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Don and Rachel Matesz <[log in to unmask]>
Next Generation Nutrition. (419) 476-2967

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Catherine Tressider <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I do believe that eating
>meat is natural for human beings, but at the same time I feel bad for the
>animals (especially those that suffer in factory farms) and it weighs on my
>conscience.  There is a certain spirituality about eating vegetarian that is
>missing in carnivory.

Do you mean to say that cows are spiritual and lions are not?  That rabbits
are more capable of spirituality than hawks?

In an 1852 letter to the U.S. President, Chief Seattle, a confirmed
carnivore, wrote "Every part of this earth is sacred to my people.  Every
shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every
meadow, every humming insect.  All are holy in the memory and experience of
my people....The rivers are our brothers...so you must give the rivers the
kindness you would give any brother...The wind that gave our grandfather his
first breath, also recieves his last  sigh.  The wind also gives our
children the spirit of life...THIS WE KNOW; THE EARTH DOES NOT BELONG TO
MAN, MAN BELONGS TO THE EARTH.   All things are connected like the blood
that unites us all.  Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a
strand in it...ONE THING WE KNOW:  OUR GOD IS ALSO YOUR GOD.  THE EARTH IS
PRECIOUS TO HIM AND TO HARM THE EARTH IS TO HEAP CONTEMPT ON ITS
CREATOR....Your destiny is a mystery to us.  What will happen when the
buffalo are all slaughtered?  The wild horses all tamed?  What will happen
when the secrets of the forest are heavy with the scent of many men and the
view of the ripe hills is blotted by talking wires?  Where will the thicket
be?  Gone!  Where will the eagle be?  Gone!  AND WHAT IS IT TO SAY GOODBYE
TO THE SWIFT PONY AND THE HUNT?  THE END OF LIVING AND THE BEGINNING OF
SURVIVAL....One thing we know, there is only one God.  No man, be he Red Man
or White Man, can be apart.  We are brothers after all."

Do you mean to say that that man was not spiritual, because, like the lion,
he loved to eat buffalo meat?  Just like the lion, man is "spiritual" when
he eats as he was designed by Nature to eat.  To say that the lion is not
spiritual because it does not eat like a lamb is to heap contempt upon the
Creator [Nature].

MY point:  the idea that carnivory is not as spiritual as vegetarianism is
agricultural hogwash.  It is part of the cultural prejudice that hunters are
"savages".

As someone else wrote:

>There is a spirituality to hunting.  Veggies simply have an intense
>psychological need to deny it.

Don M.