Excessive soy is quite unhealthy.
Vegetarianism, while a very healthy choice, is not the right choice for everyone. Heresy! No, it's true. Some humans need meat, though not in the quantities that we in the west consume it. Did you know that the Buddha ate meat? Heck, he actually died from some bad pork. Jesus ate meat, too. *gasp* In the late nineties, even that icon of all goodly virtue the Dalai Lama switched over to a diet containing meat on the advice of his doctors. My own teacher, a lifelong vegetarian who loves animals more than anyone I know started eating small amounts of fish a few years ago for her health.
Do we need to treat animals with respect? Read The Animal Contract by Desmond Morris. Do we need to be more mindful of our diets? yes. I know many vegetarians who eat too much sugar and carbohydrate. Do we need to have gratitude for all lifeforms that we ingest, be they animal or vegetable? Yes. The consciousness and life of a plant has no less value than that of an animal. And before you tell me that plants don't suffer and feel pain, you should go talk to some of them more often.
I invite every reader to simply be conscious of their place in the cycle of life and death and how they choose to participate in it. And stop trying to shove your dogmatic belief systems down everyone else's throat. Our species has had quite enough of that.
Believe what you want and practice what you want. I respect your choice. Share your opinion with me and I will listen. But don't try to tell me how I should live my life. It's my quarter and I'll play as I think best.
Thank you and Namaste.



