[Buddha-l] Re: on eating meat

[Mike Austin]

In message <s356f360.085 at zgrw01.cf.ac.uk>, Andrew Skilton 
<skiltonat at Cardiff.ac.uk> writes

>>Do dogs collect bad kharma for eating meat? and if not, why not?
>
>Well, the start of an answer must surely be the Buddha declaring that 
>'karma' is
>'intention'. When mine gobble food down, I guess they have no intention of
>harming other creatures, whatever it is that I have put in their bowls.

If I eat like this (not gobbling, but having no intention to harm other 
beings), do I create bad karma. Or is that only for dogs?

-- 
Metta
Mike Austin