Quote Originally Posted by Necromancer View Post
Namaste.

I am going to provide a 'what if?' scenario.

What if you are, or have recently become, a vegetarian, but you own a pet...say a cat who won't eat vegetables?

Then you give the cat a tin of cat food to keep the poor animal alive....

I am in that situation.

Aum Namah Shivaya
I too buy meat for a cat. He eats more expensive food than I do sometimes!

Regarding this - "That quote from the Manusmriti sums it up nicely, everybody who has a hand in butchering and selling and cooking an animal is just as much 'at fault' as the one who consumes it."

Isn't there also the story of the righteous butcher and the sannyasin?