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It's good to eat vegetarian food - to do good deeds - and accumulate merit!

Human beings, thanks to their hidden virtue, deserve to be called human. To have a compassionate heart, one must first possess a hidden virtue; to accumulate blessings, one must first accumulate hidden virtue. The Book of Rites says, "In the first month of spring, sacrifices should not use female animals." Such rules are all meant to preserve the hidden virtue, knowing how to pity the lives of all creatures.

Therefore, in ancient times, there were four types of meat that people avoided eating. They are:

1. Meat from animals that they heard the killing
2. Meat from animals that they saw the killing
3. Meat from animals were raised by them
4. Meat from animals was killed for their sake

Therefore, those on the path of spiritual learning, if they cannot completely abstain from eating meat, should start by avoiding the types of meat mentioned above. Gradually, as they progress on their spiritual journey, their compassionate hearts will grow stronger. At that point, they will not only uphold the precept of not killing but also protect all creatures, including insects and animals, because they all possess life. The clothes we wear have involved the killing of countless silkworms to obtain silk. The food we consume often requires soil tilling, which can harm numerous insects. We must constantly reflect on how our sustenance may have caused the loss of countless lives. Understanding this, we realize that wasting food and resources is no different from the sin of killing. Even unintentional actions like accidentally causing death or stepping on insects must be diligently avoided to the best of our ability.

"For love of the mice, we often leave them some rice; In pitying the moth, we won't light the lamp"
Truly compassionate and kind!

Quoted from: Liao-Fan's Four Lessons

 

 

Why Meat is the Best Worst Thing in the World 🍔

by Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell

 

Unfortunately, meat production is like a black hole for resources.

Only a fraction of the nutrients from fodder crops end up in the meat we buy in the end. Cows, for example, convert only about 4% of the proteins and 3% of the calories of the plants we feed to them into beef. More than 97% of the calories are lost to us. To create one kilogram of steak, a cow needs to eat up to 25 kilos of grain and uses up to 15,000 liters of water.

Animal products are guzzling up tons of food, but they only make up 18% of the calories humans eat. According to projections, we could nourish an additional 3.5 billion people if we just ate the stuff we feed to animals. To make our favorite food group even more unsustainable, about 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans, are created by the meat industry as much as by all ships, planes, trucks and cars combined.

And... there's another aspect to meat: It comes from actual living beings. Pigs, cattle and chicken are not the ones writing the history books, but if they were, humans would appear as rampant genocidal maniacs, that thrive on suffering. Globally, we kill about 200 million animals every day, about 74 billion a year. This means that every one and a half years, we kill more animals than people have lived in the entire 200,000 year history of humanity.