[split] Obtaining Animal Blood

[Jade]

It's increasingly more and more possible to eat food that doesn't come from enslavement. This is a huge goal of mine. It does require being educated about all aspects of our food production.

And of course food is a creative expression. Plant some seeds, grow a tomato, cook some pasta sauce. I think that's pure creative expression. I think the more involved we are with the energy transfer from start to finish, we have more control over the quality of that energy transfer. The more love and energy we give to consume energy, the more love and energy we receive from that source. Ie, if you are going and buying off the McDonald's dollar menu for dinner and barely acknowledging the human existence of the voice through the order box, or the untold number of cows' existences you are consuming in your ground beef patty, you are consuming energy without offering much of your own energy into the process. The other extreme would be again to plant a seed, tend your garden, and prepare your own food with love and grace. Of course toward this extreme it becomes less "practical" but as with anything, the energy we put in is what we receive in return. Some people are willing to spend an hour a day meditating but not an hour a day preparing food. I'm not pointing fingers because I hardly know anyone's cooking or meditating habits, I'm just trying to draw the comparison. On the whole, humans are extremely neglectful of their body, which leads to imbalance in the M/B/S totality.