Message #18149

[Jitendra Hydonus]

i thought the issue here was the treatment of animals not whether we are lactarians or vegans. Did i miss something? To give an example: yesterday i bought eggs from a local farmer.  She showed me the chickens running in the yard. i do not feel as though i was being cruel to these animals. i think using the excuse that you do not see the cruelty is tantamount to what the Germans said about the Jews in WWll. Many of them claimed they knew nothing about those atrocities. i found a quote by Sri Yukteswar in the Holy Science.

As an SRFer i have been exposed to the evolutionary progression of the soul from mineral to plant to animal and then to the human kingdom. With this model in view it becomes apparent eating for instance sprouts would be preferable to eating dogs.
To mccoy; i will say though if u had a spiritual experience with sprouts i can respect your view.

i found a quote by Sri Yukteswar in the Holy Science in which he spends many pages discussing observing and drawing conclusions as to what is the natural food for humans. "Hence by these observations the only conclusion that can be  (must read his conclusions) reasonably drawn is that various grains, fruits roots and-for beverage milk, and pure water openly exposed to air and sun are decidedly the best natural food for man."

i ate a couple small bowls of Raisin Bran this morning with some coconut almond drink and was amazed how many vitamins were packed in that cereal.