In regards to eating meat

[Diana]

How do we know that physical suffering and death don't support the 2D entity in gaining self-awareness? What if longevity doesn't factor much into the equation of whether or not a 2D entity had a "successful" incarnation? What if certain 2D entities are actually seeking to be incorporated into 3D bodies? How do we know that it isn't considered a great honor and achievement for a 2D entity to be plucked out of the ground by a human, put in a vase, and appreciated for its beauty before meeting a premature death?

I don't have the answers for these, and am more than a bit incredulous when others claim that they do.

The above are good points. I don't buy or pick flowers, but it is a consideration worth exploring.

As far as animals gaining awareness through physical suffering, I will say this: do you want to be part of this way for animals to learn and evolve? I will present an analogy: Humans learn through suffering. Do you want to support human sex-trafficking, or wife-beating, or Apartheid, or child-abuse, because it helps humans learn and evolve? Suffering is not the ONLY way humans learn; it is one way. Perhaps it is a common way because humans seem to have a high resistance to change. So, I must conclude, that in considering suffering is a way for animals to evolve, it is not the only way, and I do not want to be a part of the suffering way.

However, to conclude that cows in a factory farm video are needlessly suffering seems fairly straightforward to me.

Thank you. This does seem obvious doesn't it? My hope is that here, at this site, there will be others who not only see this, but follow your example and buy meat from humane sources, so we can move forward in eliminating a market for such unnecessary abuse.