Can You See Meat as Mere Food?

Unless one does not understand what meat is from,
it is impossible to just see meat as food,
instead of murdered animals,
while continually eating it.

Unless one is at least an Anagami,
who is already free from greed,
our choice of food will always entail some greed –
which is why we are attached to what we eat.

If one is not attached to what one eats,
why continually choose to eat animals,
when there are kinder alternatives,
when one will not die due to not eating animals?*

Just as we wouldn’t want animals
to see humans as mere food,
it is bad faith to animals
to continually see their bodies as mere food.

* This contrasts with animals who will die as long as we demand their flesh.

2 thoughts on “Can You See Meat as Mere Food?

  1. Hi bro Shi’an, this is a very good article , may I know where to get this kind of picture as I saw it in the supermarket they paste it on their wall near the meat area and I feel soo awful …. =((
    Amituofo !

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