing on other's peoples free will and choices. If people won't listen to what we think is the balanced way to approach something, I think we have to accept that, because to force our will upon them is to close our green while exercising yellow dominance over them.

Or something like that.