Vegetarianism has strong supporters

Michal

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Hi,
I just watched today one shared video on my group on facebook about vegetarianism and "interesting" reasons for Mr. Philipe Wollen behind why people shall not eat meat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hESksXbJZ3o&feature=player_embedded

I post it because it is good material (for me) to exercise questioning of inferences supporting answer on question :Why people shall not eat meat? Well it is fun.

And in their capacity to suffer a dog is a pig, is a bear .... is a boy.

I would add also "a plant" and "a planet". They are also alive. If alive then able to suffer? (I exaggerate a bit) Then we shall as humans eat only ... maybe air?


Animal Rights is now the greatest Social Justice issue since the abolition of slavery

Very often I was wondering: when somebody is so sensitive to animals suffering than should not he/she be even more sensitive and moved by suffering of people? Recently I read quite a lot (relatively) about Israel, Palestinians, War there and their suffering (again thanks to Laura and SOTT). Putting those two topics close to each other I understand maltreatment of animals, (like in "Food Inc." movie for example) but how I may fight for rights of animals when people are dying?
 
Mikel said:
Very often I was wondering: when somebody is so sensitive to animals suffering than should not he/she be even more sensitive and moved by suffering of people? Recently I read quite a lot (relatively) about Israel, Palestinians, War there and their suffering (again thanks to Laura and SOTT). Putting those two topics close to each other I understand maltreatment of animals, (like in "Food Inc." movie for example) but how I may fight for rights of animals when people are dying?

Yes, we've noted that problem too. Vegetarians seem very concerned about animal welfare but less so about humans. I think the reason is that vegetarians tend to put animals on the same level as humans. If I ever found myself in the situation where a vegetarian said this to me, I think I would like to respond "argue for your limitations and you get to keep them".
 
I think is right to fight for the rights of animals. I think that to see a society maltreating an animal is a certain mirror of this society: in Spain, for example, with the corridas and all their feasts and cruel traditions. It is a mirror of what people are. And personally I don't like this at all.

But vegetarians (and I was vegetarian some time ago) are strict and very dictatorial. I was unable to see how authoritarian I was when I was a vegetarian: I thought I have the truth. I wrong I was.

I can see in FB how people are obsessed by animals, are in adoration with them. It is good to love animals, but when this past week we were witness of the massacre of Palestinians, nobody of my lover's animals friends said or comment anything at all about my Gaza's posts. Nobody. Because they don't care, this is as simple as that. So there is a contradiction: if you love animals and the earth and the trees you have to be conscious of the humans who suffer in this planet. But vegetarians don't care. In fact if I study my friends that are obsessed by animals and by vegetarianism I can see how superficial they are and how little informed about the political and humanitarian situation of this earth.
 
in my opinion, an emotionally mature individual should be able to feel compassion RELATIVE to the situation and acknowlege the connectedness of all living things. How you treat anything living says a great deal about you, whether you treat something 'too well' or 'not well enough' is equally as interesting.

Speaking from experience, vegetarianism causes excessive emotionality and is therefore suspect as it causes the mind to shut down leading to contradictions and hypocrisy.
 
I don't believe all vegetarians are like that. I'm pretty much a vegetarian, basically because I'm not into the way animals are treated / killed commercially, so I mostly don't buy these things. I've generally been healthy over the 15 or so years I've done this. Of course if my health declined and eating meat would help, I'd eat meat, so its not an ideological stance for me at least. I've also never felt compelled to change anyone elses way of eating, or wanted to get preachy about this, but rather Ive been this way for myself. Id only talk about it if someone asked. I personally too always value and prioritise human life over animals, in all cases. I'd say if a person doesn't, they'd have to be really detuned emotionally, so of course the cause of why people value animals over humans isnt a dietary choice one. I figured I'd just say this because I don't feel everyone fits the mould kind of indicated above.
 
