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Now, grab a plate of free range nachos and read on.
Me: What effect does non-vegetarian food have on the human soul?
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Jamie (to Erik, surprised): Really? He thinks, sorry, changing gears.
(Pause)
Jamie (laughing): He says, “Don’t say it that way! Say it like this.” (to Erik) All right.
Erik: Each person has a different physical need. So, the physical body has it’s own way to eat in order to survive. The healthier the human body, the happier the soul. These are linked together. They should not be taken as separate identities. If we can just pretend that we can take the human soul and say, “What would be best for it?” Well, I would pretty much tend to say that a vegetarian diet where human animals—
Jamie: That doesn’t make sense! Vegetarian and animals in the same sentence?
Erik: Say it, Jamie! Don’t filter me!
Jamie: Okay, okay! You’re so bossy!
Erik: Where human animals are seen as being equals in values and that would be what I would be what I would say on that.
Me: Wait. What are you talking about? I didn’t get any of that, Erik.
Jamie: I know. Human animals. Don’t even.
Erik: That actually means, um, like the edible meat. Pigs, chickens, um, cows.
Me: Okay.
Erik: What else do you guys eat?
How quickly he forgets.
Erik: Buffalo.
Me: Okay, so start that sentence again, then.
Erik: If we can pretend to separate just the soul from the physical needs, the soul would survive more on a vegetarian diet.
Me: Dammit.
Erik: But we can’t. Most, um, like a third of humans that are on the Earth, a vegetarian diet doesn’t feed the physical diet, hence it hinders the soul’s connection to it. So, eating meat for at least one third of the population is necessary. We just say it is best to eat the meat that is not raised and slaughtered in production.
Me: Right.
Jamie: I looked him and said, “What, to have the cow in your front yard, and when it’s time, you go out there and do your thing?”
Erik: No, but there are farmers out there who still do it. We got lost—
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Jamie (to Erik): Wow, you are very passionate and serious all of a sudden!
Me: Yeah for a guy who used to love quarter pounders and Chick-fil-a’s.
Jamie: He’s talking about the last several decades is when the human race got lost where they started saying and claiming that they had control over animals and started mass producing meat without concern—they had no concern—about the animal’s welfare or emotional status.
Erik: Yeah, and that’s where we go highly wrong, and all of a sudden, you don’t have this healthy piece of meat that you did 40 years or so ago. All you have is this meat that has been mass fed, not fed enough nutrition that it needs, bulked up on foods that don’t provide nutrition—
Jamie (to Erik): Oh, that’s what you meant. Sorry.
Erik: —and then killed in a manner that creates fear in the animal.
Me: Aw!
Erik: And the animal is raised in a way that is full of anxiety. So, you’re eating meat that is packed full of anxiety and fear. It’s malnourished and now, in the last few decades, has chemicals in it.
Me: Mm hm.
Erik: So, we need to totally—if I became ruler of the world—I would totally cut that shit out!
Me: And do what, specifically?
Erik: Recycle those factories, man. I’d go, “All right. Where are my farmers?” I’d have them raise these cattle with respect and put them on land and kill them at a certain age and when you do, tell them what’s happening and be kind and giving. Man, those Jewish people have a point. That kosher shit is absolutely amazing. I say that if you’re one third of that nation who has to eat the meat, I’d totally go kosher, I’d totally go organic, I’d find a local farmer who’d sell you the meat and I’d buy blocks or a quarter of a cow or whatever—
Jamie (to Erik): Oh, because you can’t just buy one steak. You’d have to invest in a larger portion of the cow, so you’d need deep freezers and things of that nature.
Me: Oh, yeah. Or neighbors willing to go in with you.
Erik: Yeah, cuz that’s how the local farmer could meet his needs.
Love the play on words.
Me: And chicken: free range, organic, obviously.
Erik: Yes.
Me: And what about fish?
Erik: Same thing. But the thing is you can actually have fish farms that are done the right way where they’re not over-crowded and they’re letting the fish mature to a certain age, and they’re not putting chemicals or other treatments into the water that damage the fish.
Me: Mm hm.
Erik: And they’re feeding them a natural algae and stuff on the food chain that gives them the nutrition they need.
Me: Boy, I guess that’s hard to find out where to get that sort of food. Takes a lot of research and work.
Erik: They actually exist. There are not many, though. The fish that are in the ocean—the deep-sea fish or crabs or lobsters, you know—things pulled from the ocean are going to be best, but it’s the way they’re frozen—
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Jamie (to Erik): I don’t know. What’s better?
(Another pause)
Jamie (to Erik): Yeah, but you can’t always do that! He says how they’re killed when they’re netted in mass where they basically have to choke to death on the boat because they can’t breathe out of the water—
Erik: Yeah. That’s very sad, and I feel like they should just pull them onto the boat and just immediately chop ‘em. Chop the head off and then package the meat to be delivered to the restaurant.
Me: Yeah. I think that’s impractical when you’re dealing with masses of fish unless you immediately put them in a saltwater holding tank first.
Erik: That’s what I mean. It’s just best if the world stops thinking in mass production and go back to mom and pop.
Me: Okay.
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