"Plant Based Diet" as a Different Way of Framing It

[Diana]

So I guess that's my larger point: that I think focusing on eating less meat skips over important lessons we must learn about compassion and proper stewardship.  In my personal opinion, consuming other life is a given in this vale of tears; the work to be done is not on how to avoid consuming life, but how to do it with love.

And what is your suggestion for this?

If I may, you seem to be separating things. On the one hand, there are politics, corporate greed, control. On the other hand, there are personal choices about what to do in one's life. There is obviously some overlap, as the bulk of the population immersed in popular media is blitzed and brainwashed from marketing and telling them what to do and think. It is every person's choice to be so plugged in, let's remember.

There is also the idea that we must in 3D eat something to survive. While it is important to respect life, and consume with love, there are choices about what we consume. In this regard we may consider all the points at hand. The politics and corporate greed, the ecology, the life forms, the world situation, the planet herself etc.

Given the whole picture, not just part of it, what would you suggest? Would loving the factory-farmed meat you consume (while I applaud this respect paid to the life form) be as efficacious as not consuming it at all and being a part of the reason this sort of planet and life form rape fades away? I am a practical, proactive person, so that's how I see things. What is your opinion?