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There is a deep reason that yogis and gurus have spoke against the killing of animals all my life. Most people are unaware of how their moods affect their behavior and can easily bring them to anger and effect their environment and the people in it. No one likes to smell a dead skunk or a dead animal on the street. Similarly after smelling the sweet aroma of plants and fruits we do not care to smell dead animals in the kitchen. The smell of roast beef is obnoxious to a vegetarian. One has to put spices on it even to make it palatable. Yogananda has said that at some point sunlight air and cosmic energy will be the food of human beings and that the most spiritual of all foods are fruits. They lift our magnetism. There are Saints Paramahansa Yogananda spoke of in the Autobiography of a Yogi who never ate gross food or some for that matter who never ate any material food at all.

There is a good reason slaughterhouses are kept isolated from the public and there are ordinances against them being near communities. If you had ever been to a slaughterhouse as I was when I was a kid it would leave an indelible impression on your mind and emotions. The cows one by one being pushed along an inclined corridor as they mooo sensing something is not good about the whole ordeal. Finally reaching the top of the corridor where a large blade comes down on their neck. The gurus have said that before this happens a reaction of fear sends vibrations in their bodies that people absorb when consuming these helpless animals at our mercy of kindness or ill intent.

Everything you eat affects you one way or another. You have to understand what your mind and body can handle. I for one will not allow religion do dictate things like that.

There are benefits to not eating meat I would agree.

But the fear thing when an animal is killed and then absorbed if you eat it, well, that's speculation. It could be true if you believe it hard enough (just like other things), and if you don't then it might be one of those things that does not affect you.

We are all responsible karmically for our own decisions. Live with those decisions. Regardless of ignorance or ignoring God’s laws we will pay the consequences. As long as we can live with our actions knowing how they will affect not only ourselves but our earth as well we can go on comfortably numb and in blissful ignorance or in enlightened understanding.

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