To a Healthy and Peaceful Life

Is there a direct relationship between people's willingness to treat beings as things, as when we put flesh on a plate (phycho-pathology) and the tendency toward decay of the body (physiological pathology).

And what relation is there between the inclination to eat animals on the one hand and the tendency to see natural resources both as something scarce that must be grabbed or controlled and at the same time something to be squandered?

When someone wants to go to war, they will turn their attention to recruiting and exhorting youth (subjects of their own lives) into fodder for cannon (objects or cogs in a machine) for example.

According to Socrates, we cannot live a peaceful and healthy life if we pursue a desire to eat animals. The environmental damage, adverse impact on our health and the resulting scarcity of resources and impulse to war to get our neighbors' pasture (oil) will prevent it.

We are eating precariously high on the food chain:


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