09-26-2014, 08:32 PM
(09-26-2014, 07:50 PM)Unbound Wrote: You act as though I have never met a plant or a cow.
Of course you've met plants and cows. But meeting them and killing them with your bare hands aren't the same.
(09-26-2014, 07:50 PM)Unbound Wrote: I assure you, my lack of urge to in any way damage the natural bodies (unless requiring the removal of already dead or severely diseased part to salvage the whole) of plant or animal is the same.
The urge to do something and actually doing it aren't the same.
Carnivorous animals like cats have the urge to hunt and kill. It's instinctual.
Humans don't have an instinct to kill plants or animals. Some do so out of hunger, out of duty or livelihood, but not out of instinct. Most don't do it at all, but simply buy packaged items from the grocery store.
Point being that one's lack of 'urge' isn't an indication as to how one might feel if they actually did it.
The suggestion was to illustrate the difference between killing a cow vs tearing off some lettuce leaves. Even farmers, who kill animals on a daily basis, know that it's not the same. It's not even remotely the same.
(09-26-2014, 07:50 PM)Unbound Wrote: However, I love to pick berries and fruit. Nuts are debatable since they are seeds in themselves and so when you eat them you usually destroy the information of the seed itself, whereas with fruit the seeds generally pass through the system. I usually am not in to nuts unless they are mixed with other things or are chocolate.
I agree that fruits are the least harmful and the highest-vibration diet for humans. (My husband and I are both about 90% fruitarian for this reason.)
(09-26-2014, 07:50 PM)Unbound Wrote: In necessity, you gotta do what you gotta do but fortunately there aren't usually those kinds of situations in modern life.
Exactly. Eating isn't one of those situations. It simply isn't necessary to eat animals. Eating meat isn't a necessity.
Why, then, knowingly contribute to the torture and killing of beings whom you know feel pain and fear, when it isn't necessary?
(09-26-2014, 07:50 PM)Unbound Wrote: In any and all situations of taking life force from anything else it is paramount, in my mind, to be full of love, appreciation and gratitude for what life you are receiving. I mean in reference to eating.
Yes, many people on this forum have stated that having gratitude when eating a dead animal somehow makes it ok...for them.
However, it does nothing for the animal.
Thus, it is STS.