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- From: zkym02@hou.amoco.com (Keerthi Y. McIntosh)
- Subject: Re: Limited vegetarianism of India
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.205127.1242@hou.amoco.com>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:51:27 GMT
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- I have read your posts about Indian vegetarianism being a matter of habit and
- compulsion..... WHAT ABOUT RELIGION? If you are a brahmin you are not supposed to
- partake in the eating of dead animals. I have always attributed this distinction due
- to a scarcity of meat at some point and the religious leaders making the following
- bracketing.
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- Typically religious people do not have really gruelling work... they don't need
- meat, vegetables and beans and cereals can provide them with enough energy.
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- Warriors need lots of meat in order to have the strength to protect the country.. they
- eat meat to make the strong and powerful.
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- Merchants and farmers have physically demanding jobs but not so much as the waririor so
- they eat fish and poultry to help them sustain jobs.
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- That it how I always how I justified my vegetarianism. Since I am of the religious
- class and have a relatively non-physical labor job, I think it is appropriate.
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- I don't not remember learning that the reason to be vegetarian was to save the animals.
- It is a matter of your lifestyle needs. We need not take more than we need.
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- Any comments... please no flames... this could be an interesting discussion.
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- Did I miss something in my upbringing
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- Keerthi
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