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Originally Posted by Wabi-sabi  May seem like a silly question but I have always wondered.
If you are a vegetarian because you do not believe it is right to kill an animal, is it okay to eat meat if the animal died of natural causes? Say a cow froze to death and is disease free. Can you eat it? |
In this case...
probably yes, if you consent that it is okay to eat people who died of natural causes. You don't actually have to eat anybody, you just need to be okay with the eating of anyone.
In some cultures (these are rare, and I can only think of one that is still around, but members who eat brain are at risk of developing a prion disease) the dead were eaten (especially heart and brain) in order to let the "spirit" live on inside the living. (Very Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land).
Now, silly question, but I'm wondering... do you eat meat? Usually only omnivores pose these types of very silly hypothetical questions.
Generally speaking, when you give up eating flesh for moral reasons, the thought of eating meat starts to get a bit repulsive. I couldn't go back to omni if I wanted to (I don't want to), because my body just doesn't want it.