Well if you don't care about animals lives, don't care about slaughterhouses, don't care about butchers and lastly don't care about stuffing yourself with dead animal meat carrying low vibes as the emotions..the fear instinct rotting the meat you eat as you are what you eat ...THEN LOOK FOR ANOTHER PLANET THAT LOVES BEINGS LIKE YOU AS PLANET EARTH IS GOING FOR PLANT BASED PRODUCTS FAST.
European Plant-Based Food Sector Skyrockets 49% In Last 2 Years, Finds Study
https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/food/european-plant-based-food-sector-skyrockets/
Really it's happening all over this planet
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You say eating meat is cruel. Introducing snakes and lions to the issue is meant to show you that that claim is simplistic. The 'morality' here is circumstantial, not absolute.
Is a human 'better evolved'? No! Man is evolved/created in his own way, to adapted to his own needs. Man does not have a better 'moral obligation' than a lion. Therefore when we view this issue, we must put the man on the same par with a python, hyena, a fox, a cat, a chicken or a baboon! I know this sucks for a proud man who wants to believe he is 'closer to god' than these other animals, and therefore 'should be holy as god is holy'. But this is not the case!
What does it happen when we put man on the same par with a domestic cat? We immediately see that like in a domestic cat, etc the question of what/ what not to eat (or even what/ what not to do in general) does not boil down to 'this is good' and 'this is bad'. To view the world and categorise things into the 'halal' vs 'haram' is the simplistic view that religions and society or governments imparts to us since child hood. The irony is that this may not be how God view it!!
So you can't reduce the question of what chicken should eat into the question of 'this is good' or 'this is bad'. Same is the case for man. Eating is, to some extend, amoral. We don't even know whether it is 'more right' to eat plants. Plants too are living things and eating them destroys their lives. Plants protect themselves from being eaten by growing thorns etc. They don't see themselves as 'meant for food'.
To believe that I have no moral obligation pertaining to what to eat is to believe that I am not better than a snake, a hyena, an eagle, a baboon or a crocodile! I am not 'closer to god' in 'holiness' or expectations of it. I am as innocent as these animals. I am in no way 'more cruel' for doing what they all do. I have no responsibility to 'fix the world' or to 'straighten things' that nature or God made them 'crooked'. Or in short, I am not God!!
Or let me put it this way: what if someone from semi-arid joins ACC, what will he feel when he is assigned a 'lower position' based on what he actually has a little choice on it? Humans, as a whole, are not 'food secure', job secure etc. This is a problem of the society in general. The kind of thinking like those of KK heap this blame solely on the heads of 'meat eaters'.
Many plants do actually grow parts of themselves to be eaten, as they utilize insects, birds and animals to spread their seeds this way, and it is totally possible to live in a way that takes the life of no animal or plant for our physical needs, by choosing to eat that which grows in pods on vines, or fruit and nuts from trees, seeds and grains which are harvested once the plant has finished its natural lifespan etc...if one is in a region and circumstances to do so.
Blessings, Joanna.