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Thirukkural- On Virtue- Avoidance Of Meat-Eating-Kural-257
Those who realize that flesh eaten is, as it were, a wound on another body,Will not have recourse to meat-eating'.
Rajaji would say that the 'disgusting' aspect of meat-eating is sought to be brought out here in order to persuade people to abstain from meat-eating. For, what is meat but a cruel and ugly ulcer on the body of another creature?
The Bible is only against excessive use of meat in the following line:
'Be
not
among
wine-bibbers;
among
riotous
eaters
of
flesh'.
(Proverbs 23,20)
but Valluvar's is an all-out doctrine of complete abstention from meat, as an essential for the virtue of compassion. The idea that meat is an ulcer is referred to in 'Araneri' thus,
Tham
punn
kaluvi
marundhiduvar
thaampirithin
Uyirin
thalaipirindha
uoon