Monstrous Man-Babies

Why Being Vegan Is Part Of Becoming A Real Man

In order to fully become an adult we have to leave childhood behind us

When I was sixteen years old I went vegan. That’s the age when many of us start to break away from the beliefs and habits indoctrinated into us by our parents since birth, when we start to question these beliefs and assumptions we have blindly accepted thus far and when we start trying out our own way of relating to the world.

In order to fully become an adult we have to leave childhood behind us. Many traditional cultures include rites of passage to mark and facilitate the transition from childhood to adulthood when old ways of relating to family, society and the world at large are symbolically and psychologically set aside and the individual suddenly transforms from a position of reliance on those around them to one of responsible caretaker, care-giver and defender of the weak and vulnerable.

In modern western society we have lost many of these rites of passage. As a result, men (and sometimes women, too) often remain stuck, psychologically, in childhood. So we see 30 year olds playing video games, drunken executives acting like gangs of 14 year olds and grown men refusing to wean themselves off infant food.

Human beings are the only species who regularly continue to drink milk beyond infancy. They are also the only species who regularly drink the milk…