It’s a loving atmosphere that we have to create. It’s not only about the animals who suffer; it’s about our loving nature that we’re killing. And it’s not about eating the animals who you see suffer or you don’t see suffer. It’s also the green policy for the planet. The more animals we eat, the more they raise. The more they raise, the more non-green it becomes, and the more endangered our planet becomes.

So it’s not just about you, whether you can or cannot eat that kind of meat. It’s not about whether the Buddha forbids, or the compassion even. It is you yourself. We have to save the planet by cutting out the unnecessary food that is no good for us, anyway. Everyone knows already that meat is not good for us. Why not just cut it altogether, and save everything else?

Everyone knows that raising animals is the heaviest and the worst cause of our planet’s pollution. Everyone knows that. It’s everywhere. It’s from the UN report and everything; the whole international community came together and concluded that it is so. And still they beat around the bush, saying: “We’ll change to biofuel, we’ll plant some more trees, and we’ll protect this forest.” No one stands up and says, “Let’s go vegan; go vegetarian!” No one stands up and says that. I’m waiting for whoever that leader may be, to just stand up and say, “Look, we go veggie. That’s the quickest way first; everything else later.”

How come no one says anything about that? They just beat around the bush on everything: biofuel, ethanol gas, change the bulbs, less water. The water that you’re using every day may be a lot, but it’s not a lot compared to the water they use for animal raising. So, they just beat around the bush with things like: “Save the water in the bath; don’t run the water while you’re brushing your teeth.” That is nothing! Of course it saves a few gallons, but they put hundreds of gallons out there for one cow just for a few days to wash, to rinse, to let them drink, or to water the grass or whatever it is for them to graze upon, just so that they will end up on a plate anyway.

So the main cause, they don’t want to talk about. Everyone just runs around it and tries to avoid it. They don’t ever talk about going veggie. Everyone knows about the [UN] report, but no one touches it; no one talks about it. They can’t even put down one piece of meat for the sake of health -- the planet’s health, your own health and your children’s health.

So whatever happens, it’s our own doing. There’s no one there to help us. Not even God can do anything, if we don’t want to do it. God put us here to do things. If we don’t do our job, what is Hes going to do? Then the Lord of Karma will take over our lives, and then we will scream like murder; we’ll beg and pray: “Please God, help me do this; help me do that.” Now we still can pray, but if we are in hell, it’s very difficult to pray. You don’t have time to pray; you don’t have the mentality to even think of praying. There’s too much suffering!

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