Humanity should respect animals.

[Cyan]

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

I remember something even last year about meat consumption falling in the U.S... I'm not surprised to hear that at all.

Not surprising, and in general, good news.

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.

Isn't Gaia an entity?

All entities are eventually snuffed out by anotehr entity, thats called evolution. You are snuffed out by your 4th density self, in a way.

Also, everything is an entity... in its own way. ITs just a matter of how complex an entity it is.

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

Yes- that's all I have been trying to say on that angle. It would never occur to somebody like you because the idea is totally foreign to your inner nature and biases.

I know quite a lot of people would be naturally hostile or harmful to animals going as far as slow and painful deaths by torture. Most people are usually blisfully unaware of this and call it consumerism.

Some people are intentionally evil to animals, both as a child and as a adult, these people are called, in general, psychopaths. Thought not always so, but childhood and adult cruelty to animals is one of the surest indicators of the belief that one is better than others and thus that one is entitled to be cruel because the other is too different to associate with. (Dont believe fishes feel pain is an example of such a widely held belief. Its based entirely on them having a different brain (lacking much of the compelxity of humanoid or mammal brains)