In regards to eating meat

[Diana]

Re: the study I posted -- it is true that second-density consciousness is species-based, but that's true for both animals and plants, and the lesson/goal for both is individuation.

Or, one could look at it another way: It's feeling compassion for entities who are similar FIRST, before being able to feel compassion for entities who are dissimilar.

It's possible to feel compassion for something and still eat it. I feel compassion for the lettuce that we pulled out of the garden this week. Similarly, I feel compassion for the steer that we are going to butcher this fall.

Re: eating someone's dog: what about if you were to eat someone's treasured house plant? Wouldn't that be similar?

I don't find that anyone has really addressed the pet dog issue. The point is that one feels love for a pet, hence, the compassion is there not to take its life for food, or let someone else take its life for food (not to mention torture it first).

If anyone here is going to defend the idea that taking the life of a plant (which incidentally does not have to be killed to use it for food) is the same as taking the life of an animal or beloved pet, I need to hear more compelling arguments.