alkhemst said:
I don't believe all vegetarians are like that. I'm pretty much a vegetarian, basically because I'm not into the way animals are treated / killed commercially, so I mostly don't buy these things. I've generally been healthy over the 15 or so years I've done this. Of course if my health declined and eating meat would help, I'd eat meat, so its not an ideological stance for me at least. I've also never felt compelled to change anyone elses way of eating, or wanted to get preachy about this, but rather Ive been this way for myself. Id only talk about it if someone asked. I personally too always value and prioritise human life over animals, in all cases. I'd say if a person doesn't, they'd have to be really detuned emotionally, so of course the cause of why people value animals over humans isnt a dietary choice one. I figured I'd just say this because I don't feel everyone fits the mould kind of indicated above.
Those two statements seem a bit contradictory to me. Also, I'm curious - what is 'pretty much a vegetarian'?
 
alkhemst said:
I don't believe all vegetarians are like that. I'm pretty much a vegetarian, basically because I'm not into the way animals are treated / killed commercially, so I mostly don't buy these things. I've generally been healthy over the 15 or so years I've done this. Of course if my health declined and eating meat would help, I'd eat meat, so its not an ideological stance for me at least. I've also never felt compelled to change anyone elses way of eating, or wanted to get preachy about this, but rather Ive been this way for myself. Id only talk about it if someone asked. I personally too always value and prioritise human life over animals, in all cases. I'd say if a person doesn't, they'd have to be really detuned emotionally, so of course the cause of why people value animals over humans isnt a dietary choice one. I figured I'd just say this because I don't feel everyone fits the mould kind of indicated above.

Please read this thread - http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,20771.msg213694.html#msg213694
Vegetarianism IS negatively affecting your health. I was a vegetarian for 24 years - it's a slow degradation of your entire body (including your brain) due to lack of healthy and required fats, minerals and proteins. It's so slow that you don't notice it until damage is already done. The absolute worse thing I ever did for my health was becoming a vegetarian.
 
Mikel said:
Very often I was wondering: when somebody is so sensitive to animals suffering than should not he/she be even more sensitive and moved by suffering of people? Recently I read quite a lot (relatively) about Israel, Palestinians, War there and their suffering (again thanks to Laura and SOTT). Putting those two topics close to each other I understand maltreatment of animals, (like in "Food Inc." movie for example) but how I may fight for rights of animals when people are dying?

Maybe this session would be helpful. Very interesting what the C's had to say.
Laura said:
Q: (L) Okay, let me try again. You said, "...aural profile and karmic reference merges with physical structure." (Galaxia) Oh, maybe because they are slavish, vegetables are good for them? (L) Well, that's not where I want to go yet. So, the soul must match itself to the genetics, even if only in potential. Oh boy... How to ask this... I once asked if vegetarian was the way that one should eat, and you said that no, not generally, as that was concentrating on the physical. What did you mean exactly by that? Let's see if I can come at this in a sideways direction.

A: Most vegetarians are such, believing that it is more "spiritual". This is a belief that eating a certain way will change the nature or destiny or tendencies of the soul. This is as effective as confessing one's sins to a priest and doing penance and then sinning again. Besides, as you have noted, the vegetarians you have encountered have been singularly "unspiritual".

Q: (L) Okay, let me try to ask it this way: Is the fact that we eat meat detrimental to us spiritually?

A: Absolutely not.

Q: (L) But I would say that just the eating of meat is not a spiritual issue at all. (Perceval) Eating food is a thing of the body. (L) Yeah, I mean we just try to eat in an optimal way to give our bodies the right fuel so that we can do our other work. That's our whole thing is to give the body optimal fuel.

A: There is the difference, see? You eat for optimal fuel, they eat to support an illusion.

Q: (L) Well, they don't all eat to support an illusion. A lot of them think that vegetables are an optimal fuel illusion. (Perceval) But they couldn't think that if they really objectively read all the details.

A: They lack objective knowledge.

Q: (L) Okay then. (Perceval) I was saying that in the scheme of things, plants eat rocks, animals eat plants, and some eat other animals. But from a physical point of view in the hierarchy that humans would eat... (Burma Jones) If only seems that way if you understand densities, but in terms of what they think, physically we're just animals to them. (Perceval) But I wasn't talking about them, I was talking about in respect of our understanding...

A: Yes, you just hit upon an important point: The genetic body tends toward the animal nature. Note that we said "tends". In those of the "fanatical" vegetarian nature, this tendency is very strong. In fact, you could even say that there is strong identification with the genetic body and all it is connected to energetically.

