From cannibalism, man has come a long way and in that process, some prescriptions and some proscriptions have crept in and they acquired religious overtones in society.

Try to live with nature in a jungle and survive with your ingenuity. Experience jungle life for a few weeks. then contemplate and form your own ideas and decide for yourself.

if you can not go, just view Is Jangal Se Mujhe Bachao! On TV.

You say that If you can kill and eat one animal - you can eat any animal"". By the same logic it would be alright to eat human meat since humans are also animals. Had religion not forbidden it we would have been doing that. So we should respect the directives of religions and cultures since they are product of collective wisdom generated from centuries of experience

Human eat flesh of that animal which have the least amount of instinct in them. Only meek and submissive animals are eaten. Eating wild and ferocious animals would make you wild and ferocious like them. Likewise, we drink milk of animal which are mild and submissive.

NO one can open mouth about Islam but for Hindus Cow is forbidden purely becouse of ecological ,envioronmental and economical factor.I do not know if Xcians got any such restriction.

You can selectively kill and consume ,if every available spices are killed indiscriminately ,many slow propagating spices get endangered , hence , better to spare many and confine to few.

Today the arguments produced by Vegetarian organizations are completely baseless and illogical. These organizations take children and adolescents to butcher shops, show them the place and make them hate it and forcibly tune their mind. Some of the arguments that I knew from these people are that 1) if you eat non-veg you will inherit the animal instincts 2) if you eat non-veg you will be cruel and not peace loving 3) non-veg food is always unhealthy and not nutritious etc etc...All these arguments are completely baseless and illogical too. Scientific analysis proves that none of these are true. Coming to eating non-vegetarian food, yes there are certain health risks of eating non-veg food like the risks involved in any other type of food. One has to watch over how much and how frequently one is consuming non-veg food. If processed and cooked properly non-veg food is highly rich in proteins and other amino acids essential to body.

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I am pure vegetarian, so its beyond my understanding too.

Killing animal is very bad. you are denying that animal to live further.

Right but in some religions its forbidden to eat nveg food so they eat what is available