At the most crucial time for humanity to be considering our collective future, it’s never been so important for us to come together and choose love across all intersections, so that we have the chance to save each other, our planet and manifest a protopian dimension of peace on earth.
At this time of a great awakening to a more conscious way of being, we are already seeing an exponential rise in anti-racism and overall kindness and compassion to each other. Self-realisation and making conscious decisions with intention at every moment can help us all move forward, but often the wider mainstream can forget the root of what love really is and how integral the philosophy of non-violence is as a solution for us as individuals, and as a collective.
“Ahimsa” is the ancient Indian principle of non-violence which applies to all living beings. This can also be considered as “love energy”. Through my work and performances as a recording artist and spiritual revolutionary, I have written an 11-track record “Shortcut To World Peace”, which I recently performed songs from at UK Black Pride’s Love + Rage at the Roundhouse, with the intention of amplifying love through consciousness expansion, so that we can manifest utopia and world peace together. ⠀
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A world with LOVE at the core of all decisions is crucial to heal our planet, our collective, regain control of the system, and it is more clear than ever that a vegan and non-violent future is imperative to reducing violence based on racism, homophobia, and transphobia – as speciesism is truly the root of all oppression.
We also know that animal agriculture is a proven and serious source of air, soil and water pollution. The disproportionate number of industrialised farms, slaughterhouses and processing facilities in low socio-economic areas and communities of colour also means that poor people, particularly Black people and people of colour – are exposed to significantly more pollution than the general population. This is a major factor of a social issue referred to as environmental racism.
Raising livestock for meat, eggs and milk generates 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, the second highest source of emissions and greater than all transportation combined. It also uses about 70% of agricultural land, and is one of the leading causes of deforestation, biodiversity loss, and water pollution. This means that contributing to animal agriculture destroys not only the planet, collective health and animal life, but is killing and abusing Black people and people of colour. Coastal city flooding in Africa and India is also caused by animal agriculture in the East and West – constantly destroying Black and brown lives.
People who live near or work at slaughterhouses and factory farms breathe in many harmful chemicals produced by decomposing manure. Hydrogen sulfide released by manure lagoons is dangerous even at low levels; with health risks ranging from sore throats to seizures, comas and even death. These same lagoons contaminate local drinking water supplies, increasing the risk of blue baby syndrome which can be fatal to infants. There is also a higher risk of miscarriage. Areas surrounding factory farms have also been subject to several disease outbreaks due to bacterial and viral contamination of drinking water.
With every non-vegan choice, people are contributing to this racist violence and at a time when we are speaking up for Black Lives Matter, it is imperative that all human citizens understand the impact of their consumption choices so that their actions can be aligned.
Factory farms are an absolute atrocity to all touched by them, from the animals trapped in horrible conditions within, to the local environment, and even spreading their devastation to affect the health and safety of people unfortunate enough to live in their vicinity.
In addition, slaughterhouse workers suffer heavily from PTSD due to having to exact the violence commissioned by non vegans, and unfortunately the majority of slaughterhouse workers are Black and POC.
From an environmental standpoint, the impact from the pollution of animal agriculture is also disproportionately causing flooding in Africa and Asia, again an unconscious racial bias comes into play.
Animal advocates are often met with the claim that our advocacy for animals is somehow less important because human suffering is a priority, but everything is connected. Animal abuse also leads to and amplifies human abuse.
It can take a lot of time, research and invested shadow work to go through the various processes of understanding what “love” really means, so I made my record “Shortcut To World Peace” to help amplify and speed up that process by sharing my knowledge through the medium of music, so that it’s something to enjoy, channel universal energy with, and cerebrally advance us as a species.
A lot of my spiritual inspiration comes from ancestral Indian / Vedic philosophies of peace, but as I was born and grew up in London, colonial Britain, I have somewhat of a unique perspective on decoding violence and the binaries of reality, which I have subsequently put into this record.
You will start to notice the frequency of synchronicities within the NEO 10Y universe, my name being one of them, which really shows that the intention of this project from the universe is way bigger than me, and being an independent artist has allowed me to execute this record and visual hyperreality in the most authentic way possible.
Veganism and choosing “love energy” is not only important for the animals, environment, and collective health, but a vegan future now would be free of zoonotic diseases such as COVID-19, would help biodiversity, heal water systems, reduce climate change and environmental racism, and solve world hunger.
Deconstructing speciesism is integral to the wider deconstruction of other oppressions including but not limited to misogyny, ableism, violence based on gender and sex, racism and LGBTQ+ rights.
The shortcut to world peace is a very simple philosophy of love and kindness. If we teach people to embrace the spiritual essence of love energy and non-violence, a world with love which would inherently be vegan and not exploit any beings, would result in us solving the crisis of violence and world hunger, environmental crisis, water systems, global warming, violence in wars which would be eradicated, compassion and sentience would grow and we would manifest a reality much closer to the protopian dimension of peace that we deserve.