In regards to eating meat

[Monica]

Those who support this industry (I take it you mean that of slaughtering animals for food) do retain a degree of being guilty, I agree,

Glad we agree on that! I thought you were saying the opposite in your previous post.

yet is it not possible that there are some who support such an industry who aren't aware of the malevolence which it spearheads?

Absolutely! Though it is getting increasingly difficult to remain ignorant.

Actually, no, given the degree of informational availability and transparency I would find it very unlikely that anybody would actively support such an industry and somehow be completely oblivious to what goes on at the forefront.

Well, we just saw it happen...even here in a spiritual community.

You've twisted my logic.

Sorry, not intentional! I was trying to understand your logic, by extending it to another example.

I am not condoning killing nor implying that simply because our true nature is that of Light donning temporary forms acting as various perspectives of the awareness of Creator that it allows for harming others.

OK cool! Thank you for that clarification!

Given what you know, it is pretty illogical for you to even propose such a thing.

I agree. But believe it or not, others in this thread have proposed that very thing! Which is why I questioned what you were saying. Again, thank you for the clarification.

I am simply curious as to why is it that ingestion of meat is shunned but ingestion of plants are allowed when both are still imbued with consciousness? Plants are conscious, sentient beings, are they not? So why is it fine to eat them but not animals? They are still aspects of the Creator whom are still aware, and perhaps when one goes to make a vegetable juice the celery feels itself being grinded to a pulp.

That's a very good question and one that has been exhaustively discussed. I don't have time to repeat all that has been said, but you will find it in the thread.

I do not see why you would somehow associate murdering with the logic I've presented, which is simply an observation on our nature. What does us being light have to do with humans killing humans?

My comment was based on my misunderstanding you to say that it didn't matter if we supported the killing of animals, since we're all just light anyway. So I took that same logic and applied it to humans, to make a point.

But now that you have clarified that you weren't saying that, my point is moot (except for as pertains to others who may have said or implied that).

Edit: I just saw you edited your post. I was under the impression that there was still an ongoing debate over whether ingestion of animals and plants was inherently wrong or right respectively. Eek, do I have to go back and read ~100 pages? >_<;;

Haha, only if you are interested in the many deep, rich discussions that have occurred in this thread.