I am a vegan, although at times I do take honey (I hope to give it up next year though) because Abdu'l-Baha has given honey as a healing food.
I became a vegetarian in 2005, around June or July, but I became a vegan in September 2006. Although in my childhood past, I have attempted to become a vegetarian and did fail, as well as be a vegan (under a vegetarian diet) and failed, now I have the developed the capacities to maintain such a diet and to reduce the amount of suffering animals go through in Western society today.
I probably was inclined subconsciously to adopt such a diet from a distant childhood memory. My mother and father brought me to a farm where I witnessed a mother pregnant pig, hung upon ropes and slaughtered, whilst the farmer removed the intestines and the dead, developing piglets inside in front of my eyes. Since then, I would assume that my vegetarian and vegan inclinations were there, though primarily infantile. (My parents are nominal Christians; I am at present a Baha'i.)
It is a firm Baha'i belief that in the far future, a diet based on the produce of the ground will be established, for to show kindness upon animals and yet eat their flesh seems contrary to the essence of compassion. Meat is certainly not haram, and God has given us meat for consumption. However, just as the Torah has testified, the consumption of meat is not a pure and natural thing humans are truly capacitated for. We are unique in having sharper teeth for nuts and puts us better than herbivores, yet unlike carnivores, we digest our foods slowly, masticate more, and can grind our foods with our teeth.
Now everything I eat is halal! ^___^ I know the meat prescribed in the Qur'an is halal, but I simply choose not to eat it.
Are there any vegans or vegetarians here on this forum? Any wonderful verses to share of kindness to animals from the Qur'an? Stories on why one would become a vegetarian or vegan? ^___^
~ Kevyn.
I became a vegetarian in 2005, around June or July, but I became a vegan in September 2006. Although in my childhood past, I have attempted to become a vegetarian and did fail, as well as be a vegan (under a vegetarian diet) and failed, now I have the developed the capacities to maintain such a diet and to reduce the amount of suffering animals go through in Western society today.
I probably was inclined subconsciously to adopt such a diet from a distant childhood memory. My mother and father brought me to a farm where I witnessed a mother pregnant pig, hung upon ropes and slaughtered, whilst the farmer removed the intestines and the dead, developing piglets inside in front of my eyes. Since then, I would assume that my vegetarian and vegan inclinations were there, though primarily infantile. (My parents are nominal Christians; I am at present a Baha'i.)
It is a firm Baha'i belief that in the far future, a diet based on the produce of the ground will be established, for to show kindness upon animals and yet eat their flesh seems contrary to the essence of compassion. Meat is certainly not haram, and God has given us meat for consumption. However, just as the Torah has testified, the consumption of meat is not a pure and natural thing humans are truly capacitated for. We are unique in having sharper teeth for nuts and puts us better than herbivores, yet unlike carnivores, we digest our foods slowly, masticate more, and can grind our foods with our teeth.
Now everything I eat is halal! ^___^ I know the meat prescribed in the Qur'an is halal, but I simply choose not to eat it.
Are there any vegans or vegetarians here on this forum? Any wonderful verses to share of kindness to animals from the Qur'an? Stories on why one would become a vegetarian or vegan? ^___^
~ Kevyn.
