"In his final teachings before he physically left this earth, the Buddha foresaw that a

situation would arise in the future where those speaking in his name would pervert
his Doctrine and encourage meat consumption. So here, in this great Nirvana Sutra,
he lays down his last will and testament on the matter: in no circumstances should
one eat meat or fish " nor animal corpses, found in the jungle, for instance " nor even
accept from a donor a meal which contains an abundance of flesh-foods. The very
contact of other food with meat is deemed defiling and requires purification of the
food by water. It is quite evident from all this that the Buddha in no way condoned
the eating of meat and was keen for his monastic and lay followers to abjure the
uncompassionate practice of meat eating and follow the pure path of vegetarian
Mahayana. In this, we would be wise and benevolent to follow him."

'To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.'
- Buddha

A safe way to transition to veganism here

“Do Vegetarians live longer than the general population?

Absolutely! Vegetarians outlast the general population by perhaps as much as ten
healthy years–a whole extra decade on Earth!”
Michael Greger M.D. see also The China Study
"One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so
called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings."
~ The Buddha

'Especially, nowadays most people crave meat and consume flesh and blood with a second
thought, completely oblivious to all the diseases caused by old meat or harmful meat spirits.
Unhealthy diets and lifestyles can also give rise to tumours, disorders of phlegm, dropsy
and other diseases, causing innumerable deaths...“

...Some people imagine that only the person who physically carried out the killing is
creating a negative karmic effect, and that the person who just gave the orders is not - or, if
he is, then only a little. But you should know that the same karmic result comes to everyone
involved... Each person gets the whole karmic result of killing one animal. It is not as if one
act of killing could be divided up among many people. ”
- Patrul Rinpoche From : Words of My Perfect Teacher

Talk : Vegetarianism by H.H. the 17th Karmapa

'Another thing I've forgotten is that any monastery that belongs to Kamtsang Kagyu, the
'Another thing I've forgotten is that any monastery that belongs to Kamtsang Kagyu, the
monastery kitchen cannot and should not make any food with meat. And if you bring meat
and cook it in the monastery kitchen then that means that you are not taking me as your
teacher, you are not belonging to Karma Kagyu. And there is nothing to discuss about that.
That's finished. That is very important.

You have to think, eating meat is not good, eating meat is dirty and bad for your health —
this kind of way of looking has to be cultivated. It's good for the long life of His Holiness
the Dalai Lama and also for Apo Gaga. You can use my name also. If you want Apo Gaga
to live longer, it's useful not to eat meat. And your own Root Guru and all the great beings,
if you want them to live long, the best method to do is to reduce meat or not eat it.

In the next session, once you make the commitment you should really keep it. If you make
the first commitment very clearly and very strongly, then the second commitment will be
good and the third also good, so the first commitment should be very strong and you should
not make the commitment unless you can really do it and have the mind to do it.'

6 pages of 17th Karmapa talks on Vegetarianism, please click here.

"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they
now look on the murder of men."
Leonardo da Vinci

"Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth,
and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the
earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that
has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food."
-Genesis 1:29

"There is not an animal on the earth, nor a flying creature on two wings, but
they are people like unto you."
- The Koran (sacred scripture of Islam)

"Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace
all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as
much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel Prize 1921

"Love is the eldest and noblest and mightiest of the Gods and the chiefest author and giver
of virtue in life and of happiness and death."
- Plato

"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the 'Universe', a part limited in time and
space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the
rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for
rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for
us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our
task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to
embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve
this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and
a foundation for inner security.”
- Albert Einstein, New York Post, 28 November 1972

"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the
seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."
Pythagoras, mathematician

"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And
there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor
popular; but one must take it because it is right.”

- Martin Luther King

"When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble."
-Buddha
"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 abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent
blood I count as of no consequence." -Mahatma Gandhi

Quote by The Great Dzogchen Yogi, Kyabje Chatral Sangye Dorje Rinpoche

Meat, the sinful food, is not permitted according to the three vows: the vows of individual
liberation, the Bodhisattva vows and the tantric vows.
Thus Buddha stated: “I have never approved, do not approve, and will never approve of a
meat diet.” He declared: “my followers must never eat meat.”

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
- Martin Luther King

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any
more than black people were made for whites or women for men.”
- Alice Walker

"The Gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies; they are the trees and the
plants and the seeds."
- Plato
Quote by The late Great Drubwang Konchok Norbu Rinpoche (1921-2007)

As practitioners of this precious Dharma, we need to eradicate all non-virtuous deeds in

general, particularly the consumption of meat, as it has the heaviest negative karma. This is
because all the livings beings that we eat are actually our own parents who have been very
kind to us in many lifetimes. Eating meat is a non-virtuous act with such heavy misgivings
that the Buddha Himself also mentioned that consuming the meat of other sentient beings
who have been our parents one lifetime or another is the gravest and most heinous deed to
commit.
Tribute to His Eminence Drubwang Konchok Norbu Rinpoche (1921-2007)

'If on the one hand, we chant the [Mani] mantra and on the other hand, we eat the meat of
another sentient being,
then our words and actions do not tally with one another.' — Drubwang Rinpoche

'One of the greatest obstacles to the birth of Bodhicitta

in our minds is our craving for meat.' — Shabkar

Did you know that in a study performed by

former World Bank Environmental adviser Dr. Robert Goodland
& Jeff Anhang the percentage of total green house gas
emissions from the live stock sector is closer to 51%
of total anthropogenic GHG emissions? Here is their
report which includes aspects in the calculation that the FAO
figure does not 'Livestock and Climate Change'.

