Catch the Fish you are Eating - Understand that you Kill!

Yesterday I wrote about vegetarianism and I remember an experience of which one of my friends told me. He was on holidays in France and went to a restaurant for dinner. Normally he is vegetarian but he said that sometimes he has the desire to eat fish. So he asked for fish and the waiter showed him an aquarium. You could look at the fish, choose which one you wanted to eat and then they would catch it for you in front of your eyes and cook it.

My friend looked into the eyes of these animals and they were looking at him. His heart melted and he said to himself: 'I cannot eat this fish. How they are looking!' He thought about it that this fish would be killed because of him and would then be lying in his stomach. He suddenly became very sensitive and could not stay in this restaurant. He abruptly turned and walked out of there with a horrible feeling.

This is exactly what is happening. When people buy meat in a supermarket they have not seen this animal when it was alive. They have never looked into this animal's eyes. They buy it packed and prepared and are not sensitive for what they are actually buying. If they had seen this animal alive, they could have made a connection with it. People love animals.

I hope people will understand that eating meat is not necessary. You can get everything in vegetarian food, too, you don't need to kill an animal even if you didn't look into its eyes before.