Mystic 1800

In this quite short time, since I stop eating meat, I came across of quite a lot interesting ideas and questions about vegetarianism. So let me try to answer (comment) some of them.

So, in general - what's the reason to stop eating meat? -- Well, I think reasons vary from person to person, and I kind of wrote about my reasons.

I believe there is, however, one general and good reason to stop eating meat. In this place, and in this time, there's simple no need to eat it. And if we don't eat it, we spear suffering and dead of innocent animals.

But people were always eating meat! -- This actually isn't true. In his beginning, human wasn't meat eating being. They teach that in schools, and that's confirmed by anatomy of human.

And ever more, this massive production of meat (in gigantic degrees) as is nowadays wasn't happening ever in the past. As a matter of fact, even when my father was young (and that was like 40 years ago), they were eating meat quite rare and on special occasions.

But animals eat animals too - so it's ok! -- While animals are guided mostly (or only) by their instincts, we have sense. Maybe the sense it's the only thing that separating us from animals. Sense can free us of instincts, and sense is certain responsibility. We can understand suffering, and we can make our decision based on that understanding.

Plants are living beings too.. -- Current theory saying, that plants doesn't feel pain. Even further, some of plants offering their fruits, in nice colors and in good taste, to animals and humans to eat them. In other words - if you eat apple, you didn't kill the tree.

However, I believe that we should treat plants, with all the love and respect too.

Vegetarians killing mosquitoes... -- Of course, and many other animals, which we step on by accident. We should try to reduce killing and our participation in it, as far as possible, though we can't stop it completely.

It's true, that the death exists, and that it's just a part of life, and that often we're responsible for it. On other hand, that's not an excuse to kill anything that cross our path.

Is vegetarianism dangerous? -- Theoretically everything is dangerous. So what can I say? Being vegetarian is it just as dangerous as not being vegetarian. -- And what the doctors saying? -- In general: I don't think, that they could say anything about it. Everything they do say (in general), it's mostly subjective opinion.

So, is it being vegetarian healthy? -- Vegetarian can be someone who's eating only junk food (fast food). So how could just vegetarianism by itself be healthy way of life? No, no, there's need to do more than just stop eating meat, in order to eat healthy. But becoming vegetarian, can be first (and good) step.

Well, I would stop eating meat, but I just can't... -- Well, if I'll start thinking, that I can't eat apples anymore, in a month (or even sooner) I really couldn't eat apples anymore. I don't believe there's world, separated off our believes.

Someone, who believe, that he can't stop eating meat, it's totally right. But just as long, as he believe so.

Of course, I won't say there isn't some attachment to the meat, - if someone was, for example, eating meat for all his life, his body probably did adopt to this lifestyle.
However, the same attachment exists with alcoholics and drug addicts too, and it doesn't mean, that such a lifestyle is good, it's quite opposite actually.

I'll live my life fully, so I won't deny myself! -- Many people are denying diets, saying: "well, if I can't eat this thing anymore, then it doesn't matter if I live or die..." This is really something, I can't understand. Why would some particular food, be so, so important to someone?

For me, food is just food, I eat potato or pasta or pepper. There's plenty of food, among I can choose, which is good and healthy. The quality of life, can't be determent by type of food - as long there's a lot of (good) food, among which I can choose.

Animals are goods. They were created to as a food for humans... Well, I disagree, of course. Though, this way maybe kind of true, for long time ago, when simple hunter go to forest, and kill the deer, so that family had something for the long winter.

Of course, there is a difference between those long forgotten days, and today.

The deer I mention, lived his own free life, and then on some point, been killed by unhappy coincidence,... Animals today, however, are raised, just so they're killed. They has no chance at all. They has no meaning. They don't live their free life, and their death isn't unhappy coincidence, but rather forwardly planed and absolutely ensured.

Animals, doesn't have soul! -- It actually doesn't matter. We all know, they're living beings, they can feel pain, they're afraid of death, they wanna live - from all those perspectives, they're just like me, or you, or your mother, or your wife, or your child. It's not right that we're killing them, and especially it's not right, that we're killing them in such a cruel way.

Is vegetarianism religion? -- It isn't, though it's true, that some religions encourage it. :)