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素食在社會裏議論紛紛，人的口始終是自己的，要吃什麽都是由自己決定。只是肉類比起蔬菜對人體來看是比較難消化罷了，所謂病從口入，禍從口出，人只有對自己語言行動做好承擔後果的責任，吃素吃肉是沒有對錯的，別人怎麽說其實也沒有關聯。

吃素只是改變飲食習慣，吃素的人只要吃飯時不吃到肉類就沒有問題，無論在在那裏都可以吃，就算在肉店用放過肉的碗碟餐具，和吃肉的人一起吃都可以。主要是自己不吃肉類。這種吃素的人沒有所謂破戒或奇怪奇怪的戒條。西方人素食者都是這種。

現代人吃素有幾種：

1. 蛋素：吃素但吃蛋，不吃奶品。（很少數）
2. 蛋奶素：吃素但吃蛋，吃奶品。（洋人）
3. 奶素：吃素但不吃蛋，吃奶品。（印度人）
4. 全素：吃素，不吃蛋，不吃奶品。（真正的動物愛好者）

吃斋是受戒時的吃素，受戒，可能酒也不可以喝，煙也要戒，受戒吃齋的人也不吃一些植物，如洋蔥大蒜，有的甚至蘑菇，味精都不可以。受戒吃齋是修行/戴孝的目的的，希望自己可以修得六根清淨，專注修行（不吃蘑菇因爲蘑菇會讓人嗜睡），不貪婪（五味平等，食物不調味（大蒜）），不起色心（大蔥），不起怨恨（一些宗教理論相信動物被時所產生的怨恨會轉去動物的身體，讓人吃了也會帶的動物的野性和怨恨），不殺生（愛心，尊重每一個生命寶貴）等，甚至受戒時期夫妻不可同房，更嚴的話，男女都不可住在同一個屋簷下，這種受戒的人非常講究戒條，煮素食也要是素食者，碗碟不可和肉食參雜，不用動物產品（皮帶，皮鞋）等等，這種吃素方式都讓人聯想到宗教。初一十五吃素的人也是這種吃斋。

現在的素食者還包括了一些很奇怪的素食者（他們會說自己是健康派的）

魚肉素食者：他們不吃雞肉，不吃牛肉，多吃蔬菜水果，但吃魚肉。他們相信魚肉是全時間最乾淨的肉（沒有長肉劑，抗生素，荷爾蒙助長劑）

不吃紅肉素食者：他們不吃牛肉羊肉豬肉火雞等紅肉，但雞肉魚肉照樣吃。

不要問我爲什麽他們稱自己為素食者，我也不知道。

有很多人說，要吃素怎麼有去吃假肉，素肉呢？那不如干脆直接吃肉好了。

沒錯，那素肉是味精超多的不健康食品。

肉類食物裡的長肉劑，抗生素，荷爾蒙助長劑又是如何健康呢？ 

素食商業化難免會出現假肉這東西，華人食物種類繁多，菜色菜名全轉去素食真不簡單。

素食餐館已經很少了，加上華人的素食餐館都有賣素肉，如果要找一件沒有賣素肉的，在馬來西亞幾乎是沒有。

其實人人都有選擇，素食或肉食，選擇吃素肉或不吃。思想觀念決定一切。

有的人吃素，為了要健康，

有的人吃素，為了要減少殺害動物，

有的人吃素，為了要守孝，

有的人吃素，為了要清淨修行，

有的人吃素，為了要減肥，

等等

吃假肉添加味精是違反健康之道，有無吃假肉在現實上是沒有殺害動物，所以在愛動物的人來說是沒有分別的。

如果一些人持素的當兒為了吃肉的癮而吃假肉就讓人覺得怪怪的，但事情沒有絕對，如果有的人真的無法擺脫肉食，卻想學習吃素，吃假肉是理所當然的，就像戒煙者咬著一根牙簽，吃糖果一樣。

爲什麽佛教吃素？

Why Buddhism vege?