Q: (L) So what do you mean, "strong identification with the genetic body and all it is connected to energetically"? Is that what I was thinking, that these fanatical vegetarians do not want to eat meat because for them, it's like eating their own kind? For them, eating a cow is like cannibalism because they identify with the animal kingdom so strongly that...?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) So, that would lead to the next part of what I was thinking last night, which is that some - and I'm not saying ALL - really fanatical vegetarians of the slavish authoritarian follower type personality could be, can you say the word for me there, Belibaste? (Belibaste) OP's. (L) Organic portals?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) Okay. (Galaxia) So basically they're people with the essence of an animal?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) They identify with the energetic... (Galaxia) They look like people, but they're not.

A: Yes.

Q: (Galaxia) They don't eat cows because they have the essence of a cow!

A: Yes.

Q: (Ark) They care more about the cows than about other human beings.

A: Yes.

Q: (L) That means they have empathy for animals - that is, their own spiritual kind - and not for humans.

A: Yes.

Q: (Burma Jones) Is that also why psychopaths can be so kind towards animals while they treat humans with such indifference?

A: Yes. Though psychopaths often are brutal toward all that cannot contribute to their aims.

Q: (L) So they would be kind to animals only if it suits them. (Ark) But I understand that our hero Gandhi was vegetarian and yet he cared about human beings. (Perceval) Was Gandhi an organic portal?

A: Gandhi "cared" about the human cattle like himself.

Q: (L) Well, what about the fact that for example the Cathars were supposed to be vegetarian? Cathars were the ones that were the Perfecti. They were vegetarian and they didn't eat meat.

A: They didn't succeed in surviving either!

Q: (Galaxia) Can I ask a question? Does all this mean that vegetarians are more inclined towards cannibalism?

A: No.

Q: (L) No, what I was saying that they would perceive... (Galaxia) I know, but I was saying that since they have such disregard for people... (L) Oh, I see what you're saying. Would they have less feeling for people and be inclined to eat them under certain circumstances? (Galaxia) Yes. (Perceval) Given the choice, would they eat a person or a cow? (Galaxia) If they were starving?

A: In some cases, perhaps, but not generally.

Q: (Ailen) Now, among vegetarians, you could say there are two groups. There's the group that says they feel better, they don't want to kill animals, they feel more sorry for animals than for veggies. They kind of stop there - they don't have spiritual ideas. On the other hand, there are those vegetarians who say that humans eat meat and therefore they are attached to physical reality. So by eating veggies and then fasting or sungazing for example, they're going to become illumined beings. So those are two different groups. So what is the intrinsic difference between them?

A: Two variations on the same theme!

Q: (L) The kind that just don't want to be cruel to animals identify with the animals more strongly. They just don't have anything else. And then those that think it's spiritual, they're just kind of like New Age fundies. (Ailen) Yeah, but I was thinking that there might be some kind of difference in their essence or genes in the sense that some of them make a choice...

A: Not really. The only evidence for "soul potential" is the realization that the body is just a machine and needs optimal fuel.

Q: (L) Okay, there's something else I'm thinking about. Getting back to this genetic construct marrying with the physical potential... It seems that higher soul potential has been historically associated with physical problems. It's like the soul, being a strong energy, expresses itself through the body, and if the soul is unhappy, or if the soul is ill at ease, or if it's in distress, or for some reason not at peace as it is very easy to be in this day and time when there is so much cruelty and insanity rampant on the Earth, that these people with higher soul potentials tend to have more physical problems and disabilities. Is that going in a proper direction?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) So, individuals with the soul potential whose soul afflicts the body with its issues need to really understand the body, give it optimal fuel, and learn how to deal with the soul issues themselves separately or in a soul-based way.

A: Yes.

Q: (L) I mean it's like the whole Ra thing was about Wanderers. Wanderers according to the traditional definition are people who tend to have... (Psyche) They're more sensitive. (L) They're more sensitive, and they have to be more efficiently nourished and have better fuel and they have to really be careful with detoxification. And those people it seems to me would be susceptible to the belief that being a vegetarian would help them - only it wouldn't!

A: Yes. Carla is an example!

