"It is not true, Mahāmati, that meat is proper food and permissible for the Śrāvaka when [the animal] was not killed by himself, when he did not order others to kill it, when it was not specially meant for him. "--Shakyamuni Buddha in  Lankāvatāra Sūtra, Chapter 8 "How hateful this murdering beings ‘custom’!How hugely regrettable… Continue reading Buddhism and Eating Animals: Is It Permissible or Not?