Posted by Cass on September 5, 2004, at 23:29:11
In reply to Re: Lou's reply to Cass-2 » Cass, posted by Lou Pilder on September 5, 2004, at 7:04:54
I'm glad you feel a spiritual connection to animals. I think that animals probably do have spirits. It's the violence and suffering they in endure before they die that bothers me. I think I can live healthily without eating meat and not putting animals through the living hell of slaughterhouses. Animals are God's creation. They are sentient beings, not objects. My health, physically, emotionally and spritually improved once I became a vegetarian (almost a vegan because I eat very little dairy.) Nothing has improved my life more than becoming true to my own convictions. I'm not trying to be "preachy", but here are some great quotes about vegetarianism:
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated" Gandhi
"Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed: to you it shall be for meat" (Genesis 1:29)
Flesh eating is unprovoked murder. -- Benjamin Franklin
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of
life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. --Albert
EinsteinAs long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.
--Leo Tolstoy, author
"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will
come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they
now look upon the murder of men."
--Leonardo Da Vinci"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not
made for humans any more than blacks were made for whites or women
for men."
--Alice Walker"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all
evolution. Until we stop harming ALL other living beings, we are
still savages."
--Thomas A. Edison"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how
can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?"
--George Bernard Shaw"Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his
conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to
life."
-Norman Cousins
poster:Cass
thread:385918
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/faith/20040729/msgs/386903.html