Message #18139

[mccoy]

Laila, to be honest, as Jagadi Chandra Bose first pointed out, even plants have feelings and consciousness.

So we cannot rule out that there are some vibrations of fear, pain  and anger in the plant food we consume. Not in most fruits of course, but some vegetbles have to be killed before being eaten.

Even the essene diet, which eliminates vegetables which are killed to be eaten, suggests a bread made out of sprouts.

Sprouts are the newborn babies of the vegetable realm. So, by eating sprouts, we eat newborns. Let's face it.

Even if we eat seeds and legumes, we are goign to kill a potential plant. Even when seeds are toasted, we partecipated to the Killing of a potential plant.

Plants are creatures of God, so they should be given guarantees.

To bring it to the extreme, mantaining the same logic, even by being pure fruitarians, we cannot but eat some germs and bacteria. These are living creatures and we would kill them at times, at least those who cannot survive inside the digestive tract. We inflcit suffering to them poor critters.

Bottom line: In this imperfect dimension, it is not possible to mantain the body without inflicting some suffering to other creatures.