[Buddha-l] on eating meat

[Alberto Todeschini]

Dear Mike,

>Mike Austin wrote:
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>>> > If one buys meat, it is the intention and action of the butcher etc. that
>>> > determines if he kills. No order is given. Such an order would be just an
>>> > imputation from the butcher's side.
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If you have never bought meat in your life and you have never visited a 
supermarket and then, for the first time, you buy meat, perhaps you are 
justified to think that that meat wasn't prepared for you. But the 
moment you buy meat (or indeed anything else) you are as a matter of 
fact asking your shop to stock up so that more meat will be ready for 
your next visit. Instead of killing the animal by yourself when you need 
it, you are paying someone to kill it and ship it to the store ready for 
you to be bought again.

Alberto Todeschini