Dear Paul, All this talk of food and I had to take a break for dinner! ;-) >> I understand that the emotional state of the animals, and also the way they are treated while farmed carry along into the meat. Does the blessing and honouring of food before eating help transmute this? << Yes. When you make that interior contact with the food and honor its struggle and then thank if for having gone through all that just to end up sustaining your body, you open up that kernel of negative energy -- you soften its shell, so to speak, and begin its release and transformation. And when you follow this by a blessing of the food (however you might conceive of such a thing), you are creating a positive force which counter-balances the negative one. This positive energy enters into the food at the level at which that negative residue exists, penetrates its softened shell and, if it is strong enough, neutralizes it. My best to you, :) Rawn Clark 23 Aug 2003 rawnclark@... rawn@... http://www.ABardonCompanion.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BardonPraxis http://E.webring.com/hub?ring=arionthebardonwe