Reply #8: Seems to me like eating meat and making excuses for it is just a cop out.

[leftyladyfrommo]

And I would be the first person to admit that I am guilty.

I keep trying to just eat vegetarian but I never seem to make it. So I guess the thing to do is just to keep trying.

I've been reading the Pali canon and some monks asked the Buddha about eating meat. He said that it was OK as long as it was left over from some other meal that was prepared for others. That made sense in his time where monks all begged for food and just ate what was given to them - left overs.

Doesn't really hold water today. Just eating meat adds to the demand for meat. And that leads to the killing of sentient beings.