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Meat Takes Revenge on Your Body – Here’s How!

24 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker argues that eating meat generates negative karma, citing the ancient Hindu text Manu Samhita which holds that everyone involved in the meat production chain—from the slaughterer to the consumer—incurs karmic repercussions. The speaker further claims that animal flesh is biologically unsuitable for humans because it contains cholesterol and saturated fat that increase arterial plaque, leading to clogged arteries over time. By framing these health effects as a form of "revenge" from the animals, the talk blends spiritual, moral, and physiological arguments to advocate against meat consumption.

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Every bite of meat that we consume is actually eating us back. Have you heard about the law of karma? This is a belief that is shared by many religions, and that is whatever action we perform has a reaction. What happens when we consume animals? It's seen in the spiritual sciences as creating substantial negative karma. There's a beautiful ancient text called the Manu Samhita, centuries old. It says it's not just the person who does the killing, but all those involved in the process. Those who transport, those who kill, those who cook, Those who serve, those who eat the animals that have karmic repercussions. And now you may ask, how does this karma come back to us? When we kill animals to eat them, they end up killing us because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for human beings. And this cholesterol, how does it manifest? By increasing the cholesterol within our arteries. And soon, when we keep indulging in these habits over the years, it starts clogging our arteries. So every animal we consume, that animal has its revenge on us.