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REGARDING NON-VEGETARIAN FOOD
If anyone asks us to part with any of our limbs or flesh from our body which may not cost us our life, still we may not be ready to part with that even for a price. But by paying a meagre amount we take the whole life of a chicken, goat, sheep, fish, etc. and eat them; which is a grave sin. While eating non-vegetarian food if one thinks like eating flesh of some loved ones, one may not be able to eat non-vegetarian food at all.
All the living being in the universe wants to live and no one wants to die. So we have no right to take away the life of another trasa living beings (trasa living being means living beings that have strength to move around for self-protection and having more than one sense i.e. mobile beings). For our subsistence we may eat ekendriya living being (having only one sense i.e. body, for example - water, vegetables, grains, cereals, etc.) having least evolution stage and not having meat in their body.
Somebody may argue that many people can be fed by a single animal instead of many grains and vegetables so that less living being gets affected.
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