Why I am not a vegan

[Unbound]

All I can say is that yes, I have experienced the grass screaming and the plants lamenting at their lost limbs. It doesn't matter that they grow back, there is still grief. I no more wish to harm or torture a plant than I do an animal. I eat because my body requires it (at least until I figure out this whole sustaining oneself on pure light thing) and I work with the principles of transmutation, thus believing anything I ingest is naturally of the domain of death and rebirth and it is my duty and honour to respect and offer thanks to all that I eat, regardless of where or what it came from for this is unconditional love and respect for all and each, including myself.

Your astral "horrors" and dramatic displays of attempted woe-ing to compassion does little more than reveal your own deep-set fears of being like an animal in such conditions, of being caged and tortured. I agree that the killing of animals is, in and of itself, a horrific experience, and I believe that it is no less horrific to see the destruction of plants so I see neither carnivorous behaviour or herbivorous behaviour nor omnivorous behaviour as being any particularly better than any other.

Either way you are consuming life, you are eating of the plate of death.

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Do they really cut the legs off cows while they're still alive?

No, they do not, normally. Of course, that isn't to say there aren't sadistic individuals in the world.