Biblical???
Who knows; who cares. This is academic.
Either you're a vegetarian, and you know that eventually we will all be ~ and should be ~ or else it's a lost cause [till you
come around].
But yeah, the animals suffer, especially when kept in the deplorable, 12 inch by 12 inch type Frank Purdue chicken-cage conditions as his chickens are kept in ... prior to being cruelly slaughtered [yes, inhumanely and often quite cruelly] by desensitized scum-sucking excuses for human beings.
Blah blah blah, they need a job too. Give them guns, then, and pay them to exterminate the particular breed of scum which YOU think should be removed from our planetary `island.' Or just pretend you don't ever wish x group, or y person, would just
disappear. Yeah, for me it's John Boehner right now, as there is no greater impediment to progress in America that I know of. But that's another issue, now ain't it.
Anyway, when you kill a peeg, or a cheecken, or mu-cow or goat, what you do is you prematurely end an INCARNATE LIFE in terms of its earthly career. Yes, the Group Soul will re-absorb the Life Itself, the suffering of the animal will - in that sense - come to an end [as it's quite horrid in the conditions most of these animals are kept in for `processing' ~ at least here in America] ... but your problems have just begun.
From the moment of butchering, there is the astral `taint' [which has no clever, cutesy sexual connotation here, my friends, but only a nasty, horrid stay-behind ... which some of us know well enough to have long, long ago left behind, we hope!] ... which stays with the animal. It is the combined negative effect, in terms of vibrations, from the astral plane [animals FEEL, folks ~ accept that or just LEAVE, now] ... and possibly a hint of mental vibration, plus the obvious, cumulative physical discomfort and suffering ... left behind in terms of toxins and toughness, which are a permanent part of the flesh, or the animal carcass which has been prematurely prepared.
Nevermind that red meat will destroy your heart far more quickly than twisted theologies, which can only accomplish the same in multiple of your incarnations ... and nevermind that it takes something like TEN or TWELVE POUNDS of grain, fed to cows, to equal ONE POUND of beef. I learned that in
Diet for a Small Planet ... and it means that we're being STUPID when it comes to feeding people, thus the high #s of kids that must languish and die of starvation RIGHT here in [you fill in the blank], EVERY day of the year.
Yeah, nevermind mad cow disease, nevermind the high fat content that most of us lardass Americans just LOVE to swallow down ... nevermind the obvious NIGHTMARE that red meat is for your heart, or even the risk of Mercury poisoning & such from eating what would
otherwise be a safe enough form of swimming meat. Yeah, the health risks alone are enough to make a sane person puke.
But hey, if you really want a simple reason to NEVER eat another piece of meat again, just remember: yes, that animal likely suffered, for YOU. And while my shrink with Tibetan Buddhist inclinations used to say - jokingly, though with a straight face - that "it wasn't killed for me," the bottom line is, yes, it was. Don't get personal and upset about it; just don't eat it!
I mean, Jesus, who is supposed to have had wine ... and I'm sure, meat ... almost certainly never tasted wine his entire life. Or at least, not as you and I do. And I damn sure don't expect anyone to be taken seriously who will chime in about
his Jewish upbringing and all that rigamarole. If you haven't figured out by now that JESUS WAS DIFFERENT, then you clearly don't much need to be thinking in terms of Christianity ... or probably Judaism, for that matter. Yeah he was different, and he DID NOT EAT MEAT.
Hey, where does it say that in my Bible?
Did your Bible tell you to get up this morning and brush your teeth, or smile at your kids before you packed their nice little lunches in Batman lunchboxes ... and DOES IT TELL YOU TO USE A CELL PHONE?
Alright then, if you do any of this crap which it doesn't tell you, GO AWAY, you're a bad Christian.
And if you don't do all that stupid crap from Leviticus?
Again, go away, and come back when you're ready to stop thinking so much.
Like I said, I got no clue about Biblical vegetarianism. I just know what's healthier, and more spiritually sound, for many of us [notice I did not say ALL] ... and since most of us CAN afford and learn to eat healthy, meat-free diets, we sure as hell don't need to turn it into a religious argument about "The Bible SEZ ... yadda yadda."
WHO CARES
THINK!!! ~ for yourselves! ~
IF YOU DARE
Muahahahahahaha!
