[lbo-talk] A revolution is not a dinner party....

[The 30 Pound Snail Who Lives on Gar Lipow's Monitor]

On 12/13/05, boddi satva <lbo.boddi at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Buddha (that's korean spareribs off the menu)

Not neccesarily.  Buddha  died of eating a  bad  ... something.
Normally it is translated as "mushroom".  But  it is often argued that
it was pork. (There is evidence to support both view points.) And  in
fact, quite seperate from this question, there was a great deal of
evidence that early  Buddhists were NOT  vegetarians:

The following  link is a decent discussion:

http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-MEL/waley.htm