[Buddha-l] Victimized vegans?

[[DPD Web] Shen Shi'an]

IMHO, the vegan diet is the best - because it doesn't consciously
exploit animals. Milk-bearing cows become beef and leather, and
egg-laying chickens become nuggets and feather-dusters... To support
non-meat animal produce indirectly supports their killing.

For undeniably good non-religious reasons to go vege, please see
http://goveg.com/theissues.asp 

By the way, according to UN's report last year, meat-consumption pumps
more greenhouse gases into the air than all motor-vehicles combined! 

For an archive of Buddhist materials on a kinder diet, please see
http://moonpointer.com/bvf.php 

-----Original Message-----
From: jkirk [mailto:jkirk at spro.net] 
Sent: Friday, 11 May, 2007 8:02 AM
To: 'Buddhist discussion forum'
Subject: RE: [Buddha-l] Victimized vegans?

Yes; IMO the vegan ideology is ridiculous.
 
Mahatma Gandhi wrestled with these issues. He decided to not eat eggs
because it was robbing the hen, in his view, nor would he accept milk
because it was robbing the calf. At one point in his life, he was on a
fruit
and nuts agenda. I cannot recall what he finally ended up with as a
dietary
regimen before his assassination by the RSS. He took all these
quiddities
seriously, to the point that he resembled a nut-case to many of his
contemporaries. The Mahatma was nothing if not serious. He applied his
strictures to his own self, however, he did not force them on others.
(Well,
he might have tried to force them on his wife, but my sense of her is
that
she didn't brook any nonsense.)
Vegans enforce their warped views on children, unlike the Mahatma. My
sense
of the ones that I have met is that they are fanatics and not educated
in
the history of dietary ideologies and restrictions, or lack of them.   
Joanna
================

On Behalf Of Gregory Bungo
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:25 PM
Hi all,

Even if the baby hadn't starved to death, he would have suffered
brain damage from lack of vitamin B-12.  Babies need milk --
soy milk won't suffice.

Sincerely,

Greg Bungo



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