Why I am not a vegan

[Unbound]

So I should instead try to justify being a vegetarian so I will one day "get there"? If I am thinking about where I am going, to the grave, then the whole concept is moot to me.

Funny cartoon, but that's a rather bleak outlook and not what I meant at all by 'where we're going.' I meant having aspirations to evolve spiritually, and responding to opportunities for compassion. We all fall short at times, but at least recognizing ideals as worth aspiring to, has value.

Translated and applied to this topic: Where one is at (how often one eats dead animals) isn't the point. Where one is going (aspiring to more compassionate choices) is.

Sure, if one's spiritual focus is oriented around the development of compassion. That, in my mind, is not the one and only avenue of spiritual evolution.

Honestly, I think that picture represents some of the most advanced spirituality I understand, the dance of death, we are all equal in the end and you only have your own experiences. For myself, I do not feel guilty about my choices, so in death, I will not look back and think to myself, "Damn, I wish I had've done _______", because in my mind what is important is to appreciate your experiences for what they are rather than what you would prefer or like them to be.

Maybe that is my issue with the whole meat thing is I can clearly see the whole suffering issue, but I don't really have a guilt-complex over it.