In regards to eating meat

[Diana]

I am sure I have said this somewhere already. At the zoo I suddenly became the eagle I was looking at. Clipped wings, standing there looking around, no real experience of what I was created for. I was a slave.

That was an intense moment of empathy for me, and the strangest thing. Looking back it was more like the mind of the bird had shifted into my head. I was still where I was, but my perceptions were coming from where the eagle was standing.

What I got from that is that we took something that is designed to "exist" in a certain fashion, and "trapped" the form handicapping its ability to exist.

Also, while it did not have the depth of a human mind, it definitely had something of an "I AM". And normally we tend to put prisoners in that type of position.

I have had similar experiences, and once very strongly with a caged bird. Your assessment makes sense to me.