[split] "Some people eat animals, some don't."

[Diana]

@ JustLikeYou: If you are interested in this subject matter, read the other threads devoted to it, such as the infamous and closed, In Regards to Eating Meat. All your points have been discussed ad nauseum (in the extreme). For someone who claims to be into rigorous study, you seem not to study up much here and rather, just think you're "right." I can hear responses such as all is one and why that makes this subject moot and there is no right or something to that effect (the same sort of circular logic Christians employ to justify something that makes no sense). Don't bother on my account. You won't be talking to a neophyte, someone who can't think things out for herself, someone who doesn't listen to other points of view, or someone who is stuck in a groove.

Everyone here, please forgive my harshness. I may be coming to the end of my tether here at B4. I do come here for different reasons. But this one subject has continued to baffle me in the extreme. I will probably be judged for this; something like, oh, she is mirroring, or this is her distortion, or she just can't see the bigger picture. Think what you will. I am what I am. 

There have been some valid and mind-expanding points of view on the side of consuming animals. I have listened and considered. But I can't get past the cruelty. The plant vs. animal argument just doesn't hold up, within the context of BEING HERE. Perhaps if we were living in 6D it makes sense. But we are here. Meat animals are treated cruelly. The question becomes: Do you want to participate in that? Not, is it okay. Of course it isn't okay! Just like it isn't okay that there are homeless people, starving children, wars. But all is one, right? We are everything, so why not just go along with all the horror because it's all one anyway. What a gigantic cop-out. I totally understand that we are all things, that we need to "accept the shadows" and all that. But aren't we here to make choices? And I don't give a remote dam about being harvestable. That isn't the point either, unless you only care about yourself.