[Reader-list] Fw: Buff or beef?

[Tapas Ray]

And how could I forget the "Aghora" line in the Tantric tradition, in which 
cannibalism was part of the ritual in my own state, Bengal? Maybe still is, 
I don't know.

Being non-Tantric, we merely kill, not eat, one another in order to drive 
home the point that you must not kill cows.


> You are forgetting field rats. I have seen their meat hung out to dry from 
> clotheslines in certain villages. As for human blood, before trying it, 
> remember what Idi Amin is supposed to have said about human flesh - that 
> he doesn't eat it, because it's too salty. Better still, ask oldtimers in 
> a certain part of our country where, I believe, ritual cannibalism was 
> practised in the past.
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> I suppose most people eat to live, not live to eat ... hence consumption 
> (in the narrow, literal sense of eating) is for life, not the other way 
> round. If there is a way to live without eating any living thing, whether 
> plant or animal, I am sure many of us will gladly do so. Meanwhile, let us 
> carry on joking or, even better, killing one another, over what we eat or 
> do not eat.
>
> From: "S.Shashidhar" <iwasthere2000 at yahoo.com>
>> life is ment for consumption, let us all eat meat and drink human blood, 
>> A cow is holy so it should be > spared but a poor goat can and will be 
>> eaten, there are a lucy few in the south who can eat cows.. Man > thi was 
>> one grose thread
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