Kudos on coming up with an interesting question (again)! (not really a question but rather a statement)
So when I read your post I heard two very profound questions
1. Did God really tell you not to eat meat (well I won't go into if God exists)
Summary Answer: People stopped eating meat to have a frugal living. Most of religions I know of talks about pain as a path to god. Renounciation is a primary conponent of moksha(nirvana)
2. Why do we eat meat?
- I come from a place where a lot of people are vegetarian. Meat is not allowed in my house
- Sidenote: I was a vegetarian before I came to United States.
Summary Answer: Another food resource
As usual on my free time I have to look around for some stuff so, here it is
Notes on Question 1:
- The earliest records of vegetarianism found ancient India and the ancient Greek civilizations.
- Vegetarian diet was called abstinence from beings with a soul
- Pythagoras abstained from the flesh of animals
- The ancient vegetarians held that consumption of meat hampered their ascetic and philosophical endeavors.
- Although Stoics(who belived that they should accept whatever comes..eg a notorious stoic who was nearly overcome by emotion in his postgame press conference) believed that animals were on an ontologically lower level than humans
- there were other reasons for not eating animal flesh, such as ascetic simplicity and its being unnecessary for human nutrition
- Hinduism: A bhakta (devotee) offers all his food to Vishnu or Krishna as prasad before eating it.
It is a sacrilige to offer meat to God. It is only in the perfect world that you find no exceptions.
So there are exceptions here as well. There is a culture of animal sacrifice in the eastern part of the country including neighbours like Nepal etc.
- Jain and Buddhist sources show that the principle of nonviolence toward animals was an established rule in both religions as early as the 6th century BC
- The religions of Chinese Buddhism and Taoism require that monks and nuns eat an egg free, onion free vegetarian diet
Notes on Question 2:
- we come from a long line of meat eaters
- Humans are omnivores. They have teeth and digestive tracts that adapt well to both animal and non-animal foods
- meat is a dense source of many crucial nutrients
- Meat digests quickly and puts a lot of nutrients into your body in a single bite.
- http://www.celestialhealing.net/physicalveg3.htm
So when I read your post I heard two very profound questions
1. Did God really tell you not to eat meat (well I won't go into if God exists)
Summary Answer: People stopped eating meat to have a frugal living. Most of religions I know of talks about pain as a path to god. Renounciation is a primary conponent of moksha(nirvana)
2. Why do we eat meat?
- I come from a place where a lot of people are vegetarian. Meat is not allowed in my house
- Sidenote: I was a vegetarian before I came to United States.
Summary Answer: Another food resource
As usual on my free time I have to look around for some stuff so, here it is
Notes on Question 1:
- The earliest records of vegetarianism found ancient India and the ancient Greek civilizations.
- Vegetarian diet was called abstinence from beings with a soul
- Pythagoras abstained from the flesh of animals
- The ancient vegetarians held that consumption of meat hampered their ascetic and philosophical endeavors.
- Although Stoics(who belived that they should accept whatever comes..eg a notorious stoic who was nearly overcome by emotion in his postgame press conference) believed that animals were on an ontologically lower level than humans
- there were other reasons for not eating animal flesh, such as ascetic simplicity and its being unnecessary for human nutrition
- Hinduism: A bhakta (devotee) offers all his food to Vishnu or Krishna as prasad before eating it.
It is a sacrilige to offer meat to God. It is only in the perfect world that you find no exceptions.
So there are exceptions here as well. There is a culture of animal sacrifice in the eastern part of the country including neighbours like Nepal etc.
- Jain and Buddhist sources show that the principle of nonviolence toward animals was an established rule in both religions as early as the 6th century BC
- The religions of Chinese Buddhism and Taoism require that monks and nuns eat an egg free, onion free vegetarian diet
Notes on Question 2:
- we come from a long line of meat eaters
- Humans are omnivores. They have teeth and digestive tracts that adapt well to both animal and non-animal foods
- meat is a dense source of many crucial nutrients
- Meat digests quickly and puts a lot of nutrients into your body in a single bite.
- http://www.celestialhealing.net/physicalveg3.htm
