shibuya@excite.com (wasabi) wrote in message news:<a24d2dae.0402080331.91c428e@posting.google.com>...
> Brett Robson <jet_boy@deja.com> wrote in message news:<c037u602dkr@drn.newsguy.com>...
> > On 7 Feb 2004 04:19:15 -0800, wasabi  ...
>
> 
> I've read somewhere that because of Buddhist principles, most monks
> and much of the populace were vegetarian 

There has always been a get-out clause where Buddha was said to have
allowed monks to eat meat that was not killed for them personally.

What could be better after a long, strenuous bout of chanting than a
big BSE-don at the local Yoshinoya?

Mukade