Why I am not a vegan

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Sure, I agree, but as I have stated I am not the one mowing lawns or dismembering cows. To be honest when I am eating I try to listen to my body and pay attention to what it needs. I go through cycles of different kinds of foods which I trust is my body's way of getting all that it needs. I attempt to positively make use of all energy I gain through either service or healing and use energy I receive from food to do good works in the world. It honestly, and I say this with all sincerity, does not appear to me that vegetarianism actually quells any amount of suffering in the world but rather it would have to come through the decisions of those directly responsible for the animals in question.

While I absolutely agree that awareness and decisions in a "supply and demand" kind of way would impact the desire and need for meat but at the same time that isn't necessarily true as potentially practices would simply become more humane until they were deemed "acceptable". At what point does killing or harm become acceptable, be it animal or plant? The increase in demand for vegetables would then amount to exponential loss of plant life, so I really don't see how that is any better than the current loss of life. Rather it seems that reduction of cruelty, torture and ignorance is the surest way to less suffering, rather than the totalitarian control of diet.

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Note: If there was no meat I would not be bothered. I typically eat what is available or what is being eaten by others. I make food according to what people eat. For myself, I will do my best to transmute it all the same. I will not eat in hatred, I prefer to eat in love.