[Malynda]

Originally Posted by krystal

You are half way there and it's wonderful. If you do not eat any meat for a period of at least 3 months you won't be able to tolerate the bacterial smells afterwards. Plants are mainly water and yes there is consciousness in everything but when you cut a branch off a plant it grows a few more and this does not happen in the animal kingdom.

The point I am making here is that there is great karmic debt in the killing of "living beings", animals have souls whilst plants have not yet evolved to that degree therefore the karma is not so great.

I am sure others see my point here..... how can we be trusted as a civilized society when we are still acting like in the dark ages.... killing animals by the billions and destroying our planet in the meantime.

Thank you so much for responding, krystal. The explanation about a plant growing another branch makes a lot of sense to me. Forgive me for asking more and more questions but I am trying to understand and you seem to know a lot about this. I don't understand how we know that a plant is not evolved enough to have a soul. I think my frame of reference is very narrow in this area and I would like to understand more. I always thought that everything that comes from source, god, whatever has a soul and that if you don't have a soul, you're not so very "good". Do you have any insight into this? I'm not opposed to only eating plants by any means but I just like to understand the world around me. I am trying not to just do things because they are "good". Thanks again for helping me to understand.