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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
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