In regards to eating meat

[kia]

The suffering of a plant is not the same as the suffering of an animal.

Are you sure of that? like 100%? How come?

Firstly I would ask the Soul. It obviously knows more than I do. Any of your subtle bodies will know more about your surroundings than what your brain interprets of wavelengths through the eyes, or what you can come up with based on taught logic.

You might ask why a plant does not suffer when damaged by the forces of nature? And why the plant suffers when the same damage is done by Man, with malicious intent?

An animal that has a certain amount of reasoning ability and the beginnings of self awareness would have a choice to live.

Another way to learn about the plants is to just go communicate with them.

PS: I have noticed that about 70% of those that attempt communicating with their own Soul run into the issue of cognitive dissonance.

I can´t judge whether plants suffer or not from natural disasters or if animals have reasoning ability and the beginnings of self awareness and plants do not have it. To me they have. The fact that fruits and plants are growing everyday in spite sometimes under strange/poor weather conditions, shows that they are aware of service to us. Don´t you think so?
I might be part of that “70%” as I do experience cognitive dissonance as soon as I´m aware that my acts do not correspond with my principles and beliefs. So whether plants, fruits or animals, I still think they are life as much as you and I are and is wrong killing (cognitive dissonance) but we do, in order to survive. We´ll see, to me at the moment my body is not asking much food, so maybe someday...