[sunnyrap]

I've been doing the vegan way, myself, for some time, but have recently learned another way of viewing the eating of meat. I am a member of a Native online group to gain more information and insight on native culture (I figured I needed to honor my representative portion of Cherokee genes). I loved their spiritual approach to eating fish or meat when they had to: they did it with great reverance and gratitude to the animal they consumed, and considered it a way of participating/experiencing in the spirituality of that species--and of giving that species a way of experiencing participating with the human way. These days, I'm thinking what you do/choose is less important than how you do/choose...i.e., with what heart and spirit.