Dignity of ALL Things

I get daily meditations sent to me everyday, via email, from Richard Rohr. If you want a little spiritual wisdom, instead of junk mail, maybe try signing up. Today he said:

Jesus taught that if we would obey his command to “love God and love one another” (Matthew 22:37-40), all the rest would take care of itself. We would no longer defy the laws of nature but seek to live in harmony and sustainability with Earth and all her creatures. This radical lifestyle demands a deep sense of the inherent dignity of all things. We cannot pick and choose who has inherent dignity and who does not.

This is why I choose to live a plant based lifestyle. I started on this journey for my adrenals that were burning out. However, somewhere along the way it became less about me and more about the bigger picture. It became about the environment that we are destroying with animal agriculture and the creatures that we believe we have the right to kill and eat. We have become desensitized to our food. Paul McCartney once said, "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian."

Why do we as humans make the assumption that animals are ours for the taking?

Why can't we afford them the same dignity and respect that we give other humans? (Believe me, the irony of that last comment, in the current time in America, is not lost on me.) Now it all makes sense:)