Q. Do people in India eat meat?
Yes. A good percentage of Indians eat meat. In fact, all Vedic Indians ate meat, beef and drank alcohol until the time of Buddha, which is considered recent for Indian civilization. In fact, even Buddha said you can eat meat if the animal was not killed specifically for you. Later on, it became fashionable by the so called or self called high castes not to eat meat. All the people that want to be associated with the high caste do not eat meat.
Source – from a book I found in Ramana Maharshi library, Tiruvannamalai.
According to the opinion prevailing among modern scholars, ritual animal sacrifice with subsequent eating of the meat was a predominant custom, and the principle of ahimsa (nonviolence) was hardly known or not respected.[22] From: Wiki
Even though a lot of Indians in current India do not meat, there are quite a few Indians who do eat meat. Eating beef may not be so common, except in a few states in India.
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Why go just 2500 years into the past? If we go back far enough we can argue that all humans, being hairy apes with canines, ate meat!
: ) pretty clever, I say!
That’s true. But, I come across this question a lot, as if meat is a novel idea. People who ask me this question have heard a lot about sattvic food in India.
Well, if you go back really far in history – to the point where we were all hairy apes – then we should all be vegetarians…. apes are vegetarians!!!
Previous comment is not true. See the wikipedia entry for ape:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape
Except for gorillas and humans, all true apes are agile climbers of trees. They are best described as omnivorous, their diet consisting of fruit, including grass seeds, and in most cases other animals, either hunted or scavenged, along with anything else available and easily digested.
ApeMan is always right!