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**Mediconlinee** · 10-18-2011, 09:57 PM

Kaarine Alejandra,

I agree with a lot of what you say and am trying to find the courage to do the right thing,
I'm finding that if I motivate myself with shame - "I am shameful to eat this!" then I do not get as far as when I appeal to my natural courage, and say, "It takes courage to do the right thing (and I will do it.)" Thanks for your feedback on it, your words remind me of a book I have, the Food Revolution, that I have been meaning to read.

Thanks. You are welcome Seeuzin.

I give up meat very early in my life, before knowing about Buddhism. I know that to give up meat can result hard for some people, like giving up drinking coffee or smoking. We tend to think meat is necessary to be eaten because we found it as a normal thing like in the supermarket, advertisements, the restaurant menu and at the nutritionist office. We found it in a clean packaged or just in a big piece sliced by the butcher but we do not see how that animal was slaughter and his stress and suffering in its eyes. So that helps to make meat eating as a common behaviour. That is why this can become a very heated debate.

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Mediconlinee Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 433 Senior Member	Kaarine Alejandra, I agree with a lot of what you say and am trying to find the courage to do the right thing, I'm finding that if I motivate myself with shame - "I am shameful to eat this!" then I do not get as far as when I appeal to my natural courage, and say, "It takes courage to do the right thing (and I will do it.)" Thanks for your feedback on it, your words remind me of a book I have, the Food Revolution, that I have been meaning to read. Thanks. You are welcome Seeuzin. I give up meat very early in my life, before knowing about Buddhism. I know that to give up meat can result hard for some people, like giving up drinking coffee or smoking. We tend to think meat is necessary to be eaten because we found it as a normal thing like in the supermarket, advertisements, the restaurant menu and at the nutritionist office. We found it in a clean packaged or just in a big piece sliced by the butcher but we do not see how that animal was slaughter and his stress and suffering in its eyes. So that helps to make meat eating as a common behaviour. That is why this can become a very heated debate.
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