[Master Baek] said that when a cow is killed in a slaughterhouse and becomes food for thousands of people, it plants the merit of feeding others with its own flesh. If it is reincarnated as a human, it becomes a wealthy person, with between two hundred and one thousand bags of rice a year. Master Baek meant that when you feed others with your own flesh, you accumulate great merit.
— Jae Woong Kim, Polishing the Diamond, Enlightening the Mind by Jae Woong Kim, Yoon Sang Han, translator