[Buddha-l] on eating meat

Stephen Hodge s.hodge at padmacholing.freeserve.co.uk
Tue Oct 18 10:52:14 MDT 2005


Gad Horowitz wrote

> Hitler was also very kind to his staff, loved children, identified himself
> totally with the welfare of the German body (volk) ,and he was a great
> dancer!

You among others probably missed my all-important qualifier "supposedly". 
In fact, Hitler was not a vegetarian -- he regularly guzzled sausages and 
meat broth.  The vegetarian image was fostered by Goebels to promote the 
myth that Hitler was a super-human ascetic.

Best wishes,
Stephen Hodge 




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