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We are what we eat !
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Comparative Anatomy 1 1
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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
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The Comparative Anatomy of Eating Well-developed Reduced to allow wide mouth gap Facial Muscles HumanHerbivoreCarnivoreComparison good side-to- side motion minimal side-to- side motion Jaw Motion
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The Comparative Anatomy of Eating 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 HumanHerbivoreCarnivoreComparison
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The Comparative Anatomy of Eating Flattened Sharp Teeth: Molars Extensive chewing None; swallows food whole Chewing HumanHerbivoreCarnivoreComparison
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The Comparative Anatomy of Eating HumanHerbivoreCarnivoreComparison Alkaline saliva: Carbohydrate digesting enzymes present Acidic saliva: Carbohydrate digesting enzymes not present Saliva pH 4 to 5 < pH 1 (to digest tough animal muscle, bone, etc.) Stomach Acidity with food in it
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The Comparative Anatomy of Eating 10 to 11 times body length > 10 times body length 3 to 6 times body length Length of Small Intestine Long, complex Simple, short and smooth Colon HumanHerbivoreCarnivoreComparison
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The Comparative Anatomy of Eating Perspires through millions of skin pores No skin pores; perspires through tongue to cool body Perspiration Flattened nails Flattened nails or blunt hooves Sharp claws Nails HumanHerbivoreCarnivoreComparison
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Health & Nutrition 2 2
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Let us look at the nutritional value of a vegetarian diet
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Can vegetarian food ensure a balanced diet for good health ?
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Most popular myth: If I don’t eat meat, I would suffer from lack of protein!
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Researchers at Max Planck Institute, Germany have shown: “Most vegetables, fruits, seeds, nuts, and grains are excellent sources of complete proteins.”
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Famous Vegetarians 3 3
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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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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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Health Reasons 4 4
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Effects of Meat on Health
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Heart Disease The Number One Killer Responsible for approx. 50% of all deaths in Britain
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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.”
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Cancer The Number Two Killer
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Cooked meat and fish contains carcinogens, which attack the cell’s DNA, alter it and develop cancer
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Meat contains 14 times more chemicals & pesticides than plant foods. Harmful Chemicals
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World Hunger 5 5
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20 million people die annually as a result of malnutrition.
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“...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 20 people 1 kg beef 2 people Access?
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Producing one pound of beef requires 16 pounds of edible grain, which could be used to feed the hungry.” John Robbins' book “Diet for a New America”
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One hundred million people could be adequately fed using the land freed if Americans reduced their intake of meat by a mere 10%.”
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The average American consumes in a 72-year lifetime approx: 11 cattles 3 lambs and sheep 23 pigs, 45 turkeys 1,100 chickens & 862 pounds of fish! 11 cattles 3 lambs and sheep 23 pigs, 45 turkeys 1,100 chickens & 862 pounds of fish!
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This may be at the cost of someone dying of malnutrition.
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“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
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Cruelty 6 6
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Modern Slaughterhouse Worse than a 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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In the U.S. alone 6,60,000 animals are killed for meat every hour. In the U.S. alone 6,60,000 animals are killed for meat every hour.
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“While our bodies are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on earth?” George Bernard Shaw
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Terrorism
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Riots
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Wars
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Nuclear Threat
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It’s a fact that meat eating reduces respect for all kinds of life including that of humans.
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Can we deny that brutality against animals makes us more brutal too?
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VIDEO MEET YOUR MEAT PRESS ENTER AGAIN
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7 7 Karmic Consequences
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All of our actions including our choice of food have karmic consequences.
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By inflicting injury, pain and death, one must in the future experience the sufferings caused.
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Srila Prabhupada explains
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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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Mahabharata The purchaser of flesh performs violence by his wealth; He who eats flesh does so by enjoying its taste; The purchaser of flesh performs violence by his wealth; He who eats flesh does so by enjoying its taste;
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Mahabharata The killer does himsa by actually tying and killing the animal. all of these are to be considered meat-eaters. 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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“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.”
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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;
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therefore occasionally there are great wars. Masses of such people go out onto battlefields and kill themselves.” Srila Prabhupada
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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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8 8 Quotes From Some World Famous Personalities
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“ 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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“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
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VIDEO REASONS TO BE A VEGETARIAN PRESS ENTER AGAIN
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FAQ
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Plants and the trees also have souls! Isn’t eating them killing?
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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 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. (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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Nourishment of Body Nourishment of Soul Krishna Prasadam Offer Food to Krishna
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