Vegetarianism

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• Animal-Killing in Human Society
• Prasadam - Spiritualized Food

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• Vegetarian
• Nonvegetarian
• Meat-eating
• Killing Animals
• Animal Slaughter
• Slaughterhouse
• Killing Cows
• Cow Slaughter
• Prasadam
• Milk
• Cow Protection
• Animal Protection
• Vegetables
• Animal-eating
• Flesh-eating
• Eating fish

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• Sometimes the question is put before us: "You ask us not to eat meat, but you are eating vegetables. Do you think that is not violence?"

• If you are slaughtering animals and you are comparing that killing of the vegetables and the killing of the animals is the same, then killing your son and killing an animal is also the same. Why do you discriminate?

• One life is meant to be eaten by another. That is nature's law. But we should use discrimination in what kind of foodstuff we shall eat

• Vegetarianism

• It is not a question of vegetarian or nonvegetarian

• In India, eighty percent people, they are vegetarian. They are living very nicely

• Animal food is not meant for the human being. For chewing solid food, the human being has a particular type of teeth meant for cutting fruits and vegetables

• A tiger may eat meat. It is a tiger. But I am not a tiger. I am a human being

• Everything is food, that's all right. But you can take only what is allotted for you, that's all

• Even George Bernard Shaw has written, "You are what you eat"...

• A devotee eats only prasāda, or foodstuffs offered to the Supreme Lord

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Key texts and purports

• BG 3.13 (eat only that which is offered in sacrifice)
• BG 9.26 (what Kṛṣṇa will accept as an offering)
• BG 17.8, BG 17.9, BG 17.10 (foods in the modes of nature)
• SB 1.7.37 (responsibility for animal slaughter - law of Manu)
• SB 1.13.47 (one living entity is food for another)
• SB 1.17.38 (four regulative principles)
• SB 4.17.25 (when government may sanction meat-eating)
• SB 6.4.9 (cows excluded from four-legged class of eatables)
• Śrī Īśopaniṣad, Mantra 1 (only as alotted)