In regards to eating meat

[Diana]

Yeah the meat-eaters have to put up with the occasional obnoxious vegan, but no matter how you slice it, vegetarians have it much worse because we are the minority, and we have to put up with not only the occasional obnoxious 'John' but watching people contribute to the cruelty, on a daily basis. Every single day, we have to face all the McDonald's and steakhouses as we drive around town, we have to watch our families, co-workers and friends cut up and eat our other friends, and we have to keep our mouths shut. We can't isolate ourselves. So we have to just swallow it, every single day, all day long.

On top of that, we have to ignore all those billboards with the cutesy cows and pigs, advertising cooked cows and pigs. We have to put aside the burden of pain we feel when we drive past a feedlot or a truck full of pigs on their way to the slaughter, which we see alot here in Texas. We have to walk past the body parts in the grocery store, displayed there like a bizarre horror movie morgue. We have to smile politely when the lady in line next to us at the grocery store piles her bloody animal body parts right next to our tomatoes. We have to try to avoid the wet spots.

This made me cry. I have to keep so much at bay in order just to be here and not spiral down, thereby emanating unhappy/despair energy to the world. But that is the journey I'm on .

This discussion is so great for me precisely because it is an open (spiritually minded) forum where these things can be discussed. Otherwise, I am just doing that: watching, watching, feeling pain. I have obviously not evolved to the point where I can detach from it entirely. And I don't think ignoring the facts is detaching.

Thank you everyone.