eating clams
eating clams
Hello is eating clams breaking 1st precept? Are they considered living beings?
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Re: eating clams
I drank some Clamato a few hours ago. That is, tomato juice mixed with some sort of clam sauce.
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Re: eating clams
And yes, even a bacteria is a "living being", so it quite matters. But as long as you didn't kill the living being yourself, it is plausible you didn't break the precept.
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Re: eating clams
Thank you, but in my country i went to a seafood restaurant, and what i know they are alive, they just pluck the clam in the moment maybe. I wont eat clams again in seafood restaurant, my mother ordered clams, and i ate them. But i wont do it again.
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Blessed are you if you don't partake in eating animal products. That is the surer Path!
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Re: eating clams
In a magazine of damma verses called Lo weda sangarawa , A poem is written that means ,
The crab plays up in the pot of water until the water starts boiling , and so are being delight on this earth until the day comes
as delight cannot be contracted to be suffering .
Re: eating clams
That’s a new spin! Plausible deniability. Clams, mussels, oysters, “shellfish” are alive when tossed into the pot or fire, otherwise they are risky eating. So how is it plausible?Mahabrahma wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 2:13 am But as long as you didn't kill the living being yourself, it is plausible you didn't break the precept.
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Clams are not animal products, they are animals. See the info box here, they are members of the Animal Kingdom:Mahabrahma wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 3:22 am Blessed are you if you don't partake in eating animal products. That is the surer Path!
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Re: eating clams
A virus is not a living organism. It is parasitic and cannot endure without a host cell. Has no digestion. Cannot transform energy.Mahabrahma wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 2:13 am And yes, even a bacteria is a "living being", so it quite matters.
“Life is swept along, short is the life span; no shelters exist for one who has reached old age. Seeing clearly this danger in death, a seeker of peace should drop the world’s bait.” SN 1.3
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Re: eating clams
I'm not going to argue the point. Thanks for the warning. Clamato is a big company, so I hope they don't do that, but since your warning, I will have to steer free of clams in the future. Thank you for being so kind as to warn me of such an occurrence. Thank you dear friend.[james] wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 12:49 pmThat’s a new spin! Plausible deniability. Clams, mussels, oysters, “shellfish” are alive when tossed into the pot or fire, otherwise they are risky eating. So how is it plausible?Mahabrahma wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 2:13 am But as long as you didn't kill the living being yourself, it is plausible you didn't break the precept.
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Re: eating clams
It seems they make it with something called, "reconstituted clam broth", very sad to hear that for some reason the clams may be burned while still living.
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Re: eating clams
Exactly. Bacteria/viruses are not beings according to the Buddha. This an oft-repeated falsehood. This belief drives many people to ridiculous extremes, like certain Jain sects the Buddha openly, repeatedly criticized. I think its confusion or conflation with modern scientific information.SDC wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 2:45 pmA virus is not a living organism. It is parasitic and cannot endure without a host cell. Has no digestion. Cannot transform energy.Mahabrahma wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 2:13 am And yes, even a bacteria is a "living being", so it quite matters.
Clams are living. I don't know why anyone would want to eat them, but they do.
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Thank you for clearing it up, DNS. Back when I used to be vegan for a number of years I would call anything that came from an animal an animal product, including the meat. But I understand the differentiation.DNS wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 2:22 pmClams are not animal products, they are animals. See the info box here, they are members of the Animal Kingdom:Mahabrahma wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 3:22 am Blessed are you if you don't partake in eating animal products. That is the surer Path!
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Re: eating clams
I think with regards to bacteria and viruses, one would have to believe in the Soul to consider it alive, without belief that every living thing has a Soul, the view of Equanimity can fade. However it is important to know that understand the Soul is not necessarily a "Self".
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