06-18-2021, 04:21 PM
(06-18-2021, 07:20 AM)Margan Wrote: Yes I also ponderd about this idea, and I sometimes watch documentaries where they feature organic farms who raise animals and treat them humanely, as you say, and one of the farmers also touched upon this and said "is it ok to still eat meat" and his answer was "yes as long as the animal had a good life".
And just imagine, when I saw him petting his little pigs in the wooden shed and how they were running around outside in the mud and enjoying it so much, like little children, it got me thinking how these animals actually have a quite good life. And before they get old and "rheumatic" and get their old age illnesses etc, they are killed and don't have to go thru this.....
infact I was thinking about this when my mum was suffering so much at the end of her life, so much pain and the painkillers sometimes even made it worse so that she was barely conscious.... I remember talking about it to my friend and saying "we would never let our pets be in so much pain, the vet would give them an deadly injection if the case was hopeless, but for humans there is no other alternative"
And then I saw a documentary about a small buddhist community here in Germany, where the monks are mostly begging for their life sustenance and I was actually surprised to see they were eating meat also and his explanation was quite interesting to me - he said, "everything we are given is a gift. Whatever people people offer us (in terms of food), we see it as a gift and we give thanks and blessings"
Great post indeed. Animals are a gift, and there is a reason their nutrition is absolutely craved by our digestive/biological systems (DHA, EPA, vitamin D, K2, B12), but we should always be mindful of their treatment.
From a purely health perspective, the two biggest culprits to our decline are: Sugar and Plant Oils/byproducts (Soy especially).