# Later lives print abstinence from meat as a public ethical heading

Date: 1905

## The fact

Iamblichus English and later vegetarian receptions treat Pythagorean diet as kinship with animals. Low-confidence improving path: a printed limit on killing for food, as later readers used it, not a 6th-century farm statute.

## Context

Twin of ranked-souls harm. This stores the later animal-kinship heading.

[Pythagoras](/people/pythagoras) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official encyclopedia, Loeb, or heritage pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras — public-domain English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12868; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

Printed meat-abstinence is not a modern animal-welfare act.

Printed meat-abstinence is not a modern animal-welfare act.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Pythagoras: https://factrail.ai/people/pythagoras

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pythagoras
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12868

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/py-vegetarian-later-ethics