Meat-eater means other things will follow. Illicit sex will follow and drinking will follow. Because you cannot digest meat by water; you must drink. That is the fact. It is so heavy that unless… Therefore, madya-mamsa madya mamsa [wine and meat], they are four relatives. If you eat meat, then you have to drink, otherwise, you’ll not be able to digest. Then your intestine will be digested, the wine is so strong. Therefore the drunkard must take. In India we have seen — everywhere — this wine and meat, they are together, because you have to digest.

From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.6.5 — June 21, 1976, Toronto