vegetarians also point to bal tashchit as one justification for vegetarianism or veganism, arguing that eating meat and raising animals in general is wasteful.) Nevertheless, although bal tashchit may be broadly applied to environmental ethics, its limitation in the case where one may profit through a destructive act makes the application of the laws of bal tashchit to environmental issues complicated. Eilon Schwartz examines these limitations of bal tashchit in his work. Both David Mevorach Seidenberg and Tanhum Yoreh have proposed ways to buttress the law of bal tashchit so that it may play a more meaningful role in the development of Jewish environmental ethics. Sources Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life. Bal Tashchit: the development of a Jewish environmental principle. Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Kings and Wars 6:8,10. Nachman, Candace. "Bal Tashchit: Optimism in a Time of Teshuva" on the Canfei Nesharim website, an Orthodox Jewish environmental organization. Nir, David. "A Critical Examination of the Jewish Environmental Law of Bal Tashchit 'Do Not Destroy'" Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, Winter, 2006. Sefer ha-Chinuch, commandment 529. Schwartz, Eilon. "Bal Tashchit: A Jewish Environmental Precept," in Judaism And Environmental Ethics: A Reader Martin D. Yaffe ed., 2001. Seidenberg, David. "Bal Tashchit: What’s Wrong With the Jewish Law Against Destruction and Waste — and How to Fix It" (Sept 8, 2016), on Tikkun website. Stein, David E. S. "Halakhah: The Law of Bal Tashchit (Do Not Destroy)," in Torah of the Earth. Wolff, K.A. "Bal Tashchit: The Jewish Prohibition against Needless Destruction" at http://hdl.handle.net/1887/14448. Yoreh, Tanhum. Waste Not: A Jewish Environmental Ethic, SUNY Press, 2019. See also 613 Mitzvot Mottainai References Judaism and environmentalism Jewish ethical law Negative Mitzvoth Jewish vegetarianism