Killing to eat, be it animal or plant is a symptom of our fallen state. If you look at the animal kingdom, the same process is there, except it is not manipulated by consumerism. Nonetheless, almost every life form kills in order to preserve or maintain its own life, in one form or another. The problem with humans is we have compartmentalised and sentmentalised the process of killing to eat. IT is generally accepted as ‘more humane to eat vegitation than flesh, but from a psychological point of view, this is because we identify more strongly with mammals that are part of our own life group. That identification, especially with soft, warm blooded fury creatures like us, makes us empathise and up-value their existance. For example, killing a fish is probably easier for most people than killing a cat. It is our own sense of resonance with mammals that closest match our own form that causes us to moralise and distinguish a type of hirarchy of acceptance towards killing. This is a fundamentally arbitary judgement based only on egocentric perception and value of our own life form.

There is something intrinsically wrong with killing to survive and that is the case throughout the animal kingdom. That any form of pain, suffering or curtailing of life should occur in order to maintain life (through food) is fundamentally flawed as a system. It is driven by power superiority, strength, cunning that all contributes to ‘A dog eat dog food chain’ If we agree that process is philosophically right, then we can not criticise the elite. Everything they do follows those principles and they see themselves as simply a higher form of life in the food chain. We become their prey, just as the lion hunts the gazelle. If we see this as legitimate for the lion, we must also consider that we maybe no longer at the top of the food chain ourselves, but have become a crop to be farmed by those that consider themselves stronger, smarter and with the power to control.

The root of this conundrum is that killing to eat relies of force of some type, be that psychological or physical. My guess is that this was not always the case, that all life forms were once free to live without fear of death or being part of a food chain. In fact the bible makes a small reference to the ‘Lamb lying down with the lion’ in Genesis, suggesting that we have devolved into a fallen state where killing is integral with a lower form of consciousness. It is my belief and hope that one day we will evolve past this primative need to eat and all of the associations of force, power and killing that woven into our consciousness. Living on light feels instinctively beautiful and the ultimate aspiration for a sentient beings like us.

Food is earthing, grounding and keeps our conscious awareness supressed. If you doubt this, I challenge you to fast for 3 days, taking only water. After that time you will almost certainly sense a far greater sensitivity in your spiritual awareness. As the physical is denied, so the spiritual strengthens and expands.