Thank you for your great feedback. I’m absolutely on the same page with you pertaining to everything mentioned in your message. I’m definitely not big on labels either. Like yourself, I use them not as a means to define myself or others, but rather for the sake of communication and clarity.

You bring up a great point regarding the wastefulness of overfeeding cattle and pigs simply to feed humans (humans that typically only eat meat as a “luxury” commodity anyway). You’re absolutely right about that being an asinine practice when we consider how many humans are starving.

There are many people in my own family as well who still consume meat products and I too do my best to not judge. I’m also in agreement when it comes to a matter of eating meat for survival. If that’s all a person can do to feed themselves and their family, then I totally understand. Unfortunately, there are far more “recreational” meat eaters than there are necessity meat eaters in the world.

Thanks again for your feedback.

I have recently found your podcast and website through references to the Holographic Universe, and the Seth Material. I’ve really enjoyed your material so far, please keep it up! I’d like to share a bit about myself on this particular topic, and to say that I respect not only your choice, but your open honesty in self examination.

I haven’t eaten meat in nearly 9 years now. Interestingly, my mother too did not eat meat (from when she was about 16) but I did not arrive at the same choice until I was about 19. I personally don’t like to be called ‘a vegetarian’ as I really don’t like to be labelled or categorized, and its not even that I _do_ something in particular, but rather, something that I choose _not_ to do. In any case, its only a word, so I’m really not all that uptight about it

My impetus for choosing to stop consuming meat involved two main reasons:

The first, is the _reality_ of the meat _industry_ (not so much the actual consumption). Because meat production is on such a huge scale, we see absolutely horrendous living conditions, outright cruelty (I have seen extremely disturbing video from the 2nd largest slaughterhouse in the USA), and so on – and no matter which way I cut it, if I am buying their product, I am supporting these practices.

Second, is the grim fact that beef and pork in particular are ridiculously wasteful from a resource perspective. A pig or cow has to consume 20-25 pounds of human-edible grains (some are advertised to be fed Grade-A grains, at that) in order to produce a single pound of meat. As a result, a huge amount of the agricultural land in the world is devoted solely to feed crops. Now, considering how many people in the world die _every_day_ either directly of starvation, or, of malnutrition-related diseases, this was a difficult fact to swallow.

That being said, I do not, as a rule, judge or hate on meat eaters, ever. My own wife and most of my family consume meat. I consider one’s choice of food to be highly personal. You are, and should be, free to consume whatever you wish. I’m not fond of the idea of killing any living creature, but, I do not believe it is wrong to kill an animal to feed yourself, if and only if, that is your only source of sustenance and you do so without cruelty. There is reference to this in the Seth Material, I would be most interested to hear your thoughts.

Best regards!

I received your email and I’ll write back soon.

Thanks again for reading and commenting on this entry.

Sometimes you want to make changes without fully understanding why you’re making those changes but this blog helped me clearly to see the effects. I’ll pass it along.