ABU 3023••Persian
Reported Utterance
Words to a visitor, spoken on 1913-05-17
50 words
وقتی بیان جمال مبارک این بود که اگر کسی حیوانات ذبح نکند و بنباتات قناعت نماید البته بهتر است ولی نهی نفرمودند
Question:
[Someone asked whether it is allowable to kill animals for food.]
Translation:
Provisional translation
It is better not to eat meat if one can possibly abstain from it. However, it is impossible at the present stage of human evolution to ask people not to practice meat-eating.