DO HUMANS HAVE MORE RIGHTS ON THIS PLANET THAN OTHER SPECIES?

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Comment by Vermillion (One) on October 29, 2008 at 3:00pm

This is where free will and opinion comes into play. we have been programmed into thinking that its ok to kill animals and use them for our own pleasure. Man has come to think we are separate from all things even god and has used things to our advantage. Its no better to kill an animal than it is your own kind. you and the animal are natural beings of this planet and physical bodies are the natural "species" type that grows in this kind of planetary vibration and density.

I am not a vegetarian, but as life goes on for me i feel as if i will eventually make the change. i try and stay away from red meat and only usually eat chicken. but i am not killing, i am eating yes, and it does make me feel bad at times.

it all boils down to free will in the end. Are they right or wrong? no, neither, its only a choice.

Comment by Andreaus on October 29, 2008 at 6:32pm

I feel your philosophical pain. I too am working towards vegetarianism.

Comment by Anandakass on October 29, 2008 at 9:40pm

To be a vegetarian is to be free of the guilt, pain and sadness associated with the senseless taking of another life whether we are the takers or the benefiters of the act.

"In this age the propensity for mercy is almost nil. Consequently there is fighting and wars between men and nations. Men do not understand that because they unrescrictedly kill so many animals, they must also be slaughtered like animals in big wars. This is very much evident in the Western countries. In the West, slaughterhouses are maintained without rescriction, and therefore every fifth or tenth year there is a big war in which countless people are slaughtered even more cruelly than the animals. Sometimes during war, soldiers keep their enemies in concentration camps and kill them in very cruel ways. These are reactions brought about by unrestricted animal killing in the slaughterhouse and by the hunters in the forest."

We pray on Sundays that we may have light
To guide our footsteps on the path we tread;
We are sick of war, we don't want to fight,
And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

"To become a vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to Nirvana"
Buddha

"For my part I rather wonder both by accident and in what state of mind the first man touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, set forth tables of dead, stale bodies, and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How wasit that the pollution did not turn away his tase, which made contact with sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds? It is certainly not lions or wolves that we eat out of self defense; on the contrary, we ignore these and slaughter harmless, tame creatures without stings or teeth to harm us. For the sake of a little flesh we deprive them of sun, of light, of the duration of life to which they are entitled by birth and being."
Plutarch

Comment by Michael on October 30, 2008 at 4:01am

EXCELLENT QUESTION!!!

I stopped eating all meat/fish at the end of this summer. The impetus for this occured following a dream. In the dream, my former roommate's two dogs, who I lived with and loved as my own for 15 months, voluntary walked up onto a giant skillet on the stove and laid down. I watched them cook as a family with children entered the kitchen for dinnertime. That was it; my higher conciousness was sending me a very clear message!

Comment by Mike Taylor on October 30, 2008 at 4:50am

I am vegan and I have been for almost two years now. It was easily one of the best decisions I could have ever made. I wish all of you who choose these paths the best of luck.

Since there is a such an overwhelming number of people who willingly/unknowingly support the reckless acts of pure unadulterated slavery, torture and death that are a result of the mass killings taking place all over the world each and every second of the day for the majority of peoples' plates...I felt that it was my responsibility to help balance out the scales. Once I realized that we are one, I couldn't continue eating myself.

Comment by AWAKENED_LIGHT on October 31, 2008 at 6:08am

Namaste dear ones of divine light, ones love and compassion carries radiance of warmth, for this time is a bless time for us all, for we have found are self in one another. Namaste -LOVE-LIGHT-TRUTH-ONENESS-FREEDOM-AUM-

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