Should Buddhists eat beef?

[RobertK]

Vegetarianism and Dhamma

There are regular odd ideas that pop up around this topic. I saw this on another forum. Thanissaro “Good Heart, Good Mind: The Practice of the Ten Perfections” "…the [first] precept is phrased in such a way that eating meat does not go against the precept, but you still have the kamma of eating the flesh of the animal that had to die for that. This is one of the reasons why monks have a reflection every day on the food they eat, which is that they’re incurring a debt and only through the …