The question: Vegetarian, to be or not to be? The answer to that is really quite complex. There are spiritual considerations as well as health considerations pro and con. In my own personal philosophy i promote vegetarianism, Actually naturalism (Which is another yet complex philosophy yet to be explored) maybe i will post this one in the near future.But there are exceptions.

Protein

Many Western countries and their medical establishments are high protein Dependant. We have been taught to believe that protein is more important than it is, (because even that natural essence in the food is no more, maybe fish from unpolluted water is the only thing that is healthy, most of the food we consume these days has genetically been altered and therefore that originality is lost). and that you must eat meat to get the protein. Most people can get the protein they need from a proper vegetarian diet, although some cannot. How much protein and what kind of protein (animal, vegetable, dairy, etc.) does a person need? It varies greatly depending on the individual. Genetics plays a big role in this. Remember, the following are generalizations and there are exceptions. But as you will see later it all comes down to what kind of energy you are taking in.

If your ancestors were mainly meat eaters, you will have a predisposition to meat, and probably need more protein. If your ancestors didn’t eat dairy, you are likely to have a low tolerance for dairy, and it will tend to clog you up with mucous and make you prone to colds and flu. If they ate a lot of dairy, such as in some

Scandinavian countries, you will be more inclined to digest, and ingest the nutrition from dairy products.

Then there is the food supply issue. Animals raised for food eat far more food than they become. It is simply bad logistics for the world food supply. On the other side of the issue, some people don’t do well with strict vegetarian diets. Their body just can’t adapt. Their bodies don’t absorb the nutrition (including vitamins) from vegetables and fruits as well as they do from meat. But if that person will be as strict a vegetarian as they can healthfully be, then their children and grandchildren will be able to be more strict, or full vegetarians. The

Children teach people to be as much of a vegetarian as you can be without causing health problems that will interfere with being a vehicle for the will of the Universal Spirit. Almost everyone can at least cut out red

meat, although some people need to supplement their diet with yeast or some other form of protein powder (the only other dietary source being red meat).

Some people are vegetarians because of their religion. They just believe it is more spiritual, or gives you a higher consciousness, even without really knowing the reason why. They just take it on faith. Does diet affect your consciousness? Certain foods do. But it is not a necessary prerequisite to enlightenment, nor a way of attaining enlightenment or higher consciousness. It’s actually the other way around. A person usually improves their diet as a result of a raise in consciousness. But I have seen many vegetarians that were just as selfish and harmful as any meat eater, or worse. And I have seen meat eaters that are higher in consciousness than vegetarians. I know some enlightened people who consume alcohol, although they don’t consume it for purposes of a selfish “get off” as most people do. Would Jesus eat a hamburger? Probably not. But

if he did, would his consciousness be one iota higher or lower because of it? Absolutely not. Did not eating hamburger make Jesus or Buddha what they were? No. So it’s best not to get fooled by “trappings” of spirituality, but rather stick to the tangible issues like kindness, harmlessness, and giving. With that in mind, Alcohol, tobacco, and sugar in that order (alcohol being the strongest) all inhibit the spiritual functioning of the chakras, including inhibiting your Inner Voice and intuition, and red meat can inhibit upper chakra functions, However there are other types of herbs and food that stimulates chakra functions. Alcohol on the other hand, has severe effects, radically suppressing the spiritual nature, and letting the dark side, the selfish side, blossom thus it should never be consumed by anyone who is not enlightened.

Obviously, compassion for animals is a reason to avoid meat. What kind of conscious being doesn't care about killing and harming animals?,We usually go into the grocery store and get a package of meat and not really think on how that meat got in there, Obviously someone did kill that animal for us. But how would you feel about personally killing an animal for yourself? If you have a pet, how would you feel about killing and eating it? What makes your pet so different from the other animals? Maybe just that you’re familiar with it? Or does it mean it's right to kill things you don’t know ?, One lady grew up on a farm and had a pet cow. She said the cow was very aware and interacted with her very much like any other pet would. Then her family slaughtered it and it broke her heart.

There are different levels of consciousness in an animals, just do a research when you look an animal in the eyes, try to observe, A Cat, Dog, Cow, fish, Chicken and tell the difference on how they interact and respond back to you, it is worse to eat a more aware animal than a less aware animal. 

The rule of thumb generalization for what to eat, “If it can run from you, don’t eat it.” But that rule can still be overridden depending on your body’s needs, Many of us are genetically oriented to animal proteins unfortunately. But  even vegetables are alive, and have consciousness. Scientific tests have proven this. Plants are even quite psychic. One experiment indicated that a house plant experienced some kind of arousal when animals or other plants were killed in another room, or when its “owner” was in distress many miles away. And a vegetarian kills plants. So what are we to do?

Ideally, in a more pure human physical state, the ultimate diet would be fruitarian.( Apparently there are people who believe they can get their energy through breathing, "breatharians"). You don’t kill fruit - it is being produced by the plant as a sacrificial offering in order to further it’s reproduction (it’s a tasty treat that a bird or some other animal eats, who then passes the seeds through their digestive system - thus “planting” the

seeds with “fertilizer”. some people tried to be fruitarians, but their bodies were not genetically adapted to it, and every one of them got sick and had to quit the diet. There may be some people out there who can do it though.

Basically eating is an issue of survival, and health. Most people must kill something on this Earth, in order to stay living on the Earth themselves. That’s disgusting, but true and inescapable for most. Can you justify that? Most people obviously do. But most people have no more of a good reason to live than the things they

are killing, yet they do it anyway, and justify it. It  all comes down to why you are here. We don’t really belong here. We are not supposed to be bound to this physical plane. And there are only two reasons that justify being here:

1) Working on yourself so you can get free from it and/or help others; and

2) Being here to help free others (after achieving#1).

If you are doing one of these two things, then eat what you will to further your consciousness, stay alive, and strong. And if you must kill an animal or a plant because your body needs it (not because your self desires the food), thank them from your Inner Being when you kill them and eat them - thank them and honor

them for sacrificing themselves to help you help the Universal Spirit to do Its Will (meaning Cultivate that energy for the Greater good and not just your own selfish-ambition) through your vehicle, and eat with no guilt.

As for everything you take and give is composed of energy, Maybe some of the Religious practices like Muslim, Jews or Hindu etc don't eat certain animals because of their nature and the kind of energy that comes with that animal make good use of it instead of abusing it, then all that life you have taken from others will not perish in vain.