[Buddha-l] Victimized vegans?

[Franz Metcalf]

Gang,

Richard wrote:

> I think those passages probably come from a time when Buddhist, Jainas 
> and Brahmans were obsessed with trying to show themselves more pure 
> than their rivals, where purity was defined in terms of all the things 
> one refused to eat.

I think you'll like this one better than the Lanka:

      Anger, arrogance, inflexibility, hostility, deception, envy, 
pride, conceit, bad company,
      these are impure foods, not meat.
      Sutta Nipata 245

Franz