Go Hunting
By Steve Pavlina
I think the best way for us to make sure our diets are in line with our morals is to stay connected with the end-to-end processes that we support through our food choices.
For example,if you're a meat eater, then I would strongly reconmmend that you go hunting once in a while and eat what you kill.I think it's important to have that experience, so you can fully appreciate your chioces.If you can't personally kill an animal and prepare it for consumption, that would signal a major internal incongruency,so perhaps it would be wise to reevaluate your food choices.
I wouldn't say you need to do this every time you eat meat,but do it at least once a year to stay connected to the process from killing to consuming.For someone who only eats fish,then going fishing would suffice.
I see inner congruency as a matter of degree more than essence.Improving the congruency between our values and our decisions is a lifelong process. It 's not about achieving perfection.As soon as you complete one step,you may think you've achieved some new level of moral godhood for a while, but shortly thereafter the next steps will present themselves.
I think about 9 billion farm animals are slaughtered for food each year in the USA.I wonder how many of these deaths would occur if the end consumers had to do the killing personally.I think we can all agree taht it would be a lot less than 9 billion killings.
If you eat meat but you 've never personally and deliberately killed and eaten an animal,and you resisit even making the attempt,does that make you an chicken ? Yeah,I think it does. After all, if you values support the most basic process that makes it possible be eat meat :to deliberately kill an animal and eat its flesh.
There are lots of ways to extend the ideas in this article of course.Food choices are just one application.The over all point is that if you can't bring yourself to participate in the processes you 're supporting right now through your choices,then do you really respect those processes?
And if you continue to make chioces you don't respect,then do you really respect yourself?
When you take steps to increase the congruency between your values and your choices,your self-respect increases.And with greater self-respect ,you're less likely to allow yourself to be trapped in abusive situations,and you're more likely to maintain high standards for your life,both personally and professionally.
If your values and your choices are out of sync,it means you don't value yourself.
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我认为对于我们来说，最好的饮食习惯要与我们的思想意志相符合，这样才可以让我们自己对自己饮食的选择有一个前后一致的连接。
例如，如果你是一个肉食主义者，那么我强烈建议你偶尔去捕食并且吃掉你杀死的东西。我认为有那样的经历很重要，你会很感激你的行为选择。如果你不能独自地杀死动物并且把它准备用来消耗掉的话，那就等于标志着一个主要的内在矛盾，所以或许对你的选择进行再评估是一个很聪明的选择。
我并不是说你需要在你每次吃肉的时候去做这样的事情，但是每年做一次这样的保持杀死动物和用来吃掉一致就行。对于某些吃鱼并且钓鱼的人来说是足够的。
我视内在的统一比事物的本质更加的重要。提高我们价值观和决定的内在统一性是我们长及一生去做的过程。那并不是为了表现完美。只要你完成了一步，你就会以为你暂时实现了某种水平上的神圣道德的提高，但是不久后下一步将会出现。
在美国我认为每年有九十亿的农场动物会被杀来作为食物。我想知道有多少人在消耗这些食物的时候有独自自己去杀死的。我想我们都会认为屠杀者远远小于九十亿。
如果你从不独自故意杀死动物只是去吃掉它，并且你拒绝有杀死动物的那种企图的话，那样做会让你有鸡肉吃吗？是的，我相信没有。总之，如果你支持这个基础的过程而去让吃肉变得可能的话那么：想办法去杀死一个你要吃它肉的动物。
当然在这篇文章里有很多的方式去延伸这个观点。食物选择只是一个应用而已。贯穿所有的是如果你自己都不用行动去支撑你自己的想法和你的选择，那么你真的尊重你所做这件事情（吃肉或者其他）吗？
并且如果你继续去做你并不尊重的选择，那么你真的尊重你自己吗？
当你采取措施去让你的价值观和你的选择相统一的话，你的自重程度就增加了。并且伴随着更好的自重（也就是对自己真诚），你更少可能陷入一个行动泛滥，行动不受支配的情况，并且你更有可能在个人方面和专业方面对你的生活保持高标准。
如果你的价值观和你的选择不一致的话，那就意味着你并不尊重你自己。