Q: (L) Yeah, Carla of the Ra group. She is just practically crippled with arthritis. I don't know what she eats, but the Paleo diet might do her some good. (Ailen) But then you have psychopaths who are very sick, too. (L) Yeah. I think that sometimes it's just a roll of the genetic dice. But in some cases, there's this connection. (Psyche) And we're exposed to too much toxicity these days. (L) Okay, have we done this subject? (Ark) Yes, I have a question. From a higher point of view - not just ethics and such things - but from the higher philosophical point of view, what's really wrong with cannibalism? (L) What's really wrong with cannibalism? (Perceval) We may or may not publish this answer. [laughter]

A: In some instances, nothing. But in general one does not eat one's own kind for energetic reasons. Carnivores do not eat other carnivores because it is not optimal energy source.

Q: (L) In other words, we get optimal energy from eating creatures that eat vegetables. That way, we get our vegetables. But another carnivore processes all of that so that what we would get from eating another carnivore would not be optimal nutrition?

A: Yes.

Q: (Andromeda) But then we could eat vegetarians. [laughter]

A: Don't laugh! That has been the case for some groups at certain times and places. In fact, that is still the case in some dark circles extant on Earth today. As we once pointed out, higher density beings derive nourishment from some humans and human body products. Preferred are fat children and nonsmoking vegetarians.

Q: (Psyche) There are some religions that say that you have to be vegetarians. (Burma Jones) They're basically just farms for 4D STS looking for a good lunch. (Belibaste) Good food. And it's organic vegetarians usually! (PoB) Does it mean that the meat from meat-eating predators is not good for us? (L) That's what they said, yes. (Burma Jones) So then India is just one big cattle ranch. (L) And with so many people that they have there, nobody would even notice when people go missing. People go missing there all the time. (Burma Jones) And they have the worst poverty in the world. (Belibaste) Remember in the sessions they were talking about the missing children, and there was a lot from India - vegetarian children. (L) The loss of children of India is just stupendous. Unbelievable. Let me get this next question in. In a previous session, we were trying to get the size or the dimensions of Comet Elenin, and I had the feeling that somehow I screwed up and...


A: Yes.
 
Perceval said:
Vegetarians seem very concerned about animal welfare but less so about humans.

The vegetarians who supposedly chose their diet because of animal compassion, end up consuming a lot of grain, diary, vegies and fuits. Ironically this kind of food promotes the very kind of farming (intensive annual monocrops) that destroys the natural habitats and hence the wildlife.

One of the very rare sustainable ways to feed humans is to eat cattle that feeds on extensive (and renewable) grass field.
 
Here is a CNN radio interview I heard the other day featuring Bill Clintons new vegan diet. No meat, eggs, no fat. I really dont understand how this doctor is getting better results with this diet. Mabey all his patients are also on drugs that hide the effects?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/08/19/heart.attack.proof.diet/index.html

I had a vegetarian friend that stopped by yesterday while I happened to be cooking fried chicken in butter. Her husband does eat some meat and was hungry so I was fixing everyone food. On her plate was pickled eggs and some avacodo. She reaches over and picks up the chicken on her husbands plate and took a huge bite! She then freaked out a little but said it was soooo good that she wanted a peice. So we all sat down and had our chicken. But after the meal she really flipped. She was soooo upset that she had not eaten meat in 25 years and it was my fault for making such good food. Almost had a panic attack! Very odd situation. She worries about our health and we worry about hers, but we could info each other to death. It is a no win situation that I try to avoid. Her friends call me butter women and think my bacon habit is insane! LOL
 
Vegetarianism has strong supporters

That's an understatement. A couple of days ago I posted a "funny" pic on FB. It said:

"Every day thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence.
Eat bacon."

Knowing that it would trigger some vegetarians, I wrote a "disclaimer", stating, "please don't comment in defense of a vegetarian diet if you haven't read "Primal Body. Primal Mind" and "The Vegetarian Myth" first.

Well, to make the story short, 75 comments later with Veggies just arguing about how great their diet is and how sustainable it is for the planet, I deleted the whole thread because there was no "discussion" and all my attempts to simply state "please READ before posting" were ignored, especially since everything what they talked about is addressed in those books with all the fallacies and lies they believe in. It's the classical "speaking" without "listening". They kept posting just to "hear themselves talk" engaging in almost every logical fallacy possible. No matter what I repeatedly said, it was ignored or distorted with countless assumptions and hasty conclusions. It became waste of time and energy.

