(06-23-2012, 01:12 PM)Pickle Wrote: I keep hearing that here, but if that was really the case why is the world getting so large and unhealthy? I am talking all aspects of food, not just meat. Obviously all of the unhealthy people "believe" what they eat is just fine. If it was all just in the mind, then what is the belief that makes a person gain weight? Or end up needed bypass surgery? Are these just imaginary scenarios that are "only in my mind"? Are you really just a figment of my imagination?
I do not believe the world is getting so large and unhealthy because of meat eating.
I do believe however, that eating more meat (and eating the kind of meat that the majority of meat-eaters do: toxified, full with emotional burden, washed out of blood but not really managed and nurtured carefully) is a result of the emotional state of our population.
Therefore, tackling the meat eating aspect of the population is - to me, still - exactly like going to try and cure influenza by suggesting that you blow your noise every five minutes, carefully. It might alleviate some of your issues, but it leaves the core problems untouched.
I believe that if we would go on and respect each other more and more, if we would use our money really as something that is a tool of respect (i.e. looking for "cheapest stuff" == "I do not care about those that make it, and by not honoring what they do, I accept and understand that they will do the same about the product they are handing down to me, in exchange", and this is just one example), and then as a result of a more peaceful everyday life, people all around the world will have less issues that they need to process through the act of eating, and the consumption of meat, junk food and other toxic materials would lower drastically.
At the end of the day, I cant remember any kind of material that stick to me or what I accepted and adapted to fully without being perfectly open and ready for it in the first place. If I would still eat meat, there is nothing that a vegetarian could show me that would change my mind. Being able to realize how that meat is made is a conscious decision, where we remember the image of tortured animals and recognize them as the source when we look at those clean meat pieces in the market.
(// Also, I think everyone does understand when a food is unhealthy. One can feel that, even if the current vehicle being inhabited is a slowed-down engine due to various emotional and physical reasons. The thing is that they just do not care. They eat those things because of the positive feedback they brain/heart/mind gets out of it, even if they know that it is not optimal. Same thing why smokers smoke: the initial feeling of "this is bull****" is overshadowed by finally being able to talk to that girl/boy outside the school for a few minutes every day. The social aspect becomes more important than the physical part of the process itself.)