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It is doubtful that it had much to do with Indian Buddhism as it extended to buffalos, was geography specific (stronger in southern China), was cited as a model in early 1800's on y a similar ban needs to be there in Korea by a Confucian like Tasan who
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cited agricultural reasons as well as moral. Rather the East Asian beef taboo should be seen as a case of convergent evolution, not much to do with India or Buddhism. Malthus also argued against beef eating for similar reasons & in
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Plato's Republic the coveting of meat along with other luxuries is noted as a cause of war as raising animals needs more land & land is fixed. The attached dialogue is between Socrates & Glaucon
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Furthermore in a more modern context it may be noted that in
Cuba there were restrictions on cattle slaughter in a nod to their reliance on cattle for agriculture. This was after Cuban agriculture collapsed due to Soviet collapse & consequent halt to cheap oil
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