vegetarianism

The simple act of eating vegetarian food has become more political than it ever was. While it is lovely to be vegetarian, it is critical we ponder on why we want to be vegetarian: for health, to save the world, or to purify our soul. As spirituality-that-excludes becomes increasingly popular...

If Peas Can Talk, Should We Eat Them? By MICHAEL MARDER - THE NEW YORK TIMES - April 28, 2012, 3:30 pm Imagine a being capable of processing, remembering and sharing information — a being with potentialities proper to it and inhabiting a world of its own. Given this brief description...

Vegetarians Experiencing Karma, say Meat lovers The cucumber crisis is karma wielding its cosmic vengeance upon vegetarians who have insisted that they are the earthly embodiment of all that is healthy, people who eat meat have claimed. The kinds of foods that vocal vegetarians...

Many people look to Siddhartha Gautama as an example of someone who attained nirvana, a buddha. Every other week in this column we look at what it might be like if Siddhartha was on his spiritual journey today. How would he combine Buddhism and dating? How would he handle stress in the...

Time to a set up a thread about the highly controversial "Meat" topic. Please discuss.