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Like all mendicant Buddhists he ate what he was given - meat or vegetable. Some stories have him being poisoned by a meal of spoiled pork. Buddhist dietary directs are not against eating meat except for the meat of carnivores and Birds of Prey. In addition Buddhists may not request meals that would specifically require killing a sentient beings

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