Humanity should respect animals.

[Monica]

Interestingly, I've been hearing of more and more spiritually-aware people suddenly choosing to become vegetarians lately!

I have a friend who was a vegetarian during the late 70s and early 80s, but who is now in a nursing home. I actually encouraged her to let go of being a vegetarian, since it was difficult for her to get vegetarian meals in the nursing home. So for the past 3 years, she's been eating chicken and fish, though refusing the beef.

Suddenly, this week, she decided she could no longer stomach any meat of any kind, and requested no more chicken or fish! Keep in mind, that she doesn't even know about 2012...has no awareness of what's going on in the outside world at all! But for some reason, she suddenly decided to go vegetarian!

Hmmm....

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Are you referring to the violent component to the act of killing?

If so, I see what you mean. Though that causes me to wonder about when people (or animals) die violently from totally natural means... does that imprint differently?

I don't consider natural means to be violent, though it might be traumatic and sudden. When I say violent I am referring to one entity snuffing out the life of another.

The "wanting to save it" is what I think might be overgeneralized. Some might want to kill it. Others might just be afraid of it. Some just feel sad for it, but don't try to save it. Others totally uninterested.... and so on.

Hmmm...you could be right. It never entered my mind that some children might want to kill it...or ignore it.