4 Why Vegetarianism

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We are

what we

eat


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Comparative

Anatomy


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Is our body

designed toconsume

meat?Let us compare

our body witha carnivore as

well as a

herbivore


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Carnivore


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Herbivore


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The Comparative Anatomy of

Eating

Well-developedWell-developed

Reduced to

allow wide

mouth gap

Facial

Muscles

HumanHerbivoreCarnivoreComparison

good side-to-

side motion

good side-to-

side motion

minimal side-to-

side motionJaw Motion


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Eating

Broad, flattened

and spade

shaped

Broad, flattened

and spade

shaped

Short and

pointed

Teeth:

Incisors

Short and

blunted

Dull and short

(sometimes long

for defense), or

none

Long, sharp and

curved to tear

flesh

Teeth:

Canines



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Eating

FlattenedFlattenedSharpTeeth:

Molars

Extensive

chewing

Extensive

chewing

None; swallows

food wholeChewing



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Eating


Alkaline saliva:Carbohydrate

digesting

enzymes

present

Alkaline saliva:Carbohydrate

digesting

enzymes

present

Acidic saliva:Carbohydrate

digesting

enzymes not

present

Saliva

pH 4 to 5pH 4 to 5

< pH 1 (to digest

tough animal

muscle, bone,

etc.)

Stomach

Acidity with

food in it


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Eating

10 to 11 times

body length

> 10 times body

length

3 to 6 times

body length

Length of

Small

Intestine

Long, complexLong, complexSimple, short

and smoothColon



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Eating

Perspires

through millions

of skin pores

Perspires

through millions

of skin pores

No skin pores;perspires

through tongue

to cool body

Perspiration

Flattened nailsFlattened nails

or blunt hoovesSharp clawsNails



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Health

&

Nutrition


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Let us look

at the

nutritionalvalue of a

vegetariandiet


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Can vegetarianfood ensure a

balanced diet for

good health ?


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Most popular myth:

If I dont eat meat, I would

suffer from lack of protein!


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Elephant is a powerful animal

yet he never eats meat!


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Researchers at Max Planck

Institute, Germany haveshown:

Most vegetables, fruits,seeds, nuts, and grains

are excellent sources ofcomplete proteins.


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FamousVegetarians


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Albert Einstein

Isaac Newton


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Mahatma Gandhi


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Plato

Socrates


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Pythagoras

Leonardo Da Vinci


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Bill Pearl(Mr. Universe)

Andreas Cahling(Mr. International)


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Al Beckles(Top body builder of 60s)

Jack LaLanne(Elite fitness trainer)


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Larry Bird(All-time great basketball player)

Greg Chappell(Former Australian cricketer)


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Carl Lewis


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Edwin Moses(400m hurdles -world record holder)


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Billy Jean King(Tennis champion of 70s)

Martina Navratilova(Tennis champion)


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I brainwashed youngsters into

doing wrong. I want to say sorryto children everywhere for selling

out to concerns who makemillions by murdering animals.

The original Ronald McDonald, Geoff Giuliano

- on quitting his job and becoming vegetarian


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Health

Reasons


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Effects of Meat on Health


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Excess protein cannot be stored

They must be excreted throughthe kidneys, which is a very

taxing process.


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CancerThe NumberTwo Killer


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Meat contains 14 timesmore chemicals & pesticides

than plant foods.

Harmful Chemicals


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Between $23.6 billionand $61.4 billion

Annual health-care costs directlyresulting from the US meat-centered

diet:

Revealed in 1995 by Physicians Committeefor Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a group

of 4,500 medical doctors


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20 million people die

annually as a result of

malnutrition


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...meat consumption

in rich countries is keycause for hunger

around the world.

UN Secretary General recently

admitted that..


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16 kg grain

1 kg beef

20 people

2 people

Access??


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Eighty percent of the corn and 95% of the oats grown

in the U.S. is eaten by livestock.

The percentage of protein wasted by cycling grain

through livestock is calculated by experts as 90%.

Producing one pound of beef requires 16 pounds ofedible grain and soyabeans, which could be used to

feed the hungry.

Vast quantities of food which could feed humans

is fed to livestock raised to produce meat

John Robbins' book Diet for a New America


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One acre of land can produce 40,000 pounds

of potatoes, or 250 pounds of beef. Fifty-six

percent of all U.S. farmland is devoted to beef

production.

One hundred million people could be

adequately fed using the land freed if

Americans reduced their intake of meat by a

mere 10%.

John Robbins' book Diet for a New America


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If everyone adopted a

vegetarian diet, current food

production would theoreticallyfeed 10 billion people, more

than the projected populationfor the year 2050.

According to the Population Reference Bureau


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Cruelty

I id


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Inside

Slaughterhouse

Visions

of Hell!!


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Hens are so

tightly packedin the battery

cages, that theycannot move an

inch during

their

encagement.


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Hens are forced

to lay up to200-220 eggs

every year,leading to

weakened

bones, feather

loss etc.


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This is

the

reality.


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Male chicks

are of no

commercial

value for the

slaughter houses.


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Male chicks are either packed in

garbage plastic bags to suffocate todeath or thrown away in trash cans.


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The recent trend is to grind themale chicks alive and use it as high

fertility manure for the farms.


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In the U.S. alone,

6,60,000 animals are

killed for meatevery hour.


