Fidel,Stripsteak,and others in the know?

I hope you don't care if I listen in.

I'm pretty sure Hindus don't eat any meat, particularly mammals.

Maybe goat? I dunno, but can't think of anyone that restricts goat.

They have split hooves but don't chew cud.

I eat everything, so I ain't the best authority on this stuff.

Sheep?

Lamb is young sheep/mutton.

 
Hey Hoss

Meat (Wikipedia)

Ethics of eating meat

"Ethical issues regarding the consumption of meat can include objections to the act of killing animals or the agricultural practices surrounding the production of meat. Reasons for objecting to the practice of killing animals for consumption may include animal rights, environmental ethics, religious doctrine, or an aversion to inflicting pain or harm on other living creatures. The religion of Jainism has always opposed eating meat, and there are also many schools of Buddhism and Hinduism that condemn the eating of meat. Some people, while not vegetarians, refuse to eat the flesh of certain animals, such as cats, dogs, horses, or rabbits, due to cultural or religious taboo. In some cases, specific meats (especially from pigs and cows) are forbidden within religious traditions. Some people eat only the flesh of animals which they believe have not been mistreated, and abstain from the meat of animals reared in factory farms or from particular products such as foie gras and veal."

So I guess your statement would be false, lamb is forbidden by some religions.

Good question Hoss.

Gator

 

Nooo, not a priestess, just a casual practitioner. She eats meat at times, but prefers not to. I asked once, and that is what she told me.

The Jain religion (India) forbids eating any type of meat.


Vegetarianism is a way of life for a Jain, taking its origin in the concept of compassion for living beings, Jiva Daya. The practice of vegetarianism is seen as an instrument for the practice of nonviolence and peaceful, cooperative coexistence. Jains are strict vegetarians, consuming only one-sensed beings, primarily from the plant kingdom. While the Jain diet does, of course, involve harm to plants, it is regarded as a means of survival which involves the bare minimum amount of violence towards living beings. ( Many forms of plant material, including roots and certain fruits, are also excluded from the Jain diet due to the greater number of living beings they contain owing to the environment in which they develop.)