Why I am not a vegan

[Diana]

What are those ramifications exactly?

You ingest the physical results of the animals' fear and pain (hormones released when slaughtered and also a lifetime of living in compromised circumstances).

You ingest the energetic fear and other feelings not derived from love and care.

The concept of karma, or cause and effect, or what goes around comes around (I don't think karma would only apply to humans and how we treat each other). I am not suggesting that anything is "wrong." I am suggesting that if one is eating meat, one is closer to predator/prey behavior.

For those seeking spiritual evolution, it seems like a no-brainer to me that one would want to move toward higher states of consciousness. Keeping the body, mind, and spirit weighed down with food derived in the manner meat is, from beings obviously in pain and suffering or at least not wanting to die to feed us (this is easy to counter by saying that their souls agree, but that does not negate the fact that if you watch you will know at least the 3D part of them does not want to be slaughtered), seems counterproductive to the spiritual path. I am not alone in this idea; look at how many spiritual leaders and gurus etc. abstain from meat.

Of course, this is obvious to me, and is my opinion only. And the above points may just circle back to the argument that it is the same with plants. While the general idea that all life is sacred is solid, in this case it really seems crazy to me that any human here could compare the two ways of eating and come up with the idea that eating meat is the same as eating plants in terms of compassion (which is not to say there is no cruelty in commercial vegetable farming).