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1. • CommentAuthorVeggieontour
   • CommentTimeOct 29th 2008

    
   In response to the suggestion that Genghis Khan, the "scourge of God", was a vegetarian. Presumably he played badminton and went line dancing as well! Ridiculous!
   To the Mongols eating meat defined them, made them what they were. They considered themselves more manly than their vegetarian neighbours to the south, whom they looked on with contempt.
   Speaking of his meat-eating heritage, Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, said, "Meat is for men and grass is for animals."
   The Mongols were a nomadic people, and as all nomadic peoples their diet was centred on meat and milk - and also millet, which the Mongol women harvested from the wild.
   As the Mongol empire expanded their diet became more cosmopolitan, but it was always heavily meat-based.
   I can only assume that the person who made the suggestion latched on the fact that Genghis Khan embraced Buddhism and made it the official state regligion, and jumped to the conclusion that he must have been vegetarian! But Genghis Khan embraced TIBETAN BUDDHISM, not the gentle, vegetarian Indian Buddhism of Gautama Buddha,
   Genghis Khan's Mongol hordes rampaged through the Muslim lands to the north, but they never went anywhere near Gautama Buddha's part of the world. Tibetan Buddhism was NOT vegetarian. (The Tibetans didn't kill the animals themselves - bad karma - they had an under class that did it for them.) And to this day, that is still the case. In summary, Genghis Khan was not a vegetarian. I'm sorry but to suggest otherwise is laughable.
2. • CommentAuthormonicahaha
   • CommentTimeMay 2nd 2009 edited

    
   about Genghis Kahn:
   
   
   "the pressure on the family was great, and in a dispute over the spoils of a hunting expedition, Temujin quarreled with and killed his half-brother Bekhter, confirming his position as head of the family."
   
   
   
   notice the word: "HUNTING"
   
   
   
   you should consider reaserching before posting youtr stories..seriously
3. • CommentAuthorguest
   • CommentTimeJun 17th 2009

    
   guest:
   
   I really love this site, keeps a vegan giggling...LOL!
4. • CommentAuthorjhatka
   • CommentTimeJun 6th 2010

    
   Eating Meat is part of food chain, but why torture before killing? I mean ways an intention should not be evil.
   Making a society Vegetarian is conspiracy to make it weak. On the other hand making every member compulsorily kill animal or watch it killed, slowly bleed to death, reciting, and rejoicing prayers & rituals over it is to make society a terrorist germination plant. Strike the balance.
   Get meat from dignified, scientific, humane and hygienic methods.
   Subscribe only to traditional Christian or ancient Hindu/Sikh way.
   Now a days there is undeclared Jihad to make Civilized meat eaters Islamic Halal by Communal and commercial Consolidation.
   Hindus have been made weak over centuries by propagating vegetarianism by Pseudo-Holy/Hindus interpreters of Spirituality. Since Hindus became vegetarians they are losing inch by inch- year by year. Of late Sikhs the most Miraculous warriors have started becoming vegetarians, now they have been reduced to bunch of History Relishing Creatures and target of mobs and street fights.
   Learn from facts not from fancies.
   
   Where as Halal eaters relish from inflicting pain.