Garudaman wrote:the real answer is because you live on the place that rich in plant-based food choices! :lol2:
So the hypothesis that being a vegetarian somehow changes your entire character or or all the rest of your personal values is entirely false.
Intelligent lad wrote:http://agniveer.com/why-i-dont-eat-meat/
------ Be human, love humans. Say no to meat!
However I read somewhere that some Hindus believe they may not eat onions or garlic. Does anyone know if this is true, and why that is?
Yohan wrote:^^ Not eating Onions, Garlic, certain root vegetables and so on, are rooted on the principle that they carry life, and practised in orthodox Jainism and Buddhism, which were then borrowed by Hinduism. Later certain fanciful explanations were developed.
One cannot be that sensitive and be strong at the same time.
manfred wrote:Please go through the list of vegetarians above and describe in detail, for each one, who took advantage of them, why when and how.
And no, it is also false to suggest that all who practice martial arts eat meat.
Here are some who are vegans...
But then again, you never let actual facts get into the way of your rants...
Human society is not like wilder beasts and lions, well, not quite, anyway. And eating meat does not make you a "lion" either.
It is more likely that your sets of VALUES determine what you eat, rather than that what you eat changes your values. E.g. Someone eats kosher because he is Jewish, but he did not become Jewish because he is eating kosher. Only then, as a consequence, the kosher diet re-enforces values held by daily reminders and by keeping you away from people who eat differently.
Yohan wrote:Hinduism does not give a reason why Hindus have to be vegetarians.
t is not easy to buy soyabeens and other vegetarian pulses that act as diet supplements for meat.
manfred wrote:t is not easy to buy soyabeens and other vegetarian pulses that act as diet supplements for meat.
Rubbish.
Pulses have been very widely eaten in India for thousands of years. They can very easily be traded because the keep for a long time and don't require special storage. It is much easier to supply a remote area with pulses than it is with fresh meat or fish, for example.
Yohan wrote:Hinduism had never ever been known as a compassionate religion, to associate vegetarianism with it.
A person is called of Saatvik Guna when s/he has the following qualities -
1. Fearlessness
2. Pure heartedness
3. Established in the wisdom of discrimination of spirit and matter
4. Charity
5. Self-restraint
6. Austerity
7. Uprightness
8. Non-violence
9. Truthfulness
10. Aversion to Fault finding
11. Compassion to all beings
12. Absence of avarice'
13. Gentleness
14. Modesty
15. Determination
Pulses are no match to real meat in term proteins required to develop your muscles and physique.Even if one consumes them in large quantity,they are not that easy to digest and are costly in general as is the case with meat.
nosuperstition wrote:Since eating meat involves violent death of the animal,it is considered unrighteous and Hinduism seemed to have copied this principle.
manfred wrote:So one minute they are a meat substitute according to you, the next they are not. I gave you a list and pictures of of vegan body builders, so the idea that you cannot have a balanced diet without meat is nonsense.
And cost?
500 grams of lentils or chickpeas cost about £1.60. When cooked, they have 3 times that weight.
500 grams of mince meat or other cheap cuts cost roughly £3.00. When cooked it will loose about 10% of its weight, more with sausages, as they have water added for bulk.
The fact is that post people eat meat purely out of habit. A diet with meat is certainly costlier than a good one without. Then there also the well documented issues around eating meat, such as the link to cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes.
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