[whitecrow]

Good post. Large quantities of flesh are bad for us on every level. When you ingest a fresh green vegetable you are absorbing living energy. You actually share in the life force that impregnates and adorns the planet.

When you eat meat, you eat something that has been killed, usually in extremely unpleasant ways that you don't want to know about. There is no life force, just a life spent doomed followed by fear and blood. There is a spiritual dimension to this.

We are large primates. Our DNA is more than 98% identical to the other large apes, and our dietary needs are pretty much identical. We are extremely adaptable...we can live on most anything. Large apes are mostly vegetarian. Chimps in particular eat meat, and have even been known to engage in cannibalism. So I don't make a case for never touching flesh. But you are right: we eat way too much animal flesh, and we eat it in a bad, nasty form. McDonald's is real bad karma.

A good rule of thumb is that the more legs it has, the worse it is for ya. That's for warm-blooded animals of course. Arthropods are nutritious, too.