Did you also know that in the worlds most

comprehensive, largest and longest ever study on
human nutrition, The China Study, by T. Colin
Campbell, Ph.D., and his son, Thomas M. Campbell. Dr.
Campbell is a professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell
University. The conclusions that cure man from heart disease and
most forms of cancer categorically define man as a raw, plant
based, whole food eater.

The book shows how the vegan diet results in better health, longer
life and far less disease and time in hospital.

The promotion of sustainable livestock farming, at such a time

when we need to race back from environmental tipping points we
are accelerating towards explained clearly in NASA GISS head
James Hansen's book 'The Storms of my grandchildren'; livestock
is clearly, exhaustively demonstrated as the main weight that is
dragging us down towards these points of no return where so
many will come to suffering.

Besides:

'If livestock are responsible for at least 51% of anthropogenic

GHG emissions, then mitigation measures no longer suffice, and
broadly avoiding emissions attributable to livestock becomes
critical. For example, improvements in the pasture-raising of
livestock can somewhat increase carbon stores in soil. However,
only about 8% of meat is produced from pasture-raised
 livestock,2 and there is little land available to increase this amount
without causing deforestation. Further, when livestock are
pasture-raised, they emit as much as three times the amount of
methane as do intensively-raised livestock. Moreover, the
possibility for mitigation to increase soil carbon is available for
only the first part of the lives of most pasture-raised livestock, as
most are intensively raised and fed crops for the second part of
their lives.'
- Robert Goodland invited to present to the FAO at the club
of Rome following the success of the 'Livestock and Climate
change' article.

For the full article see the folder 'Goodland & co.' here:
http://www.zumodrive.com/share/4mJcNDEzZT

Still standing on the shoulders of giants:

"People think of animals as if they were vegetables, and that is not right. We have to
change the way people think about animals. I encourage the Tibetan people and all people
to move toward a vegetarian diet that doesn't cause suffering."
- The Dalai Lama

There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental
faculties.… The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and
misery.
—Charles Darwin, naturalist and author (1809–1882)

"If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to
animals."

"Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts
vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind."
-Albert Einstein
This way of killing animals is heart wrenching.
Such a loss this way of fooling oneself.
How helpless, our parents' dying.
This way of heaping up meat of defilement,
What do you do with so much blood?
How hungry you must be, the way you eat so much meat!
- Milarepa

"The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this
century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of
'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.”
- Neal D. Barnard, M.D., President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one
of degree and not of kind.
—Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
 - Bruce Lee - Vegetarian

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light and
of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy."
-- Plutarch

"More plant species in the U.S. have been eliminated or threatened by livestock grazing
than by any other cause, according to the U.S. General Accounting Office.”
- George Wuerthner

"To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings
of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that
suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are
uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it,
he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime."
Romain Rolland, author, Nobel Prize 1915

It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation, that it is rendered
susceptible of mastication or digestion; and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror
does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Attaining The Highest Bliss Of Buddhahood That We May Relieve All Beings Of
Their Sufferings

By HH the 100th Ganden Tri Rinpoche

Introduction
At the outset, develop the proper motivation to listen to the Buddha's teachings, preferably,
in tune with Bodhicitta, the aspiration to attain Buddhahood so that one could be of ultimate
benefit to all sentient beings.

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By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and
truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system!
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

"If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth -- beings who considered
themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals -- would you
concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?"
George Bernard Shaw, playwright, Nobel Prize 1925

"What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they
reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"
Jeremy Bentham, philosopher
 "In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression
vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought."
Isaac Bashevis Singer, author, Nobel Prize 1978

Does Eating Meat Create Negative Karma?

Transcribed excerpt from Venerable Tenzin Palmo's Talk “Karma & Rebirth”, held at
Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery on 5th June 2005 :

"And 'killing'. You know? I mean, I do think, yes, in Singapore, we have to think about
this. That you can say, 'Alright, I don't kill anything. I, you know, I don't kill. I live in a
town. I don't need to kill anything.' But, even by taking meat, we are colluding in allowing
animals to be killed. And I think that as Buddhists, people on the spiritual path, we should
think about this. Because if there is no demand, then there will be no cause to kill the
animals.

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"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole
human being."
Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President

"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the
graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist

[A]s you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me”
(Matt. 25:35, 40 RSV).

Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating

compassion and learning ways to protect the lives of people, animals, plants, and minerals. I
am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the
world, in my thinking, and in my way of life.
- Thich Nhat Hanh From: The Heart of Buddha's Teaching, The First Mindfulness
Training

"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields."

"What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or
endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their
cruelty."
Leo Tolstoy author
"I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they
ain't free, I ain't free."

