In regards to eating meat

[Namaste]

Great post Pab.

There is only one thing I'd like to point out, it has been measured and documented that plants 'stress' when the intention is held to damage them (or other life).

In summary, Dr Cleve Baxter, a CIA polygraph expert, one day he decided to connect the system to a plant. He noticed an output of a shifting wave pattern (he was expecting it to be continuous/steady), and investigated further. He discovered the plants were responding to the thoughts of people and animals nearby. He proved, quite conclusively, that holding an intention of burning one of the leaves caused the plants recoded output to spike and stress out on a large scale.

He even set up a mechanical (non human mind influenced) setup using a timer that dropped a bowl of shrimp into boiling water (poor things!). The timer was randomised. Each time, the plant registered distress as the shrimp were killed.

For further reading, read The Field and the Intention Experiment. Both books by Lynn McTaggart, both excellent.

Edit: found this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9dP9F5nK...re=related

This is why you should sing (send positive intention/love) to your plants :¬)