Non-veg food: God has given commandment that food must be from vegetables only

There is no sin in taking non-vegetarian food because the same ingredients exist in vegetables and in non-vegetarian food. The entire sin exists in killing the animal or bird for food when God created vegetarian food for all the living beings. God has given commandment that food must be from vegetables only (Oṣadhībhyo'nnam— Veda). The torture felt by the animal or bird when killed is unimaginable. Non-veg. food is criticized even by scientists because you get secondary proteins (once formed in the plants and second time formed in animals) and not primary proteins.

The veg. food is digested in 5 to 6 hours whereas non-veg. food takes 72 hours for digestion. WHO says that more than 150 diseases are possible by non-veg. food. The punishment for killing an animal for food is that in the next birth the killer will be born as an animal and the killed animal is born as killer of that animal. The animal or bird during death thinks “as I am killed now by this fellow, in the next birth I will kill him” (Māṃ saḥ yathā hanti…). The punishment comes to the eater of non-veg. food also since consumption raises the demand. The highest injustice told in the scripture is the torture of the animal during killing (Ahimsā paramo dharmaḥ).

Making the animal unconscious before killing is also not a remedy because killing certainly gives torture. It is said that you have no right to take away the life of a living being when you are incapable of giving life to it. You shall not argue that plants have life. Real life is defined as the awareness generated in a brain-nervous system. Mere respiration is mechanical and not life. Only zoological examples have life and even the unicellular amoeba has a nervous spot. Botanical examples have no life due to the absence of nervous material and even a very big banyan tree is a non-living item. The follower of God Datta must analyse this point to get clarity of action.