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It's always amazing and dismaying to me to hear otherwise sensible people making plenty justifications and equivocations about how it's fine to eat meat and love animals, or how it's possible to be compassionate and feed the hunger to devour flesh. The belly can do that. 

To say that Sikhi has nothing to say about meat-eating is fatuous. We are called to be saintly; we ought to exhibit the same consciousness and mercy and grace that Har Har continually blesses us with. Sikhi also has very little to say about gang-rape, but among saintly people there is a consensus that this brutality is abhorrent. Does it all need to be spelled out in scripture before we admit there is a higher and a lower way to nourish ourselves?

As IllyKitty so lucidly said, meat-eating, especially the industrialized, systematized method of meat production people depend on for their flesh foods, is a most nasty,  irresponsible, and environmentally destructive business. To dismiss this as hippy, tree-hugger new-age mumbo-jumbo is infantile. We all have so much growing to do; I feel we are truly in the dark ages.

 

 “I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.” 

― Leonardo da Vinci