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Can we find a happy middle ground?
Posted by admin on May 9, 2009 in food
Bolder asked:
Can someone explain how being a vegetarian or vegan has come to be a political movement? Almost a religion? I grew up in a community with a lot of vegetarians and it was always just a personal choice, something that was private, and it was frowned on for you to preach about it, or make a scene about what others may be eating. It seems now like it is a war of words, a war of attacking people for how they live, and a war of if we are omnivores or not. By all the science I’ve read we are omnivores, that if we were not the people eating so much meat would be very sick within days of eating it, just as a cat would get sick for eating plants for a week, or a deer would for eating meat. Chimps are omnivores the most closely related to us of all animals. It seems that the issue should not be discriminating against people for what they eat, since eating some meat seems to be on some line a normal behavior in a very round about way, and trying to change the meat industry. Why don’t we put our energy into that since the cause of trying to turn the world will never happen, and at least make the process of getting meat more humane, less a health hazard? i am not a vegetarian, but very rarely eat meat. My question is why argue abot this in an almost religious manner, and why not make the best use of our energy, and do what we can to find a middle ground?
That is a good explanation drusilla. As a spiritual belief, haven’t we learned that religion isn’t to be fought over? As spiritual beings, aren’t we supposed to respect our faellow man and only pray for him? Sure speaking to someone about the beifits is perfectly reasonable, ut the people who become fanatics and angry over issues like this, doesn’t that cause more pain then anything else?
By private I mean not on your sleeve, as what brand of toothpaste, or what TV shows you watch are not worn on your sleevewhy what goes into your body need to be bannered across your life
Brian
Can someone explain how being a vegetarian or vegan has come to be a political movement? Almost a religion? I grew up in a community with a lot of vegetarians and it was always just a personal choice, something that was private, and it was frowned on for you to preach about it, or make a scene about what others may be eating. It seems now like it is a war of words, a war of attacking people for how they live, and a war of if we are omnivores or not. By all the science I’ve read we are omnivores, that if we were not the people eating so much meat would be very sick within days of eating it, just as a cat would get sick for eating plants for a week, or a deer would for eating meat. Chimps are omnivores the most closely related to us of all animals. It seems that the issue should not be discriminating against people for what they eat, since eating some meat seems to be on some line a normal behavior in a very round about way, and trying to change the meat industry. Why don’t we put our energy into that since the cause of trying to turn the world will never happen, and at least make the process of getting meat more humane, less a health hazard? i am not a vegetarian, but very rarely eat meat. My question is why argue abot this in an almost religious manner, and why not make the best use of our energy, and do what we can to find a middle ground?
That is a good explanation drusilla. As a spiritual belief, haven’t we learned that religion isn’t to be fought over? As spiritual beings, aren’t we supposed to respect our faellow man and only pray for him? Sure speaking to someone about the beifits is perfectly reasonable, ut the people who become fanatics and angry over issues like this, doesn’t that cause more pain then anything else?
By private I mean not on your sleeve, as what brand of toothpaste, or what TV shows you watch are not worn on your sleevewhy what goes into your body need to be bannered across your life
Brian