"I done handcuffed lightning

And throw thunder in jail.
You know I’m bad."
- Muhamid Ali "the greatest of all time": Vegetarian
"I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it
would have been better if I had not fished."
Henry David Thoreau, author

"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any
ideal conditions on this earth?"
"Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical
research."
George Bernard Shaw

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals
are treated."
"To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being."
Mahatma Gandhi, statesman and philosopher

In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned.

The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to
include all living beings.
- Venerable Thich Nhat HanFrom Interbeing: Fourteen
Guidelines for Engaged Buddhism (1983)
We must look deeply. When we buy something or consume something, we may be
participating in an act of killing. This precept [non-killing] reflects our determination not to
kill, either directly or indirectly, and also to prevent others from killing.
- Venerable Thich Nhat Han From Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living
(1992)

“Children who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a
tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to develop weight problems, diabetes,
high blood pressure and some forms of cancer”
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock

"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, inventor

You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the
apple, I'll buy you a new car. ~Harvey Diamond

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it
explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.
~George Bernard Shaw

We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.
~James Cromwell
Vegan Ch'an Master Hsu Yun (Xu-yun), at 113 years old in 1952
Whenever possible, a Buddhist should abstain from eating meat. But where vegetables are
plentiful, there is no reason to eat meat.
- Chinese Zen Master Xu-Yun

In Genesis 2:15, God instructed Adam to “till” and “keep” the Garden of Eden, and by
analogy we may see caring for God’s Creation as our sacred task. The typical meat eater’s
diet can require up to 14 times more water and 20 times more energy than that of a
vegetarian. Indeed, current use of land, water, and energy is not sustainable; resource
depletion threatens to cause hardships for humankind this century.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same
impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

* My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chided for
my singularity, but, with this lighter repast, I made the greater progress, for greater clearness
of head and quicker comprehension.
-- Benjamin Franklin

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of
compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable. --
Thomas More

Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection
on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.
-- Leo Tolstoy

If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will
abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it
involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling -- killing.
-- Leo Tolstoy

Being a vegetarian makes it easier for us to increase our loving kindness and compassion.
- Venerable Thich Nhat Han From: Udumbara Flowers, Book II

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat he
participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is
immoral.
-- Leo Tolstoy

"Thou shalt not kill" does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living
beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was
proclaimed from Sinai.
-- Leo Tolstoy

In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot
stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a
dead ox or pig.I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last
slaughterhouse.
-- H G Wells - A Modern Utopia
-- H G Wells - A Modern Utopia

Wilbur burst into tears. "I dont want to die," he moaned. "I want to stay alive, right here in
my comfortable manure pile with all my friends. I want to breathe the beautiful air and lie in
the beautiful sun."
~ E. B. White (Charlotte's Web)

"Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.”
- Franz Kafka, while admiring fish in an aquarium

"It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of
too many babies being born in the second- and third-world nations while virtually ignoring
the over-population of cattle and the realities of a food chain that robs the poor of
sustenance to feed the rich a steady diet of grain-fed meat.”
- Jeremy Rifkin, Beyond Beef

"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat,
"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat,
he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is
immoral.”- Leo Tolstoy

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”
- Henry David Thoreau

"Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the
tormentor, never the tormented.”
- Elie Wiesel

- Carl Lewis, 100m world record holder: Vegan

"The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret . . . It has come to believe that
compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it
embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.”
- Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prize address: The Problem of Peace in the World
Today

“If man wants freedom why keep birds and animals in cages? Truly man is the king of
beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places! I
have since an early age abjured the use of meat.”
- Leonardo Da Vinci

"The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it
is indissolubly connected with the fate of man.”
- Emile Zola

"I think the evidence is pretty clear. If you look at various characteristics of carnivores
versus herbivores, it doesn't take a genius to see where humans line up.”
- William C. Roberts, Editor in Chief, American Journal of Cardiology [Statement in
support of his view that humans are not physiologically designed to eat meat]
"Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears
pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.”
- The Dalai Lama

1) Rather than encouraging apathy through submissive responses, let us deliver the message
loudly and clearly, that needles killing and suffering is wrong.

2) The eating of meat cannot in any way be considered to be helpful to the practice of the
dharma, neither can the slaughter of animals be considered to be consistent with the
Buddhist teachings of compassion (mettâ, ahimsâ, and karunâ), of loving kindness, or of the
nature of the evocation of the enlightenment-mind. The cruelties associated with the
slaughter of the animal kingdom for human consumption, the pain, fear, and distress
suffered by the animals in the entire process of being fattened for butchering, as well as the
environmental disasters wreaked upon our planet through the meat industry, are very well
documented, and should be understood by all who claim to be developing bodhicitta, or
who wish to.

3) Meat eating and a compassionate religion do not go hand in hand.

- Bodo Balsys

Why People Must Be Vegetarian

"A fully divine person is a fully human being. A fully human being is fully divine. Right
now we are only half a human being. We do things with hesitation, we do things with ego.
We don't believe that it is God who arranges all this for our enjoyment, for our experience.
We separate sin and virtue. We make a big deal out of everything, and accordingly judge
ourselves and other people. We suffer from our own limitations about what God should do.
Understand? Actually, God is inside us and we limit Him. We like to enjoy ourselves and
play, but we don't know how. We just say to others, 'Ah! You shouldn't do that,' and to
ourselves, 'I shouldn't do that. I must not do this. So,why should I be vegetarian?' Yeah! I
ourselves, 'I shouldn't do that. I must not do this. So,why should I be vegetarian?' Yeah! I
know. I am vegetarian because the God inside me wants it."

