Swami Vivekananda Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible. Mahatma Gandhi, My Socialism, 34-35. You do not like to suffer yourself.
Every killing is a suicide.
The eternal, blissful and natural state has been smothered by this life of ignorance. In this way the present life is due to the killing of the eternal, pristine Being. To such beings the deluded meat-eaters pay homage and prostrate while munching the succulent flesh off bones.