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- 4. Is our body designedto consume meat? Let us compare our body with a carnivore as well as an herbivore
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- 7. The Comparative Anatomyof Eating Well-developedWell-developed Reduced to allow wide mouth gap Facial Muscles HumanHerbivoreCarnivoreComparison good side-to- side motion good side-to- side motion minimal side-to- side motion Jaw Motion
- 8. Broad, flattened and spade shaped 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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- 10. HumanHerbivoreCarnivoreComparison Alkaline saliva: Carbohydrate digesting enzymes present Alkaline saliva: Carbohydrate digesting enzymes present Acidicsaliva: Carbohydrate digesting enzymes not present Saliva pH 4 to 5pH 4 to 5 < pH 1 (to digest tough animal muscle, bone, etc.) Stomach Acidity with food in it
- 11. 10 to 11times body length > 10 times body length 3 to 6 times body length Length of Small Intestine Long, complexLong, complex Simple, short and smooth Colon HumanHerbivoreCarnivoreComparison
- 12. Perspires through millions of skinpores Perspires through millions of skin pores No skin pores; perspires through tongue to cool body Perspiration Flattened nails Flattened nails or blunt hooves Sharp clawsNails HumanHerbivoreCarnivoreComparison
- 16. Can vegetarian food ensurea balanced diet for good health ? https://veganicindia.com/
- 17. Most popular myth: IfI don’t eat meat, I would suffer from lack of protein!
- 18. Elephant is apowerful animal… …yet he never eats meat!
- 19. Researchers at MaxPlanck Institute, Germany have shown: “Most vegetables, fruits, seeds, nuts, and grains are excellent sources of complete proteins.”
- 20. Effects of Meaton Health
- 21. Responsible for approx. 50%of all deaths in Britain
- 22. “90% - 97%of heart disease can be prevented by a vegetarian diet.”
- 23. They must beexcreted through the kidneys, which is a very taxing process.
- 25. Cooked meat andfish contains carcinogens, which sometimes attack the cell’s genetic material (DNA), alter it and develop cancer
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- 27. 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
- 32. UN Secretary Generalrecently admitted that…..
- 33. 16 kg grain 1kg beef 20 people 2 people Feeds Feeds
- 34. Eighty percent ofthe 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 soya beans, 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”
- 35. “One acre ofland can produce 40,000 pounds of potatoes, or 250 pounds of beef. 56 % 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”
- 36. The average American consumes ina 72-year lifetime approximately 11 cattle, 3 lambs and sheep, 23 hogs, 45 turkeys, 1,100 chickens and 862 pounds of fish!
- 38. According to thePopulation Reference Bureau
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- 48. Hens are so tightlypacked in the battery cages, that they cannot move an inch during their encagement.
- 49. Hens are forced tolay up to 200-220 eggs every year, leading to weakened bones, feather loss etc.
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- 51. Male chicks are ofno commercial value for the slaughter houses.
- 52. Male chicks areeither packed in garbage plastic bags to suffocate to death or thrown away in trash cans.
- 53. The recent trendis to grind the male chicks alive and use it as high fertility manure for the farms.
- 55. In the U.S.alone, 6,60,000 animals are killed for meat every hour.
- 56. 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!
- 57. Manure fumes androtting carcasses will force workers to wear gas masks
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- 62. William Ralph “We haveenslaved 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.”
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- 71. • Pythagoras • LeonardoDa Vinci
- 72. • St. Frances ofAssisi • Van Gogh
- 73. • Albert Einstein •Isaac Newton
- 74. • Benjamin Franklin •Thomas Edison
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- 76. • Frantz Kafka•G.B.Shaw
- 77. • Mahatma Gandhi •Menaka Gandhi
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- 79. • Steve Jobs •Henry Ford
- 80. • George Harrison • JohnLennon
- 81. • Paul Mc Courtney •Bob Dylan
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- 83. • Jackie Chan• MichaelJackson
- 84. • Hema Malini •Amitabh Bachchan
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- 86. • Edwin Moses (400mhurdles - world record holder)
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- 88. “I brainwashed youngsters intodoing 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:
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- 107. All of ouractions including our choice of food have karmic consequences. By inflicting injury, pain and death, one must in the future experience the sufferings caused.
- 108. By killing animals, not onlywill we be bereft of the human form but we will have to take an animal form and …
- 109. …somehow or other bekilled by the same type of animal we have killed. This is the law of nature.
- 110. The Sanskrit word mamsameans "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."
- 111. The purchaser offlesh 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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- 113. “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 is being killed. One has to pay for it.” -Srila Prabhupada
- 114. “Meat-eating and intoxication excitethe 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
- 115. 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; therefore occasionally there are great wars. Masses of such people go out onto battlefields and kill themselves”- Srila Prabhupada
- 119. “Those who are animalkillers, 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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- 121. Foods such asgrains, fruits and vegetables “increase the duration of life, purify one’s existence, and give strength, health, happiness, and satisfaction.”
- 122. Foods such asmeat & fish are described as “putrid, decomposed, and unclean” On the contrary…
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- 124. One living entityis food for another in the struggle for existence.
- 125. If we eatour designated food in a way prescribed by the Lord we are freed of all sins.
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- 127. “The devotees ofthe Lord are released from all kinds of sins because they eat food which is offered first to Me. Others, who prepare food for personal sense enjoyment, verily eat only sin.” (Bhagavad-gita 3.13)
- 128. “Human beings are providedwith 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:
- 129. “If one offers Mewith love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it.” (Bhagavad-gita 9.26) Krishna instructs:
- 130. Nourishmen t of Body Nourishmen tof Soul Krishna Prasadam Offer Food to Krishna