Is Eating Non-Vegetarian Food Ethically Wrong – Hariprriya Asks Sadhguru
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- 24 Aug 2020
Are you a foodie who can’t stop gorging on non-vegetarian food? In this hard-hitting audio, Sadhguru’s shares his take on whether eating non-vegetarian is cruel.
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One thing about food, I'm a foodie. I'm a foodie foodie and I love to eat. So during shorts I avoid. But when I'm on breaks, I on food. But I'm animal lover, too.
Oh, so that's why you eat that? No, not really.
When I see something today, when people say I love my food, so you love animals so you put them in the food.
I tried many times like OK, I have to quit eating nonwage. I've tried that also Stateway from nonwage for a week or 10 days. But the minute when I see somebody having nonwage, I'll be like, OK, from next month. I don't know. I how do I come out of this? Like, of course, like even I have two pets at home and I don't know. What do you think that's good about this whole thing, this non-veteran, not eating nonwage without playing the pets.
Oh. Oh, no, no.
They're like my babies and they do they say you and I have seen people talking to the chicken and all very nicely and next week they'll eat them up.
Are you a vegetarian or non resident? I'm a humanitarian.
Humanitarian, but they do need substantial documentation to show that plants are as sensitive as any other creature. So whether you eat a plant or an animal or whatever it is to violence. Only thing is they don't scream, they do scream. You don't hear that song. There's enough evidence to show that they do scream.
It has been recorded like this that if, let's say, an animal comes among among the trees, let's say there are, let's say thousands and thousands this year.
That is how an elephant came and starts eating that the level of the tree immediately. This tree will send messages to all its species that it is being eaten by whatever. I don't know whether it will recognize an elephant or not, but it is being eaten like this. And within minutes, if the elephant goes there to the other trees, the all the trees would have produced a certain amount of poisonous material in their lives. When the elephant tries to eat that, it will sound, it will taste bitter and it's poisonous.
So it won't touch. So among themselves, there is that much sensitivity. So whether you like a fruit or vegetable or animal and you eat, everything is grilled, it is just that we must do it with some sensitivity only to the extent it's necessary. You should drop this idea of being a foodie. We all eat food. We must eat food. Otherwise it'll be cruel to this one. But becoming an identity with food is not right because that means we will indulge.
We will not just nourish ourselves. We have a right to nourish ourselves as a life. We have a right to nourish ourselves because this is how the food cycle is in the world. But we don't have a right to wantonly take another life just for pleasure. We have no business to do that. We have every right to nourish this life, but we have no right to enjoy taking another life. So don't call yourself a foodie because food should never become the identity, but survival for nourishment.
We will eat whatever we have to eat, given the moment. Thank you, sir.