Does a Vegetarian Diet Lead to Spirituality?

 

Q:      How would you reconcile the difference between philosophies you put forth which say it is okay to eat flesh in lower forms of life and the teachings of Jesus which says to quote Jesus: “life comes only from life and from death comes always death; you cannot serve two masters, because you’ll hate one and reject the other.” And his teachings in that book, he strictly adheres to the spiritual that are harmlessness, and how would you reconcile that difference from some of the teachings that I see here?

 

RK:      Well, some of us have become inured to murdering carrots and cabbages and things of that sort just because the other alternative things to eat are not particularly interesting to us. So, we kill fruits and vegetables because I think they were there for us to kill so they could provide life.

 

Q:      I can comment on that. We do not kill the fruits and it does not hurt the tree and secondly if that is the argument then in taking the fruits it is still a question of how we are living on the earth because we eat the animal, and not only are consuming the animal, but all of the food that the animals eat, so you are still taking twenty-fold at least as much. The figures I have seen is that it takes fifty to a hundred times as much land to produce animal protein as vegetable protein.

 

RK:      Well, we find it very necessary to have a balanced diet where we also use meat so we do not have to — there’s so much of grain that you have to eat and in the proper balances between, say protein type things and grain things, that it requires that you get pretty overweight to get all the basic protein that is required. The concentrative protein that our human bodies were designed primarily from the—we came up from simpler primates and were evolved quite consciously by our Angelic Creators to be able to eat all kinds of foods — we’re kind of like cockroaches—we’ll eat anything. And the reason for that was in order to be able to live in climates so we’re not constantly in the tropical weather zones—to be able to live in the places that were, say in the temperate zones, where we have winter and obviously nothing is growing fruit and vegetable-wise in the wintertime, that the only fresh food would be in the form of living animals. Until such time as mankind developed itself whereby it could learn how to preserve certain kinds of foods over the wintertime, then they were restricted to the tropical zones. But it seems that there is also a lot of diseases and, say insect vermin that survive year round in those tropical areas which were nice to get away from, that helped to diminish the kinds of disease problems that human beings suffered by getting into the temperate zones, but in order for, as I said, for human beings to survive over the winter, they needed fresh food. We didn’t get mechanical refrigeration and things of that sort in order to preserve food for quite a long time and before anything that resembled the culture evolved, the human animal needed to eat whatever it could. So we were designed to be able to deal with both kinds of food. It’s my understanding that the, well things like rabbits and rodents of one sort or another, were essentially designed to feed the higher carnivores, the larger carnivores including the, some of the predatory birds and things of that sort. And each of these life forms were evolved essentially to serve in a chain of, well—it’s a food chain and we kind of sit at the top of that food chain because we, as a matter of fact, are able to accommodate to almost anything whereas many animals are very fixed in what their diet is. Some things will eat the leaves of only one tree, for instance, will eat only grubs and worms, or certain kinds of insects or some birds will eat only certain types of grains and other birds will eat only worms. They’re restricted in their diet. We’re able to take in everything — omnivorous —and we were designed to be that way. For instance, the gorilla, in order to survive on a purely vegetarian diet, has to have a huge gut to process all of that vegetable food. If we were to go through the same kind of thing as human beings, we would not have nice trim figures. We would indeed find it difficult to move around as well because apes, particularly ground apes, do not move very gracefully or very quickly. So we were designed to do those kinds of things.

 

 

 

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