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Jamie you appeared an intelligent person, then how you believe in 'I heard'. Just with click on go ogle you can get hundreds of pages on this subject. Alcohol or any other intoxicant including cannabis is not allowed. Guru always love you, therefore his way is beneficial but our mind knowingly follow opposite path. We can spend hours on reading novels, watching movies, gossips but reading and understanding 1430 pages of Guru Granth are very hard.
Gurbani says, " Do not you ever drink alcohol even it is made from water of Ganges(considered holy).There is no ban on any kind of meat eating in Sikhism including beef. Even many Hindus eat beef and they are still Hindus. Guru Nanak says fools argue over meat eating.Only a few groups among Sikhs are strictly vegetarian. They too are living in illusion when they eat dairy products, which are also an animal product and produced from flesh and blood. Egg is equivalent to seed, which if gets proper moisture and fertile land gives birth to a plant, which grows, breaths and reproduces. Similarly egg needs proper environment to give birth to new animal.
These people are so strict; they will reject every argument and label other Sikhs as disgrace to their community. There is no ban on meat eating on Sikhs including baptized Sikhs (ritually slaughtered meat is forbidden because of a specific reason) Sikh gurus were involved in hunting. Most of the Sikhs are farmers; they kill hundreds of thousands of insects, fungi and bacteria during cultivation process. These produces are served in Langar. If killing for eating purposes is a sin, then they should only select things from organic farms. Guru Nanak even says this to pundit," If you consider meat eaters will go to hell, why you accept donations from them?" Similar story is of these Sikhs, they considers killing as a sin. Guru Nanak's philosophy is wonderful. He says, " Jatey Dane Ann key Jian Bajh Na koyee- Every grain has a life) and then even he says First living thing is water because it is a basis for life (Read Asa Dee war by Guru Nanak) and can these people survive without water or is it not equivalent of saying Guru Nanak is wrong? Read this song by Guru Nanak and decide:
http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.gurbani?Action=KeertanPage&K=1289&L=15&id= 55397
Here Guru particular answers their question in what is meat or what is vegetation, what is a sin? I support vegetarianism and against killing of animals but this is my own choice and has no link with Sikhism.
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