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January 2008 
Slaughter Houses vs. Vegetable Farms
Posted on Jan 10th, 2008
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Harmonic Reality
Harmonic Reality
Well, yes, that is true; animals are killed unkindly. Even lions suffocate their prey, while some animals eat their prey alive. Is it in appropriate for animals to eat animals and do we question their methods? No, because what they do is based on earth instinct, which is nature.
Whether we like the idea or not, we are all a part of the animal kingdom and the food chain, for that matter. If you are not sure whether or not you are a part of the food chain, take a hike in the mountains and meet a cougar on the way! Then you will be reminded in a most cruel, but natural way! And vegetable farmers kill animals that try to inhabit agricultural territories, which orginally belonged to them
What of cruelty to plants? They are destroyed and exploited for their resources, and we also diminish the rain forrest daily -- a region that has become a burial ground for the native trees and plants. Notice, when trees and plants die, so do animals, and when certain animals die, so do plants, which nurture them.
Consequently, it is true that when we humans selfishly exploit plants, animals die a slow and miserable death -- by starvation, a fate worse than death in any slaughter house!
We exploit the land and run out the animals in order to farm fruits and vegetables, always infringing on their rural territories -- yes, vegetable farms do that too!
Do you see all evils being commited through the consumption of both plants and animals?
And by the way, trees in Munchkin land, Oz are not the only trees that yell ouch, when we pluck off their fruit -- an adequate metaphor to further assess the question I ask,
Which dietary philosophy is more virtuous, or shall I say commits the lesser evil?
(inspired by cosmicbdog)
Whether we like the idea or not, we are all a part of the animal kingdom and the food chain, for that matter. If you are not sure whether or not you are a part of the food chain, take a hike in the mountains and meet a cougar on the way! Then you will be reminded in a most cruel, but natural way! And vegetable farmers kill animals that try to inhabit agricultural territories, which orginally belonged to them
What of cruelty to plants? They are destroyed and exploited for their resources, and we also diminish the rain forrest daily -- a region that has become a burial ground for the native trees and plants. Notice, when trees and plants die, so do animals, and when certain animals die, so do plants, which nurture them.
Consequently, it is true that when we humans selfishly exploit plants, animals die a slow and miserable death -- by starvation, a fate worse than death in any slaughter house!
We exploit the land and run out the animals in order to farm fruits and vegetables, always infringing on their rural territories -- yes, vegetable farms do that too!
Do you see all evils being commited through the consumption of both plants and animals?
And by the way, trees in Munchkin land, Oz are not the only trees that yell ouch, when we pluck off their fruit -- an adequate metaphor to further assess the question I ask,
Which dietary philosophy is more virtuous, or shall I say commits the lesser evil?
(inspired by cosmicbdog)
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Cruelty of plants is completely looked over. But even companies like IBM did studies back in the 70's I think it was (its been a while since I read 'the secret life of plants') concluded in many different experiments that plants do in fact feel pain.
Actually, one test they did they were able to conclude that plants even remember people who kill other plants and put out a frequency of fear when those people come close to them. Sadly this torture of the plant kingdom is also completely overlooked. And like you said, animals that lose their forest homes experience an even slower death than that in a slaughterhouse.
I think though people become more sensitive in progressions. For example, a meat eater will laugh at the idea of plants having emotions and feelings. They are numbed down. They may be able to actually understand it on some level, but as far as taking it seriously and having the appreciation for these subtle feelings its just table conversation.
For me, I found when I went completely vegetarian I started to take these more subtle energies more seriously. I live in the forest and I'm surrounded by a myriad of life forms and I now even feel horrible when I accidently stand on a bunch of ants or see one go down the drain as I'm washing a cup. I know that when I was eating meat I never considered personality of ants or insects. Now, I don't know how I didn't see it.
I think one dietary philosophy is superior over the other. Absolutely. I think breatharians are superior than I am. I think light beings are more superior than that.
With the sun being our most dominant teacher, it is more superior than us. I believe we are here to learn from it. To become like it. Beings who generate energy from within. To transcend this need to consume everything and anything. To take life in order to live.
I think its a progression. As you eat food closer to the light, the sensitivity develops. And the best we can do is eat food that has lesser pain receptors in it. Eating food that is obviously ready to be eaten. Like fruit that is ready to drop from a tree, who's continuation of life seems in harmony with being consumed. You eat an apple, and throw the core, and the seed grows into another tree. The tree doesn't die. It helps the tree build a family and its a win win for both. Maybe one day though, I will see this differently as I have come to see many things differently.
Thank you for the inspiration bryan.
Give me a second to digest this soul food you offer in the form of thought. I want to talk more with you about this here –nothing conclusive, just expansive!