Diet, ahimsa & saucha

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These questions are not simple.<br><br>I drink

milk and eat cheese, but mostly buy them organic and

free range and so am not supporting factory farming or

eating large quantities of artificial hormones,

antibiotics etc. (Or so I tell myself hopefully, without

actually having made any effort to investigate german

organic famring standards & practices)<br><br>On the

other hand, if a vegan eats fruit and vegetables

imported fom halfway around the world, then they are

arguably violating ahimsa by (a) the environmental damage

caused by transporting food that people don't actually

need halfway around the world and (b) the possible

social and economic harm caused to the farmers on the

other side of the world by giving them cause to grow

cash crops for export instead of subsistence crops for

themselves.<br><br>These are not completely straightforward questions, and

I wouldn't presume to criticise anybody who had

given them some serious thought and come to different

conclusions from mine. I myself have no desire to become an

organic vegan subsistence farmer or to give up drinking

the occasional capuccino, which means I am probably

going to continue to violate somebody's idea of

"correct" diet. "Ahimsa is impossible" - KPJ

<a href=http://www.yogasite.com/pattabi%20jois.htm

target=new>http://www.yogasite.com/pattabi%20jois.htm</a> - although that isn't

a get-out clause from

making some honest attempt towards it.