I eat food

By now I haven't touched meat, fish, eggs, mushrooms and very rarely onion and garlic for 8 years. I eat some milk products provided they don't contain rennet or gelatin or other dubious ingredients. And preferably if the cows that give the milk are protected, that would make it even better.

Still I really don't understand why people want want to label some as vegetarians, vegans, carnivores, or whatever. It is kind of a personal choice and as long as you get something healthy and hearty in the belly it should be all right, no?

Sometimes I wonder if anyone can see that one life form prey upon another, wheter we talk about plants or animal life from.

In daily days life i really don't give it a lot thought. Cooking starts with shopping. What I have bought is what I cook. I know what I want for dinner and that is about it. When shopping I just skip the freezers with the meat as if they didn't excist and move on to the dry section with legumes followed by the "oriental section" and thereafter the vegetables. It's daily chores for me and honestly I don't see anythng big in being a person who prefer one type of diet above another. You can choose to eat one type diet or you can choose to eat another type of diet. It's all food!

Of course there are some people that advocate that heart and liver is extremely healthy (which is somewhat true), and therefore you must eat meat, but I feel confident that you can get the same out of plant materials... otherwise i wouldn't have survived the last eight years.

I don't know about you? But I just eat my food which agrees with my conciousness and let others decide whether they would give "the least violent path" a chance or not.

All in all, one should be kind to all life forms... even humans.

What do you think?

 

my older brother and i were talking about this the other night. he was talking about how a certain diet is the most healthiest way to live which included meat, dairy, vegatables, and fruits. he came to this statement because he said what ever you can survive on out in the woods, is what would be healthy. and then i talked about how raw vegan was healthy because you are eating all the vitamins and minerals how they absorb fully without cooking it

but after reading your post, i agree. what ever goes with your consiness is whats healthy to you. after all if you were eating something that doesnt agree with you or slows you down, or gives off any negative ideas or feelings is not really healthy


was that what you were trying to get at? i hope i read this thread right

 

One can say killing animals are not really healthy for the animals. But one the other hand, I don't think death is neither healthy or unhealthy. It is merely a concequence of comming into existance, it's just a question on how death arrives.

What can be pretty bothersome from time to time is always either defending my position or answer questions that could be answered either by common sence or by just a minimal research. I eat the food I like to eat and others can eat the kind of food they like to eat. And I like to eat my food peacefully and in a joyful state of mind, which should beneficial for the digestion, rather than always justifying my point of view. Therefore the statement "I eat food", just as every other living being eat food.

To Drumminmama: It is correct that cooking and eating with likewise-minded takes less time since you don't have to look over people shoulders to see if everything is done correctly. On the other hand I really dislike the idea about them and us or us and them, vegetarians or omnivores. Bonding to other vegetarians can be a good thing but I don't consider myself better than or different from a person who is eating all kinds of food and I really do see everyone else in the same way without asking what they eat.

In many ways I think it is an important question, especially for new vegetarians or for everyone else that conciousness matters. It matters that you don't do things just because everybody else are doing the same thing. You have to make up your mind what you want to do and commit yourself to that. Sometimes, maybe because men in my country are not having and easy time being vegetarians without being seen as either girly boys who feel sorry for the animals or health freaks, I remind them that muslims don't eat pork and only eat halal slaughtered animals... simply because it matters how things are performed, and I have the greatest respect for people who see things in that perspective (also halal butchering is no different from common butchering was in the old times in my country).

Enough ramblings from me.

Over and out.
Asvin