One of the Ten Commandments states, “Thou shall not kill.”
According to the Bible, in the beginning, humans and animals were plant and fruit eaters, and in the first chapter of the first book of the Bible, Genesis 1:29, the first humans told by God:
“Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, shall be for meat.
To every beast of the earth, every fowl of the air, and everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.”
Somebody got the translation of the texts wrong, and instead of being a plant and fruit-eating earth as was God’s will, it now became flesh-eating.
Please read the text that says I have given every green herb for meat. It does not include every beast or fowl as meat, and it says green herb, which means all life on earth should be on a plant and fruit diet.
You incur a karmic debt when you kill or cause others to kill for your desire to eat meat.
You condemn the next animal for slaughter to satisfy consumer demand by continuing to eat meat.
Jean Jacques Rousseau took the following observations from the “Discourse on the Origin of Inequality – The Notes.”
Taken; among the four-legged animals that eat meat, there are two distinguishing features, the formation of their teeth are like the dog, cat, wolf and fox, and the shape of their intestinal tract is short to allow faster elimination.
The plant-eating animals, such as the horse, cattle, sheep, and hare, have blunted teeth and are designed for eating vegetation.
In antiquity, when the earth was still fertile by itself, no man ate flesh but lived off the fruits and vegetables that grew naturally.
Another observation between meat and plant eaters is the number of young being born. Meat eaters such as cats, dogs, etc., have six to eight litters and plant eaters have one or two offspring at a time.
The number of teats is two for each female in the plant eaters, six to eight in the meat eaters, such as the dog, cat, wolf, tigress etc.
Humans have blunted teeth, and the intestines are not for the consumption of eating flesh.
Ask yourself this question, why have so many of our creative geniuses of humanity been vegetarians?
Here is a listing of famous vegetarians: Jesus, Buddha, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Leonardo Da Vinci, Plato, Socrates, Pythagoras, Emerson, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Thoreau, and Voltaire. Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison, and so many others.
George Bernhard Shaw said: “Animals are my friends …. and I don’t eat my friends.”
Albert Schweitzer said: “We need boundless ethics which will include the animals also.”
Leo Tolstoy said: “Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.”
Mahatma Gandhi said: “I hold flesh food is unsuited to our species.”
Leonardo Da Vinci said: “I have from an early age abstained from meat, and the time will come when men will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”
Essene Orthodox Faith: They are vegetarians and do not believe in the slaughter of animals.
As these famous names cannot fail to impress, we assume it is worth noting and perhaps following their example.
However, soon you choose to become vegetarian/vegan, make it for all the above reasons of the famous mentioned above, and you will feel less guilty for not condemning another animal.
There are many good reasons to switch to a vegetarian/vegan diet, health and well-being, ethics, environment, religion, animal concerns, vitality and longevity.