01-28-2010, 12:12 PM
Some really great comments in this thread. I really do love this forum.
I should state on the outset that I really feel this is a personal decision to make. If you do not feel the tug of moral implication when eating meats, then I would not suggest that it is something you *should* become concerned with. Of course the fact that you, NY1877, are speaking about meats as you are (see post #5) indicates to me that there may be some fruit here worth pursuing. (Welcome to the forum by the way) However, the Law of One as given by Ra does not make judgement on this issue (nor indeed on many things, such is the nature of seeing through the lens Oneness).
My wife and I have "flirted" with vegetarianism for around 7 or 8 years. In the last year and a half we have become much more serious, for a variety of different reasons. Primarily for me is the issue Peregrinus touched on, that is the way in which our western societies have learned to harvest animals in so much the same way one might harvest corn or wheat. It's all about producing the most meat in the shortest possible time span with no consideration of the animals' situation. The term factory farming is exactly what it sounds like. This is a moral problem for me. But it is also a problem for the Earth. It takes a huge amount of resources to operate a factory farm. If we just took the same resources used to feed cattle, for example, and fed it to people instead, we would feed 3 or 4 times as many people. That's just one thing to consider among many other things.
For anyone who wants to look in to this more, I would suggest reading the book "Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan: http://www.amazon.com/Omnivores-Dilemma-...871&sr=8-1
Also good is the documentary 'Home', which is now online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU
By the way Peregrinus, your description of the German hunting method sounds wonderful. I think if I lived in a society like that I wouldn't have any problem with meat eating!
I should state on the outset that I really feel this is a personal decision to make. If you do not feel the tug of moral implication when eating meats, then I would not suggest that it is something you *should* become concerned with. Of course the fact that you, NY1877, are speaking about meats as you are (see post #5) indicates to me that there may be some fruit here worth pursuing. (Welcome to the forum by the way) However, the Law of One as given by Ra does not make judgement on this issue (nor indeed on many things, such is the nature of seeing through the lens Oneness).
My wife and I have "flirted" with vegetarianism for around 7 or 8 years. In the last year and a half we have become much more serious, for a variety of different reasons. Primarily for me is the issue Peregrinus touched on, that is the way in which our western societies have learned to harvest animals in so much the same way one might harvest corn or wheat. It's all about producing the most meat in the shortest possible time span with no consideration of the animals' situation. The term factory farming is exactly what it sounds like. This is a moral problem for me. But it is also a problem for the Earth. It takes a huge amount of resources to operate a factory farm. If we just took the same resources used to feed cattle, for example, and fed it to people instead, we would feed 3 or 4 times as many people. That's just one thing to consider among many other things.
For anyone who wants to look in to this more, I would suggest reading the book "Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan: http://www.amazon.com/Omnivores-Dilemma-...871&sr=8-1
Also good is the documentary 'Home', which is now online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU
By the way Peregrinus, your description of the German hunting method sounds wonderful. I think if I lived in a society like that I wouldn't have any problem with meat eating!