[split] "Some people eat animals, some don't."

[Jade]

Hey Matt, glad you came around on that one! There are lots of meat substitutes that are tasty that might help you get by - nothing like that irony blood of rare red meat but just about everything else is replicable. I tried some fish filets the other day and couldn't even eat them they were too real haha.

I know you're still wavering so I wanted to add something else to what you said -

I don't consider this to be a speciesist view, as i do take into the understanding the values and rights to animals. Nobody is talking about torturing or harming animals here. The higher second density animals that are moving towards self awareness are the domesticated house pets.

Farm animals are definitely "domesticated", and in fact are handled almost all day every day by humans investing very negative emotions into them. I do think a large majority of the animals that incarnate into factory farms are part of the "group mind" but I definitely think awareness comes about in situations where one is abused and tortured by more sentient species. House pets are one way to harvest 2nd density into third, factory farms are definitely another.