So what's going on? Will you never eat meat again?
Let me put it this way...
Imagine that a race of aliens suddenly arrives on Earth. Let's call them... "Lestrigantes".
These creatures are twice the size of the average human, and they are very, very hungry!
Unfortunately for them, their ship crashes in the middle of Antarctica. No food on the horizon; only endless icebergs...
After they run out of supplies, the first thing they decide to eat is... each other!
Haha! It turned black very quickly!
At some point, however, they meet their first people..! Some delicious scientists, full of useful nutrients and very tasty gray matter! Mmm!
Bleach!
They gradually add other creatures to their diet, such as penguins, seals, fish and birds. Open the hunt!
However, they soon realize that they are running out of people... This alien race is apparently technologically savvy since they managed to travel this far, so they eventually manage to take control of a ship, sail away from Antarctica, and successfully reach the South America.
Oh, and what a feast they find there!
Ok bro I got it ok!
They are adding more and more animals to their daily menu: flamingos, bears, horses, donkeys, llamas - even bugs!
Of course, they are also experiencing endless calves/pigs/chickens for the first time, which they find enjoyable - especially in large quantities! They even learn to cook them over large fires; who does not love the smell of burning flesh?
Sit down, sit down - how come they're not already dead? Is Area 51 asleep?
Oh yes, I forgot to mention that they are bulletproof; completely invulnerable to any weapon humans have invented! All our efforts to stop them are futile; we just end up becoming their prey..!
So here it is: a race of technologically advanced aliens, slowly conquering the world, whose endless appetite does not stop anywhere - they eat even cats and dogs; if it moves - it's food!
You are disgusted...
Once they discover that plants taste good too, so in addition to the fauna, they start exploring the local flora.
They taste fruits and vegetables, even add spices, and fall in love with the taste! Then they go for the basics: corn, rice, wheat, legumes, seeds and nuts - so many options! They like variety, so they gradually decide to eat more and more of it.
However, they must consume large amounts of plants to satisfy their appetite, so they let some people live so they can work the fields and produce more food. When these people get old and can no longer work, they also become food like the others; but, okay, at least they lived a happy life serving the aliens until old age!
It's getting tiring...
After a period of coexistence, some aliens realize that they can communicate with humans and other animals! Until then, they thought they were just irrational beings, only useful for eating and exploiting. However, they are gradually learning to communicate with simple nods, nods and sounds!
Eventually, they make special devices that can automatically translate between different languages, making this process even more immediate; revolutionary!
So then the aliens decide that these beings are too valuable to consume, so they stop eating animals - including humans. Some suggest that they continue to eat fish, since there are so many in the sea, but they soon discover that some of the ocean creatures are also aliens, who came to Earth only a few million years before them, so they agree to an intergalactic truce, and so they stop eating meat in general.
It's beyond ridiculous now!
The aliens gradually become more and more sympathetic to earth beings, and decide to stop exploiting them altogether - no more consumption of the products produced by other beings. They manage to use existing parts of human technology and build advanced robots to do all the work - to sow and harvest food from the ground to feed themselves as well as their beloved housemates on this planet.
As time goes on, humans and other animals create their own societies away from the aliens, although some groups choose to stay with them because they like their company.
OK, I get the metaphor - can you stop...
At some point, the aliens realize that if they don't cook their food, it keeps more nutrients intact and is thus more beneficial, so they stop the habit.
Now that the food is not cooked, they have to chew it more to make it easier to digest, which makes them feel full faster than before. This allows them to eat less, and still get all the nutrients they need.
But, they notice that some of their vegetables tend to become contaminated with bacteria and micro-organisms, making them sick at times, so they gradually decide to limit their diet to anything that falls from trees and bushes, such as fruits, seeds and nuts - along with some spices and dried herbs, which are safer raw.
After a while -
What, is there more??
After a while, the aliens decide that eating all day is taking too long! They organize and invent a machine that processes their food and produces edible balls of pulp, where all the nutrients are compressed and preserved in a concentrated delivery medium.
They commit to this "replacement" lifestyle and gradually completely replace their food with these marbles. In fact, they are improving these machines even further to first check their vitals and blood, in order to make the balls contain exactly the nutrients that each individual Laistrygiant needs!
Now are you seriously suggesting we stop eating food?
All the time they save from gathering, cooking and eating food all the time, they spend exploring the world outside and inside themselves - what we call travel and meditation.
This expands their minds even more, allowing them to be at peace with nature and each other. They gain complete control over their thoughts and actions, reducing their ego to fully connect with their true self, thereby achieving feats that require a very high frequency of spiritual energy.
Eventually, they become so strong that their bodies stop needing food altogether - even marbles, and survive solely by breathing the universal life force - what we call 'prana'.
And after..;
There's only one way we'll find out!
K.
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