Please give me some reasons to be a vegetarian? (spiritual answers appreciated) thanks?!?

Question

I want to become vegetarian but I need some motivation

can you please help?

thanks alot !

(do you feel spiritually cleaner; has it helped reduce bad karma; if so how did you know for certain it was linked to not eating meat?)

Thanks !

Answer 1

if you need any inspiration, go to Peta2.com and watch all the videos, also do a search for the movie "free me' if that doesnt inspire you, I dont know what will. Also, read 'what they never told you" Hope this helps, also feel free to email me for some cool freebies and inpirational stuff.

Answer 2

Theologically, the reason a God conscious person cannot take another’s life is that he recognizes every person as having an individual spiritual nature or soul and thus as being a son of God. The Vedas (ancient Indian scriptures) cite six symptoms by which we can understand the presence of the soul in a living being - birth, growth, production of by-products, duration, dwindling, and death. These symptoms signify the difference between dead matter and a living being. It is indefensible, therefore, to say that the human has a soul but an animal like the cow does not.

“But,” we may say, “the animals cannot understand philosophy or science.” Still, this is no reason to kill them. A small child cannot understand philosophy either, but that does not mean we can kill him. If an elderly, successful son approaches his father and advises him to kill a younger son because he is only a baby or simply because he is foolish and less successful, the father will not agree. Nor does the Supreme Father approve of the so-called Christian son who kills the cows and claims that this is sanctioned by God the Father.

The Bible talks about man's being given dominion over the earth and all its creatures. So does the President have dominion over all US citizens. We would take it very remiss indeed if he started slaughtering citizens and eating them! Dominion implies responsibility for well-being.

Hope this helps.

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Answer 3

First of all, I have gotten many complements of the way I look now that I am a vegitarian. Despite the fact that a few people were horrible about it at first, most of them settled down after a week or so and most of the people I know were very supportive. Also, you are forced to eat healthier for the most part. I feel cleaner now that I don't have to murder for my food.

PETA has many great videos that have great reasons. Look on their website. Also, I feel like I have more self-control now that I know I can restrain from eating meat. I have only been a vegitarian since June and I already feel better.

Also, if you stay away from candies then you eat healthier because you don't eat fast food anymore.

Answer 4

Become a vegetarian for YOUR own reasons. The bottom line is that life feeds on life and, despite our human characteristic to separate and categorize life based on our own biases (has a central nervous system versus doesn't have one, etc), we MUST take in other life to exist as this being. And there is NOTHING wrong with that. Westernized guilt about this is very unnatural. But there is mistreatment of animals in our western meat companies and, so, that may be strong motivation to become a vegetarian. Or you might want the health benefits. But try to avoid the tendency that we humans have to do things like this to make ourselves feel special or moral or to have a new identity. Worse, we often make ourselves feel better than others which is a negative thing. My Zen buddhist friend literally stopped being a vegetarian when he became a zen buddhist because he realized during his meditation that it was all about his ego. As far as karma goes, I know most people don't want to hear this but karma is just a fancy word for 'conditioning' (e.g. I treat my kids horribly which screws them up and they continue the cycle with their kids and their own lives ... my 'karma' lasts for lifetimes this way). Too often, we humans try to make karma into this mystical force that essentially becomes the impersonal version of the theist's deity who metes out reward and punishment.

Answer 5

I don't eat meat, haven't for 8 years now. I love being a veggie!! I didn't stop because I thought I would receive something for it (such as good karma etc.).

However I felt it was my duty, that if I DID HAVE A CHOICE (humans are omnivorous), then I SHOULD choose to eat only fruits and vegetables. It is Spiritual to choose to do a higher thing.

I can substitute tofu, beans, nuts, other soy products for protein nutrition, so I should. I think killing animals is disgusting, so I am abiding by my morales and ethics.

Answer 6

Not eating red meat is healthier for you. Just recently there have been articles in newspapers about how a vegetarian diet helps prevent breast cancer and other illnesses.

And just today in the Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/11/22/diet_for_a_hot_planet/

THIRTY-FIVE years ago, Frances Moore Lappé's revolutionary cookbook "Diet for a Small Planet" warned of the dire consequences of a growing taste for meat. For example, it takes up to 16 times more farmland to sustain people on a diet of animal protein than on a diet of plant protein. As US, European, and Asian farmers run out of land for crop expansion, her warning rings prophetic. The emerging meat-eaters of the emerging economies -- especially China -- are driving industrial agriculture into the tropical forests of South America, sending greenhouse gases skyward in a dangerous new linkage between the palate and the warming of the planet.

etc.

Some other cultures say we Americans smell like rotting meat cuz of what we eat.

It's harder to get food poisoning from salad.

Grocery bill is way less if you do not buy meat.

Did you ever notice how McD's smells like a charnel house?

Answer 7

feel less wieghed down, fish is good, but no other meat. There are so many delicious vegetarian dishes to choose from, why not. Spiritually, people ate lamb or fish if any meat at all. Lamb is meat, but I think its supposed to be cleaner? Anyway, fish is healthy along with your veggies and soy-alternative foods.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

cruelty to animals.- would you do that to your pets?
environmental issues
health issues

the fact that if instead of feeding the majority of the worlds grain to livestock we fed it to people, EVERYONE would be fed. there'd be no famine in the world. doesn't that sound nice?

i feel cleaner, because, basically i am. both in physical digestion but also spiritually. when you eat something that is dead, you are eating death. that floods you with bad energy.
when you dont eat meat, not only do you not have this bad energy flooding through your body, but you also feel lighter because your conscience is more at ease, having the knowledge that you dont endorse the killing and torturing of others

Answer 10

Human beings are naturally omnivores, meaning we're designed to eat meat and plant matter. If you're interested in taking better care of yourself, stick to animals raised without hormones/antibiotics, and stick to things organically raised, both in the barn and from the field.