We are big family

What do you feel when eating meat?

It was in the sunny afternoon. Seven years old, me was sitting on the roof of a little construction, playing with bees that was coming to drink water there. At that moment I heard voices of my uncle and his friend. I hid there on the roof to spy on them. They entered the area I could see. My uncle carried big hummer and rope with him. They entered the barn.

After sometime I heard burb of pigs in that barn. Pigs always burb when they see humans. Pigs are asking for food in this way. In few minutes uncle’s friend appeared from the door with the rope in his hands that pulled a pretty fat pig out of the barn. My uncle followed them with the hummer.

I was keep watching this scene and I witnessed the hole process of killing the pig. It shocked little me, because I felt emotions of that pig and its fear. Seems the pig could understand what was happening.

 
Anyway, I ate meat until the age of 29 when I started to realise that eating animals is kind of cannibalism. I felt nothing special when I ate meat of different animals, only feeling that something heavy is in my stomach, that my body has to digest.

When the realization of the idea that eating meat isn’t necessary came to me, first I reduced meat in my meals, and then after some time I slowly realised that there is no meat in my meals at all.

When you grow your awareness, you grow your sensibility to pain in your body and in the body of the world around you. Then you understand that hurting something that has emotions is the same as hurting yourself.

Animals have human-like emotions. When animal dies, it experiences fear, that stays in its blood and meat, that you eat and absorb.

©What is love? Baby, don’t hurt me no more! I said to myself and now I don’t eat what has emotions. 
Now I see, that I love them and they love me, and we are one family, even with insects.

May love be with you!

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