Re: Are Vegetarians...NonViolent?
I went out to my garden today to put some compost in the worm farm and also to check on my plants. My strawberry plant (only have one, but it's a happy plant and produces fruit fairly well) was looking unwell. Turns out that it was infested with caterpillars (again). I had to cut off all the damaged leaves, several damaged fruit, and I ended up killing a couple of caterpillars in the process (normally, I like caterpillars, but when they're harming my strawberry plant, I don't like them so much!). I also sprayed the plant down with all-natural insecticide that will keep the nasty little larvae off my poor plant.
As I was doing all this, I was thinking how cruel and violent I am. Not only was I hacking off parts of the plant, I was getting rid of poor, defenceless caterpillars who wanted nothing more than to destroy the plant by eating the leaves and fruit. I should be ashamed.
May the light surround you, may you be blessed. May the light surround us, may we be blessed. May love and light surround us all, and may we all be healed and blessed. And so it is, and so it shall be, now and ever after.
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