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Vegetarianism
- 2. We are what we eat !
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- 4. Is our body designedto consume meat? Let us compare our body with a carnivore as well as a herbivore
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- 7. The Comparative Anatomyof Eating Comparison Carnivore Herbivore Human Reduced to Facial allow wide Well-developed Well-developed Muscles mouth gap minimal side-to- good side-to- good side-to- Jaw Motion side motion side motion side motion
- 8. The Comparative Anatomyof Eating Comparison Carnivore Herbivore Human Broad, flattened Broad, flattened Teeth: Short and and spade and spade Incisors pointed shaped shaped Dull and short Long, sharp and Teeth: (sometimes long Short and curved to tear Canines for defense), or blunted flesh none
- 9. The Comparative Anatomyof Eating Comparison Carnivore Herbivore Human Teeth: Sharp Flattened Flattened Molars None; swallows Extensive Extensive Chewing food whole chewing chewing
- 10. The Comparative Anatomyof Eating Comparison Carnivore Herbivore Human Acidic saliva: Alkaline saliva: Alkaline saliva: Carbohydrate Carbohydrate Carbohydrate Saliva digesting digesting digesting enzymes not enzymes enzymes present present present Stomach < pH 1 (to digest tough animal Acidity with muscle, bone, pH 4 to 5 pH 4 to 5 food in it etc.)
- 11. The Comparative Anatomyof Eating Comparison Carnivore Herbivore Human Length of 3 to 6 times > 10 times body 10 to 11 times Small body length length body length Intestine Simple, short Colon and smooth Long, complex Long, complex
- 12. The Comparative Anatomyof Eating Comparison Carnivore Herbivore Human No skin pores; Perspires Perspires perspires Perspiration through tongue through millions through millions of skin pores of skin pores to cool body Flattened nails Nails Sharp claws or blunt hooves Flattened nails
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- 14. Let us look at the nutritional value of a vegetarian
- 15. Can vegetarian food ensure a balanced diet for good health ?
- 16. Most popular myth: If I don’t eat meat, I would suffer from lack of protein!
- 17. Researchers at MaxPlanck Institute, Germany have shown: “Most vegetables, fruits, seeds, nuts, and grains are excellent sources of complete proteins.”
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- 19. • Albert Einstein • Isaac Newton
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- 21. • Plato • Socrates
- 22. • Pythagoras • Leonardo Da Vinci
- 23. • Larry Bird (All-time great basketball player) • Greg Chappell (Former Australian cricketer)
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- 25. • Edwin Moses (400m hurdles - world record holder)
- 26. • Billy JeanKing (Tennis champion of 70s) • Martina Navratilova (Tennis champion)
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- 28. Effects of Meaton Health
- 29. Heart Disease The Number One Killer Responsible for approx. 50% of all deaths in Britain
- 30. As early as1961, the Journal of the American Medical Association had said “90% - 97% of heart disease can be prevented by a vegetarian diet.”
- 31. Cancer The Number TwoKiller
- 32. Cooked meat andfish contains carcinogens, which attack the cell’s DNA, alter it and develop cancer
- 33. Harmful Chemicals Meat contains14 times more chemicals & pesticides than plant foods.
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- 35. 20 million peopledie annually as a result of malnutrition.
- 37. UN Secretary Generalrecently admitted that “...meat consumption in rich countries is key cause for hunger around the world.”
- 38. Access? 16 kg grain 20 people 1 kg beef 2 people
- 39. Producing one poundof beef requires 16 pounds of edible grain, which could be used to feed the hungry.” John Robbins' book “Diet for a New America”
- 40. One hundred millionpeople could be adequately fed using the land freed if Americans reduced their intake of meat by a mere 10%.”
- 41. The average Americanconsumes in a 72-year lifetime approx: 11 cattles 3 lambs and sheep 23 pigs, 45 turkeys 1,100 chickens & 862 pounds of fish!
- 42. This may beat the cost of someone dying of malnutrition.
- 43. According to thePopulation Reference Bureau “If everyone adopted a vegetarian diet, current food production would theoretically feed 10 billion people, more than the projected population for the year 2050.”
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- 45. Modern Slaughterhouse Worse than a hell !
- 46. Hens are so tightly packed in the battery cages, that they cannot move an inch during their encagement.
- 47. Hens are forced tolay up to 200-220 eggs every year, leading to weakened bones, feather loss etc.
- 48. This is the reality!
- 49. In the U.S. alone6,60,000 animals are killed for meat every hour.
- 51. “While our bodies are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on George Bernard Shaw earth?”
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- 56. It’s a factthat meat eating reduces respect for all kinds of life including that of humans.
- 60. Can we deny that brutality against animals makes us more brutal too?
- 61. VIDEO MEET YOUR MEAT PRESS ENTER AGAIN
- 63. 7 Karmic Consequences
- 64. All of our actions including our choice of food have karmic consequences.
- 65. By inflicting injury,pain and death, one must in the future experience the sufferings caused.
- 68. Srila Prabhupada explains
- 69. By killing animals, not only will we be bereft of the human form but we will have to take an animal form and …
- 70. …somehow or other bekilled by the same type of animal we have killed. This is the law of nature.
- 72. Mahabharata Thepurchaser of flesh performs violence by his wealth; He who eats flesh does so by enjoying its taste;
- 73. Mahabharata Thekiller does himsa by actually tying and killing the animal. all of these are to be considered meat-eaters.
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- 75. “Every living creature is a son of the Supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even an ant’s being killed. One has to pay for it.”
- 76. Even the headsof religions indulge in killing animals while trying to pass as saintly persons. This mockery and hypocrisy in human society bring about unlimited calamities;
- 77. therefore occasionally there are great wars. Masses of such people go out onto battlefields and kill themselves.” Srila Prabhupada
- 78. In order torevive the finer tissues of the brain to understand subtle things, one must give up meat-eating. -Srila Prabhupada
- 79. 8 Quotes From Some World Famous Personalities
- 80. “I do feelthat spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily Mahatma Gandhi wants.”
- 81. “Our task mustbe to widen our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures including animals.” Albert Einstein
- 82. “To say welove God and at the same time exercise cruelty towards a creature moving by life derived from God is a contradiction in itself.” John Woolman
- 83. “If a manaspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.” Leo Tolstoy
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- 85. Foods such asmilk products, grains, fruits and vegetables “increase the duration of life, purify one’s existence, and give strength, health, happiness, and satisfaction.”
- 86. On the contrary Foods such as meat & fish are described as “putrid, decomposed, and unclean”
- 87. VIDEO REASONS TO BEA VEGETARIAN PRESS ENTER AGAIN
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- 90. Plants and thetrees also have souls! Isn’t eating them killing?
- 91. jivo jivasya jivanam Oneliving entity is food for another in the struggle for existence.
- 92. If we eatour designated food in a way prescribed by the Lord we are freed of all sins.
- 93. Krishna instructs Arjuna …
- 94. “The devotees ofthe Lord are released from all kinds of sins because they eat food which is offered first for sacrifice. (Bhagavad-gita 3.13)
- 95. Srila Prabhupada explains: As a matter of “Human beings are gratitude, they provided with food should feel obliged grains,Lord for their to the vegetables, fruits, and foodstuff, supply of milk by the grace of the and they must first Lord, but itfood in offer Him is the duty of the human sacrifice and then partaketo beings the acknowledge the remnants.” mercy of the Lord.
- 96. Offer Food to Krishna Krishna Prasadam Nourishment Nourishment of Body of Soul