Food for the Sprite
Vegetarianism and the World Religions
By Steven Rosen
ISBN 0-89647-021-0
Just one verse there are many in the Vedas but this one is to the point:
"Having well considered the origin of flesh-foods;
and the cruelty
of fettering and slaying corporeal beings;
let man entirely abstain
from eating flesh"
- Manusmriti 5:49
Y. Malaiya <malaiya@cs.colostate.edu> wrote in article
<ghenE6L6Cz.DKM@netcom.com>...
> Latha wrote:
> >
> > Hi -
> > I have a question that I hope someone will be able to answer: Does
> > Hinduism state that taking another life is not correct, unless needed
> > for survival? And if so, in what scriptures is this written?
> >
>
> See http://envirolink.org/arrs/essays/virtues.html#IX
>
> Yashwant
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