"When we are pure in our deeds, speech and thought, even for a second, all the deities, the
gods, and the guardian angels will support us. At that moment, the entire universe belongs
to us and supports us, and the throne is there for us to reign upon."

Foods from plant sources and dairy products are permitted on this diet, but all other foods
from animal sources including eggs should not be eaten. There are many reasons for this,
but the most important comes from the First Precept, which tells us to refrain from taking
the life of sentient beings, or "Thou shalt not kill."

Not killing or otherwise harming other living creatures is of obvious benefit for them. Less
obvious is the fact that refraining from harming others is equally advantageous for
ourselves. Why? Because of the law of karma. "As ye sow, so shall ye reap." When you
kill, or cause others to kill for you, in order to satisfy your desire for meat, you incur a
karmic debt, and this debt must eventually be repaid.

So, in a very real sense, the keeping of a vegetarian diet is a gift which we give to
ourselves. We feel better, the quality of our lives improves as the heaviness of our karmic
indebtedness diminishes, and we are offered entrance into new subtle and heavenly realms
of inner experience. It is well worth the small price you have to pay!

The spiritual arguments against eating meat are convincing for some people, but there are
other compelling reasons for being a vegetarian. All of them are rooted in common sense.
They have to do with issues of personal health and nutrition, ecology and the environment,
ethics and animal suffering, and world hunger.

Health and Nutrition

Studies of human evolution have shown that our ancestors were vegetarian by nature. The
structure of the human body is not suited for eating meat. This was demonstrated in an
essay on comparative anatomy by Dr. G. S. Huntingen of Columbia University. He pointed
out that carnivores have short small and large intestines. Their large intestine is
characteristically very straight and smooth. In contrast, vegetarian animals have both a long
small intestine and a long large intestine. Because of the low fiber content and high protein
density of meat, the intestines do not require a long time to absorb nutrients; thus, the
intestines of carnivores are shorter in length than those of vegetarian animals.

Humans, like other naturally vegetarian animals, have both a long small and large intestine.
Together, our intestines are approximately twenty-eight feet (eight and a half meters) in
length. The small intestine is folded back on itself many times, and its walls are convoluted,
not smooth. Because they are longer than those found in carnivores, the meat we eat stays
in our intestines for a longer period of time. Consequently, the meat can putrefy and create
toxins. These toxins have been implicated as a cause of colon cancer, and they also increase
the burden on the liver, which has the function of getting rid of toxins. This can cause
cirrhosis and even cancer of the liver.

Meat contains a lot of urokinase protein and urea, which add to the burden on the kidneys,
and can destroy kidney function. There are fourteen grams of urokinase protein in every
pound of steak. If living cells are put into liquid urokinase protein, their metabolic function
pound of steak. If living cells are put into liquid urokinase protein, their metabolic function
will degenerate. Furthermore, meat lacks cellulose or fiber, and lack of fiber can easily
create constipation. It is known that constipation can cause rectal cancer or piles.

The cholesterol and saturated fats in flesh also create cardiovascular disorders.
Cardiovascular disorders are the number one leading cause of death in the United States,
and now in Formosa.

Cancer is the second leading cause of death. Experiments indicate that the burning and
roasting of flesh creates a chemical element (Methylcholanthrene) which is a powerful
carcinogen. Mice given this chemical develop cancers, such as bone tumors, cancer of the
blood, cancer of the stomach, etc.

Research has shown that infant mice fed by a female mouse having breast cancer will also
develop cancer. When human cancer cells were injected into animals, the animals also
developed cancer. If the meat which we eat daily comes from animals that originally have
such disorders, and we take them into our body, there is a good chance we will also get the
diseases.

Most people assume that meat is clean and safe, that there are inspections done at all
butcheries. There are far too many cattle, pigs, poultry, etc. killed for sale every day for
each one to actually be examined. It's very difficult to check whether a piece of meat has
cancer in it, let alone check every single animal. Currently, the meat industry just cuts off
the head when it has a problem, or cuts off the leg which is diseased. Only the bad parts are
removed and the rest is sold.

The famous vegetarian, Dr. J. H. Kellogg said, "When we eat vegetarian food, we don't
have to worry about what kind of disease the food died of. This makes a joyful meal!"

There is yet another concern. Antibiotics as well as other drugs including steroids and
growth hormones are either added to animal feed or injected directly into the animals. It has
been reported that people eating these animals will absorb these drugs into their bodies.
There is a possibility that antibiotics in meat are diminishing the effectiveness of antibiotics
for human use.

