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An Open Letter to Monastics Who Eat Meat<\/strong><\/p>\n In the Theravada Buddhist tradition, vegetarianism is relatively less actively encouraged (as compared to the Mahayana and Vajrayana traditions), even by monastics, many of whom consume randomly received alms. However, nowadays, alms food which contain meat is often offered deliberately with planning ahead done by devotees. Though they do not see or hear the animals killed, surely, the monastics more than suspect the animals were in\/directly purchased or killed for them.<\/p>\n Even the purchase of meat at the market by devotees connects to the supply and demand loop for the murder of animals. As we know, monastics are not supposed to consume animals whom they had seen, heard and\/or suspected to be killed for them. As such, every time a monastic eats offered meat that was purposely gotten for his meal, there is at least an indirect but clear link to slaughter in his name. When the consumption of meat reduces, the killing of animals for meat will reduce. This is undeniable.<\/p>\n The main reason most Theravada monastics do not speak up for vegetarianism is because they are not supposed to be choosy over their food, which is not prepared by them anyway. However, these are really weak reasons not to speak up for the vegetarian cause \u2013 because it is entirely possible to have a vegetarian diet while consuming only alms food \u2013 by gradual but conscientious speaking of the ills of meat-consumption and the advantages of vegetarianism to devotees.<\/p>\n If the above is done well, devotees are likely to not only turn vegetarian, but offer vegetarian food to monastics too. Fortunately, the irrefutable ills of meat-eating are non-religious in nature, and are thus applicable to everyone, be they Buddhist or otherwise. The reduction of meat-consumption can help to save one’s health, the health of countless animals, the health of fellow starving humans, and the health of the planet. For details on how this is so, please see http:\/\/viva.org.uk\/goingveggie<\/a> On a “balanced” note, more Theravada monastics are becoming vegetarian these days, though this trend ought to pick up more quickly.<\/p>\n Related Articles: An Open Letter to Monastics Who Eat Meat In the Theravada Buddhist tradition, vegetarianism is relatively less actively encouraged (as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veganism","tag-veganism-vegetarianism","wpcat-74-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHow some monks rationalise eating of meat
\nhttp:\/\/moonpointer.com\/index.php?itemid=2582
\n<\/a>More poor rationalisation
\nhttp:\/\/moonpointer.com\/index.php?itemid=166<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"