> If one does not eat meat because one does not have the money to pay for
> it or the ability to raise it, has that person refused to be a man? Put
> another way: is it the act or the intent that makes the difference?
>
Intent will definitely do it, at least in the West. A student
told me a story a few years ago. He was a body-builder, and like a
lot of those guys, he knew that vegetarianism would help him. So he
was considering it. But, he told me he knew that if he told his
grandfather that he wasn't going to eat meat anymore, his grandfather
would say, "so, are you going to stop going out with girls now too?"
One of the delicious ironies about this man/meat connection is that
impotence among older males is at very high levels in the U.S. today,
something like 25%. Meat-eating doesn't just clog the arteries going
to the heart.
Brian