There are some people who consider the vegetarian diet not sufficiently nourishing. An
American surgical expert, Dr. Miller, practiced medicine for forty years in Formosa. He
established a hospital there, where all the meals were vegetarian, for staff members as well
as the patients. He said, "The mouse is one kind of animal which can support its life with
both a vegetarian and non-vegetarian diet. If two mice are segregated, with one eating flesh
and the other vegetarian food, we find that their growth and development are the same, but
that the vegetarian mouse lives longer and has greater resistance to disease. Furthermore,
when the two mice got sick, the vegetarian mouse recovered quicker." He then added, "The
medicine given to us by modern science has improved greatly, but it can only treat illnesses.
Food, however, can sustain our health." He pointed out that, "Food from plants is a more
direct source of nutrition than meat. People eat animals, but the source of nutrition for the
animals we eat is plants. The lives of most animals are short, and animals have nearly all the
diseases that mankind has. It is very likely that the diseases of mankind come from eating
the flesh of diseased animals. So, why don't people get their nutrition directly from plants?"
Dr. Miller suggested that we only need cereals, beans and vegetables to get all the
nourishment we need to maintain good health.

Many people have the idea that animal protein is 'superior' to plant protein because the
former is considered a complete protein, and the latter is incomplete. The truth is that some
plant proteins are complete, and that food combining can create complete proteins out of
several incomplete protein foods.
several incomplete protein foods.

In March 1988 the American Dietetic Association announced that: "It is the position of the
ADA that vegetarian diets are healthful and nutritionally adequate when appropriately
planned."

It is often falsely believed that meat eaters are stronger than vegetarians, but an experiment
conducted by Professor Irving Fisher of Yale University on 32 vegetarians and 15 meat-
eaters showed that vegetarians had more endurance than meat eaters. He had people hold
out their arms for as long as possible. The outcome from the test was very clear. Among the
15 meat-eaters, only two persons could hold out their arms for fifteen to thirty minutes;
however, among the 32 vegetarians, 22 persons held out their arms for fifteen to thirty
minutes, 15 persons for over thirty minutes, 9 persons for over one hour, 4 persons for over
two hours, and one vegetarian held his arms out for over three hours.

Many long distance track athletes keep a vegetarian diet for the time preceding
competitions. Dr. Barbara More, an expert in vegetarian therapy, completed a one hundred
and ten mile race in twenty-seven hours and thirty minutes. A woman of fifty-six years of
age, she broke all the records held by young men. "I want to be an example to show that
people who take a whole vegetarian diet will enjoy a strong body, a clear mind, and a
purified life."

Does the vegetarian get enough protein in his diet? The World Health Organization
recommends that 4.5% of daily calories be derived from protein. Wheat has 17% of it's
calories as protein, broccoli has 45% and rice has 8%. It is very easy to have a protein rich
diet without eating meat. With the additional benefit of avoiding the many diseases caused
by high fat diets such as heart disease and many cancers, vegetarianism is clearly the
superior choice.

The relationship between over consumption of meat, and other animal source foods
containing high levels of saturated fats, and heart disease, breast cancer, colon cancer and
strokes has been proven. Other diseases which are often prevented and sometimes cured by
a low fat vegetarian diet include: kidney stones, prostate cancer, diabetes, peptic ulcers,
gallstones, irritable bowel syndrome, arthritis, gum disease, acne, pancreatic cancer,
stomach cancer, hypoglycemia, constipation, diverticulosis, hypertension, osteoporosis,
ovarian cancer, hemorrhoids, obesity, and asthma.

There is no greater personal health risk than eating meat, aside from smoking.

Ecology and the Environment

Raising animals for meat has its consequences. It leads to rain forest destruction, global
heatrising, water pollution, water scarcity, desertification, misuse of energy resources, and
world hunger. The use of land, water, energy, and human effort to produce meat is not an
efficient way to use the earth's resources.

Since 1960, some 25% of Central America's rain forests have been burned and cleared to
create pasture for beef cattle. It has been estimated that every four ounce hamburger made
from rain forest beef destroys 55 square feet of tropical rain forest. In addition, raising cattle
contributes significantly to the production of three gases which cause global warming, is a
leading cause of water pollution, and requires a staggering 2464 gallons of water for the
production of each pound of beef. It only takes 29 gallons of water to produce a pound of
tomatoes, and 139 gallons to produce a one pound loaf of whole wheat bread. Nearly half
of the water consumed in the United States goes to the growing of feed for cattle and other
livestock.
livestock.

Many more people could be fed if the resources used to raise cattle were used to produce
grain to feed the world's population. An acre of land growing oats produces 8 times the
protein and 25 times the calories, if the oats are fed to humans rather than to cattle. An acre
of land used for broccoli produces 10 times the protein, calories and niacin as an acre of
land producing beef. Statistics like these are numerous. The world's resources would be
more efficiently utilized if the land used for livestock production was converted to raising
crops to feed people.

Eating a vegetarian diet allows you to "tread more lightly on the planet." In addition to
taking only what you need and reducing excess, it will feel better when you know that a
living being doesn't have to die each time you eat a meal.

World Hunger
Nearly one billion people suffer from hunger and malnutrition on this planet. Over 40
million die each year of starvation, and most of them are children. Despite this, more than
one third of the world's grain harvest is diverted from feeding people to feeding livestock.
In the United States, livestock consume 70% of all the grain produced. If we fed people
instead of livestock, no one would go hungry.