Saw a friend's post why we should be vegetarian, perhaps in term of Buddhism, vegetarian is to avoid kill, somehow plant also a type of life, or perhaps we kill a lots of bug before we eat vegetable also.
有朋友在網上問道這樣的類似的問題，學佛的人吃素是不殺生，那麽植物算不算生命？吃植物之前所殺的害蟲算不算殺生？


I reply it like that,
我是這樣回復，


Buddhism is a practice, learn to think of goodness, avoid self-fish, greed, angry, nonsense, arrogant...so a lots of Buddhism center encourage people to be vegetarian because meat eating will cause people start to being greed, angry, nonsense, arrogant..
學佛是一種修行，要學習心生善念，避免自私自利，貪嗔痴慢。。。所以衆多修佛法門都鼓勵門眾持素。肉食會讓人吃了生惡念，如貪嗔痴慢，


Why I said so,
爲什麽我這麽說，

Greed: eating meat will causing you hungry for another meat, eating meat will causing you take more meat, did you notice? perhaps sometimes is just because of to taste, to try the new thing,...

貪：吃了肉會讓人更無法自拔地吃，吃了肉會讓人更不能減少食用，為了品嘗，爲了新鮮。。


Angry: meat-eater will get angry easily, Buddhism believe the feeling of animals before they die will transfer to its meat, and transfer to human.

嗔：吃了肉容易生氣，性衝動，。。在佛學裏，相信動物死前的情感會轉去他的肉，從肉又傳去人類。


Nonsense: Eating meat because of the status of life, some of the rich man eat certain meat to show how rich they are, some of them believe eat something which familiar in shape will cure the sickness, ex: eat animal's kidney to cure kidney, eat animal's penis to make their penis strong,... shark fin, wild animals... all being killed for some human's nonsense of nutrients concept, actually how high nutrient values of this type of meat? how effective of this meat can cure the sickness?

痴：為了無謂的地位而吃肉，有錢人爲了顯示自己有錢有地位，有些更說說以形補形，而生吃野味，吃魚翅，野味，海狗鞭。。。其實這些東西的營養價值也沒有特別地高，藥效也沒有這麽神奇。


Arrogant: meat is "high class" of food for "high class" human, with their status, they won't eat "cheap" food.

傲慢：為了顯示地位的分別而吃“高級”的肉，不吃“低等”的食物。

All these evil thinking are one of the reasons why people keep on feel hungry.

這些惡念也算是讓人一直覺得餓的其中的一個原因。

Today world the way we choose our food is totally freedom, the food supplies are very variable, there are lack of nothing, perhaps when the man don't have a choice to choose, eating man is too survive, but when the human have choice to choose their food, when the vegetarian food is available, human with herbivorous tooth, herbivorous digest system, herbivorous's nail, because of human can't eat animal by nature, human got to using their intelligence to invent a tools to kill and cook the animal, human also can't digest raw meat and stand of the smell of raw meat, they invent a lot of cooking method, can we said this is a type of survive?

現代社會的選擇食物絕對是自由，食物的供應可以説是五花八門，絕對沒有一樣短缺，當人沒有得選擇時，吃肉是生存之道，那當人有得選擇時候，素食糧食充足的情況下，以一個草食動物牙齒，草食動物的消化系統，草食動物的指甲，然後利用自己的聰明發明各種利器來殺煮動物，無法消化生肉和忍受腥味而發明各種烹飪方式，這個算是生存之道嗎？

I am not criticizes meat eater. Eating is not wrong, but today the culture of eating a lots of meat everyday is totally destroying our earth environment.

我不是妖魔化肉食者。肉食沒有錯，而是今天大量肉食的習慣的確大大坏了我們的環境。

I strongly believe human is herbivore from the apes. Herbivore never need to eat any meat for their protein intake, just like a cow, goat, horse, elephant, aren't they all strong? they just eat what they should eat.

本身非常相信人類根本就是草食果食動物。草食動物是無需肉類蛋白質的，就像牛，羊，大象，它們不是很強壯嗎？它可是只吃真正屬於它們的食物。

From point of view of environment, the huge demand of meat in the world already reach the peak, have a research state that live stock industry required 2/3 of grain product from animal's food, the food that need for the animals grow up, but when it become a food, it is enough for how many persons？ how long will it last before get hungry? example: One chicken need to eat 200kg of food for its whole life, after all a human eating this chicken, is it this person full like after eating 200kg of food? perhaps after 2 days, he will finish the whole chicken, but did you notice that 200kg of food can be how many meals of one person? it must more than 2 days, perhaps more than 2 month.  I didn't ask you to eat what chicken eat, it is just a approximate of the grain that animal eat is about same time of grain that eaten by human.  Today, how many animal killed each day to fill up human's stomach? 1 million? perhaps more than that number.

