If one should wholly abstain from meat and be contented with
vegetables, it would be much better. And
how difficult it is for a man to kill an animal and to prepare the food
for himself. But as it is already killed and we find it in the market we buy
it. As it is now killed, it is better to take and eat it than to leave it to
become out of use. But it is very hard for a soul to take a lamb and kill it
and to make of it a certain dish for a meal. If the people could bear it, the
prophets would prohibit the eating of flesh.
- 'Abdu'l-Baha (Words of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, October
1909, Akka, recorded by Miss Wilson of Boston, Mass., Miss Engelhorn of
Portland, Ore., Miss Stewart of Philadephia, Pa, and Mrs. Brittingham of
Brooklyn, NY)
