Burgers: Hamburgers, fish burgers, turkey burgers, buffalo burgers, and hamburgers of all kinds are a staple of the omnivorous diet. People eat untold numbers of hamburgers every day in countries all over the world. However, do you think about the consumption of hamburgers, those derived from the death, actually murder, of living beings? Since ancient amounts of hamburgers are eaten every day in this world, how many animals, fish, and birds must be slaughtered to satisfy the appetites of those who crave hamburgers?

And love in relation to hamburgers? Have hamburger eaters ever thought about killing the animals they eat? Frankly, it’s impossible to talk about love, let alone be loving, and then eat a hamburger, fish burger, turkey burger, or any kind of meat spawned by meat.

Tukaram, the saint of Maharashtra, lived in the 17th century. he asks, The Lord dwells within each being. Does not man know that He also resides in animals??

Tukaram’s question is valid, especially for people who align with spiritual values, values ​​intrinsically rooted in love and compassion. God is life. Human beings are not the only beings to whom God gives life or love. This raises the question: “If we love, how can we kill?”

George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in 1925, beautifully states:

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.. This statement is fully expressed in his poem, “We are the living graves of the slain beasts.”

We are the living graves of the slain beasts

Sacrificed to satisfy our appetites.

We never stop to marvel at our parties.

If animals, like men, can have rights.

We pray on Sundays that we have light

To guide our steps on the path we tread.

We are fed up with war. We don’t want to fight.

The thought of it now fills our hearts with dread,

And yet we tear ourselves apart over the dead.

Like carrion crows we live and feed on meat

Regardless of suffering and pain

We provoke by doing it. if so we treat

Defenseless animals for sport or gain.

How can we hope in this world to achieve

the peace that we say we long for.

We pray for it over hecatombs of the dead

To God, while the moral law is outraged.

Thus cruelty engenders its offspring, war.

Dark thought, isn’t it, this remark of Shaw’s? Kill and eat our friends? Not a pretty thought, let alone a pleasant sight or commendable behavior. We pray for peace, but we participate in the slaughter of defenseless creatures just to consume their rotting and decaying corpse. By doing so, we guarantee, through the law of sowing and reaping, cause and effect, karma, that we will experience the cruelty of war, a just reward for our own cruelty.

Twentieth century saint Charan Singh asks: Where is the need to kill birds, fish and animals and make our body a graveyard? The human body, in which the Lord resides and which is the only species in which He can be realized, must be kept as pure and clean as possible… Animals, birds, etc., have not been created as food for humans. .. Plants have a soul, insects have a soul, birds have a soul, animals have a soul and, of course, human beings have a soul.

Charan Singh’s comment eradicates the delusional belief that animals, birds, fish and other creatures have no souls and are therefore acceptable to eat. Therefore, we cannot use the excuse that other living things lack souls simply to justify killing and eating them.

Summary

Are love and hamburgers compatible? This article says: “Absolutely not!” If we are loving individuals, if we profess to love and follow a spiritual path, it is axiomatic that we cannot simply talk about love or be loving and then go eat a hamburger, fish burger, turkey burger or whatever. Regardless of how one tries to disguise it, there is no love in murder or in eating the slaughtered remains of living creatures. We can try to justify our actions until we are blue in the face and on our deathbeds, but the plain truth is that love has not, and never will have, anything to do with eating the flesh of living things.