Why being a vegan is not violence and not of killing plants.
Why being a vegan is not violence and not killing plants ?
It’s for a simple reason that, the vegetables and fruits which are grown in plants are not the food for plants. The plants or trees never eat their own fruits or vegetables. The fruits and vegetables are meant for others. Being at the top of the food chain, we have to eat something at least !!
So, in the most nonviolent way, one can be a proud vegan.
This is the ecological system of interdependence created by the Supreme Creator. Animals are meant for restoration of ecological balance. Animals are prey for carnivores and wild animals, they are never meant to be food for humans.
In Sanyasa, the Yati is not allowed to even pluck a flower though for God’s Pooja. He is not allowed to cook for himself. He cannot even pluck fruits.
So, for those who live in the forests and have taken to real Sanyasa, are allowed to eat fallen off fruits and roots of dried--up plants, which have vegetables in the form of their roots.
After the fruit bearing season, whether we consume or not, the fruits and vegetables fall off to the ground. The trees or plants too either shed the leaves in Shishira and every tip of the shoot in the branch, gets new leaves. Or for some plants, they dry up and die naturally after one season of bearing fruits or vegetables. That is how the ecosystem is created.
There are some new age Gurus who go around professing, begin vegan is also violence.
I would advice never to follow such gurus or principles as they don’t understand it at all. They are surely misguiding people.
There are certain sects of Shepherds in tribes of all regions of Bharata Varsha, who rare sheep but are very special. They domesticate sheep for wool and milk. They don’t sell or kill or never ever eat their meat.
So, animal slaughter can never be a part of any “culture and civilization”. To those who want to be on the path of spirituality, they should never encourage such activities even by thought. Rather they must condemn it with all the right reasons and enlighten the innocent souls who might have been brainwashed by false knowledge.
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