The Vedic View on the Killing of Animals for Human Consumption

Channing asks, what's the vedic view on the murder of animals for human consumption? How is it that some people continue to eat meat, yet some do not? And do you think that that then reflects on their evolutionary path? Well, channing, the question has a reveals a natural bias that you have in the use of the word murder. The vedic world view on all of this is, first of all, it is not possible to be alive and exist with killing happening. In the west we have an idea that there is a cut off point. Only certain sentient animals with a certain degree of intelligence, as assessed by us humans, are the ones which