The Nicefication of Eating Meat

[Ashim]

Even his holiness the Dalai Lama says that he will eat meat/fish if it is given to him by a host so as to not offend.
A simple blessing of the animal should suffice.

The Dalai Lama would rather not offend his host, than not participate—by imbibing and therefore condoning—the torture and cruelty of farm animals, or at least the unnecessary slaughter for meat. That doesn't sound very enlightened to me; it sounds human egocentric-based.

I really don't mean to be inflammatory, but try going to slaughterhouse, or even watch an animal being slaughtered while in terror for its life and experiencing mortal pain at the very least, and do a "simple blessing" and tell me if that suffices. 

Yeh, just checked. It's ok.

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