But what was even more interesting, how so many of them are passive aggressive, talking about the "ethical" side to the point that one person even said "feeding off other life forms is an error of 3D and that we actually need no food" (paraphrased). It shows how far removed they are from nature actually, the opposite of what they claim to be.

On top of it people commented who I never hear from and who never comment on anything else I post and speak out about the atrocities in the world and what is happening in Gaza right now, for example.

If vegetarians would get as upset and passionate about what's going on in the world as they are when their diet is questioned and the "suffering" of animals, we'd already live in a "better" world.

In the end it just shows how a vegetarian diet affects the brain and thinking in a detrimental way.
 
Spiral Out said:
Vegetarianism has strong supporters

That's an understatement. A couple of days ago I posted a "funny" pic on FB. It said:

"Every day thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence.
Eat bacon."

Knowing that it would trigger some vegetarians, I wrote a "disclaimer", stating, "please don't comment in defense of a vegetarian diet if you haven't read "Primal Body. Primal Mind" and "The Vegetarian Myth" first.

Well, to make the story short, 75 comments later with Veggies just arguing about how great their diet is and how sustainable it is for the planet, I deleted the whole thread because there was no "discussion" and all my attempts to simply state "please READ before posting" were ignored, especially since everything what they talked about is addressed in those books with all the fallacies and lies they believe in. It's the classical "speaking" without "listening". They kept posting just to "hear themselves talk" engaging in almost every logical fallacy possible. No matter what I repeatedly said, it was ignored or distorted with countless assumptions and hasty conclusions. It became waste of time and energy.

But what was even more interesting, how so many of them are passive aggressive, talking about the "ethical" side to the point that one person even said "feeding off other life forms is an error of 3D and that we actually need no food" (paraphrased). It shows how far removed they are from nature actually, the opposite of what they claim to be.

On top of it people commented who I never hear from and who never comment on anything else I post and speak out about the atrocities in the world and what is happening in Gaza right now, for example.

If vegetarians would get as upset and passionate about what's going on in the world as they are when their diet is questioned and the "suffering" of animals, we'd already live in a "better" world.

In the end it just shows how a vegetarian diet affects the brain and thinking in a detrimental way.

What I'm wondering is whether you were at all surprised by this reaction?
 
Hi alkhemst. I would definitely check out The Vegetarian Myth thread. As a born and raised vegetarian myself, I very rarely questioned the reasons as to 'why' I was one to begin with. I figured I was doing the planet and the animals well by being so. I was at times arrogant in my stance (ignorance). Finally I realized something had to give. I WAS feeling 'healthy' for the most part. Or so I thought. I was quite easily tired and worn out. I would become frustrated that my attention seemed to wonder and I would get sleepy. ETC. I was dead wrong about my 'stance'.
Hours of research and reading the testimonies of others helped me to realize I was NOT heading in a desirable direction. Check out the following thread that I started back in March:

http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,27560.msg337917.html#msg337917Although

Like you, I 'felt' healthy for the most part, but there was still an absolute drain on my system. The catch is, it's very hard to realize the brain/body drain until you have actually started your diet in a different direction!

Since that thread and reading Primal Body Primal Mind, I've not only given up the vegetarian lifestyle :evil:, I've gone gluten and soy free as well. I'm currently eliminating sugars and dairy. I've never felt better!

Do your brain and body a favor, check out some of the suggested reading. ;D
 
anart said:
What I'm wondering is whether you were at all surprised by this reaction?

Yes and no. I knew it would trigger some people (hence my disclaimer), but I didn't think that many. I was surprised to hear from people I never hear from ever and how everything I said was ignored and mis-interpreted. The diet topic created more controversy than anything else I ever post. So I was surprised about that, considering what else is going on in the world.
 
Spiral Out said:
Yes and no. I knew it would trigger some people (hence my disclaimer), but I didn't think that many. I was surprised to hear from people I never hear from ever and how everything I said was ignored and mis-interpreted. The diet topic created more controversy than anything else I ever post. So I was surprised about that, considering what else is going on in the world.

I think it might say something about your "Friends" list too? I posted the exact same graphic Saturday, and it got 56 shares, 8 likes and one positive comment.

Then again, maybe I've just already offended the vegetarians so often I don't have any on my list?
 
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