I am completely blown away by how you managed to give people all the excellent reasons for a vegan diet and lifestyle.

Thank you very much for all your work !

Nope, neither Gandhi nor Nonviolence United (nor I) say that "sometimes violence is necessary." I think we are more creative than that and I know that we are much more interconnected than people understand — much of the violence in the world cannot continue without our explicit or implicit support. I think Gandhi is misinterpreted often, but he did not underestimate the imbalanced and misplaced power of violence; he saw it as the failure that it is. Martin Luther King, Jr. understood this when he picked up on Gandhian tactics to work toward a community of reconciliation, where no one has to be "beaten", rather we all move together toward a cooperative society. One of the most often misunderstood and misused quotes of Gandhi is, "It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence." Here people like to point and say, "See, Gandhi said we should be violent." When in fact, this is supporting what I pointed out in the article above — Gandhi wanted us to move to a place where Nonviolence was in our hearts, a way of live, a new society, so that violence would no longer be tolerated or perpetuated.

If you're saying that "hey… life can be mostly Nonviolent… but on rare occasions, it's necessary" is a "reality" (as I think you may have been suggesting), I think that's an overstatement. It is not a "reality" in that people tend to make their own definitions of "necessary" and therefore perpetuate violence whenever it suits their desires. Yes, it is a violent world; no, it doesn't have to be.

Let me know if I can clarify anything. Thanks for connecting!

All one,
:) m