Why were Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, not "vegetarians"?!
Why were Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, not "vegetarians"?
Buddha loved to eat pork. Mohammed was a big goat eater. Jesus enjoyed eating fish. Krishna loved his cows. Were all these great teachers wrong about eating meat?
Answers:
humans need meat for iron intake.
it also depends on their culture ... eg, common to eat fish during jesus' time
meat is too yumcious!lol i was veg for 2 years.i started eating meat again because it became a problem when i met the love of my life. we couldn't go out for lunch or dinner, so i decided to become non-veg.
however i still find it hard to face it. i hate the thought of killing and eating innocent animals. before i puke,again, i should stop thinking about it.
Of course they are not wrong. God has created everyone and everything for a purpose, and one of the uses of some animals is human consumption. If it is wrong for us to eat meat and god does not like it, then it must be wrong for lions and tigers to prey on goats, sheep, etc. This is god's creation and the circle of life.
There is a true story that happened, which the prophet muhammad pbuh recounts about a man chasing a wolf away who snatched one of his sheep. At this point, God allowed the wolf to speak "yes god is able to do all things, there are also two miraculous speeches by two newly borns who were allowed to speak, jesus pbuh spoke when he was a baby, telling the jews that he was a prophet of God and confirming his mother's innocence of what they accused her of, and the baby of the lady who used to brush the hair of pharoah's wife, when it was revealed that she believed in God contrary to the wishes of pharoah and her baby was going to be burned, the mother almost weakened and the baby spoke at this point asking the mother to remain steadfast and she is on the truth."
Anyways back to the story of the wolf and the sheep: the wolf spoke at that time and asked the man to leave him to the food that God has blessed him with. This story shows that eating meat is not wrong, and we should only stay away from the meat that god has forbidden us to eat, namely pork.
You've got to be joking about Krishna...he "loved his cows", yes, ALIVE not as a beef. Krishna was definitely vegetarian, and even states that only lacto-vegetarian food be offered to him, and that one shouldn't kill animals, even for food.
Buddha did not "love" to eat pork - the classic Buddhist version of vegetarianism is that one should not kill animals or have them killed for you for meat, but if someone accidentally gives you non-vegetarian food, you should eat it anyway because it's worse to deny someone's hospitality and for the animal to die in vain.
Jesus and Muhammad, I don't know too much about their eating habits, except that it has been posited (by non-vegetarian groups, even) that Jesus may have been a member of the Essenes, a group that holds vegetarianism as one of their ideals. One thing I do know is that references to "meals" or "food" were often written as "meat" in the KJV, and did not mean animal flesh as we mean it today. For more information, read about the etymology of the word "meat" through the history of the English language. I forget how the Jesus/Essene religious theorists explained the parts about fish, because whether Jesus was vegetarian, a piscavore, a meat-eater, etc. has never been that important to me.
Anyway, just because they are considered great teachers, does not mean we have to follow everything they do exactly, especially since they contradict each other in many ways! Should we be like followers of Krishna and *never* eat eggs or meat? Or like followers of Muhammad and eat beef or chicken (but not pork!) as long as it's been killed using Dhabi?a? Or Christians nowadays, and eat anything we want? Or Jews, and make sure our meat and milk don't mix?
Maybe we should eat what we want through our own ideas, moral convictions, tastebuds, etc. instead of worrying about what other people do or don't do. I'm not vegan because someone told me to be, it's because of my own perceptions of the world and my reactions to them.
Yes, they should have just eaten tomatoes, lol. Was Baal wrong to eat babies? Because an entire civilization (that at times bested Rome in battle) worshipped him, and I'd certainly list him with the others up there. I'd do some more research into Krishna by the way - you'll see most food related Deities start with a cow or goat that gives birth or nourished an important god, or the first man and woman, etc. People started having doubts about eating animals when they began to live with them. The guys you listed are all late comers on the religion scene. I don’t see actually how any of the men you listed or figures (I don’t know what Krishna would be) are teachers. Several were ‘prophets’. I guess your point is religions (with a heavy middle east/ east concentration) with all their different rules usually have some meat intake. Go tell that to the Janes. The important thing is that all cultures have a way of eating healthy. Otherwise the members of the society die out. If not a creature then the milk of one. Otherwise you would die, or have a severely impaired and imperiled nervous system if you switched as an adult. Not only is meat important - (fish, eggs, cheese, milk) - the organ that needs these fats, vitamins and proteins is your brain.
Blackbyrus is definitely right about Buddha and
Krishna. Legend has at that Buddha died from
eating Bore's flesh that he consumed in order
not to insult the hospitality of his hosts. Hence
the reason Buddhist's are so strict about
vegetarianism now.
Find the passage in the bible that tells us Jesus "ate" fish. There isn't one, he allowed another man to share his fish with countless of others, but no where does it say he ate fish.
No need to go into the other arguments, they have been covered quite well.
no nto realy........because god made meat for us to eat or not to eat ..................but some feel eating get non-meats are healthers for us so nto muhammed (pbah) and jesus (as) were not at alll wrong
i suspect they did'nt know meat-eaters were going to radically genetically modify animals so they became charactures of thier former selves and be subject to pain, torture, cruelty and death in factory farms.
Had they known you were going to do this, i suspect they would have had somethng to say about it.
just a guess.
Because back when they lived the animals were healthy. They weren't crammed into tiny buildings, pumped full of hormones, fed ground up diseased animals, (even though they're designed to eat grass) and therefore riddled with cancer.