Vegetarian Discussion

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Oh yes, a brief summary would very be much appreciated - if you have the time Bodhi.

I wanted to post the following for a while, but kept forgetting. Thanks for bringing up the topic which has now reminded me.

Both articles are by the jewel that is Sandhya Jain:
http://sandhyajain.voiceofdharma.com/art...011212.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Did Vedic Hindus really eat cow?</b>
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http://sandhyajain.voiceofdharma.com/art...040727.htm
Only the following bit of this second link pertains to the matter:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Of course, our Marxist friends have had no compunctions in shocking young school students with the claim that our Vedic ancestors, particularly the wily Brahmins, were voracious eaters of cow meat. Undeterred by inconvenient facts like the veneration of the cow in the Vedas and the prohibition on its slaughter, they have continued to perpetuate a colonial falsehood that was invented to facilitate the conversion agenda of Christian missionaries. Discerning readers would have realized that the sudden vehemence with which Marxists are now propagating that Vedic Hindus ate beef is nothing but a crude attempt to de-sacralize the cow and assist the conversion agenda of evangelizing faiths. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->