The highly wise seven celestial Rishis, the Valakhillyas, and those Rishi, who drink the rays of the sun, all speak highly of abstention from ineat.
सप्तर्षयो वालखिल्यास्तथैव च मरीचिपाः। अमांसभक्षणं राजन् प्रशंसन्ति मनीषिणः॥