It gets worse when you consider how many animals are kept squeezed into small pens and cages their entire lives and killed in completely brutal ways. Are those memories being transferred to us as well. Are the dreams we encounter in the following days after a big barbecue dinner really the transient memories of the animal we devoured mixing with our own?
Ask yourself, have you ever experienced a dream in which you are flying? Floating? Stuck in a place of no escape? Were those really your own feelings and memories or were they a mixture of yours, and theirs.
If this holds true, then another question would be, how long do those memories stay with us? If some animals are considered to be extremely intelligent, is that also a byproduct that is being transferred to us? If an animal lives a life of anger or anguish, is that a fate we instill upon ourselves by eating them? For that matter, if an animal lives a life of freedom and comes upon it's demise quickly but still ends up on our dining room table, do we leave that table feeling totally happy and content, attributing it to a good cook when really the thanks belongs to the animal?
The next time you decide to dig into a bucket of chicken I suggest you check into how that chicken was raised or run the risk of feeling penned in. Kobe beef is one of the most expensive beefs on the market because the animals are fed wines and given massages and pampered like royalty. Would that also mean though that the dreams and happiness you feel from the point of ingestion on are directly tied to that animal. If so, it's totally worth the price of admission.
This is all just theory, but then again, what if I'm right?
