how come the Dalai lama...

I personally think that it could be more ethical to slaughter one's own animals for meat than eating meat that has been killed by somebody else. Maybe if we were more involved in the rearing and slaughter of animals we would more than likely be moreconciouse of animal welfare than we are at the moment where the grim reality of factory farms is safely removed from view for most people.

Furthermore man is a primate predator who's diet has almost certainly always involved the consumption of some meat. Indeed mans early struggle with and subsequent harvesting of megafauna may have played a crucial role the evolutionary development of a our intelligence. Meat also had advantages over plant matter in the area of digestion allowing more of the bodies resources to be spent thinking rather than digesting.

 

hes not killing the animal

Edit: is there an opposite of this guy?

people go to the dahli

and is there someone out there that no one goes to intead this person whould go to people?

if there is can you spot this person?

 

Sounds vaguely familiar. A little like what a Jewish sage said long ago--something about a mote and a beam.

 

Furthermore aristocratic castes tend to naturally proscribe rules that exclude themselves from the more onerous tasks such as the raising and rearing of animals that would be daily performed by those in the lower orders, the very people that support the aristocracy. In the modern world things have taken on another meaning.

 

Two reasons, first: His health. He has mentioned this in past talks, but I'll elucidate. He tried to give up eating meat, but found that it was very detrimental to his health. As a result, he now eats meat only 3 days a week, or something like that.
Second: The Vinaya does not stipulate that a monk may not eat meat, but rather that he must eat what is offered to him, and may not eat meat if he believes it was killed specifically to feed him.

 

Correct, to clarify, whilst vegetarianism is common amoung mahayana Buddhists, there are scriptural precedents for the modest consumption of meat.

Personally if I were required to eat meat for the sake of my health, or if a nutritious vegetarian diet were not available to me, I would eat meat.

 

I think, even if I talked to the Dali Lama and his doctors, I still would not know.

 

I would have to agree with you on this... I feel that it may be wrong to KILL, but eating MEAT doesn't make you a bad person... IMO

if someone was going to throw out food, and it happen to be meat... it doesn't seem to be a wrong thing to eat it.

At that point if it's already dead there is no soul, only the flesh of the deceseased, I don't see how that could be in the wrong.

Some will never know....

It's all a learning expericance.

 

As long as he doesn't own a slaughterhouse (;

p.s.
(5. Right Livelihood)

 

I read that he was advised against giving up meat for health reasons.