>reminded me of my time at the living foods symposium in october '93,
>when someone from the stage (ray kent?) exclaimed, "there will never be
>peace on earth so long as humans eat meat.  no meat, no war."  well, in
>sanskrit,the word for "war" translates as "the desire for more cows"

My Sanskrit is not that great, but from what little I know, the words
"war", "warrior" and "chess" have the same root ("kshatr"). They
don't appear to have any connection with the root for "cow" or "desire".