Animal Suffering
Are you aware of the fact that more than 100,000 cows are slaughtered every day in the
United States?

Most animals in Western countries are raised on "factory farms." These facilities are
designed to produce the maximum number of animals for slaughter at the minimum
expense. Animals are crowded together, disfigured and treated like machines for the
conversion of feed into flesh. This is a reality that most of us will never see with our own
eyes. It has been said that, "One visit to a slaughterhouse will make you a vegetarian for
life."

Leo Tolstoy said, "As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A
vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism." Although most of us do not actively
condone killing, we have developed the habit, supported by society, of eating meat
regularly, without any real awareness of what is being done to the animals we eat.

The Company of Saints and Others

From the beginning of recorded history we can see that vegetables have been the natural
food of human beings. Early Greek and Hebrew myths all spoke of people originally eating
fruit. Ancient Egyptian priests never ate meat. Many great Greek philosophers such as
Plato, Diogenes, and Socrates all advocated vegetarianism.

In India, Shakyamuni Buddha emphasized the importance of Ahimsa, the principle of not
harming any living things. He warned His disciples not to eat meat, or else other living
beings would become frightened of them. Buddha made the following observations: "Meat
eating is just an acquired habit. In the beginning we were not born with a desire for it."
"Flesh eating people cut off their inner seed of Great Mercy." "Flesh eating people kill each
other and eat each other ... this life I eat you, and next life you eat me ... and it always
continues in this way. How can they ever get out of the Three Realms (of illusion)?"
Many early Taoists, early Christians and Jews were vegetarians. It is recorded in the Holy
Bible: "And God said, I have provided all kinds of grain and all kinds of fruit for you to eat;
but for the wild animals and for all the birds I have provided grass and leafy plants for
food." (Genesis 1:29) Other examples forbidding the eating of meat in the Bible: "You
must not eat meat with blood in it, because the life is in the blood." (Genesis 9:4) "God
said, Who told you to kill the bullock and the she goat to make an offering to me? Wash
yourselves from this innocent blood, so I may hear your prayer; otherwise I will turn my
head away because your hands are full of blood. Repent yourselves so I may forgive you."
St. Paul, one of Jesus' disciples, said in his letter to the Romans, "It is good neither to eat
flesh nor to drink wine." (Romans 14:21)

Recently, historians have discovered many ancient books that have shed new light on the
life of Jesus and His teachings. Jesus said, "People who have animals' flesh become their
own tombs. I tell you honestly, the man who kills will be killed. The man who kills living
things and eats their meat is eating the meat of the dead men."

Indian religions also avoid the eating of flesh. It is said that, "People can't get flesh without
killing things. A person who hurts sentient beings will never be blessed by God. So, avoid
taking flesh!" (Hindu Precept)

The holy scripture of Islam, the Koran, forbids the "eating of dead animals, blood and
flesh."

A great Chinese Zen Master, Han Shan Tzu wrote a poem which was strongly against flesh
eating: "Go quickly to the market to buy meat and fish and feed them to your wife and
children. But why must their lives be taken to sustain yours? It's unreasonable. It will not
bring you affinity with Heaven, but make you become dregs of Hell!"

Many famous writers, artists, scientists, philosophers, and eminent men were vegetarians.
The following people have all embraced vegetarianism with enthusiasm: Shakyamuni
Buddha, Jesus Christ, Virgil, Horace, Plato, Ovid, Petrarch, Pythagoras, Socrates, William
Shakespeare, Voltaire, Sir Isaac Newton, Leonardo Da Vinci, Charles Darwin, Benjamin
Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Emile Zola, Bertrand Russell,
Richard Wagner, Percy Bysshe Shelley, H. G. Wells, Albert Einstein, Rabindranath
Tagore, Leo Tolstoy, George Bernard Shaw, Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Schweitzer, and
more recently, Paul Newman, Madonna, Princess Diana, Lindsay Wagner, Paul
McCartney, and Candice Bergen, to name a few.

Albert Einstein said, "I think the changes and purifying effects that a vegetarian diet have
on a human being's disposition are quite beneficial to mankind. Therefore, it is both
auspicious and peaceful for people to choose vegetarianism." This has been the common
advice of many important figures and sages throughout history!

some MODERN SCIENCE REASONS

Regarding the "sustainable production of meat" as

discussed in the new book 'Meat - a benign
extravagance'
I have made my way through as much of the book as I can and it says it it's
self, 'the scope of the book is not to discuss weather it is right or wrong to eat
self, 'the scope of the book is not to discuss weather it is right or wrong to eat
meat' (page 2 in the text) but just to discuss if it is possible for us to do so. The
figures that they say are overplayed by an order of 3 magnitudes, about water
consumption and the insulative effect of the GHGs being c. 10% of total
anthropogenic contribution do not deal with the calculations that go into
bringing the figure to 51% of total anthro. GHG emissions as calculated (as an
almost unanimously accepted calculation) by former world bank environmental
adviser Dr Robert Goodland here: 'Livestock and Climate Change'.

