each to his own..and have you cut the throat of an animal and heard it squeal glenn?...merle Merle www.wix.com/merlewiitpom/1
________________________________ From: Joe <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, 27 August 2012 10:20 AM Subject: [Zen] Re: bone broth Glenn, One of the Four Noble Truths taught by the Buddha was the reality of ...Suffering. Animals suffer: Plants do not (seem to suffer). Maybe, some day, plants will be shown to be equally -- however differently -- as sentient as animals. Then, all vegetarians and vegans will be in some trouble. I too am a strict omnivore, Glenn. But I have been in/gone through 10 or 12 year periods of being solely vegetarian, from time to time. Things keep changing. ;-) --Joe > "Glenn Rogers" <rgthiessen@...> wrote: > > ...why do monastics (and some lay practitioners) defend not eating meat? They > still rely on plants for their survival. [snip]
