06-27-2012, 04:49 AM
Everything is connected. Even a rudimentary grasp of science will bear this out, let alone an understanding of the Law of One.
So how does one separate out from the whole what one eats and why? Is this one thing unimportant? Do your actions matter in one area but not another?
Everything is important. If one values integrity, would that integrity only be for situations that are easy? If one values kindness, is that kindness only given to certain people? Sure, for the person who lives conditionally, who separates things in order to justify actions, who does not understand that all things are connected and all things are one.
What you eat does matter. It matters in many ways. It matters to your physical body in terms of how optimally you function. It matters to your emotional body in terms of the choices you are making and why. It most definitely matters to your spirit which is connected to all things regardless of whether or not you are conscious of it now. It matters to the whole planet, the people, the animal kingdom, the plant life, all life here, which is all connected and always seeking balance, and always evolving.
Money may be the motivation behind factory farming, and it may be comforting to shift the blame to the monetary system. But this is diversion. In fact, anyone purchasing factory-farmed meat in the grocery store is supporting the system of cruelty, and ironically, by using the same money one has blamed. You cannot put the blame on the money system, or the karma on the slaughterers, or the cruelty on the farmers, and yourself be free of culpability because you bought part of an animal already tortured, killed, cut up and neatly packaged. Having bought the meat, you are part of the chain of events. You are also part of the market which drives demand. No demand, no product.
There is no way to separate producing food from ingesting it. As for other products we consume such as sweatshop shirts or cellphones, it's still choice. We may not have the ability to know everything about everything, but we can make good choices about the things we do know.
So how does one separate out from the whole what one eats and why? Is this one thing unimportant? Do your actions matter in one area but not another?
Everything is important. If one values integrity, would that integrity only be for situations that are easy? If one values kindness, is that kindness only given to certain people? Sure, for the person who lives conditionally, who separates things in order to justify actions, who does not understand that all things are connected and all things are one.
What you eat does matter. It matters in many ways. It matters to your physical body in terms of how optimally you function. It matters to your emotional body in terms of the choices you are making and why. It most definitely matters to your spirit which is connected to all things regardless of whether or not you are conscious of it now. It matters to the whole planet, the people, the animal kingdom, the plant life, all life here, which is all connected and always seeking balance, and always evolving.
Money may be the motivation behind factory farming, and it may be comforting to shift the blame to the monetary system. But this is diversion. In fact, anyone purchasing factory-farmed meat in the grocery store is supporting the system of cruelty, and ironically, by using the same money one has blamed. You cannot put the blame on the money system, or the karma on the slaughterers, or the cruelty on the farmers, and yourself be free of culpability because you bought part of an animal already tortured, killed, cut up and neatly packaged. Having bought the meat, you are part of the chain of events. You are also part of the market which drives demand. No demand, no product.
There is no way to separate producing food from ingesting it. As for other products we consume such as sweatshop shirts or cellphones, it's still choice. We may not have the ability to know everything about everything, but we can make good choices about the things we do know.