{"id":5848,"date":"2010-04-22T22:44:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T14:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=5848"},"modified":"2010-04-22T22:44:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T14:44:11","slug":"can-you-see-meat-as-mere-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/04\/can-you-see-meat-as-mere-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You See Meat as Mere Food?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5849\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/136.jpg?resize=280%2C208\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/136.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/136.jpg?resize=96%2C71&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/136.jpg?resize=300%2C223&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unless one does not understand what meat is from,<br \/>\nit is impossible to just see meat as food,<br \/>\ninstead of murdered animals,<br \/>\nwhile continually eating it.<\/p>\n<p>Unless one is at least an Anagami,<br \/>\nwho is already free from greed,<br \/>\nour choice of food will always entail some greed &#8211;<br \/>\nwhich is why we are attached to what we eat.<\/p>\n<p>If one is not attached to what one eats,<br \/>\nwhy continually choose to eat animals,<br \/>\nwhen there are kinder alternatives,<br \/>\nwhen one will not die due to not eating animals?*<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Just as we wouldn\u2019t want animals<br \/>\nto see humans as mere food,<br \/>\nit is bad faith to animals<br \/>\nto continually see their bodies as mere food.<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><br \/>\n* This contrasts with animals who will die as long as we demand their flesh.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless one does not understand what meat is from, it is impossible to just see meat as food, instead of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[80,156],"class_list":["post-5848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veganism","tag-greed","tag-veganism-vegetarianism","wpcat-74-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}