The correct question is not, "Should I be a vegetarian?" but "Should I participate in the unnecessary killing of sentient beings?" This shifts the focus from the practitioner to victim.
When we recast the issue in terms of compassion, it becomes immediately clear that Buddhist teaching--as well as simple human decency--does in fact prescribe "one right answer to this question of diet."
---The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animal Rights, by Norm Phelps---
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