Why I am not a vegan

[Diana]

Suffering isn't only physical. Sex can cause lots of emotional and psychological suffering even when it is originally consensual.

My point is that suffering is laced throughout the world and there are many, many, opportunities for compassion and loving action.

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I guess my real argument is that someone doesn't have to be vegetarian to be a compassionate, loving individual and care about suffering or its alleviation. To label everyone who eats meat as not that as such is to lack compassion for those individuals.

All good points.

I don't think one has to be vegetarian to be compassionate. I do, however, see a disconnect as far as humans are concerned. This is a general comment about about humans, and not about you Unbound.

The comment is this: that humans can feel enormous compassion for humans. But beyond human life, the compassion seems to wane or distance from the heart.

All is One, does not just mean All Humans are One. It means (in my opinion) that ALL is One. Since we are the species here on this planet in 3D that has the intellectual and physical advantage, we have the tendency to control it all. I like the idea of thinking of humans as caretakers within this context. As a caretaker of my mind/body/spirit, my home, my property, my planet, I look at what I do here and endeavor to BE that caretaker. In this case of eating animals, I don't see it as something that aligns with being an effective caretaker on any level.