Thou Shalt Not Kill

Ok, for those of you who know me personally, know I am not the most religious person on the planet. I dont even really believe in the church itself. I pray to the big guy, and that's about it. Now, even though I dont go to church, I do think about religion and beliefs. One of the 10 commandements,"Thou Shalt Not Kill," really hit me. This one struck me when I was in my second month of getting meat out of my body. At that point I was down to only eating chicken and fish.

Well, around this time was my birthday. My birthday happens to fall around Easter where we fast from meat. Strange as it sounds they dont count fish as meat. I dont agree with that, but hey, to each their own. So I read in one of Paul McCartney's interviews of one of the reasons why he went veg. He said he went fishing and caught a fish. It was squirmming and looking up at him trying to breathe and he couldnt kill it. So he put it back in. So there you have it. Dont kill.

The commandment: "Thou Shalt Not Kill." Such a plain and simple law. It doesnt say "thou shalt not kill people" or "thou shalt not kill only to eat" it's just plain and simple "thou shalt not kill." That's it. And I know there are some smartasses reading this saying "WELL IM JUST EATING IT AND MY HANDS DIDNT ACTUALLY KILL IT SO THERE :P" Well let me ask you this....let's say you saw someone get killed. You knew who the murder was. And didnt say anything. Your hands are as dirty as theirs because you knew something and didnt do anything about it. So why keep having dirty hands and continue to financially support these people who are killing animals? Doesnt make sense to me.

Then there is the argument "oh well...we need to eat so we are going to eat animals in order to survive." Kaka! Why? Well, I havent eaten animal flesh in over a year and I am still kicking so we dont need to kill animals in order to preserve our life. We have other options. So why do we continue to eat? Well, since this blog has a bit of a religious tone to it, Im going to go with tempation. It's there? So you may as well do it right? RIGHT? No. Maybe at first it is a little hard because we are so used to this sinful lifestyle of paying people to do the killing for us. But in the end - we dont need it.

People always ask me -"isnt it hard to be a vegetarian? Do you ever think you will eat meat again?" I will never eat meat again ever. I will admit, training yourself for this rebirth of a meatless life is not one for the weak, but it is doable. The smell of a hot dog, the enchanting smell of a steak, all goes to hell once you stop eating it and realize not only how bad it is, but you were smelling the putrid scent of a decaying corpse.

Ask anyone who lives with me at how grossed out I am by the smell of bacon. From other vegetarians/vegans who I know they all have a particular meat they cannot stand either. Once you know the smell makes you want to vomit, there is no going back.

I sometimes wonder why we even began to eat meat in the beginning. Was it because of hungry cavemen? Or really was it because of the dollar and some smartass farmer thought "ya know...I could make more money if I KILL the cow and sell it for food instead of just milking it...." Talk about milking something for whatever it's worth.

Moral of this gospel? "Thou shalt not kill...ANYTHING!"