{"id":7234,"date":"2010-09-02T23:13:30","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T15:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=7234"},"modified":"2010-09-02T23:14:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T15:14:05","slug":"a-living-without-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/09\/a-living-without-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Living Without Killing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7235\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/14.jpg?resize=206%2C245\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/14.jpg?w=206&amp;ssl=1 206w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/14.jpg?resize=81%2C96&amp;ssl=1 81w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: Does a meat-seller (not a butcher), say a chicken rice hawker break the First Precept of not killing? He doesn&#8217;t kill any chicken though he buys dead chickens from a butcher. What about a poultry-seller who sells live chickens for customers to slaughter by themselves?<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Technically, the meat-seller does not break the First Precept. However, his trade involves meat, which is considered wrong livelihood under the Noble Eightfold Path. \u00a0It&#8217;s simple why &#8211; because his business demands continual killing. The live chicken-seller also does not technically break the First Precept but it also\u00a0practises  wrong livelihood as it involves continual exploitation of sentient lives. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The unwholesome karma created in either cases is not any less grave than breaking the First Precept &#8211; especially over a long duration of time &#8211; because these occupations support killing quite directly.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Does a meat-seller (not a butcher), say a chicken rice hawker break the First Precept of not killing? He&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241,74],"tags":[139,277],"class_list":["post-7234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-veganism","tag-karma","tag-precepts","wpcat-241-id","wpcat-74-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}