You give us so very much to digest Jasmin! Strong, provocative poem!

Love,
ET

You "speak" of a universal and timeless theme, Jasmin; truly an uncomfortable dilemma. Personally, I wish I did not have to eat at all. Thank you. Love and peace to you,

Regis

Well said Jasmin. I'm not likely to give up meat, but I can certainly reflect on its origin with more respect. Patrick

The thought was about the torture millions of species of animals endure, in factory farms, etc, be that comfortable with your soul, and to Georg's thoughts, but we don't trample on his lettuce leafs month before we eat it, we nurture it gently, should we not do the same for species that are much more aware, that is if we have to eat meat. Look your meat in the eye, before you kill it, not all nicely wrapped as an abstract of that it was and is. Awareness is what it was about, we all to often forget when we fill our gut, especially when we celebrate this sort of death over a glass of wine. More approbiate would be the piper and a lament, in my opinion anyway.
Bless ya all! Jasmin Horst

Alas, if my wife and I went completely meatless, I would still have to feed meat to my many dogs and cats. Although dogs are omnivores, cats, by nature, are strictly meat eaters, and they need meat, to survive.

After reading The Life of the Plants seeing from a neurological point (yest they hear, bad and good vibrations, they feel tender touch or aggressive ones) that I feel guilty biting on a lettuce leaf!
But I catch your drift...

Georg

This is something that bothers me a great deal, Jasmin, a sense of shame and guilt that runs over me... I wish I could be vegetarian, I really do.

John

Very well put together, Jasmin