In regards to eating meat

[Diana]

So then Fruitarianism would be the only compassionate way of eating ?

No. Vegetable plants produce "fruit" as well. If you take an ear of corn off the plant, the plant doesn't die. When you take a zucchini off the plant, the plant doesn't die. The plants eventually die, but not as a result of removing the "fruit."

The extrapolation here, is that plants don't have the same fear of being eaten as an animal does. You cannot prune the leg of a cow and have the cow survive. Not to mention the pain and suffering cutting off the leg would cause. I can only imagine that the corn plant does not have pain and suffering when an ear is removed, or if it does, it is of a different nature.

Eventually, humans may evolve to more of a "light" body and not have to consume anything but light for sustenance. Eating a plant-based diet is a step toward less "animal" behavior (predator/prey). It is step toward less cruelty--enslaving, torturing, and slaughtering animals for food. In the case of humane animal farmers, the animals live some degree of a natural life, but are still slaughtered.

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Here is what I believe.

The plants and the animals that we eat have agreed to this service out of love for us even before incarnating, maybe not individually but their collective consciousness did. How we treat food while it is still "alive" should indeed matter.

This is a nice comfort for those eating meat. I do not know if this is true.

I can equally posit that the animals have agreed to help us learn compassion by allowing humans to treat them abominably. Does this mean we should continue treating them abominably?

Humans do not need to eat meat. So what then does a possible agreement to service mean from the animal kingdom to be food for us? That they are willing to do this service so we can eat things that taste good?

Does that make any sense?