In regards to eating meat

[norral]

just want to 2nd what diana said. its all about disconnect. lets make it all sanitary and pretty , nothing to see here, no suffering , animals are not people they are animals. yet many animals display a far greater loyalty than human beings do to one another. and they are so so trusting in many cases. they look to us with eyes of pure love. i say if any of us had to work a full day in a slaughterhouse we wouldnt eat meat again for a long long time. and its the same thing with war, pretty cool bombs dropped so accurately designed to minimize civilian casualties. what absolute crap hey. if we were on the receiving end of those bombs they wouldnt seem so pretty to us. thats why when people say proud to be an american i say what does that mean. i am thankful to be an american. i am not proud of u.s. government policies or corporate policies around the world. i am ashamed to them for the most part and totally totally against them. i mean i still havent got over what we did to vietnam destroying that country. it just didnt seem to bother a lot of people. but it still bothers me to this day very much. i guess i am some kind of a dinosaur but american agression around the world has been going on for a long long time and most of it has been unjustified and because of one thing , money and power and influence.

and i question the fundamental direction of the lives we live. do we live to work to make money to get a vacation once a year to come back to work to make money. is that why we are here. to me the focus should be on health. having a healthy enviornment a healthy diet and a healthy life style. that should be the number one priority for all people . enjoying physical mental emotional spiritual health gives us a rich life without needing riches. we would then enjoy being in each others presence and sharing our energy with each other. we would be living in a state of bliss a type of natural high