7091943 Vegetarianism

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Why Embrace Vegetarianism?

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“We are what we eat”

Comparative Anatomy : 

Comparative Anatomy

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Is our body designed to consume meat? Let us compare our body with a carnivore as well as a herbivore

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Carnivore

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Herbivore

The Comparative Anatomy of Eating : 

The Comparative Anatomy of Eating

The Comparative Anatomy of Eating : 

The Comparative Anatomy of Eating

The Comparative Anatomy of Eating : 

The Comparative Anatomy of Eating

The Comparative Anatomy of Eating : 

The Comparative Anatomy of Eating

The Comparative Anatomy of Eating : 

The Comparative Anatomy of Eating

The Comparative Anatomy of Eating : 

The Comparative Anatomy of Eating

Health&Nutrition : 

Health&Nutrition

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Let us look at the nutritional value of a vegetarian diet

Can vegetarian food ensure a balanced diet for good health ? : 

Can vegetarian food ensure a balanced diet for good health ?

Most popular myth: : 

Most popular myth: If I don’t eat meat, I would suffer from lack of protein!

Elephant is a powerful animal… : 

Elephant is a powerful animal… …yet he never eats meat!

Researchers at Max Planck Institute, Germany have shown: : 

Researchers at Max Planck Institute, Germany have shown: “Most vegetables, fruits, seeds, nuts, and grains are excellent sources of complete proteins.”

Famous Vegetarians : 

Famous Vegetarians

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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)

“I brainwashed youngsters into doing wrong. I want to say sorry to children everywhere for selling out to concerns who make millions by murdering animals.” : 

“I brainwashed youngsters into doing wrong. I want to say sorry to children everywhere for selling out to concerns who make millions by murdering animals.” The original Ronald McDonald, Geoff Giuliano - on quitting his job and becoming vegetarian

Health Reasons : 

Health Reasons

Heart DiseaseThe Number One Killer : 

Heart DiseaseThe Number One Killer Responsible for approx. 50% of all deaths in Britain

As early as 1961, the Journal of the American Medical Association had said : 

As early as 1961, the Journal of the American Medical Association had said “90% - 97% of heart disease can be prevented by a vegetarian diet.”

Excess protein cannot be stored : 

Excess protein cannot be stored They must be excreted through the kidneys, which is a very taxing process.

CancerThe NumberTwo Killer : 

CancerThe NumberTwo Killer

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Cooked meat and fish contains carcinogens, which sometimes attack the cell’s genetic material (DNA), alter it and develop cancer

Meat contains 14 times more chemicals & pesticides than plant foods. : 

Meat contains 14 times more chemicals & pesticides than plant foods. Harmful Chemicals

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Between $23.6 billion and $61.4 billion Annual health-care costs directly resulting from the US meat-centered diet: Revealed in 1995 by Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a group of 4,500 medical doctors

World Hunger : 

World Hunger

20 million people die annually as a result of malnutrition. : 

20 million people die annually as a result of malnutrition.

“...meat consumption in rich countries is key cause for hunger around the world.” : 

“...meat consumption in rich countries is key cause 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 of edible 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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The average American consumes in a 72-year lifetime approximately 11 cattle, 3 lambs and sheep, 23 hogs, 45 turkeys, 1,100 chickens and 862 pounds of fish!

“If everyone adopted a vegetarian diet, current food production would theoretically feed 10 billion people, more than the projected population for the year 2050.” : 

“If everyone adopted a vegetarian diet, current food production would theoretically feed 10 billion people, more than the projected population for the year 2050.” According to the Population Reference Bureau

Cruelty : 

Cruelty

Inside Slaughterhouse : 

Inside Slaughterhouse Visions of Hell !!

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Hens are so tightly packed in the battery cages, that they cannot move an inch during their encagement.

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Hens are forced to lay up to 200-220 eggs every year, leading to weakened bones, feather loss etc.

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This is the reality.

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Male chicksare of no commercial value for the slaughter houses.

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Male chicks are either packed in garbage plastic bags to suffocate to death or thrown away in trash cans.

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The recent trend is to grind the male 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 meat every hour.

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In the U.S. alone, 6,60,000 animals are killed for meat every hour. The average per capita consumption of meat in the U.S., Canada and Australia is 200 pounds per year!

