Touching post with a lot of great 'guidelines' at the end. I really believe part of our healing comes from consuming differently. For me learning to cook 'again' was life changing and I can eat more and more food than before, there's more tastes I love, and I'm getting less and less 'dependent' on meat which was something I could never imagine.

Ah, voting. Compulsory sounds awesome to me. But can you chose 'blank'? That's an option we have in the Netherlands, where you just go vote to tell 'them' there's no-one you feel represents you :-)