Message #41161

[patrick]

If you would like to borrow this book : Mohandas K. Gandhi, Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth ; I would be glad to lend it. In it Ghandi discusses how his views surrounding meat were complicated and what conclusions he made at different times in his life.

I read that book, a very good one, but Gandhi was a proponent of a vegan raw diet. He himself almost died because of his strict diet and had to fall back on goat's milk. I don't remember he ever hinted at eating meat

He mentioned that he ate meat when he was a teenager, he did not do it for enjoyment but instead had at the time an idea that this is what would make him and others strong enough to overthrow the British. Of course there are many examples of very strong people who are vegetarians, but at the time this was a concept that his friends had come across. The rest of his life he totally abstained from any meat, and he mentioned that he felt very repentant for what he had don.