Theos-Talk Archives (February 1997 Message tl00513)

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> From: Drpsionic@aol.com
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> In 1981 the Dalai Lama came with entourage to Olcott and the little old
> ladies were terribly upset to learn that neither he nor his monks were
> vegetarians.  It was great fun to watch them get all upset.
> But then what the hell did they think people eat in Tibet.  All they have is
> yak burgers and barley.
>
I knew someone who told me she told me vegetarianism was a luxury
of a time when people had choices about what they could eat.  She said she
knew someone who lived in a remote area of Alaska whose main question
of her day was how to prepare moose, because that's basically all they
had to eat.

-AEB