[Buddha-l] on eating meat

[Alberto Todeschini]

Dear Joy,

You wrote:

 > Suppose that one could get hold of meat with a passed sell by date 
(e.g. of the day of the sell by date) that a supermarket wants to get 
rid of. I expect it is simply destructed, but imagine for a second it 
isn't. Would it be acceptable to eat that meat?<

As far as I am concerned, yes, it would. I don't see anything inherently 
bad in eating meat. I grew up in a town in the Alps. At night we often 
see deer crossing roads and sometimes people run over them, 
accidentally, of course. Why should there be anything wrong about eating 
that meat?
When I lived in London I knew that some homeless people would go and 
look for food in the big skips where supermarkets throw their rubbish. 
If they found meat I think they were perfectly right in eating it.
But I don't buy meat.  Apart from the obvious fact of not wanting to 
have animals killed for me, I also don't want to give my financial 
support to one of the worst industries on earth.

Alberto Todeschini