Why I am not a vegan

[Diana]

You can choose to eat meat based on love of self too, or for other reasons of love. Regardless of how many people deny that because of their own justifications for their choices.

I don't think it's different. How many suffer because of religion?

You can choose to eat meat out of love of self, yes. But not out of love of others, unless the others are extremely limited to extensions of self such as family, or in other words, only some others. Others by very definition in the LOO is everyone(thing). There may be a rare case such as your own where you are trying to transmute the suffering by way of participating it; aside from the fact that you are contributing to the suffering in order to do this, if you are doing it out of love then why do you feel a need to change it?

I will say now that though I am here discussing the subject speaking my truth to those who consent to these discussions, and though I am appalled by the suffering of animals here, I am not trying to change it. I am very aware of my razor's edge existence here, in that I accept a world I came into (not without challenge) though I do not resonate at all with so much of it. If I affect some humans with my own compassion, great, but it is not my goal.

Religion has indeed caused much suffering and continues to do so. And like eating meat, it is a choice, and I think, an unnecessary one. It's different in many respects, though. Factory farming animals for mass consumption is causing great harm to the planet we live on, our home, to say nothing of the suffering it causes to animals. Religion is human-based, and while some results of its destructive nature may reach to the planet and life on it other than human, factory farming animals has a direct affect on the lives of the animal other-selves and the planet's health.

Religion, in my opinion, is another aspect of 3D which does not align with compassion, so hopefully, it will fade away, as hopefully using animals without compassion will.