Oh, and as an aside, if a Hindu ever asks you to dinner, accept. I am a charter member of PETA. People oft the Eating of Tasty Animals, and a strict meatatarian. The vegetarian home dishes.... Plain awesome. I am serious about this. 3000 years of eating grass made these people figure out how to make it taste really good. (Pick up a burger on the way home).
Any religion that forbids the eating of tasty animals is evil. God made smokers for a reason.