Re: Vegetarianism

Posted By Paul Ciszek (pciszek@nyx10.cs.du.edu)
5 Mar 1997 13:53:27 -0700

Daly de Gagne <ambika@mbnet.mb.ca> writes:

>Most of these quotations come from an excellent feature Hinduism Today
>did on vegetarianism a few years ago. The article stated: "There
>developed early in India an unparalleled concern for harmony among life
>forms, and this led to a common ethos based on non-injuriousness, and a
>minimal consumption of natural resources--in other words, to compassion
>and simplicity."

How is it, then, that:

1) McDonald's in India does a brisk business in mutton burgers?
2) Every Indian restaurant I have patronized in the U.S.A. serves meat?
3) Kali is called "the goddess of the slaughterhouse" in some texts?

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