Re: Who eats the flesh of slain beasts, eats of the body of death

Respected Swamiji and all Vaisnavas,

        Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna! Please accept my respectful obeisances!

        All over the world about 15 billion animals are being killed every year for meat, which is 2.3 times the current world population. So we can just imagine how much farmland and vegetarian food goes into just feeding these animals. This way there is a colossal waste of energy, food, and land.

        According to the food-chain rule, if one feeds 1000 calories to an animal and then eats it, he gets only 10% of the energy, 100 cal. If one really wants to stop the hunger problem, one has to minimise all wastage of food. But we see that by eating meet, 90% of the energy required for 15,000,000,000 animals annualy goes waste. Some people argue that taking vegetarian food causes global warming and damages the environment. But they ought to know these facts.

        Meat processing from the slaughterhouse to the dinner plate totally consumes 21 Litres (5 gallons) of crude oil by various direct and indirect ways. So many millions of tonnes of meat are being produced every year, just imagine the amount of CO2 and pollution caused in the process. Given that the oil prices are at $150 a barrel, just see how much of it goes wasted. These days airlines have intoduced 1000s of regulations to cut down fuel.....but what is saved in one hand goes out through the other!

        Today they'll kill the cows, its not wrong for them. Tomorrow, in the future of Kali Yuga,  even killing their children or their parents will not be wrong. Abortion is already acceptable. When there is no absolute standard of laws, it won't take long before everyone does what they like. The laws of nature and karma don't bother about people's opinions of right or wrong, though. They will work even if nobody believes in them. How will these people ever be delivered?

        I have not seen one meat eater who can understand God or who has any genuine devotion to the Lord. By animal killing, all pity and mercy and love is lost. So how can we love God? Many animals love much more than humans. I saw that lion, how much love it had. How many dogs love their masters, following them to the grave!

They may say that killing plants is equally wrong, but that is not a fact. Its true that everyone eats other living entities, but we can eat only what is allowed to be eaten. That doesn't mean we can kill our mother (the cow is also our mother) or our son for satisfying the tongue, belly and genitals. 

         In eating fruits or milk, we don't kill. No cow suffers to give milk to the devotees.

        There is karmic reaction in killing plants, but the Lord allows us to use these vegetarian foods in his service by offering him naivedya. By doing so the plants become used in the service of the Lord and so they get spiritual sukrti and eventually they will become devotees in a future life. Those who honor the prasada also become delivered. In this way, the offering and the offerer are delivered.

         Jaya mahaprasada!

Daaso'smi,

Srinath

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