Even animals for food. My reaction is there is plenty of food and no need to kill for it.
I’m supersensitive about killing because I know what it’s like to have someone want to kill me. And it’s no way to be.
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I know how it feels how there is no need for killing because I too have someone wanting to kill me.
I’m very sensitive about the killing of animals, too. I tried veganism for 6 months – several months prior to my psychotic break in 2007. After returning to eating animals, the stress of my current life and the fact that I was looking at myself eating animals VERY seriously contributed heavily to the break.
Now, I continue to eat animals because vegetarianism/veganism doesn’t work for me – and it contributes to my depression.
morrissey once said in meat is murder about eating meat, “its death for no reason, death for no reason is murder” 
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Also, it was amazing how stigmatized I was during my 6 month vegan phase. I felt like they were looking at me like I had committed some serious crime – for refusing to eat meat.
George Bernard Shaw was said eating meat was “cannibalism with the main course left out”. I guess that makes me a cannibal, because I eat meat.
They’re projecting their own shame at being meat eaters. I’m a vegan and I hear it a lot - how someone is such a nuisance because he/she won’t eat meat. Not really.
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I was watching this program about the air campaign against Germany in WW II, and it estimated that six hundred thousand German died in that campaign. My reaction was, “well, it was necessary, and they did kind of bring it on themselves.” But then the program started giving eye witness accounts from the perspective of the people on the ground, and I felt really bad about what they went through. If you put a human face on all these mass killings in history it gives it another perspective.
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Yeah, I agree.
I nearly vomited when I went back into the fridge and pulled a meatball out of a bowl and ate it for the first time in 6 months. I knew what I was going back to in the most lucid sense imaginable…and the depression was there. I find it sickening that evolution has sculpted us the way that it has. Our bodies can process meat for fuel and, often, it’s seen as a pleasurable thing.
Killing gets dull unless you want to be a pig.
Maybe I will go vegan again someday.
It does cross my mind.
I do care but am not a vegan at moment.
I was ethical vegan for eight months.
I was Muslim for a year too.
They have a killing ritual with prayes and respect to the animal.
Maybe it’s a form of palliative care.
But then again does the individual animal want that type of death…
I have difficulties with these things but I eat dairy and milk n egg…
It’s not impossible I go vegan again.
I pray for the animals and for meat industry etc
I’m not a member of any religion now though.
I hear ya! I don’t like killing insects. I make an exception if a wasp or tick finds its way in my place though. Spiders are kinda cute actually.
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