In regards to eating meat

[fairyfarmgirl]

I do not eat bannanas. Bananas are a genetically engineered food and are heavily sprayed with pesticides and herbicides. I feel much better since I have stopped eating bananas. Also, Banana plantations are a mono-culture. This goes against all principles of nature. So I stay away from them.

Further, I believe in eating regional foods. I feel this is best to be in harmony with the Earth and to live from the land.

Apples are a staple of our diet and my kids have never been sick. It is when we ommit the foods that we eat and feel good eating regularly that problems then occur.

The bottom line is there are many ways to nourish our bodies and souls. It is dependent on the body and the soul what that is.

fairyfarmgirl

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I am very conflicted on the issue of eating meat I would very much like to begin a dialogue as to why one should not or should be able to consume meat.

In this day and age and being surrounded by many peers in my age group (late teens early 20's) it has become quite popular to be vegetarian and even vegan. The reasons often given are quite understandable I feel such as not harming or killing other animals and to also resist the horrible treatment and entrapment that occurs when animals must be confined to small quarters and fed cornmeal constantly.

But my concern is that if I am to eat what I like to call "fare treatment" meat am I still being harmful to life itself? Is the act of eating the meat of an animal alone reason enough to not eat it? If so what makes animals so special compared to plants?

Being a botanist I may be a bit biased but I feel that plants are just as aware and sentient as animals, though they may not express it as we do. They can not cry out in pain but the sap seeping from a tree's wound still coagulates much like our own blood.

So how can it be ok to eat plants, life forms who may be quiet but living nonetheless, and not animals.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not on a mission to say you can't eat anything at all, rather the opposite. Is the consumption of animals not part of the continuing cycle of life, the passing on of energy? A bear would just as soon eat me as I would a chicken, and this is nature, this is natural. In some parts of the world there are hardly any plants and natives must live solely on cow products (meat, milk, and even blood) to attain nutrients. Are they to be considered harmful to the life cycle simply because of the residence?

Sorry for the long first post, this has just been weighing on my mind quite heavily lately.

Good Greetings:

In the beginning of my awakening I was caught in a loop of ethics concerning food and violence. My mind argued that the very act of living is an act of violence against nature. Then I went into a great deal of self- and humanity hatred. Yes, at one time I thought the only bad guys was humanity.

Since those early years and wanderings in my youth (so long ago LOL, really I do mean that it was a long time ago almost 30 years), I have discovered that much of life is a symboitic relationship. Our very cells that make up our bodies are symbiotic in thier relationship as is the cells of all life.

There are foods that will feel right for you to eat and your path. Then, there will be foods that do not feel right. The choice is to choose what feels right and you wish to eat.

Sometimes an animal will give its self away so that you may eat and live. Deer are known to do this in times of hunger for those that live in the woods. Fish are also known to give away themselves so that humans may live: It is the choice to eat or not to eat based on what feels right and whether or not you are truly hungry.

If I am hungry I will eat what is available and nutritious. If I am out in the woods this may mean berries, apples and grubs in the summer and fall. In the early spring and winter this may mean I will have to call and wait for an animal give-away.

I have since moved from the woods and into a more settled area. So once again I must supplement my family foods from that of the grocery store with what I can raise in my gardens and/or gather from the woods not far from here.

You are right in that plants have intelligence. Trees are some of the most intelligent of all plants. They are just as sentient as you or I or any one else as are Dolphins, Dogs, Horses, Crows, Ravens, Owls, Hawks, Eagles, Parrots , Whales, Cats, Elephants, etc. The rule I have found to apply is any animal or plant that is social ordered (trees included if you will observe the growth pattern of a grove) are sentient.

So the question is this, If the animals and plants are sentient then when speaking to them you can learn what is amiable with them for you to consume. For instance, a tree would say please enjoy my ripe fruit. Berries bushes would say please enjoy my berries.

fairyfarmgirl