In regards to eating meat

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Here is an interesting perspective. I found this while doing some further research on Yadda, which I have documented in the thread, Yadda Yadda.

Lecture by Yada di Shi'ite
Through Medium Mark Probert
November 21 1956
~ Detroit Federation of Women's Club ~

There is nothing holy about not eating this or that. The body is naturally a chemical body and it is therefore what you put in it. According to the nature of the chemical substance you will have that nature. If it displeases you to see others imbibing in alcoholic beverages, leave them alone, but do not try to force them to change. They, like you, will change when they are ready and not before, and all the talk, talk, talk, will not change them. Sometimes a man feels such great concern for his soul that he stops his excessive drinking and he says it is because he prayed to God and God released him, because he accepted the belief in Jesus Christ and redemption through His blood.

All right, very good. The idea is that he stopped drinking. It is of no use for anyone sneering at what he did to attain this condition. You may attain it by having faith in a stone! If I carry a stone in my pocket and pat it and rub it a little bit, I will not have to drink. That is simply transforming your desires from alcohol to stone belief. We can put our faith in anything and if we are sincere it will work for us great miracles, for God, or the Light, is also in the stone.

Some teachings say to abstain from every desire of the physical body. This leads only to frustration. The truth is, my friends, we have to live naturally, according to our, the individual's, particular inclinations and desires. But we have to train ourselves to curb some of our desires, so that we do not harm other people. And because we don't want it known by many other people in the social system that what we are doing is evil, is wrong, we acquire a deep seated feeling of guilt and shame. We may stop acting out our desire, but we are still living with it in the mind and sooner or later, because all thoughts must be given birth, or manifested in action, we blow up, the mind collapses.