WATS EXACTLY VEGETARIANISM AND NON-VEGETARINISM?

This was an answer given by a sage to the question - wats the difference between vegetarian and non-vegetarian food? There are two kinds of life as animate and inanimate. Man,beats,birds etc.are animate while trees and plants are inanimate. Fruits ripen and fall themselves;branches and leaves of a tree do falls but they get regenerated again. Many plants can be propagated by cutting and others can be transplanted. But no limb of an animal or bird can grow by cutting. All living beings are made by any or all of the 5 elements-earth,water,fire,air and sky. In man,all these are present clearly and predominantly. Only 4 of them, earth,water,air and fire are present in animals;only 3-air,water and fire present in birds;2 of them ,earth and fire are present in insects. But only water is present in fruits and vegetables;the rest 4 of them are in sleeping state in plants and trees. Saints and sages don’t pluck fruit; they take only which has fallen down themselves. Minimum damage to life is the basic criterion here. It is better to carry 10kgs of sin by eating vegetarian food instead of 1000 tonnes of sin by eating meat .