In regards to eating meat

[Namaste]

To add, as documented by Dr. Cleade Baxter (the guy who found that plants are sensitive to thoughts), plants do not react if you send love and gratitude before preparation and consumption.

The 'stress' is removed.

The levels of perception between an animal and a plant are vast. The comparison of killing/eating them is non sensical in my opinion because of two things:

1) A brain; hence emotions (think: conscious fear)
2) A nervous system; hence physical pain

Also to note, animals that eat vegetation are less, if at all, agressive. They are predominantly peaceful. Meat eaters, for obvious reasons, have to be agressive in order to catch and kill. Eating meat perpetuates certain hormones which promote agression and the survival instinct.

As a human, we have the choice to be either. It's as simple as that :¬)

One thing I will say is that a much larger percentage of the population would be vegetarians if they had to kill the animals themselves (or saw how the vast majority of animals were treated/slaughtered). Purchasing the finished 'product' is a far cry from taking the life of an animal.

The choice would be much clearer for many people.

For the spiritual seeker, another factor of consideration is one's vibration. It's often offered, by multiple sources, that meats, especially such that is killed unethically, carries a low vibration and effects one's state of being.