A Friendly Conversation: Exploring Omnivorous vs. Vegetarian Diet

[Monica]

Those of vegetarian seeking wouldn’t be following this understanding and making it their way of life and communicating so passionately if they didn’t feel it was a higher path. When a conviction is felt and perceived so strongly that one dedicates ones life to its principles, then one feels it be the best choice for the self.

Obviously, not everyone agrees that vegetarianism is the “best” or highest or most evolved choice. And we the moderators think that the center of this tension between the positions isn’t the notion of what’s best for the self, per se, but rather the tension arises when that notion moves into the territory of what’s best for you, the other self.

Respectfully, Gary, this doesn't represent what the vegetarians have been trying to convey. It has nothing to do with what's best for self, and even less to do with trying to tell others what's best for them.

This is where the question moves deeper than “What should we eat?”

It also has nothing to do with what we 'should' eat. In fact, it isn't even about diet and health either, though those were side-topics that got covered in the original thread.