Dr. G.R. Yugandhar
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Influenced by many factors, millions of people around the wirld are turning to a vegetarian diet. In Australia alone, nearly half a million people now consider themselves vegetarian. Today, with the increasing evidence of diet's critical effect on good health and longevity, more and more people are investigating this question.
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Is the desire for meat simply and innate and unalterable aspect of humankind's biological nature?
The answer is `NO' . If one does a comparative anatomical and behavioral study of the carnivores and the herbivores. It becomes clear that
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We do not have long cannies as that of carnivores, required for the tearing of flesh.
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The intestine/ body ratio of herbivores including human beings is 3 to 4 times that of carnivores. Because of this delayed passage of the food, the flesh eaters sooner or later suffer from constipation and allied disorders; thus they become prone for rectal and intestinal disorders and carcinomas. And meat protein as such delays the gastric emptying time. On the contrary carnivores in whom the intestinal length is short, the flesh that is taken is easily dumped out.
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If we observe the behavioural patterns of flesh eating and vegetable eating animals, it is quite obvious that the carnivores like cat, dog, lion, tiger, wolf etc. have aggression as their habitual nature and even a small stimulus is sufficient to provoke an attitude of aggression in them. That's why we never call a tiger or a wolf a "paragon of peace"; instead , we call the cow, horse and the other herbivores like elephant, camel etc., as "paragons of peace".
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"He who doesn't value life doesn't desrve it".
- Leonardo da vinci
" I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals". - Thoreau.
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"We pray on Sundays that we may have light. To guide our footsteps on the path we tread; we are sick of wars, we don't want to fight. And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead
- George Bernard Shaw. |
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"Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convinve their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul and without feelings. However, anyone who has ever a mouse - knows that this theory is a brazen lie, invested to justify cruelty"
- Nobel Laureate Issac Bashevs Singer. |
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"Since we can not create, we have no right to kill any living entity and therefore man-made laws that dintinguish between killing a man and killing an animal are imperfect." - Manu Samhita. |
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"I have found that out of twenty five nations eating flesh largely nineteen had a high cancer rate and only one had a low rate and that of thirty five nations eating little or no flesh none had a high rate - Rollo Russell in : Notes on the causation of cancer. |
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"in terms of calorie units per acre, a diet of grains, vegetables and beans will support twenty times more people than a diet of meat. As it stands now, about half the harvested acreage in America is used to feed animals. If earth's arable land were used to feed animals. If earth's arable land were used to primarily for the production of vegetarian foods, the planet could easily support a human population of twenty billion or more"
- Aaron Altshul in Proteins : Their Chemistry and politics. |
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"Man suppresses in himself unnecessarily the highest spiritual capacity - that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by violating his feelings becomes cruel".
- Leo Tolstoy. |
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" I hold flesh food to be unsuited to our species. I do feel that spiritual progress does demand or some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants." - Mahatma Gandhi in Moral Basis of Vegetarianism. |
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"And t every beast of the earth and to every fond of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth , wherein there is life. I have given every green herb for meat and it was so."
- Genesis 1:30. |
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