How to BE VEGAN in the MILITARY with Bill Muir
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Bill Muir, also known as SGT. Vegan, doesn’t make excuses.
A vegan since 1992, Bill has traveled to 47 countries, served in the army, and was deployed to Afghanistan, all without breaking his commitment to his cruelty-free diet.
Bill completed the brutal basic training on a plant-based diet and went on to become a medic and paratrooper, never wavering from his mission to help others. He now works as an RN at the VA Center of Los Angeles and wrote a book, “Vegan Strong,” to dispel the “hippie” myth surrounding a vegan diet.
He proves that you can maintain your health and your ethics no matter your circumstances, and he is working to help others realize this fact.
“I would be willing to say that probably more than 70% of our patients are in the hospital because of lifestyle-related diseases.” - Bill Muir
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I have 2 daughters serving our country. Both have proven it can be done, even through Basic.
I’m sure it was tough but not impossible. 🌱 💚
So they dont want to kill animals but fine killing people?
Protein isn't the issue - all food contains protein, and all protein originates in plants. There is literally no recorded instance of protein deficiency in the modern world so long as you are eating (any) food. In a warzone carbs are the key since they turn to sugar (energy). People are so misguided with macros
I am vegan and want to go in the military, glad it's possible to stick to my diet. I'm only 13 so it's a going to be a while from now.
U gone be great💜
About that…I’m doing 6+ miles everyday now and I’m anemic, sooooo. I’m only vegetarian now 😬 Sorry to disappoint, I literally had to…
@@Infinit3x bro it’s still good
vegan for that long in the military?? soooo inspiring.
@Aaron Loos the vegan hunter you can buy your own boots and socks
@Aaron Loos the vegan hunter not true. You can and are expected to purchase your own gear. You get initial pair then it's on you to replace them
@Aaron Loos the vegan hunter there's approved vegan military boots
@Aaron Loos the vegan hunter not true. But you're just a troll anyways.
@Aaron Loos the vegan hunter I bought my own dummy 😂
I’m vegan and this was my main concern. I’m currently enlisting. Thank you for posting!!!
I’m vegan as well and I’m thinking of joining the Air Force and idk if I’d be able to make it work. I would starve before I ate animals for sure I’d never fold on my morals/values
Interesting podcast!
Glad you think so!
Awesome. Thanks for being Vegan and brave!
Just a heads up, it is in fact not possible to be vegan in the military, at least while performing an active combat role because veganism is not just a diet, it is a philosophy of nonviolence to all sentient beings which includes humans. There is not much difference between firing a captive bolt gun into a cow's skull at a slaughterhouse and firing a 5.56 round into a human target. It could also be argued that it is not possible to be vegan in the military even in a non combat role, ie chair force, because for example a vegan would not work in the financial division of Tyson inc.
Still depends on ones perception and morality. Its not black and white and more a continum.
If you go to absolute extreme of this philosophy, you would say that prisons are not vegan because if the fact that we strip citizens of the basic human rights of freedom/ autonomy and ownership. But, for most this perceived notion of stripping an individual of its freedom is justified with the fact that they committed an action that went against a societies code of law (which is highly subjective at times and based on culture). From an absolute and extreme vegan point of view people who commit subjective and societal based wrongdoing shouldn't be punished in a way that stripped them of basic human rights.
Additionally self-defense and the defense of others is commonly extremely morally justifiable for vegans. You wouldn't do nothing if someone around you is getting attacked nor would you not defend yourself with all your will to even the extent to kill if someone is threatening with deadly force.
If we go a little further down those moral loopholes of veganism we can even extend this to enemy troops. Without arguing into the morality of why a country should even meddle with international affairs or the values of capitalism (who btw are not exclusive to the pertinent philosophies at play, so would be ad hominems if used as a point against the moral stance of the military in veganism).
If troops are attacked shouldn't they defend themselves? If troops defend civilians of other countries from extremist and oppresive groups could it be justified and can this loophole extend to defending a country against potential threats?
If troops capture enemies and make them war prisoners wouldn't it be justified?
You see, its not so black and white white anymore and this also applies to your second absolute statement of vegans working for tyson Inc in jobs disconnected from the slaughter such as accounting.
How much do you allow a disconnect between a sector that perpetuate animal harm and a workers interest of finding employement?
Is working as a worker of the state unethical just because its loosely tied to a chain of commmant that ultimately fund industrial animal agriculture? Would it be impossible to be corporate lawyer (which The Korean vegan was for a while) or a vegan as a politician due to its even closer ties to say power structure that enables animal cruelty? Does working on a big non organic farm make you unworthy to be vegan just because it essentially enable big animal agriculture?
Is woking in a non-vegan grocery store or non-vegan restaurant that explicitly presents and enable the purchase of dead animals make you unworthy of a vegan?
Your logic is highly unuanced and is flawed with fallacies that doesn't take in consideration of the individual and their true interest.
I'm vegan despite being employed as someone who served at food counters in a restaurant with meat, I'm vegan despite handling packaged dead animals on a daily as a cashier, I'm vegan despite working as a barista in a non vegan cafe and I would be vegan despite serving in the forces.
Why? Because my interet is not to harm animals or suport animal cruelty, but to work in a job and sector that align with my interest, opportunities, goals and capabilities.
Same applies to a army medic or a accountant for Tyson Inc.
Making the connection you made is a logical fallacy and is completely void of nuances.
Ps. Just a reminder that there is military forces all around the world and is not something exclusive in the United States who have a lot of entanglement big corporations who desires to profit from military occupation.
You're talking about a specific (possibly the most extreame) form of veganism. And even then Many people in the military never kill people. In fact their job may be to save or sustain lives (in the case of a medic or a cook) there's also engineers, yeomen (they do paperwork), logitsics (manages resources) and all kinds of specialized jobs that have nothing to do with violence. The most violent many get is having to arm up for defense against someone invading their station (that's self defense). Lots of people are vegan for the way diet impacts the planet. its what they've chosen to do with what they have.