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Vegeterianism in early Buddhism


A nice article about the early Buddhist eating habits for a nice Buddhist blog.


http://sdhammika.blogspot.com/2012/10/vegetarianism-in-ancient-india.html

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  • PatrPatr Veteran
    http://sdhammika.blogspot.com/

    More on the above.
  • Thanks Patr, looks interesting!

    One thing I noticed:

    "Many arguments are used to support vegetarianism – the health argument (a meat diet causes various diseases), the biological argument (humans are not naturally carnivorous), the economic argument (animal husbandry is an inefficient form of food production), and the humane argument (eating meat requires killing animals which is cruel). Some of these arguments are rather weak, others less so. But from the point of view of Buddhist ethics the only one of these arguments that has to be considered is the last one. "

    I don't agree with this - in particular, I think the 3rd ('economic') argument is as important, because it is the economics of meat-production that create the environment for suffering to occur - and also, it is the means by which it can be reduced, when conscious consumers reject factory farmed meat, or eat less meat, or eat not meat altogether.
    seeker242Sile
  • SileSile Veteran
    I found the article linked by a commenter very interesting as well:

    http://huayanzang.blogspot.tw/2012/06/meat-eating-part-ii.html
  • SileSile Veteran
    edited October 2012
    There's an earlier post on vegetarianism by Shravastika Dhammika, too:

    http://sdhammika.blogspot.com/2012/10/buddhist-arguments-for-vegetarianism.html
  • seeker242seeker242 Zen Florida, USA Veteran
    A nice article about the early Buddhist eating habits for a nice Buddhist blog.


    http://sdhammika.blogspot.com/2012/10/vegetarianism-in-ancient-india.html
    He forgot the "modern meat production is destroying the planet" argument. :)
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