Meat Eating v Plant-Based (video, balanced spiritual take in my opinion)

[Diana]

one of the main points is that there's a big difference between eating factory farmed meat where the animal had a hellish experience vs eating meat that's sourced from animal that lived a quality life and that you bless. she says factory farmed meat passes the suffering energy to you and keeps you in the 3rd dimension and prevents ascension, while eating meat sourced from an animal that lived a humane/natural life doesn't prevent ascension, though it does prevent accelerated stargate ascension (i personally don't know what that means). (note this is my quick interpretation, please watch the video for further details and the specific wording.)

how do you all feel about this info?

it resonates with me a lot. i no longer eat animal products myself but i have respect for people who are mindful around this topic and put in the effort to source meat/animal products from humanely treated animals. i must add that i don't think there's ever a humane way to kill an animal, killing is killing. but if the animal genuinely had a humane life or lived in the wild up to that point then that's 100x better than the dark ritual of factory farming. i'm trying to think about how i feel about people who eat factory farmed meat and realized that i can hold non-judgement and still not support it, so that's how i feel. i used to do the same thing so that humbles me, but eventually i put my foot down and aligned my actions with my values.

when we purchase something, we directly sponsor and support the actions involved in producing that product. it's as if we tug a string that tugs the producer to make those actions, because they would do it less if there was less demand (supply and demand). same goes for plant-based and supporting local farmers and sustainable farming (something i would like to do more of).

Thank you schubert. I thought the video was very good. There are other aspects of this idea, such as the fact that animals have a central nervous system and plants do not, which underscores the pain and suffering. But I liked her overview and the points she made.

I agree with everything you said above. I don't know what the YouTuber meant exactly by stargate ascension either. But if there really is something such as karma (which, does seem like a pretty basic concept), then it follows that one would need to balance the results of factory-farmed meat consumption, and beyond that, balance the results of eating any life forms that resist being killed. The one thing I think she didn't get exactly right is she said plants don't want to be eaten. That isn't true for all plants. Plants do want to be eaten in the case of any fruiting plants at least. They require being eaten by animals in order to propagate. And, you can trim a plant and it will still thrive; you can't trim an animal (cut off a leg) and have it thrive.

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In response to the idea that growing plants for food kills more animals than animal factory farms (and this doesn't include the over-fishing of ocean animals):

Animal slaughter is the killing of animals, usually referring to killing domestic livestock. It is estimated that each year 77 billion land animals are slaughtered for food.

Regarding land use for growing plant crops:

Livestock is the world's largest user of land resources, with pasture and arable land dedicated to the production of feed representing almost 80% of the total agricultural land. One-third of global arable land is used to grow feed, while 26% of the Earth's ice-free terrestrial surface is used for grazing.