Aya
The philosphy of you are what you eat presumes you'd disregard the nature of a person because they're not italists. Don't burn fire 'pon others for what they eat but what they do. Garvey was no vegetarian, Nelson Mandela eats pork, Gandhi was an italist but still all three have done so much for humanity. If Rasta lives by that mantra then why is the image of the Lion/Lioness such a prominent part of the faith - lions eat other animals, I don't hear you chanting them. Or does that not count because a lion is an animal? Or because its considered the image of King Sellasie I? Or might it be that the digestive system of some animals is such that they can eat certain things - so you have herbivores, omnivores and such. There are some plants that eat humans too! And Cannibalism is a little more complex than that Aya not every cannibal is sick, depraved and twisted, sometimes (hard as it is to over), humans eat humans to survive or in resistance like in Hawaii when they killed, roasted and ate the British colonials. Or in Papua New Guinea cannibalism is a part of the culture, will you chant their livity too? Each culture has its own complexities you can't just give a blanket judgement over people or animals, you must quest for overstanding first. We hold onto the ital livity of Rastafarai so much that its almost like its the faith itself, yet that too is only a practice of a people, it doesn't make people or determine what kind of people we are. A vegetarian is no better than a meat eater based on what they eat, its a person's spirit that counts. A pig, vulture or hyena is no worse than a lion simply because they are like scavengers - its the meditation that goes along with an action that's to be considered. JAH BLESS.
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