War Memoria Day-(3)

3. Meat Eating Habit

To put it simply, there is a principle that those who kill will be slain. On the other hand, the principle means that those who give their life to others will be enliven. From a religious and life-centralism perspective, it is apparently desirable to stop meat eating. Because farm animals have will to live and don't want to be killed against their will. Especially an industrialized meat processed system has caught on these days, domestic animals tend to be treated in a very cruel way. Whether cows, pigs and chickens would be, they are confined to very narrow spaces for people want better and delicious meat at a low cost.

In addition that, they are given unnatural feed in high calories that they do not originally favor. According to "A Diet For A New America," written by John Robbins, it is estimated that one out of three of grain produced worldwide is given to domestic animals. Furthermore, there is a fact that you need 7 kilograms of grain to gain 1 kilograms of beef. The author says that if everyone in the world only ceases to eat beef, you will obtain amount of food that provide 9 billion people on the planet. This means that you can save starving people all around the world only by quitting eating beef. In other words, it is possible for us to bring about a society that is friendly also for human beings and animals by reflecting upon and changing our daily life styles to an extent we can.

When taking those elements into consideration, to realize world peace from a religious perspective, first of all, we need to recognize our true self. Namely, we are children of God, not physical beings. Therefore, we are never sinners, rather we have infinite potentials and abilities to improve this world as much as we want. Secondly by trying to lead a life that doesn't take from others but a one that gives to others, we can change our world without any blood shed.

Those are all I was taught from SNI founder Dr. Masaharu Taniguchi and the Vice President of SNI, Rev. Masanobu Taniguchi through their books and lectures.

Thank you very much!