In regards to eating meat

[3DMonkey]

And as this pertains to my feelings haphazardly displayed in this thread-

I see it unfruitful to claim compassion for animals at the same time non compassion is displayed for the persons that slaughter animals as their choice. Or justified non compassion for plant life as plants are "justified" as "less than animals".

My emotions were based on this premise. What I see as the teaching of a movement away from animal killing is not a teaching of compassion but a teaching of justifications. This is because I am witnessing not the active practice of compassion but rather the active practice of justifying through perceived reasoning.