The natural progression of violence inevitably leads to war within human society, and the breeding of various animals, then their slaughter in slaughterhouses or on the open sea by trawlers that kill aquatic beings by the thousands, is the most terrible form of violence.

The consumption of animal flesh is absolutely immoral, since it involves an act contrary to morality and divine directives, namely the killing of thousands of living beings. By killing these innocent living beings, man needlessly represses within himself the highest spiritual aptitude, which consists of having sympathy and pity for living creatures like himself, and by thus violating his own feelings, he becomes cruel.

This coldness of heart and the inaction of the vast majority of men in the face of this mass slaughter leads evil beings to cultivate a form of impunity, and thus to manifest their evil ideals through violence, hence wars, terrorism, murders, vandalism and clashes in cities, and abortions.

In reality, the cruel slaughter of countless innocent and defenseless animals must be considered a powerful causal factor in this wave of violence.

If violence is so widespread in human society, it is due to the karmic consequences, the consequences of the divine law of action-reaction, or law of cause and effect, due to the slaughter of millions of animals worldwide. In the present age, we find that compassion has almost disappeared.

Consequently, conflicts and wars constantly arise here and there, pitting men and nations against each other. People do not understand that since they kill so many animals indiscriminately and without restraint, they, in turn, must be killed in war or various conflicts. Indeed, wars and conflicts constantly break out in the world, killing countless people in a manner even more cruel than the cruelty inflicted on animals. Sometimes during war, soldiers detain their enemies in concentration camps where they are subjected to atrocious deaths.

These are the consequences of the unrestricted hunting and slaughter of animals. People who die in this way suffer the consequences of their karma, or sinful acts committed in their previous lives.

Those who do not feel responsible for the killing of animals, but who mindlessly feed on their flesh, are nonetheless guilty.

Similarly, according to the law of karma, or the law of action and reaction, or the law of cause and effect, the one who allows an animal to be killed, the one who commits the murderous act, the one who sells the flesh of the slaughtered animal, the one who prepares it, the one who buys such food, and the one who eats it, are all responsible for the suffering inflicted on the animal.