Summary of why I choose to be omnivorous:
Keep in mind that humans have lived as omnivorous animals for the better part of 200thousand years. I only recommend eating sustainably grown, local, wild caught, hunted or pasture-raised animals and never unhealthy, fat and sick animals who are raised in modern profit-driven capitalist farms who couldn't care less about our health nor of the health and well-being of the animals they raise (or should I say pump up to be fat and keep barely alive with their hormone and antibiotic injections). I buy raw meat and cook it at home. I rarely eat outside so I can keep my standards.
Also consider, vegans eat plants that have been killed and there is really no objective measure of why killing animals may be worse than killing plants. I strongly differentiate between killing for the sole purpose of eating and killing to let the poor animals or plants to go to waste. My love of animals and plants dictates me to eat all that I kill (or I indirectly cause farmers and others to kill by buying from them) and to minimize waste in the kitchen. In fact eating another animal or plant is ingesting them within your own body, becoming one with them and let their bodies continue their life cycle within you. This is a great system Our Creator has put in place for all living beings. One being turns into another. A lion eating a deer isn't evil, she is simply following the orders that have been revealed to her innately by her Creator. And I am (or most humans are) not any nicer of an animal than a lion. My humanity may dictate me to question my eating habits whereas other animals don't, and my questioning led me to the understanding that the Creator of my body as well as the rest of living beings knows best and in my understanding my Creator allows me (through the teachings of revelation and prophets and my conscience as well as my observation of the creation) to eat most plant-based things as well as most vegetarian animals, birds and seafoods.
Also refer to:
http://pan-cck.blogspot.com/2012/10/khutbah-nature-and-hierarchy-of-life.html
for a more detailed explanation of this point of view.
Keep in mind that humans have lived as omnivorous animals for the better part of 200thousand years. I only recommend eating sustainably grown, local, wild caught, hunted or pasture-raised animals and never unhealthy, fat and sick animals who are raised in modern profit-driven capitalist farms who couldn't care less about our health nor of the health and well-being of the animals they raise (or should I say pump up to be fat and keep barely alive with their hormone and antibiotic injections). I buy raw meat and cook it at home. I rarely eat outside so I can keep my standards.
Also consider, vegans eat plants that have been killed and there is really no objective measure of why killing animals may be worse than killing plants. I strongly differentiate between killing for the sole purpose of eating and killing to let the poor animals or plants to go to waste. My love of animals and plants dictates me to eat all that I kill (or I indirectly cause farmers and others to kill by buying from them) and to minimize waste in the kitchen. In fact eating another animal or plant is ingesting them within your own body, becoming one with them and let their bodies continue their life cycle within you. This is a great system Our Creator has put in place for all living beings. One being turns into another. A lion eating a deer isn't evil, she is simply following the orders that have been revealed to her innately by her Creator. And I am (or most humans are) not any nicer of an animal than a lion. My humanity may dictate me to question my eating habits whereas other animals don't, and my questioning led me to the understanding that the Creator of my body as well as the rest of living beings knows best and in my understanding my Creator allows me (through the teachings of revelation and prophets and my conscience as well as my observation of the creation) to eat most plant-based things as well as most vegetarian animals, birds and seafoods.
Also refer to:
http://pan-cck.blogspot.com/2012/10/khutbah-nature-and-hierarchy-of-life.html
for a more detailed explanation of this point of view.
