Why I am not a vegan

[The_Tired_Philosopher]

Whew.  Those numbers give me a sense of why we're in the 6th major extinction...

I'm just glad the arguments have not become cruel.

For the foreseeable future I don't imagine meat eating will cease until maybe a few generations pass and it becomes seen as a wasteful cruel act.  Until then, early awareness doesn't hurt but you can't force people, even through their own emotions.  They just won't get it, or see it, or care about it to change.

Sad.  But welcome to indifference and apathy.  As we as a species evolve we'll pull away from it I think.  We already are it seems, albeit slowly, but surely.

I don't actually buy meat much anymore at all (still a cheese addict though) but when its cooked and placed before me its a manner of respect.  This meat suffered to get to me.  I must make its journey to become one with me not in vain.  Chicken, beef, lamb (not much else, I put off pork completely) or what not.  A cow was murdered for me impersonally.  A chicken was cruelly killed for me.  They made it to a meal I find myself before.

I'll eat it, if that means depolarization, so be it, its to make the journey they took in suffering meaningful.  I cannot stop the murder.  But I can try to bless the aftermath with love and light.

All things are sacred...even the mass slaughter of life...  I hope its not all in vain...