Animal or non-animal based diet?

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The old Christian idea, which set it apart from Judaism, was that the important thing is not what you put into your body, but rather what comes from you - what you do, how you are. It makes sense to me as a philosophical idea to extract.

It is more difficult to take care of the body eating only plants. Evolutionarily, a sufficient intake of animal products correspond the most straightforwardly to what the body needs. If people take care and remain healthy as vegetarians, that's one thing, but it would be counterproductive, I think, to neglect the body in what becomes a kind of soft martyrdom, as some do, viewing it rigidly as the only right thing to do.

Very generally, I think that dogmas concerning physical things and activities - viewing them as very spiritually significant - distract and remove focus from what matters. Spirituality is, for the most part, not about the details of how life is physically lived, but rather about the psychosocial and about more abstract things.

Some may however feel strongly about such matters, and strongly disagree when I view a strong focus on physical details as merely superstition.

To round out the above, I do care strongly about ethics. And I strongly disagree with practices such as factory farming, because they are unethical, whether or not you eat the meat from them. And I do not wish to support such practices. If you eat meat, it is a kind of contribution to support healthier, more ethical alternatives.