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In the U.S. alone,

6,60,000 animals are

killed for meatevery hour.

The average percapita consumption

of meat in the U.S.,

Canada and Australia

is 200 pounds per

year!

Manure fumes and rotting carcasses will force workers to wear gas masks


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g g


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Number of meat, and egg

producing animals slaughtered

each year in World:

over 24.1billion


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William Ralph

We have enslaved

the rest of animalcreation and have

treated so badly

that, if they were toformulate a

religion, they woulddepict the Devil in

human form.


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Video ShowMEET YOUR MEAT


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Truly man is the

king of beasts

Leonardo da Vinci

for his brutality

exceeds theirs.

While our bodies


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While our bodies

are the living

graves of

murdered animals,

how can we expectany ideal

conditions onearth?

George Bernard Shaw


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Man suppresses in


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Man suppresses in

himself, unnecessarily,

the highest spiritualcapacity - that of

sympathy and pitytoward living creatures

like himself - and by

violating his ownfeelings becomes

cruel Leo Tolstoy


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Its a fact that

meat eating

reduces

respect for allkinds of life

including thatof humans.


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Can we deny thatbrutality against

animals makes us

more brutal too?


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Those that

kill animals, to

eat their flesh,

tend tomassacre their

own.

Pythagoras


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KarmicConsequences


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All of our actions including our

choice of food have karmic

consequences. By inflicting

injury, pain and death, one must

in the future experience thesufferings caused.


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By killing

animals, not onlywill we be bereft

of the human

form but we will

have to take an

animal formand


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somehow orother be killed

by the same

type of animalwe have killed.

This is the law

of nature.


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The Sanskrit word

mamsameans "meat."It is said:

mam sah khadati

iti mamsah.That is, "I am now

eating the flesh of an

animal who will someday in the future be

eating my flesh."

Mahabharata


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Mahabharata

The purchaser of flesh performsviolence by his wealth;

He who eats flesh does so byenjoying its taste;

The killer does himsaby actually

tying and killing the animal.- all of these are to be considered

meat-eaters.


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SrilaPrabhupada

explains

In human society, if one


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y,

kills a man he has to be

hanged (or punished). That

is the law of the state.

Because of ignorance people

do not perceive that

there is a complete statecontrolled by the

Supreme Lord. Every living

creature is the son of

the Supreme Lord, and Hedoes not tolerate even

an ants being killed. One

has to pay for it.

Meat eating and


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Meat-eating and

intoxication excite the senses

more and more, and theconditioned soul falls

victim to women. In order to

keep women, money is

required, and to acquiremoney, one begs,

borrows or steals. Indeed, he

commits abominable acts

that cause him to suffer bothin this life and in the next.

-Srila Prabhupada

Even the heads of religions


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indulge in killing animals

while trying to pass as

saintly persons. This

mockery and hypocrisy in

human society

bring about unlimitedcalamities; therefore

occasionally there are great

wars. Masses of such peoplego out onto battlefields and

kill themselves-Srila Prabhupada


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Those who are


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animal killers, their

brain is dull as stone.Therefore meat-eating

should be stopped. In

order to revive thefiner tissues of the

brain to understand

subtle things, onemust give up

meat-eating.

-Srila Prabhupada


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I d f l h


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I do feel that

spiritual progressdoes demand at some

stage that we should

cease to kill ourfellow creatures for

the satisfaction

of our bodily

wants.Mahatma Gandhi


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Our task must beto widen our circle

of compassion to

embrace all living

creatures including

animals.

Albert Einstein


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Non-violence leadsto the highest ethics,

which is the goal of

all evolution. Untilwe stop harming all

other living beings,

we are still savages.

Thomas Edison


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To say we love Godand at the same time

exercise cruelty

towards a creaturemoving by life derived

from God is a

contradiction in itself.

John Woolman


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If a man aspires

towards a

righteous life, his

first act ofabstinence is from

injury to animals.

Leo Tolstoy


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Lord rishna

describes in the

it


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Foods such as meat & fish are

described as putrid,decomposed, and unclean

On the contrary


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Plants and

the treesalso have

souls!

Isnt eating

themkilling?


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jivo jivasya jivanam

One living entity is food

for another in the

struggle for existence.


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If we eat our

designated food in a

way prescribed by theLord we are freed of

all sins.

Krishna instructs


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Arjuna

The devotees of the Lord are


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The devotees of the Lord are

released from all kinds of sinsbecause they eat food which is

offered first for sacrifice.

Others, who prepare food for

personal sense enjoyment, verily

eat only sin.

(Bhagavad-gita3.13)

Srila Prabhupada

explains:


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Human beings areprovided with food

grains, vegetables,

fruits, and milk bythe grace of the

Lord, but it is the

duty of the human

beings to

acknowledge the

mercy of the Lord.

explains:

As a matter ofgratitude, they

should feel obliged

to the Lord for their

supply of foodstuff,

and they must first

offer Him food in

sacrifice and then

partake the

remnants.

Krishna instructs:


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If one offersMe with love

and devotion aleaf, a flower,

fruit or water, I

will accept it.(Bhagavad-gita9.26)

Krishna instructs:

Offer Food to


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Nourishment

of Body

Nourishment

of Soul

Krishna

Prasadam

Krishna


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