I've been living for the past year on a mountain side with cows as my literal neighbours (fence around my camp in the middle of a pasture). I enjoy their company, and they are very curious and seem to want to hang around, despite being skittish sometimes. They live a nice life (not much different from mine right now actually), and eventually they will be harvested into a tasty life sustaining steak that I eat nightly along with my vegetables. The creatures hanging around my camp would not exist otherwise without this purpose, they would not be grazing all day in the fields, they would not huddle together under the trees together when it rains, the calves would not be running around and playing together, they would not experience their own yellow ray hierarchy as the matriarch bellows at them to join in the next pasture, or enjoy the protection of their bull, they would not have the experience of human interactions, for better or for worse. You could claim their existence is that of slavery, to only be productive for the use of humans. You could also claim that of most humans trapped in the same economy of consumption.
Just like with people, there are some environments that are more negative and hostile to their existence, and results in suffering. And that vibrational suffering spreads directly and indirectly to others around them in circumstance. We can try and moralize a difference between 2d and 3d creatures, but I don't think this is a healthy spiritual outlook in general, just as it isn't between humans alone. Everything has a purpose, and to make one thing more 'sacred' or 'innocent' than other to me is the same morality trap that cause undo distortions of self. Awareness is always the main key, and to do you what you can do.
For me, eating meat is still as necessary as it was for my northern ancestors trying to survive the winters, or the elder cultures surviving the ice age, granted that the stakes are much lower thus the hyperbolic statement, but it is the fuel my body is still attuned to, and the service of these creatures is being made available to me for this purpose.
We should know better than to moralize into narrow solutions, and the quote from Oahspe reeks of a control paradigm, even if not intentional.
My neighbour, he stares at me in the evenings.
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Just like with people, there are some environments that are more negative and hostile to their existence, and results in suffering. And that vibrational suffering spreads directly and indirectly to others around them in circumstance. We can try and moralize a difference between 2d and 3d creatures, but I don't think this is a healthy spiritual outlook in general, just as it isn't between humans alone. Everything has a purpose, and to make one thing more 'sacred' or 'innocent' than other to me is the same morality trap that cause undo distortions of self. Awareness is always the main key, and to do you what you can do.
For me, eating meat is still as necessary as it was for my northern ancestors trying to survive the winters, or the elder cultures surviving the ice age, granted that the stakes are much lower thus the hyperbolic statement, but it is the fuel my body is still attuned to, and the service of these creatures is being made available to me for this purpose.
We should know better than to moralize into narrow solutions, and the quote from Oahspe reeks of a control paradigm, even if not intentional.
My neighbour, he stares at me in the evenings.
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