In regards to eating meat

[Shemaya]

People on an STO path decline opportunities to feel compassion all the time. It's a matter of where we choose to focus our compassionate energy.

Not everyone chooses to focus their energy on their diets.

It is not DIET we are focusing on, but the unnecessary torture and merciless killing of animals for food. At its best, with humane farmers, it is still killing animals who would otherwise lead natural lives, and who are in pain and fear when dying, and who do not want to die.

To say we are focusing on diet is yet another example of how humans are only concerned with humans, as though we were the only entities important enough to consider.

As a STO individual, I do not decline opportunities to feel compassion. How does one do that? You either feel it or not. Perhaps you choose not to act on it.

And perhaps you choose to not understand my point of view.

From what you've written so far, I think you are saying that you disagree with the current movement that is growing of humanely raised livestock for food, because you disagree with eating meat.