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Originally Posted by Dolazy  Now but if all other animals are also part of yourself, and animals are eating each other, does that mean that you are still causing suffering in animals? Does that mean that you can reach such a high a level of awareness where even animals will stop eating other animals? |
This does become a catch-22 of sorts, doesn't it!
Here's my take: as stated previously, the it's difficult to change core beliefs, especially things you've been taught and have accepted for a long, long time. For me, it seems perfectly natural and just the way the world works that carnivorous animals eat other animals. If the alternative for them is starving, well...you would have to develop a belief system that avoided that outcome somehow. Maybe you'd have to accept the belief that carnivores could become herbivores, or something.
The key thing for me is that humans don't cause suffering by not eating animals, while other animals might. (If carnivores don't eat animals, then there might be overpopulation problems, etc.) But that, of course, is just a belief, too--albeit a very pervasive one.