The Tirukural Quotations

Perceptive souls who have abandoned passion will not feed on flesh abandoned by life.

What is the good way? It is the path that reflects on how it may avoid killing any living creature. Refrain from taking precious life from any living being, even to save your own life.

If the world did not purchase and consume meat, there would be none to slaughter and offer meat for sale.

How can he practice true compassion Who eats the flesh of an animal to fatten his own flesh?

Goodness is never one with the minds of these two: one who wields a weapon and one who feasts on a creature's flesh.

All that lives will press palms together in prayerful adoration of those who refuse to slaughter and savor meat.