At such a time when we need to race back from environmental tipping points
we are accelerating towards, livestock clearly, exhaustively demonstrated as
the main weight that is dragging us down towards these points of no return
where so many will come to suffering. As far as priorities go I do not think that
such a small segment of society who can live like this need propagate such
information to people at this time. The message that livestock is a benign
extravagance is flatly dangerous.

Besides:

'If livestock are responsible for at least 51% of anthropogenic GHG emissions,
then mitigation measures no longer suffice, and broadly avoiding emissions
attributable to livestock becomes critical. For example, improvements in the
pasture-raising of livestock can somewhat increase carbon stores in soil.
However, only about 8% of meat is produced from pasture-raised livestock and
there is little land available to increase this amount without causing
deforestation. Further, when livestock are pasture-raised, they emit as much as
three times the amount of methane as do intensively-raised livestock.
Moreover, the possibility for mitigation to increase soil carbon is available for
only the first part of the lives of most pasture-raised livestock, as most are
intensively raised and fed crops for the second part of their lives' - Dr. Robert
Goodland to The FAO.

The China Study, the longest and most comprehensive study ever done on
human nutrition clearly shows that humans are not designed to eat meat, in fact
that when they do, especially when they cook it, they are many hundreds of
times more likely to get cancers, disease and they all die much younger
compared to vegetarians.

BUSINESS REASONS
Robert Goodland Former World Bank Environmental adviser to the world
bank is invited to the club of Rome By the FAO. -
http://www.zumodrive.com/share/4mJcNDEzZT file: 'goodland and co.'

FROM THE BIBLE

Proverbs 20: 23 Be not among the winebibbers nor the riotous eaters of animal
flesh.
Genesis 1: 29 Behold I have given you herb yielding seed. To you it shall be
for food. http://www.matthewscully.com
* Genesis 9: 4-5 Flesh shall ye not eat. http://www.all-creatures.org
* Isaiah 65: The lion shall lie down with the lamb.. they shall not hurt nor
destroy in all my holy mountain for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of
the Lord. http://www.hacres.com
* Psalm 104: God made the whale to frolic in the sea (not to be slaughtered by
the US, JAPAN, NORWAY and ICELAND govts.) http://www.embassy.gov
Isaiah 66: 3: He that slays an ox is as he that slays a man.
* Jesus: Whatsoever you have done to these the least of My brethren you have
done unto Me.
* Corinthians l If meat makes my brother stumble I shall never again eat meat.
* Exodus 16: 31 The desert manna was like coriander seed. (This was stated
by Dr.Reginald Cherry MD on the Trinity Broadcast Network).
* Ezekiel 3 and 4: My body has never been contaminated by animal flesh.
* Leviticus: I will set my face against them that eat blood.
http://www.meatout.com
* Judges 13: The breaking of the Nazarite vow (no flesh.. no hair cutting) was
the cause of Samson`s downfall. http://www.jewishveg.com
* Job 12: 8 Speak to the earth and she will teach thee (of patience, nurturing,
unconditional , freely giving to all) http://www.compassionatespirit.com
* Exodus 20: 13 Thou Shalt Not Kill (This is not asterisked in the Bible...
Later translations such as New King James diluted King James to "Thou Shalt
Not Murder" http://www.ivu.org.cob-web.org:8888/recipes
Hosea 2:28: I will make for you that day a covenant with the animals.
Deuteronomy 5: Thou Shalt Not Kill (later versions than the King James
translate this as Thou Shalt Not Murder)
Exodus 20: 13 Thou Shalt Not Kill brought down the mountain literally Lo
Tirtzach ... (this is nonkilling, not nonmurder) The Biblical command "Thou
Shalt Not Kill" which J J Price cites as a reason to change diet ... is not
asterisked "to include humans only". The Biblical command "Thou Shalt Not
Steal" which Kathy Kurtz cites can be related to not purloining the eggs from
chickens nor the milk from mother cows whose calves are then butchered for
veal.
Genesis 6: Noah was commanded by God to provide vegetarian food in the
ark for people and animals. (The lions drank the milk of cows.)
Genesis 9: 4-5 Flesh shall yet not eat. And surely your blood I will require at
the hands of beasts. (God forgive us all and help us all to change.)
Hosea 2:28: I will make for you that day a covenant with the wild animals. I
will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land. I will make you lie
down in safety. Isaiah: Isaiah is the prophet who more than any other forecasts
the birth of Jesus. He is also the prophet with the most references to
nonviolence and universal respect for life. Jesus quotes Isaiah`s "I delight not
in your blood sacrifices" as He drives the animal killers out of the temple. Jesus
refers to the vegetarian Isaiah more than to any other.
Isaiah: 1: 11: I delight not in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he goats
(whereas Isaiah 66 involves not eating pigs ... and Isaiah 65 involves not eating
any living thing) (In some Bible translations the word `blood` has been
removed.) (In others it is "I delight not in thy blood sacrifices.")
Isaiah 66: 3 He who slays an ox is as he that slays a man. (Another translation:
He who kills a bull is as he who kills a man.)
Job 5: You will be in league with the stones of the field and the beasts of the
field shall be at peace with you.
Job 12: 8 Speak to the earth and she will teach thee (of patience, humility,
forgiveness, universal nurturing)
forgiveness, universal nurturing)

GREATER THINGS SHALL YOU DO THAN I HAVE DONE

SAID JESUS CHRIST TO HIS FOLLOWERS:

What you have done to these the least of My brethren you have done unto Me.

