A Friendly Conversation: Exploring Omnivorous vs. Vegetarian Diet

[Goldenratio]

Confirmed omnivore here, when talking with, or listening to people of assorted and sundry fauna restricted diets one of the words that comes up is "consumption". To me, if it merely referred to the eating of meat, such an... archaic(not sure if this is the right word to use) term denotes some sort of special meaning.

Im familiar with all the numerous reasons and explanations people give as to why they feel it a moral imperative to not eat animals. Out of all of those reasons, about the only that really... calls to me, is the manner in which industrial scale animal agriculture produces its products. One of my goals is to get to the point where near all the meat me and mine eat would have been hunted or otherwise personally harvested by me or mine. Now in the meantime, yeah, I still eat meat. There are a lot of things wrong with our modern system, id like to help push things over to a more responsible way, but im picking my battles so to speak.

I suppose why ive never really given the whole vegetarian thing a serious look, is that its concern for animals seems like the extraordinary length that Jains do in even sweeping the path on which they walk of insects.