Educational lesson in place here [I hope you can appreciate mine as much as I appreciate yours:]
I'm afraid that's probably not going to happen.
1): It was not about eating or not eating meat. It was about vegetarian or vegan. Not about you or me, but about priests. So don't act offended.
Gee, and all this time I thought vegan/vegetarianism WAS about eating or not eating meat. My bad. And I don't see why priests would need to deny themselves the full experience of God-given delights (i.e., a double butterburger from Culver's), either.
2): In Genesis God clearly points out which food He created for humans
"God said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the [tame] beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. So God created man in His own image, in the image
and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them. And God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it [using all its vast resources in the service of God and man]; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
--Genesis 1:26-28 (Amplified Bible)
If I have complete authority and dominion over all the resources of the earth, then I can choose to eat them if I see fit. Besides, if God didn't want us to eat meat, then why did He put the wrong kind of teeth in our mouths? We have some flat, grinding molars like a cow, too, but we also have incisors and canines that were made for ripping and tearing meat. Our physiology indicates that we were created to be omnivores.
3): Use of common sense will give you the answer: You become what you eat; eat pig, become pig [stands for arrogance] etc
That's common sense?
"You can't be what you eat, baby, or I'd be you." --Ted Nugent
We ingest hydrocarbons, proteins, and other nutrients, and those building blocks do become the materials from which we are made--but we don't become turkeys after Thanksgiving or develop the ability to breathe underwater after a fish fry. Besides, becoming vegetarian wouldn't help matters much--you'd just become a vegetable for the rest of your life. So peas, lettuce pray--because I don't carrot all.
*): Also the fear, anger, hate that is in the animal, quite obvious knowing how badly they are treated, will get into you
Being slain while in a state of terror does cause adrenaline to inhibit the normal production of lactic acid in the muscles after death, which can cause the meat to taste different and go bad sooner. On the other hand, dog meat is supposed to taste BETTER when the dog is killed in a state of terror, so dogs used for meat in Asian countries are often treated poorly intentionally. But in either case, you still don't absorb the emotions of the animal.
So knowing these scientific facts, I expect nothing less then a murderous roar soon, although "miracles do happen"
I'm sorry, I must have missed any scientific facts you presented. Could you run them by me again?
And why would you expect a murderous roar, when nothing but a little education is required?
But final advice: Deep inside you know the above points are true, so why not accept it.
Because they're not true.
Most important is to be truthful. Just admit you are not yet perfect. Life gets so much easier that way is my experience
Of course I'm not perfect, but what does that have to do with anything?
Just go into the jungle and find a siberian tigre or lion and ask him friendly if he would like to be your lunch. Probably before finishing your question he has finished his lunch.
Yeah, that's why we don't eat lions and tigers. But ask a pig or a cow the same thing, and they never seem to have anything to say about it.
Eating vegetarian or vegan will give your spirituality a big boost. But if you are a soldier you better eat meat, because being vegan you will be too much of a softy to kill anything.
Anything that you do to honor God can give your spirituality a boost, but I think we should take a lesson here from Ghandi. He was, of course, a vegetarian, but his usual diet of leeks and onions left him with terribly bad breath, and even somewhat undernourished. Since Ghandi also walked everywhere barefoot, which caused huge callouses to form on his feet, you could say that Ghandi was a
super-calloused fragile mystic vexed by halitosis.