Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00911)

Saturday, April 16, 2005, 11:54:20 AM, Niki wrote:

> Equating the eating of meat with alcoholism and drug
> addiction?

Had you read my words you would see I was not equating, but showing
similarities. These kinds of addiction are indeed similar: they are
not necessary for the human's well-being and they are more or less
harmful for it.


> Any more "wisdom" like that?

Sure. Since this is a theosophical forum, here is a quote about the
subject from "The Key to Theosophy" by HPB:


One of the great German scientists has shown that every kind of animal
tissue, however you may cook it, still retains certain marked
characteristics of the animal which it belonged to, which
characteristics can be recognised. And apart from that, every one
knows by the taste what meat he is eating. We go a step farther, and
prove that when the flesh of animals is assimilated by man as food, it
imparts to him, physiologically, some of the characteristics of the
animal it came from. Moreover, occult science teaches and proves this
to its students by ocular demonstration, showing also that this
"coarsening" or "animalizing" effect on man is greatest from the flesh
of the larger animals, less for birds, still less for fish and other
cold-blooded animals, and least of all when he eats only vegetables.

http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/key/key-13.htm

Thus vegetarianism is better not only morally, but physically as well.


> Oh, and how do you explain that our bodies are
> naturally made to eat animal flesh...

Very simply: they are not made that way. Scientists have been arguing
about it for decades. But of course humans can feed on anything, which
they happily do.


> And, these bodies need a certain amount of flesh to be properly
> maintained...

They need it if they are tuned to be in such a need. E.g. my own body
is free from this dependance.


> I always thought a vegetarian diet was a moral choice,
> not a biological imperative. Myself, I go through
> regular detoxes, where I eliminate all flesh from my
> diet...but I eat flesh, usually. And I make sure it's
> free range, rendered with care and respect...

Well, sure, you can sin and repent, sin and repent as our good Holy
Fathers teach us. And you can fill your needy body with junk and then
try to cleanse it. And you also can just avoid letting the junk in, or
at least content yourself with the cleanest sorts of junk. The choice
is always yours.


Sincerely,
Vladimir