The food we eat is our personal choice, it also greatly depends on where we live and how we were brought up, is the quintessential part of peoples culture and cuisine. It is a personal choice if they are a vegetarian and all are free to choose, but should not condemn others of their choices.
The recent lynching these couple of past two years conducted by gau rakshas (saviors and protectors of cows, who consider cows their gods), who are vegetarian and vegans killed meat-eaters, omnivores, resulting in violent deaths, and hatred, and anti-beef chants over the country, raising the temperature of communion anger and discord. In this tirade, the vegan, vegetarians launched out in hate speech and outright lynching, often of a person who was innocent. Mobs could charge on a individual, claiming they were beef eaters and quite a number beaten to death, many hanged in villages..the endless senseless violence and hatred continues with the Kerala floods when haters claim that the floods happened because the people of Kerala ate beef. If we use this same logic, Kerala and all the beef-eating countries would have been destroyed centuries ago by the angry gods, which of course has not happened.
Creation:
In the beginning, Earth was shielded with a canopy of dew that did not allow the Sun’s ultraviolet rays to penetrate the Earth in an unhealthy way, and it never rained nor did the Earth need rain. The Earth and plants were moisturized and nourished within that protective canopy, and all creatures lived extraordinary long lives due to the pure atmosphere and earth enriched with the best nutrients. When the protective canopy over the Earth broke, the natural Earth fell in disarray and the ecology was upset. Science proves the Earth was once covered with a pandemic water by flood. Since then, many things in the pattern of the Earth changed.
Ecology: Now, all living things formed the food chain as their eating line, a linear network of links in a food web starting from producer organisms such as grass or trees which use radiation from the Sun to make their food)and ending at apex predator species such as tigers, killer whales, shark. Detritivores such as earthworms, woodlice, leeches, or decomposer species such as fungi or bacteria, started to eat other living things. A food chain also shows how the organisms are related with each other by the food they eat. Each level of a food chain represents a different trophic level. A food chain only follows a direct, linear pathway of one animal at a time. Natural interconnections between food chains make it a food web. Wherever we live, we would eat according to their availability. People who lived near forests ate wild boar, and were hunters, and likewise, the chain went on, and wild animals developed carnivorous teeth to tear the animal flesh that they had to eat to survive. This all followed the natural law of nature.
Iceland:
Where you live would cultivate your food habits. If you lived in a glacier-capped icy land, you would have no choice but to eat meat. If you lived in Iceland, meat was the main provision because crop and vegetables could not grow in such icy hardy soil. Lamb, fermented shark, all kinds of fish are widely eaten. In the ancient days, trade and commerce of crops was not as easily available as it is today. In the Old Soviet Union, potatoes and meat were the staple diet. Norwegian of the old ages were dynasty hunters, hunting was the way of life and no one even questioned it.
Tibet:
Depending on the terrain they live in, people have to eat meat. It cannot be avoided. The Tibetan cuisine includes noodles, goat, yak, mutton, dumplings, cheese (often from yak or goat milk), butter (also from animals adapted to the Tibetan climate) and soups, roasted barley, called tsampa, is the staple food of Tibet and butter tea. Tsampa is eaten mostly mixed with the national beverage Butter tea. Meat dishes are likely to be yak, goat, or mutton, often dried, or cooked into a spicy stew with potatoes.
In Tibet, a land which is primarily Buddhist and as we know, they believe in non-violence where even to kill a vegetable was a sin, and staunch Buddhists would pray for the soul of the vegetable before cutting it asking for its forgiveness before eating it. Yet, meat has to be consumed in the high roof of the world terrain where very scarce crops can grow. So many Buddhist monks do eat meat whereas in their religion, they are not to kill any animal. God made the food cycle. Think of a jungle, animals have to hunt to live. If it was against the design of nature, it would never have happened. Again, when we fight against the flow of nature, we bear consequences.
Health wise:
Being a vegetarian may actually be bad for your brain, according to a study published in a magazine, but you can also disagree with this. Vegetarians can be healthy on other planes, but certain meat foods are more needed for the brain. Quote ”Those on a meat-free diet are six times more likely to suffer brain shrinkage as the most vitamin B12 is found in meats, liver, fish and milk. According to the study, vitamin B12 may protect older people against brain shrinkage. A study of 107 people between the ages of 61 and 87 found that people who had higher B12 levels were six times less likely to experience a loss in brain volume compared to those who had lower levels of the vitamin in their blood. None of the people in the study had a B12 deficiency. Brain shrinkage typically occurs after the age of 60 and has been linked to memory loss. For the research, participants underwent brain scans, memory testing and physical exams. Researchers also collected blood samples to check vitamin B12 levels. Brain scans and memory tests were performed five years after the initial testing.
Take an omnivore, and ask him or her to forsake meat, and they will feel physically very drained because their body has acclimatized to those higher shots of protein.
For vegetarians, there are myriad plant-based protein options, including nuts, seeds, soy, eggs, dairy products and some whole grains, animal proteins have certain proteins not available in vegetables.. According to a research review published in 2006 in the “British Journal of Sports Medicine,” eating meat lowers the risk of acquiring iron-deficiency anemia, particularly for women. Additionally, all animal-based proteins contain every essential amino acid for humans, whereas most plant-based proteins do not, except for quinoa and soy, which are both complete proteins.
Meat eaters are not immune to nutrient deficiencies, but because meat is a valuable source of many essential nutrients, vegetarians are particularly susceptible to certain deficiencies. Vegetarians or vegans may have trouble getting enough protein, iron, zinc, calcium, vitamin B-12 or essential fatty acids. Symptoms of deficiencies in those nutrients can range from mild fatigue to serious effects like severe depression, chronic sleep issues and slow recovery from illness or injury.
Vegans often accuse omnivores, meat eaters of being more cruel and violet but the recent violent lynching, murders, rape too, so this defeats the argument that vegetarianism doesn’t make a person calmer or kinder or less lustful than a non vegetarian as is claimed.
I personally stopped eating meat due to being an animal lover, but I do not judge those who do.
Please, please let’s be kind, gracious and not condemning and hurting those with different eating habits for in the perfect will of God, as long as there is Earth, Sun, Planets, Seasons, Grain, Harvest, until this Earth passes away, we are still waiting for a better new Earth where there will be no further killing and God has a plan for the animals too, there… Humans are made in the image of God, so please do respect and honor one another.
Spiritually, my view and from what I studied in scientific NDEs is we will one day find our pets in Heaven…God has given them a place and reward for their lives. and the ones eaten..will them too. which is why there will be no more eating of meat in Heaven, in the New Heaven and Earth. they will be rewarded for losing their lives on earth. God’s ways are mysterious..
Rita F. Kurian
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