CATHOLIC VEGETARIAN SAINTS

St Francis of Assisi, St Clare, stigmatist St Therese Neumann, St. Martin de

Porres, St John Chrysostom, St Anthony of Padua who preached to fishes
when humans would not listen.. St Nicholas of Tolentino* believed they were
following the example of Jesus in not eating His animals. Trappists,
Cistercians, Benedictines, Franciscans all have had a tradition of vegetarian
diet, to which many still adhere. The pretzel was says George Cornell former
AP religion writer a Lenten bread, symbolizing arms folded in prayer.. Lentils
were named as such because they were a Lenten vegetarian alternative to
animal flesh. Meatless Fridays were the last vestige of early Christian
abstinence from meat in following
Christ's example. A papal bull once excommunicated anyone who attended a
bullfight because the barbaric cruelty in them. This was later amended to
excommunicate only priests who blessed bullfighting.

"You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be
"You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here"
-Ehrmann
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The lessons we have begun to learn make me hopeful, that human
beings will become friendlier, more harmonious, less harmful.
Compassion and the seeds of peace will be able to flourish. At the
same time, every individual is responsible to help guide our global
family in the right direction. Good wishes alone are not enough; we
family in the right direction. Good wishes alone are not enough; we
have to take responsibility. Large human movements spring from
individual human initiatives
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to each other. -Mother Teresa
.
For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And
it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. -Eleanor
Roosevelt
.
We are what we pretend to be -Vonnegut
.
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is
preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor
and attacked a hot fudge sundae -Vonnegut
.
I am sitting in the smallest room in the house. I have your review in
front of me. Soon it will be behind me. -Max Reger
.
Sir, I have studied it, you have not -Isaac Newton, Scientist &
Astrologer (190 IQ) said in defense of astrology to disbeliever in
Halley (comet discoverer) But was Newton really an astrologer?
There is some controversy over the question, more about it at
http://archure.net/science/newton.html
.
"The human brain hasnt changed much in the past million years" -
Desmond Morris (the ramifications of this are endless, people in the
days of the construction of the pyramids and before, were just as
smart as people are today, they are just not around to stand up to all
who think that only since "our generation" has man become
intelligent)
.
Today's youth are in rebellion, society is crumbling, it appears to be
Today's youth are in rebellion, society is crumbling, it appears to be
the fall of mankind (approximate quote) -Plato (?) 400 BC
.
He who looketh upon a woman loseth a fender -sign in auto repair
shop
.
Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy
fat women -Sylvia (Nicole Hollander)
.
There will be sex after death, we just won't be able to feel it -Lily
Tomlin
.
Love is the crocodile on the river of desire -Bhartrihari (ca. 625)
.
If women didn't have a vagina I wouldn't talk with them -Howard
Stern
.
A relationship is what happens between two people who are waiting
for something better to come along -author?
.
The longer I live, the more I see that I am never wrong about
anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my
notions have only wasted my time -George Bernard Shaw (famous
vegetarian)
.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
"When about 16 Years of Age, I happen'd to meet with a Book
written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I
determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an
inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity...."
-BEN FRANKLIN Chapter 1 "The Autobiography" E302.6F7A2
available in most libraries and bookstores and college bookstores
ONLINE VERSION also available (now more directly at)
http://www.earlyamerica.com/lives/franklin/chapt1/index.html a bit
further than 3/4 of the page down. Select Chapter 1, and search for
word "Tryon" or "vegetable" (find option will not work on this page
with some browsers, you may have to look visually). Note: The
word "Flesh" is capitalized in the Vintage Press version, but not in
some other publications.

WAS FRANKLIN REALLY A VEGETARIAN? HOW LONG?

http://www.archure.net/salus/franklinveg.html
.
"Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still
savages." - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. President
.
.
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
-Paul McCartney
.
When I was young we didn't have MTV; we had to take drugs and
go to concerts -Steven Pearl? or Steven Wright?

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens

can change the world. Indeed, its the only thing that ever has.-
Margaret Mead
.
Oppression stems from Aggression, the worlds number one solvable
problem -Archure (aka Chris Holley)
.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here" -Ehrmann
.
Gandhi visited the USA, a reporter asked Gandhi what he thought
of Western Civilization; Gandhi replied "It sounds like a good idea
to me"
.
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants -
Newton
.
There is more to life than increasing its speed -Mahatma Gandhi
.
If theyre not going to listen to Ben Franklin (vegetarian, age 16,
from The Autobiography) and Albert Einstein (vegetarian and anti-
war pacifist); then who is going to listen to MistrMoose (Archure's
former nickname in chat rooms). -Archure

in the name of god

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Charles Fraser
Charlie@SustainableMedia.coop
Skype: 'cdmvsf''
CES No. CTTE2447

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'Manna - The Ubuntu Living Show'

"Comprehend and copy nature"
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CES No. CTTE3650

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http://www.SustainableMedia.coop
CES Global Group No. GLOG0002

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