Message #18130

[guest88]

I can understand how the glutinous and grotesque ways in which our current market handles, creates and mass produces our nourishment would cause most any rational human to want to be vegetarian. Does there need to be a change within these systems? Absolutely. We, as in people of the United States and probably people of other similarly "advanced" countries, don't reflect a spiritual understanding or compassion to life when it comes to mass production regardless if that life is an animal, plant, or the environment itself.

I also understand that a yogi would want to practice vegetarianism for this very reason. From an outside perspective, it would seem this practice resonates with the individual and that the individual hopes to promote awareness and change for the better. So yes, I agree you can cultivate compassion through exercising a moral decision or belief.

I don't agree however, that being vegetarian makes one more spiritually attuned then a non-vegetarian. To think of the countless tribes that exist to this day, where little is known about their existence, who preserve humanity and commune with nature deeper then your every day millennial. Their structures, which are emerging in documentaries and other unpopular sources eat meat but do so with reverence. We are all human. To say we are more advanced then a native tribe is perspective. What happens when our own advances as a society collapse? Who is better off then?

The shaman, hunter, gatherer, these are people who understand the laws of nature more so then I. Their respect for the natural world has cultivated a deep spirituality in their community and in themselves. I don't have the answer to the original question of this thread other then to speculate that practicing being vegetarian is a way to deepen ones own spirituality but I wanted to comment that simply being vegetarian does not make one person more spiritual then the other.