The earliest Buddhist texts are clear about the fact that avoiding eating our fellow sentient beings is conducive to walking the Buddhist path. Later Mahayana sutras and tantras strongly go against eating our fellow sentient beings.*



Sutras on refraining from eating meat quoted by Shabkar:



M ahayana Sutras on refraining from eating meat from other sources:

Pali Sutras on refraining from harming and/or from causing to harm

Brahmajala Sutra (The Buddha does not eat - stored up - meat)

Sutta-Nipata (refraining from causing others to kill)