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Meet Rebecca Tolin, Almost-Participant in Thursday's SDSU Filmmaker's Showcase
I'm with you, Rebecca. Why not eat meat? True, there is no excuse for the mistreatment of any animal. However, the vast majority of these animals would not even exist if they were not being raised for food. The bottom line is, there is no way to live without taking other life. Have we desensitized ourselves to the life in a redwood or an oak tree? How can we be so sure that carrots and chard are not also sentient beings? As a friend of mine once put it, "Don't you hear the grass screaming when you cut it?" I've heard that the Buddha did not become enlightened until he went back to eating meat (whereupon, of course, he lost all his followers). There is no "ism"--including vegetarianism--that is immune to dogmatism. I suggest we relax and stop to consider the words of Adyashanti, who says, "If broccoli had legs, it would be running."— May 17, 2012 3:18 a.m.