In regards to eating meat

[Pablísimo]

Bravissimo Pablísimo

aww, thanks.

I've really appreciated your contributions to this thread as well, you seem to be working through this question in a very sincere and balanced way.

A deer could never live on meat any more than a lion could live without it, but we can do both.

You do know about the meat scraps and chicken feces fed to cows?

Unfortunately, yes. But a cow could never subsist on a diet of mostly or only meat, unlike a human. And I think Mother Nature gave a pretty loud signal about the inappropriateness of this in the form of Mad Cow Disease.

Kind of hard to explain to someone all the small issues that disappear, especially when you weren't even aware you had them.

Yes, exactly!!! I didn't think I had problems in any of these areas, but going vegetarian improved my sight, breathing, ability to sleep, cognition, mood and on and on. So it was like recovering from an illness that I didn't know I had but noticing the difference. Very hard to explain this to someone who has not gone through it.

The fear that the slaughtered animals went through stay in the flesh. When you eat the flesh, that smell seeps through your pores. That is why hunters have such a hard time hiding their scent, they are meat eaters.

Wow, that explanation makes perfect sense!! I was aware that fear (and its physical analog in the form of adrenaline and other hormones) was retained in the animal flesh. However it never occurred to me that it might give off a scent and that THIS is what the animals that suddenly were no longer as freaked out by my presence were picking up on. One would expect the hunted to be able to pick up the scent of a predator. Click! :idea: Hey thanks alot for sharing that insight.

Love to all