A person who is vegetarian is basically nonviolent. You can see it: the people who have been vegetarians for centuries are absolutely non-violent. They have not created any wars; they have not created any crusades, any JIHADS. The people who are meat eaters are bound to have less sensitivity, they are more hard. Even in the name of love they will kill; even in the name of peace they will go to war. In the name of freedom, in the name of democracy, they will murder.
When your family member is murdered, you cry in pain. You don't feel the same way when somebody kills a lion or a deer, because you don't think that the deer has as much life as you have. The deer may have a beloved; the deer may have children. You don't think of the lion, when you kill him, that he may have a family. His small cubs will be orphans. He is as alive as you are - in fact, more alive than you are. You are destroying him only for a few taste buds on your tongue, for the taste !
It seems to me that killing animals for eating is not very far away from killing human beings. They differ only in their body, in their shape, but it is the same life that you are destroying.
With new technology ,the earth is perfectly capable of giving you food. You can make it as tasteful as you want, and you can give it any flavor that you love. Just for taste, destroying life is simply disgusting. And destroying life, you are destroying many qualities in you.
Eating anything by killing is irreligious, unspiritual, unaesthetic. A person who lives by destruction will die by destruction. It is not a coincidence that both the world wars were fought in the West. And the third world war will also begin - if it begins - in the west.
We are part of this existence: these trees, these animals, these birds, they are our brothers and our sisters. This is our whole family. Just a slight understanding and you can change your consciousness from being polluted, from being destroyed. You can rise as high as anybody has ever been able.
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