AR-News: 'This Conversation With You is a Meditation'

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A beautiful and heartfelt commentary on Kucinich's vegan way of life.

For full interview, go to:

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/139/story_13914_2.html

BELIEFNET: You are vegan. Why do you follow that path?

KUCINICH: Well, I met someone who I fell in love with, and, basically, as a 
way of exploring the relationship, I changed my diet. It worked for me. It gave 
me a sense of connection and energy and clarity and health that I could never 
have imagined. That's how it started as with many of us, and we meet someone 
and creates a shift in our lives.

BELIEFNET: Most of those are reasons of physical well-being. At this point, 
do you view there as being an ethical dimension?

KUCINICH: Look, there's an ethical dimension to everything we do! Not just 
our choice of food. The choice of interviews I do. There's an ethical dimension 
to my life and all of our lives, from the time we get up in the morning to the 
time we sleep including what we sleep on. So I don't separate my choices from 
ethical choices at any time

It's consistent with a desire to help participate in sustaining the planet 
which I think this diet does. And it also sustains my health, which creates a 
reciprocal relationship between self and world.

BELIEFNET: For some vegans it implies or is part of a view about a continuum 
of life...

KUCINICH: There is an ethical basis for a choice of foods and for people who 
pursue the diet I enjoy, the ethical dimension is important . It's important 
to me. I don't want to be construed as saying someone who does another diet is 
lacking in ethics.



    

    
    
    

    
    

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