About 8 years ago, I saw a short clip showing how cows are abused in slaughter houses. The feeling/compassionate side of me saw this and vowed to no longer eat meat. Being a complete idiot when it comes to nutrition at the time, I ended up eating a bunch of pretzels and basically gave up after about two months.
When I gave up and started eating meat again, I would say, “Well, the animal has already died, and my eating meat or abstaining from it is not going to stop them from doing what they are doing.”
Recently, I’ve had a change of heart. First of all, I feel like when I eat meat, I am partaking in the abuse towards animals – I am saying that it is ok and that I’m ok with it. Secondly, and this may be selfish, but I am feeding my body with a dead carcass – one that has had to live in miserable conditions and has probably been tortured before being slaughtered. Some people believe that even water has memory – how much more memory does blood and DNA have? And I put that in myself.
Again, when it comes to something like eating meat, I originally thought that my choice would have no effect on anything. Then I thought about the Hermetic principle: That which is Below corresponds to that which is Above, and that which is Above corresponds to that which is Below, to accomplish the miracle of the One Thing. What if this principle is true to some extent? Maybe the entire world won’t change, but maybe the world that I see will look different. Maybe it will look brighter and more blissful if I don’t partake in the torture and abuse of animals. The eyes of that animal saw the world – the animal feels cold and warm like I do, it can feel afraid like me. If I can exist without putting that poor thing into myself, then why wouldn’t I choose that?
This time I wised up and bought a bunch of almonds and walnuts and kidney beans to make up for protein. I feel better and I’ve lost weight. If you are on the fence about becoming a vegetarian, try it - find protein alternatives and see how you feel
“As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.”
Pythagorus
“It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.”
Albert Einstein
“As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.”
Leo Tolstoy
“I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.”
Mahatma Gandhi
"It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests."
Buddha
On general principles the raising of cattle as a means of providing food is objectionable. It is certainly preferable to raise vegetables, and I think, therefore, that vegetarianism is a commendable departure from the established barbarian habit. That we can subsist on plant food and perform our work even to advantage is not a theory but a well-demonstrated fact. Many races living almost exclusively on vegetables are of superior physique and strength. There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate. In view of these facts every effort should be made to stop the wanton, cruel slaughter of animals, which must be destructive to our morals."
Nikola Tesla
Even so, in the beginning, some wild and mischievous beast was killed and eaten, and then some little bird or fish was entrapped. And the desire of slaughter, being first experimented and exercised in these, at last passed even to the laboring ox, and the sheep that clothes us, and to the poor cock that keeps the house; until by little and little, unsatiableness, being strengthened by use, men came to the slaughter of men, to bloodshed and wars."
Plutarch
When I gave up and started eating meat again, I would say, “Well, the animal has already died, and my eating meat or abstaining from it is not going to stop them from doing what they are doing.”
Recently, I’ve had a change of heart. First of all, I feel like when I eat meat, I am partaking in the abuse towards animals – I am saying that it is ok and that I’m ok with it. Secondly, and this may be selfish, but I am feeding my body with a dead carcass – one that has had to live in miserable conditions and has probably been tortured before being slaughtered. Some people believe that even water has memory – how much more memory does blood and DNA have? And I put that in myself.
Again, when it comes to something like eating meat, I originally thought that my choice would have no effect on anything. Then I thought about the Hermetic principle: That which is Below corresponds to that which is Above, and that which is Above corresponds to that which is Below, to accomplish the miracle of the One Thing. What if this principle is true to some extent? Maybe the entire world won’t change, but maybe the world that I see will look different. Maybe it will look brighter and more blissful if I don’t partake in the torture and abuse of animals. The eyes of that animal saw the world – the animal feels cold and warm like I do, it can feel afraid like me. If I can exist without putting that poor thing into myself, then why wouldn’t I choose that?
This time I wised up and bought a bunch of almonds and walnuts and kidney beans to make up for protein. I feel better and I’ve lost weight. If you are on the fence about becoming a vegetarian, try it - find protein alternatives and see how you feel
“As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.”
Pythagorus
“It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.”
Albert Einstein
“As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.”
Leo Tolstoy
“I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.”
Mahatma Gandhi
"It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests."
Buddha
On general principles the raising of cattle as a means of providing food is objectionable. It is certainly preferable to raise vegetables, and I think, therefore, that vegetarianism is a commendable departure from the established barbarian habit. That we can subsist on plant food and perform our work even to advantage is not a theory but a well-demonstrated fact. Many races living almost exclusively on vegetables are of superior physique and strength. There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate. In view of these facts every effort should be made to stop the wanton, cruel slaughter of animals, which must be destructive to our morals."
Nikola Tesla
Even so, in the beginning, some wild and mischievous beast was killed and eaten, and then some little bird or fish was entrapped. And the desire of slaughter, being first experimented and exercised in these, at last passed even to the laboring ox, and the sheep that clothes us, and to the poor cock that keeps the house; until by little and little, unsatiableness, being strengthened by use, men came to the slaughter of men, to bloodshed and wars."
Plutarch
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