About This Answer
Does a monk who accepts meat from lay people break the first precept, or encourage further offerings? The answer is that it is no breach of the monastic rules: a monk may eat meat if he has not seen, not heard and has no suspicion that the animal was killed for him. Monks practise contentment with whatever is offered, reflecting on food so they take no more than needed and it does not give rise to defilements or disagree with the body.
Lay people keeping the five precepts may also eat meat, but should buy it where the animal is already dead rather than kill it themselves or point to a live animal in a market to be slaughtered. Whether or not one eats meat, there will always be people whose kamma is to live by killing animals.
The speaker recalls buying meat in Thailand when younger, where both live and dead animals were on sale, and always choosing one already dead.