Life is an act of war. The extraordinary complexity and beauty of life on Earth is the product of total war. The victors eat the losers. End predation, and you will end life.
That's the only way to end predation.
Life is an act of war. The extraordinary complexity and beauty of life on Earth is the product of total war. The victors eat the losers. End predation, and you will end life.
That's the only way to end predation.
As the Vedas say, one living entity is food for another. Yes life is fed by death, most of the time. Predatory animals are natural and not my concern. It's the human behavior that could adjust to vegetarian without ending life on earth.
Making humanity unnatural is a horrible goal, and will certainly cause great harm to all living things. We are a powerful force in nature, and the right thing to do is to ensure we impact living things naturally, because that's what nature has evolved to benefit from.
I am not confident that doing so will not end life on Earth any more than I am confident we can prevent life on Earth from ending. The Earth will be swallowed up by the sun, in due time. The only way terrestrial life - the only life we know of - can survive is if we export it off Earth.
To do this we need to well understand and design ecosystems that can be sustainable in artificially created or managed environements, and we are better able to do that by assuming our natural role as omnivores in ecosystems.
The fact is that we are predatory animals, and forcing unnatural behaviours on such an influential part of the natural world is far more likely to harm than to prevent harm, particularly given our enormous nescience regarding nature, biological complexity, and our own consciousness. It is hubris to suggest we know enough to safely alter our impact on nature so dramatically.
A return to the Vedic culture of a few thousand years ago, where there was hardly any animal slaughter would be nice. There apparently humans lived peacefully with nature, killing perhaps to defend but not to eat. Rather the ox was used to plow and the cow to provide milk with no harm in agrarian cultures.
Your opinion of what is a natural order is interesting as a speculation, though the Vedas say otherwise.
With this lifestyle there was never a need to escape by leaving planet earth, as it was well looked after. Cow killing was a crime. The fact is that we are peaceful protectors of the cows who have degraded into predatory "polished animals", thanks to loss of proper information or intelligence which has been usurped by evil-minded men filled with greed and lust.
Life will indeed end when the sun consumes the solar system at supernova, though humanity will degenerate into cannibals by then according to prophecy in the Vedas, so the original pure peaceful culture is long gone and will only return after the massive annihilation, according to the Vedas.
Fortunately, such prophecies ring false. Sources that do, like the Vedas, are also generally no less accurate about the past. You may regard such as authoritative, but that only reveals your views are just as hallucinatory and fantastic.
I recommend to you the Mahabharata, which refutes your wishes about the past of Hindus being all peace and love.
You seem to be content with the intellectual capacity of a sacred cow. This is far below that men are capable of, and that intentional deficit of intelligence is no more admirable than the forms of murder effected by lower orders of living creatures, who tend to inflict the most disastrous of ends to their prey.
Unlike civilized men.
I enjoy reading Mahabharata, thanks. Lots of war and killing, which is fine if one needs to defend. Bhagavad gita was spoken on that battlefield before 18 million were killed in battle apparently. War is one thing, but unnecessary harm to defenseless animals is another. I'm a simple fool, I still dream of peace.
Wishing you peace brother.
Life is an act of war. Every blade of grass struggles to defeat it's neighbor. Carlos Santana posted that of all the animals, it is solely men that have gained the capacity to wage peace. I do not disagree that peace should be our goal, but deranging nature by failing to undertake our evolutionary purpose is not how to achieve it.
That leads to madness.