(09-18-2014, 04:29 PM)Unbound Wrote: 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.
Rather than reinvent the wheel, I will direct you to what has already been discussed:
Don't plants feel pain, too?
post: #188
Eggs, dairy, and the life-force of plants
post: #263
Science shows that plants feel pain too! Therefore it's ok to eat animals!
Post #224 Pablísimo
Post #825 Monica (and a heated debate ensues, which continues for several pages)
Post #2675 Monica (plants communicating psychically - what does that signify?)
Post #2680-2682 Monica (group consciousness)
Post #2684-2692 Pickle
Post #873 Monica
Post #912 Namaste
Post #957 Monica
Post #2642 Monica
Post #1327 Diana
Post #1398 Pickle & Monica
Trying to justify one's self regarding the consumption of meat, by using
plants as a counter argument, holds no valid ground. And...what kind of
entities will cows be when they graduate to 3D?
Post #1405 Namaste
Post #1497 Monica
Post #1149 Monica - on Ra's statements about trees developing sentience
Post #2786 Monica
Post #2650 Diana
Post #2657 Diana
When Ra said "living foods" in 4D, did they mean bloody animals?
Post #1401 Monica
(09-18-2014, 04:41 PM)Unbound Wrote: My point is, I don't advocate the quickening of any form of death, nor do I advocate any form of torture, and the attempt to justify to myself any one thing I eat being "better" than any other seems like a way to just delude myself out of the sheer fact that I have to consume to survive.
If you truly see no difference between mowing your lawn and dismembering a cow, then I see no point in continuing this discussion.