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Default Why Be Vegetarian - by Dr. Stephen Knapp

On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 09:48:15 +0000, Derek > wrote:

>On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:21:01 -0800, wrote:
>
>>On 11/28/2014 10:59 AM, Derek wrote:
>>> On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 01:15:26 GMT,
and/or www.mantra.com/jai (Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote:
>>>
>>>> Many portions of the Vedic literature describe how the
>>>> Supreme Being is the maintainer of innumerable living
>>>> entities, humans as well as the animals, and is alive in
>>>> the heart of every living being. Only those with
>>>> spiritual consciousness can see the same Supreme Being in
>>>> His expansion as Supersoul within every creature. To be
>>>> kind and spiritual toward humans and be a killer or enemy
>>>> toward animals is not a balanced philosophy, and exhibits
>>>> one's spiritual ignorance.
>>>>
>>>> The next reason for being vegetarian is to consider the
>>>> amount of fear and suffering that animals experience in
>>>> the slaughter industry. There are countless stories of
>>>> how in fear cows cry, scream, and sometimes fall down
>>>> dead while inside or even before they are taken into the
>>>> slaughter house. Or how the veins of dead pigs are so big
>>>> that it shows they have practically exploded from the
>>>> fear the pig felt and the adrenalin that was produced
>>>> while it was being led to slaughter. This certainly
>>>> causes an immense amount of violence to permeate the
>>>> atmosphere, which goes out and falls back on us in some
>>>> form. Furthermore, the adrenalin and fear in the animal
>>>> also produces toxins which then permeate the body of
>>>> these animals, which meat-eaters ingest. People who
>>>> consume such things cannot help but be effected by it. It
>>>> causes tensions within them individually, which then
>>>> spreads in their relations with others.
>>>>
>>>> The ancient Vedic text of the Manu-samhita (5.45-8) says,
>>>> "He who injures innoxious beings from a wish to give
>>>> himself pleasure never finds happiness, neither living
>>>> nor dead. He who does not seek to cause the suffering of
>>>> bonds and death to living creatures, but desires the good
>>>> of all beings, obtains endless bliss. . . Meat can never
>>>> be obtained without injury to living creatures, and
>>>> injury to sentient beings is detrimental to the
>>>> attainment of heavenly bliss; let him therefore shun the
>>>> use of meat."
>>>
>>> Yeah, well, maybe you ought to learn just how cruel your religion really is.
>>> http://dailym.ai/1tyw9tZ

>>
>>Sweet mother of ****. Those pictures are shocking beyond words.

>
>I've never seen such callous cruelty, and if I hadn't seen those pictures of
>all those grinning hindoos hacking at the necks and bodies of those hundreds
>of thousands of peaceful, gentle young animals, I would find it difficult
>to believe such horror exists in this world. Jai Maharaj goes to great
>lengths portraying hindoos as being respectful toward animals but, as we can
>see by those pictures in that article, they are evil and repulsive toward
>them beyond belief. And just look at their grinning hindoo spectators
>covering every branch of every tree


Yet we can't see any of them grinning or any of them in a tree. How not
unlike you to lie blatantly.