[Abstract] Jane Goodall, the world renowned primatologist, has recently published her book, Harvest for Hope, (translated by Cheng-fen Chen) telling people that a majority of the meat consumed are bred under very cruel circumstances, where growth hormones and antibodies are injected for producing animals like machinery, resulting in numerous said animal cruelty in how newborn calves are slaughtered at birth, and ducks that never swim in water and the list goes on. When we feast on land animals and marine catches, do we ever think of how much hatred and sorrow contained in the food that we ingest when still alive, and can information of the hatred and sorrow still remain in the cells? Food cells provide the human body with substance, energy and information. For example, when fat enters the human body, the fat matter is retained in the human body when not digested, and an individual who takes to exercising can work off the fat into energy. As to whether such information can be conveyed through food intake, a reference point can be made with Spirituality of Cells by Nai-Tsung Liang and Information of Life by Kuo-Gen Chen, and suppose what they have stated is true, negative information contained in the food would cause harm to the human body. By Kuo-Gen Chen’s assertion, plants often contain calming positive information, and by examining how modern people cultivate animals, it is few and in between that such animals are free from fear or hatred before they become human food. When Shakyamuni is transformed into a Buddha for having attained the enlightenment under the Bodi tree, the Bodi tree provides a transcending effect, which can be deduced that plants provide benefits to mankind. As man rely on food to survive, yet keeping to a staple of meat diet may render one’s path of discipline a difficult one.
