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Default Why Be Vegetarian - by Dr. Stephen Knapp

On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 07:33:26 -0800, Goo lied blatantly:
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>On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 01:53:36 -0500, [email protected]. wrote:
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>>On Mon, 08 Dec 2014 07:53:50 -0800, Goo wrote:
>>.
>>>On Mon, 08 Dec 2014 09:30:25 -0500, [email protected]. wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:21:01 -0800, Goo 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://dailym.ai/1tyw9tZ
>>>>>
>>>>>Sweet mother of ****. Those pictures are shocking beyond words.
>>>>
>>>>"The last time the festival was held, in 2009, more than 250,000 animals were
>>>>killed, according to animal rights organisation PETA"
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if that's more dogs and cats than PeTA killed during the same time
>>>>period, Goob.
>>>
>>>The source is irrelevant;

>>
>> It was probably about the same then, eh Goo?
>>
>>>all that counts is if it's accurate.

>>
>> What number would be acceptable to you Goober?
>>
>>>>>Religion is shit. There are plenty of vile irrational belief systems,
>>>>>but religion is among the worst.
>>>>
>>>> IF:
>>>>______________________________________________ ___________
>>>>"NO livestock benefit from being farmed." - Goo
>>>>
>>>>"No farm animals benefit from farming." - Goo
>>>>
>>>>"There is nothing to "appreciate" about the livestock "getting
>>>>to experience life" - Goo
>>>>
>>>>""Getting to experience life" has no significance." - Goo
>>>>
>>>>"It is not "better" in any moral way, and not in *any* way
>>>>at all to the animal itself, that the animal exists." - Goo
>>>>
>>>>"There is no consideration whatever to be given to any animals' "getting to
>>>>experience life."" - Goo
>>>>
>>>>"The "experiencing" of life is morally meaningless." - Goo
>>>>
>>>>"Existence - "getting to experience life" - is not a benefit or advantage
>>>>to an entity, compared with never existing." - Goo
>>>>
>>>>etc...etc...etc...
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>>>>then what makes it vile and irrational when they lose their lives, Goo?
>>>
>>>Those senselessly slaughtered animals

>>
>> "Intent doesn't matter" - Goo
>>
>>>did not "benefit" by "getting to experience life."

>>
>> You, Derek and Ru have no way of knowing what percentage of them did and
>>what percentage of them did not Goob. In fact none of you are even able to
>>consider the distinction, Goo.

>
>We do know


Try to explain how any of you could possibly have found out about a single
one of their lives, Goo.