Question: Can I eat dairy products? Can I eat shrimp, mussels, oysters? Answer: Dairy products – yes, very nice offering. As I said, the cow is very dear, it’s one of our mothers. And another unique thing that I didn’t mention. If you take the milk from the cow and offer this to God, the cow that gave that milk actually gets benefit also. The cow...
More2. Game: pheasant or quail. Can one eat?
Question. Game: pheasant or quail. Can one eat? Answer: Sorry, it doesn’t work either. They are not plants. Some people tell me: -Oh, I am a vegetarian. I eat chicken and fish. -Oh, are chicken and fish vegetables? So we can’t create our own definition of vegetarianism.
More3. HOW DOES THE BODY OF A VEGETARIAN KEEP FUNCTIONING WITHOUT A SUPPLY OF THESE FOUR AMINO ACIDS?
Question: I am a doctor and as I know a human body has to receive all the existing amino acids from food. Four of them are called essential and are contained only in meat. How does the body of a vegetarian keep functioning without a supply of these four amino acids? Answer: Well, I’m not a medical doctor, but I do know that you can get all the necessary...
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Question: Mushrooms? Answer: Yes, it’s possible, but not the psychedelic ones. (Laughing) But I will say mushrooms are not a good offering. If you want to take it to that level, they are not really a good food for the body. Number one, they are in the mode of ignorance – they are not a good offering to God. Number two, they are fungus and introducing...
More5. How can one justify the consumption of milk?
Question: The maintenance of dairy cattle damages nature just as the maintenance of beef cattle. How can one justify the consumption of milk? Answer: True enough. The way it’s done today you are right. That’s not designed like that either. All these factory-farming practices whether it is for milk or for meat, or for vegetables, or whatever, are...
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