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Why can't Buddhists eat meat?

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Some people in India accept the cow as a sacred animal (according totheir religious beliefs). It would be considered sacriligious to kill the cow, and so they allow cows to wander freely and die natural deaths. And eating an animal that has died on its own is considered to be a really bad idea in terms of a person's health. It might have died of a communicable diseased, it generally begins to rot right after death, and so forth. Some people in India are also, no doubt, vegetarians, who would not eat any animal. However, generally, it is the religious issue that specifically bans eating beef.

Even if the cow died a natural death, it is still sacred; it would be like eating a homeless person who has died overnight--we woudn't do it, and they won't eat a cow.

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Buddhists are not forbidden to eat meat. In some countries (e.g. Tibet) the general scarcity of food makes meat eating necessary, and if offered any food a Buddhist will eat it, this includes meat. The injunction is against the killing of sentient beings. Meat animals may not be sentient. There is also an injunction against ask ing for things not necessary for life - this would include a request that an animal be killed specifically for your consumprion. In general many Buddhists refrain from eating meat to show compassion for all living beings.

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India has a large population. People belonging to various religions live in India. Only the Hindus and the Budhas don't eat meat or beef.

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Some Indians choose to be vegetarians especially if they are Hindu or Buddhist.

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Many Indians are vegetarian for religious reasons.

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Humans do eat meat. People eat animals of all shapes and sizes.

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