amadeus wrote: >Buddism and I think most other religions which follow the ideal not to >hurt any living beeings (ahimsa) does *not* demand to abstain from >meat. It's just that the animals musn't be hurt. So, if you find a >accidentally" dead animal, you can eat it delighted. Some animals fall >off the mountain (really, in spring). from http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/robinson/robinson020122.html, an account by a Canadian doctor volunteering in Kathmandu, Nepal: "Most Buddhists do not eat meat but on a semi-regular basis yaks fell off the trail. We called them yakcidents. One minute the yak was just walking along, obediently following in the footsteps of the yak in front of it, a chain in the common Nepalese yak train. The next minute it was tumbling down the side of the escarpment. Once the yak lay lifeless at the bottom of the cliff there seemed little point in wasting. Might as well eat the meat while it's fresh." Cheyenne ______________________________________________________________________ Web-hosting solutions for home and business! http://website.yahoo.ca