In regards to eating meat

[Monica]

So how much more would you feel at ease living in a world where humans continued to eat sardines, and other similar sea creatures, but did not eat land-based creatures? Would you find this to be a satisfactory stepping-stone for you regarding dietary practices for the time being?

Oh gosh, I would consider that a huge improvement! An emphatic yes!!

What about rodents? I ask because much of the world eats various rodents. In the Andes, they raise guinea pig and in the Amazon they eat various kinds of "jungle rat" for example.

Insects are also a great source of protein, upon with much of the world depends to some degree. Termites are another jungle food.

Those going to the 3D planet will probably continue to eat animals. My ideas are really more applicable for those transitioning to 4D. I have expressed my view that I don't like the design of this planet. I don't like wild animals killing one another either.

Interestingly, the health of the body turns out to be inextricably connected to the kind of microbes growing within it!

Yes, exactly! We have more microbes in our bodies than we do actual human cells! So obviously our bodily terrain is their natural habitat. Thus it's ridiculous to think that they are 'dying' when we breathe them in.

I transplanted a pair of rather large spiders while power washing the house last month. Generally, the cats reign supreme over the life and death of insects in the house.

I confess to not protesting when my cats catch the occasional cockroach. :-/

Except for ants, which they seem to ignore. I might be inclined to let an ant go free, except I would never trust it not to tell its little friends where the sugar is at in my kitchen.

I've had really good success asking wasps to move their nests. And come to think of it, we haven't had much of an ant problem in recent years. Maybe I did reach them after all...

One time I lived through a beetle outbreak and let me say there was no sparing the beetles, even if one wanted to. The streets were caked with beetle carcasses from vehicles driving over them, and they were literally crawling out of the ceilings in some places of business!

Oh yeah, I've lived thru those too! But it was crickets.