In RG Veda, the ancient of all the literature and language, the guests used to be called 'Goghno'--meaning one who will be offered meat from the cows. Hindues stopped eating beef as an assimilation of Jainism into Hinduism. Later days of texts in Hinudims banned beef because of growing agricultural expansion needed cow. Essential teaching of Hinduism is that of pantheism--they believe there is God in everything, in every animal. Hence, meat eating in Hinduism is discouraged. But Vedic texts have ample example of beef being eaten by the Hindus--that is a fact and I read all those hymns.
