When
we eat a head of lettuce, every leaf expresses the beauty and
complexity of the cosmic intelligence that formed it, and so we are
partaking of cosmic intelligence by ingesting it directly. The same
for each perfect grain of rice, each generous fruit. At the
biological level, we are preying on them, but at the level of
intelligence and consciousness, we are collaborating with them in a
sacred rite, for the intelligence that organized their form and
function also organized ours.”
