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I've been reading a lot of Buddhism lately and I wouldn't mind going full-on but the fucking vegetarianism is fucking me up. I don't want to be a vegetarian and I do not honestly see why it was seen to be so necessary. I don't see it flowing undoubtedly from Buddhist metaphysics/epistemology.

Seems unfortunate to me that Buddhism was started in India where vegetarianism was so strong. Had it started in Europe then if everything else about it would have been the same, I don't think vegetarianism would have been a thing.

Am I just clinging to an attachment of eating meat or what? But like what the thread is about, I find it life denying. Animals eat each other. But not only that, denying yourself the ability to hunt or fish your own food leaves you only with factory farmed meat(which is something I hate). And since Buddhism actually allows you to eat meat but only if someone else kills it, this is another life denying aspect in my view as it implies the practitioner is just retreating from responsibility?

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Greatly into Advaita too and this would solve much of my issues, but I like the systematized and organizational parts of Buddhism.