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

Number of meat, and egg producing animals slaughtered each year in World: : 

Number of meat, and egg producing animals slaughtered each year in World: over 24.1 billion

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William Ralph “We have enslaved the rest of animal creation and have treated so badly that, if they were to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.”

Video Show : 

Video Show MEET YOUR MEAT

“Truly man is theking of beasts … : 

“Truly man is theking of beasts … Leonardo da Vinci for his brutality exceeds theirs.”

“While our bodies are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on earth?” : 

“While our bodies are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on earth?” George Bernard Shaw

“Man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity - that of sympathy and pity toward living creatures like himself - and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel.” : 

“Man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity - that of sympathy and pity toward living creatures like himself - and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel.” Leo Tolstoy

It’s a fact that meat eating reduces respect for all kinds of life including that of humans. : 

It’s a fact that meat eating reduces respect for all kinds of life including that of humans.

Can we deny that brutality against animals makes us more brutal too? : 

Can we deny that brutality against animals makes us more brutal too?

“Those that kill animals, to eat their flesh, tend to massacre their own.” : 

“Those that kill animals, to eat their flesh, tend to massacre their own.” Pythagoras

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Karmic Consequences

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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 the sufferings caused.

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By killing animals, not only will we be bereft of the human form but we will have to take an animal form and …

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…somehow or other be killed by the same type of animal we have killed. This is the law of nature.

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The Sanskrit word mamsa means "meat." It is said: mam sah khadati iti mamsah. That is, "I am now eating the flesh of an animal who will some day in the future be eating my flesh."

Mahabharata : 

Mahabharata The purchaser of flesh performs violence by his wealth; He who eats flesh does so by enjoying its taste; The killer does himsa by actually tying and killing the animal. - all of these are to be considered meat-eaters.

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Srila Prabhupada explains …

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“In human society, if one 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 state controlled by the Supreme Lord. Every living creature is the son of the Supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even an ant’s being killed. One has to pay for it.”

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“Meat-eating and intoxication excite the senses more and more, and the conditioned soul falls victim to women. In order to keep women, money is required, and to acquire money, one begs, borrows or steals. Indeed, he commits abominable acts that cause him to suffer both in this life and in the next.” -Srila Prabhupada

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Even the heads of religions indulge in killing animals while trying to pass as saintly persons. This mockery and hypocrisy in human society bring about unlimited calamities; therefore occasionally there are great wars. Masses of such people go out onto battlefields and kill themselves”-Srila Prabhupada

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“Those who are animal killers, their brain is dull as stone. Therefore meat-eating should be stopped. In order to revive the finer tissues of the brain to understand subtle things, one must give up meat-eating. -Srila Prabhupada

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Quotes From Some World Famous Personalities

“I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.” : 

“I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.” Mahatma Gandhi

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“Our task must be to widen our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures including animals.” Albert Einstein

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“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace”. Marco Ferrini

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“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages”. Thomas Edison

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“To say we love God and at the same time exercise cruelty towards a creature moving 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 of abstinence is from injury to animals.” Leo Tolstoy

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Lord Krishna describes in the Gita…

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Foods such as milk products, grains, fruits and vegetables “increase the duration of life, purify one’s existence, and give strength, health, happiness, and satisfaction.”

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Foods such as meat & fish are described as “putrid, decomposed, and unclean” On the contrary…

Plants and the trees also have souls! : 

Plants and the trees also have souls! Isn’t eating them killing?

jivo jivasya jivanam : 

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 the Lord we are freed of all sins.

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Krishna instructs Arjuna …

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“The devotees of the Lord are released from all kinds of sins because they eat food which is offered first for sacrifice. Others, who prepare food for personal sense enjoyment, verily eat only sin.” (Bhagavad-gita 3.13)

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“Human beings are provided with food grains, vegetables, fruits, and milk by the grace of the Lord, but it is the duty of the human beings to acknowledge the mercy of the Lord. Srila Prabhupada explains: As a matter of gratitude, 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.”

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“If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it.” (Bhagavad-gita 9.26) Krishna instructs:

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Nourishment of Body Nourishment of Soul Krishna Prasadam Offer Food to Krishna