Reply To: About Meat

[Patricia Brooks]

A fascinating, and quite wide ranging, discussion that you have prompted here, Takumi Uto, I have been going through my own mental battle about this issue for some time hence by you broaching this subject here and prompting others to share their thoughts about this topic has been very helpful and timely for me; thank you.

For most of my life up age 79, I have enjoyed what I can best describe as a “miscellaneous” diet, meaning that I’ve never given much thought to what I have eaten apart from studiously avoiding any form of the “McDonalds” fast-food types of sources of food with rare exceptions.

However, when confronting turning 79 in 2019, it finally occurred to me that, even though I have been healthy with no discernible health issues for so many years that I hardly ever met the doctor within my changing locality with whom I had registered “just in case of need” whenever I had moved to somewhere new, my mother who had successfully lived for 93 years loomed up as a potential target to beat and thus following a healthy diet suddenly became a new fixation for me.

Hence, after fasting for 5 days on a water-only diet followed by 20 days of fasting by in-taking nothing but fresh, home juiced, organic orange juice – losing around 50 lbs in the process that was neither expected nor part of my motivation for this extreme fast action – I switched to attempting to become vegetarian, even vegan, to explore how that would work and feel.

Well, it did seem to be working quite well except that I had become a trifle alarmed by how much BMI weight loss that I had experienced and my new diet was not adding any weight back nor restoring my BMI and, during the winter/spring season of 2019 going into 2020, I had suddenly started to experience the cold weather to an extreme level of discomfort that I had never previously experienced.

So, after a couple of years of this vegan/vegetarianism experiment, I changed my mind about rigidly being a non-meat eater and started adding back into my diet the occasional beef and occasional roast organic chicken.

While eating chicken appeared to be accompanied by no ill effects, I did notice that too much beef in successive meals did leave me feeling a little lethargic, sluggish, heavy and uncomfortable; chicken, not so much.

Now however, after thoroughly reading all 9 of the English translated versions of the books – some of the books more than once – I’ve recommitted to the vegetarian diet based upon the notion that “it is perfectly reasonable to great fully accept and consume the output that the animals freely produce and give to Man without them being harmed or injured in any manner as a result of providing such a healthful gift”.

With that being said, I am absolutely against all forms of commercial animal, poultry and fish production methods; these are an abomination and must be outlawed for the good of Man, the animals, poultry and fish as well as for the good of our Mother Earth.

I am also very much in favour of, and fully support, the Ved Rus approach to growing our own food while also including holistically incorporating the ethical humane treatment of all desired animals and poultry whether of not these animals are growing up and serving within a Kins Domain or within any form of holistic, natural, free-range farming.

Nonetheless, I am still having to consider how we/I should deal with the perplexing issue of managing the inevitable question around the seemingly inevitable ever growing size of an otherwise uncontrolled domestic animal and poultry self-reproduction situation. This discussion clearly needs to be continued with careful, insightful and thought: I trust that we will see more of these carefully-considered, thoughtful responses to help flesh out this discussion so as to help clarify, and perhaps even finally conclude, the ethical issues confronting the question of do we or do we not kill animals for food or the management of food when we have created for ourselves a bountiful supply of authentically produced excellent Kins Domain style grown food – within our own domain respectively per Anastasia’s own prescription – available for our our own and our Kins consumption?

• This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by  Patricia Brooks. Reason: Fixed some grammatical errors and resolved some ambiguities plus added some clarification and addition