Both flesh-eating and plant-based diets can lead to optimal health and performance, yet each comes with its own limitations. However, for those who practice non-harm and non-violence, abstaining from consuming the flesh of animals is a natural extension of their principles. To inflict suffering upon a sentient, conscious, and fearful creature is to introduce grief and sadness into the fabric of existence. This act slows evolutionary progress, distorts the course of positive genetic mutations, and perpetuates a lineage of violence and destruction. The cause and effect of such actions ripple across eons, far beyond what we can immediately perceive.
It is difficult enough to navigate our own personal grief, let alone bear the weight of the suffering we inflict upon countless other beings. Yet, we remain blind to these consequences, asleep to objective reality. We eat because we must. We consume without thought, driven by instincts that are ancient, savage, and deeply violent. As a collective organism, humanity has become a blight upon the Earth—disconnected from the purpose for which we were designed: to unite and protect. And yet, unlike the lion who must hunt to survive, we have the unique ability to alter our nature, not just through millions of years of physical evolution, but through conscious thought. Meditation, relaxation, and the deliberate quieting of the nervous system allow us to step into a forward-thinking mind—a mind of peace, tranquility, and reverence for life.
Do not judge the lion for killing its prey; she cannot resist her drive to survive. In this age of humanity, we, too, remain in many ways savage—sophisticated, brilliant, yet psychopathic artists with hearts capable of love. We are a paradox. But unlike the lion, we can choose. Surrender the consumption of flesh—not as an ideology, but as an experiment, a pilgrimage into a foreign way of being. Try it for three years. Get enough calories. Eliminate processed food. Relax the mind and observe the world through a new dimension—a dimension of bloodless, murderless sustenance. See it for yourself, without dogma, without religion, without affiliation—only with clarity.