從社會環境來看，大量肉食的需求已把牧農業搞到全世界3分2的糧食來餵食這些動物，那動物需要一段時間用這些食物長大的，可是一些動物變成食物了后，它能不能填飽多少人的肚子？又能填飽多久？比如説一只雞的一生吃了200公斤的食物，一個人吃了這只雞后，會不會好像吃了200公斤的食物一樣呢？也許兩天就吃完了，200公斤的食物對一個人來説可以吃多久呢？這肯定超過兩天，或許超過這兩個月。當然我不是叫你去吃雞糧，這只是雞吃植物性食物的和人吃的植物性食物的接近對比。這今天，一天裏有多少生命來犧牲來填飽人類的肚子？一億？恐怕沒有這麽少。

Before the live stock develop, human eat how many meat everyday / every year? perhaps you can go to ask your father, grandfather. is it they live like a normal person? most of the grandfather age persons are grow without cow milk, they are poor to eat meat every day.  Why today meat eating become a must? meat become main nutrient resource? everyday must drink milk? every week need several eggs? several pieces of cheese? everyday need several type of meat? today the advanced country, they start to make animal protein as their main meal everyday since several 10 years ago, milk, cheese, eggs become their daily product, so how many of them get cancer? heart disease? high cholesterol, diabetes?...

以前牧農業也沒有這麽發達前，人們每天/每年吃多少肉？你可以去問問你的爸爸，公公。他們不是好好活著嗎？有多公公的級的人們都不是喝牛奶大，每天吃幾種肉來活的。怎麽今天變成必需品？真正營養來源？每天喝牛奶？每周幾粒雞蛋？幾片乳酪？一天要吃幾種肉？今天的先進國家，在幾十年前已是以肉類蛋白爲主，牛奶乳酪雞蛋當每日必須食品，今天他們當中有癌症有多少？心臟病有多少？膽固醇？糖尿病？。。。

Did you even think about, the statement of nutrient ...the fact of nutrient is not spoken by doctor, but it is magnified by businessman who calm that that is statement from doctor/specialist. 

有沒有想過，有很多營養類的話。。這不是醫生說的，這是商傢假扮醫生說的。

Eating meat is not wrong, problem is the human nowadays eat a lot of meat everyday.
肉食沒有錯，問題是今天的人類吃過多了。

If you think smoking is a type enjoyment that causing pollution, personal healthy and other health, eating meat also a same type of enjoyment that have totally same effect.
如果你覺得抽煙是一種讓環境污染，危害自己健康，危害別人健康的享樂，那麽吃肉也和抽煙一樣的害處。

Perhaps there are a lot of people still thinking human should eat A LOT OF meat to survive, for the nutrients, just because of our body have ability to digest COOKED meat, for convenience, for enjoyment, for happiness, while the earth's environment seriously polluted because of meat industry, I rather choose to being criticized by majority of people, to be lack of nutrients, sacrifice so called "enjoyment of food" for the whole life, to being vegetarian, I know my power is very tiny, but I try to make a ecology system balanced a little bit.  Please join me while you understand the cause and do your best! live for Peace and love for the earth.

也許這世界還有很多人還在覺得人類需要吃很多肉類來生存，來補充營養，就因爲人体有能力消化已煮熟的肉類，爲了方便，爲了享樂，爲了快樂，然而人們在地球的生態坏境嚴重被肉食業污染的情況下依然這樣選擇自己的飲食方式，那我情願讓多數的人批評我營養不足，批評我不懂享受美食，犧牲一生的光陰，來成爲素食者，以換來環境一點的平衡，雖然我知道我的力量是微不足道的。如果你明白肉類事實真相的，請加入我，以你所能的力量，為和平，為全體人類的大愛，為保護這美麗的地球而活。

I believe in nature, by nature, with free hand, I can't eat any meat, so I choose to stop eating it.

我相信自然法則，以自然地，空手的情況下，人是無法吃任何動物的，所以我停止食用肉類。

肉食之害

http://www.bfnn.org/book/books/0498.htm

Humans: Are We Carnivores or Vegetarians by Nature?

http://blog.atmajyoti.org/2008/04/humans-are-we-carnivores-or-vegetarians-by-nature/

在這年代吃素，是很惹人評論的，說沒有營養，說容易餓，說素肉假肉，說不方便。。往往都是非素食者遇到素食者是說的，雖然很多時候素食者是還沒有開始說話。

這些話說來像是先說句話保護自己，干嗎？良心發現？其實都没有人都要/逼你吃素。

金龍想很少素食者會逼別人吃素吧？至少我身邊的素食者都沒有逼人吃素的。