Is Vegetarianism Dangerous And Cruel?
I remember years back when I first discovered most tibetian buddhists are on what pretty much amounts to a ketogenic carnivore diet. They only eat meat, but being a karmic religion have to put the blame on someone and so only the butcher gets blamed for the killing, and everyone else just accidently stumbles upon all ready slained meat.... at the butcher shop and grocery store, EVERYTIME, and so can eat it guilt free since they clearly had nothing to do with it's death. Economics is the achilles heel of any Karmic system.
The dalai lama tried giving up on meat eating, but turned Jaundice. So he was told by his doctors to return to meat eating. Tibetians are not biologically set up for vegetarianism, having adapted to living up in the mountains where vegetables humans can eat don't easily grow.
In India, vegetarianism was mostly forced. Under the Vedic religion, beef eating was universal. Buddhism came along, broke with brahmin culture in beef, and accepted vegetarianism as a option but not a requirement (buddha died from eating pork). Buddhism ruled much of India for a long time, and many sects adopted vegetarianism slowly. When buddhism was on the wain and hinduism was coming into being, many hindus went farther than buddhist in mandating vegetarianism, even by force of arms. Entire regions were conquered and forced to submit to the new dietary regime. For those who can't eat strictly vegan, they either died or were forced into meat eating underground.
In the west and china our vegetarian cults were more tame and minor. China had far more, and would periodically suppress any new vegan cults popping up. In the west you pretty much had to be a monastic to encounter the vegan phenomena during this time period. A chicken in every pot on sunday was once the rallying cry of reform in england.
Today people encounter vegetarians, but it is mostly women, and the vegetables they eat on their all women vegan retreats to purify their spirit are mostly phallic shaped. The guys who eat vegan diets are all closeted gays so they don't count, real men eat steaks, and real women like to serve them to them.
If you force a vegan diet on people, a great many will die. It's incompatible with human health, unless you start from a very young age, or are from a ethnicity that was forced to live off a vegan diet for generations. Vegetables make you weak, and and eating meat makes you strong, able to do things like walk on the moon, planting American flags up there.
If we stopped eating meat, would it be better fot the animals? No. They would go extinct. Every breed we consume would no longer be farmed. They would all die, no offspring. Mass Extinction isn't a sign of compassion. If you truely love the animals, you would bludgeon them and eat their flesh. It's the only way they can live and experience life. Otherwise it is the way of the dinosaurs for them.... and that is a cruel fate to have.
The dalai lama tried giving up on meat eating, but turned Jaundice. So he was told by his doctors to return to meat eating. Tibetians are not biologically set up for vegetarianism, having adapted to living up in the mountains where vegetables humans can eat don't easily grow.
In India, vegetarianism was mostly forced. Under the Vedic religion, beef eating was universal. Buddhism came along, broke with brahmin culture in beef, and accepted vegetarianism as a option but not a requirement (buddha died from eating pork). Buddhism ruled much of India for a long time, and many sects adopted vegetarianism slowly. When buddhism was on the wain and hinduism was coming into being, many hindus went farther than buddhist in mandating vegetarianism, even by force of arms. Entire regions were conquered and forced to submit to the new dietary regime. For those who can't eat strictly vegan, they either died or were forced into meat eating underground.
In the west and china our vegetarian cults were more tame and minor. China had far more, and would periodically suppress any new vegan cults popping up. In the west you pretty much had to be a monastic to encounter the vegan phenomena during this time period. A chicken in every pot on sunday was once the rallying cry of reform in england.
Today people encounter vegetarians, but it is mostly women, and the vegetables they eat on their all women vegan retreats to purify their spirit are mostly phallic shaped. The guys who eat vegan diets are all closeted gays so they don't count, real men eat steaks, and real women like to serve them to them.
If you force a vegan diet on people, a great many will die. It's incompatible with human health, unless you start from a very young age, or are from a ethnicity that was forced to live off a vegan diet for generations. Vegetables make you weak, and and eating meat makes you strong, able to do things like walk on the moon, planting American flags up there.
If we stopped eating meat, would it be better fot the animals? No. They would go extinct. Every breed we consume would no longer be farmed. They would all die, no offspring. Mass Extinction isn't a sign of compassion. If you truely love the animals, you would bludgeon them and eat their flesh. It's the only way they can live and experience life. Otherwise it is the way of the dinosaurs for them.... and that is a cruel fate to have.
