Why I am not a vegan

[Jeremy]

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Thank you, Monica, for speaking up for all the sentient creatures who are wantonly tortured and slaughtered to feed ignorant humans who appear to have no empathy towards animals they choose to consume.

The animals know that they will be killed for food.
They enter incarnation fully aware of this fact.

Sure, they experience fear and add to the overall negativity of the planet, but this is their service.

Branding humans as ignorant does nothing for your cause and may be seen as quite offensive by some.

I might appear to you to have no empathy towards these creatures but I assure you this is not the case.

I beg to differ that animals are aware that they will be eaten one day - I've seen no evidence to suggest such a thing. Their 'service' is not to be eaten but to live a natural life, free and content as God intends, in order to teach humans to also be free and content, with a peaceful morality intact.

Once a human being has reached a certain consciousness that he realizes to kill is wrong, that cruelty to others is hurtful and delays spiritual progress, one can no longer claim that his spiritual evolution (the past) continues to control his behavior - it is his own rejection of ethical demeanor, much like a drug addict knows he shouldn't be obsessed with drugs but continues using in spite of himself. This is normal as most of us require much time before integrating important realizations - but to claim that it's ok to participate in mass animal torture and slaughter, and insist that eating animals is natural for a human being, one may categorize such persons as ignorant of true spiritual values. Do no harm. This is not something one can easily refute. Values such as this are rarely expressed in our society and the opposite is often encouraged by violent and sexualized depictions. It's not offensive to be wrong - we've all been there - the really offensive behavior is the condoning of cruelty.

You yourself may have empathy toward tortured and slaughtered animals but to participate in that process through consumption speaks against one's authenticity of conviction.

Yes, no doubt many here will feel offended by my condemnation of cruelty to sentient creatures - but in truth, what they object to is their own weakness to resist old and destructive habits, and/or one's (unconscious) realization that one is mistaken in his attitude and behavior resulting in guilt, and hence feeling offense against one who proclaims the proper, loving attitude of higher consciousness.

That's why these threads are so entertaining for me. This is all subjective conjecture based upon ones own personal belief system yet they espouse it as gospel and look down upon those who think otherwise.