Healthwise, spiritually, socially, mentally and physically, we really do not live by food alone. We live by the word of our mouth. What goes in is the word of God and what comes out is also the word of God. Food, water, air we breathe are all secondary and as per the need. When we love unconditionally, we focus on the word of God and not on what we wear, eat and drink.
Killing animals or killing plants or even the micro-organisms is all the same. However, being wicked within and having a non graceful heart would make the difference. Eating Vegan or Not is not the question! The real question is "Are you graceful or not?". In God's Grace, we Live by God's mercy, unconditional love and truth.
A true merciful heart would never ask any vegetarian to force into eating meat and on the other hand sacrificing eating meat. Love has no compulsion, no sacrifices and no right/wrong. Love has Pure Mercy of being Unconditional Only.
Killing animals, plants, micro-organisms is also secondary, however, hurting a human being is more severe act. It can be termed as a wicked act. So, understanding true mercy is important. At the same time, we are not greedy in the Grace of God, to keep slaughtering animals for the greed instead of for the need.
At the time of need, His Grace is Sufficient. So, we live by His Grace and not by lawful thinking as to eat or not to eat. If we go by law of nature, we should not kill plants too. Moreover, did you know that we kill millions of micro-organisms daily when we walk and even when we breath?
Life is true freedom where we ponder upon the Grace, Mercy and Peace in true sense. We love life and we also love what we eat and wear without pondering on good or bad. Thinking Goodness Only is the Perfect Solution!
I upvoted this post, resteemed it and also wrote a separate post using the tag #toveganornot
Here is my post:
https://steemit.com/steempress/@puregrace/toveganornotkennyskitchenwhatdefilesusisnotthefoodbutthewordofourmouth-c5ovkqcbfx
What makes it any different to kill one kind of animal (humans) from any other? Since we know of many animals who experience pain, suffering, and consciousness like humans do, this seems to be nothing more than anthropocentric species-ism to me.
God is impartial! So, He is not anthropocentric too. God and His kindness are all in spiritual form. When the base is the spirit of God or the unconditional love of God, we focus on Grace of God instead of the species of nature. So, a human being is no more a species. A human being is transformed to Son of God in His Grace unlike the animals.
Though, we do not give priority based awareness in God's Grace, we also do not believe in illusions and nature is an illusion. Human being is no more an animal when transformed spiritually by the Grace of God because then he is transformed to the spirit of God. Thus, the spirit of God is not an animal and hence human being is not more an animal too. In this stage of transformation, we learn to love truly and not partially.
Partial love believes in nature and its variety of species, whereas, God's Grace is ONE and has no variety and species. Animals have soul, which is partial, however, a Grace-Human Being has no soul, but spirit only.