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Vegetarian vision
The document compares the anatomy and digestive systems of carnivores, herbivores, and humans. It notes that while humans have some carnivore-like traits such as teeth and jaw structure, our digestive system with alkaline saliva and long intestines is more similar to herbivores. The document questions whether a meat-eating diet is aligned with human biological design and raises health, environmental, and ethical concerns about meat consumption.
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Vegetarian vision
- 2. “We are what we eat”
- 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 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
- 16. Can vegetarian foodensure a balanced diet for good health ?
- 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. Heart Disease The Number One Killer Responsible for approx. 50% of all deaths in Britain
- 22. As early as1961, the Journal of the American Medical Association had said “90% - 97% of heart disease can be prevented by a vegetarian diet.”
- 23. Excess protein cannotbe stored They must be excreted through the kidneys, which is a very taxing process.
- 24. Cancer The Number Two Killer
- 25. Cooked meat andfish contains carcinogens, which sometimes attack the cell’s genetic material (DNA), alter it and develop cancer
- 26. Harmful Chemicals Meatcontains 14 times more chemicals & pesticides than plant foods.
- 27. Annual health-care costsdirectly resulting from the US meat-centered diet: Between $23.6 billion and $61.4 billion Revealed in 1995 by Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a group of 4,500 medical doctors
- 30. 20 million peopledie annually as a result of malnutrition.
- 32. UN Secretary Generalrecently admitted that….. “...meat consumption in rich countries is key cause for hunger around the world.”
- 33. Access?? 16 kg grain 20 people 1 kg beef 2 people
- 34. Vast quantities offood which could feed humans is fed to livestock raised to produce meat. Eighty percent of the 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 soyabeans, which could be used to feed the hungry.” John Robbins' book “Diet for a New America”
- 35. “One acre ofland can produce 40,000 pounds of potatoes, or 250 pounds of beef. Fifty-six percent 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 consumesin a 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 “If everyone adopted a vegetarian diet, current food production would theoretically feed 10 billion people, more than the projected population for the year 2050.”
- 47. Inside Slaughterhouse Visions of Hell !!
- 48. Hens are so tightly packed 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.
- 50. This is the reality.
- 51. Male chicks are of no commercial value for the slaughter
- 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
- 61. Number of meat,and egg producing animals slaughtered each year in World: over 24.1 billion
- 62. “We have enslaved the rest of animal creation and have treated so badly that, if they were to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in William Ralph human form.”
- 65. Video Show MEET YOUR MEAT
- 68. Video Show Fur Farmsin China
- 72. • Plato • Socrates
- 73. • Pythagoras • Leonardo Da Vinci
- 74. • St. Frances • Van Gogh
- 75. • Albert Einstein • Isaac Newton
- 76. • Benjamin Franklin • Thomas Edison
- 77. • Emerson • Andersen
- 78. • G.B.Shaw • Frantz Kafka
- 79. • Mahatma Gandhi • Menaka Gandhi
- 80. • Abdul Kalam
- 81. • Henry Ford •Steve Jobs
- 82. • John Lennon •George Harrison
- 83. • Paul Mc Courtney • Bob Dylan
- 84. • Bob Marley • Carlos Santana
- 85. • Jackie • MichaelJackson Chan
- 86. • Brad Pitt •Dustin Hoffman
- 87. • Amitabh Bachchan • Hema Malini
- 88. • Madhuri Dixit • Juhi Chawla
- 89. • Bill Pearl (Mr. Universe) • Andreas Cahling (Mr. International)
- 90. • Larry Bird (All-time great basketball player) • Greg Chappell (Former Australian cricketer)
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- 92. • Edwin Moses (400m hurdles - world record holder)
- 93. • Rahul Dravid • Anil Kumble
- 94. • Martina Navratilova
- 95. “I brainwashed youngstersinto doing 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
- 97. “While our bodies are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on George Bernard Shaw earth?”
- 104. “Man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity - that of sympathy and pity toward living creatures like himself - and by violating his own feelings becomes Leo Tolstoy cruel.”
- 106. It’s a factthat meat eating reduces respect for all kinds of life including that of humans.
- 109. Can we denythat brutality against animals makes us more brutal too?
- 111. “Those that kill animals, to eat their flesh, tend to massacre their own.” Pythagoras
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- 114. 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.
- 115. By killing animals, notonly will we be bereft of the human form but we will have to take an animal form and …
- 116. …somehow or other bekilled by the same type of animal we have killed. This is the law of nature.
- 117. 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."
- 118. Mahabharata 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
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- 120. “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’s being killed. One has to pay for it.”
- 121. “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
- 122. 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
- 126. “Those who are animal killers, 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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- 128. Foods such asmilk products, grains, fruits and vegetables “increase the duration of life, purify one’s existence, and give strength, health, happiness, and satisfaction.”
- 129. On the contrary… Foodssuch as meat & fish are described as “putrid, decomposed, and unclean”
- 130. Plants and thetrees also have souls! Isn’t eating them killing?
- 131. jivo jivasya jivanam Oneliving entity is food for another in the struggle for existence.
- 132. If we eatour designated food in a way prescribed by the Lord we are freed of all sins.
- 133. Krishna instructs Arjuna …
- 134. “The devotees ofthe Lord are released from all kinds of sins because they eat food which is offered first for sacrifice. Others, who prepare food for personal sense enjoyment, verily eat only sin.” (Bhagavad-gita 3.13)
- 135. Srila Prabhupada explains: As a matter of “Human beings are gratitude, they provided with food should feel obliged grains, vegetables, to the Lord milk by fruits, and for their supply of foodstuff, the grace of the and they must first Lord, but it is the duty of thefood in offer Him human sacrifice and then beings to partake the acknowledge the remnants.” mercy of the Lord.
- 136. Krishna instructs: “Ifone offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it.” (Bhagavad-gita 9.26)
- 137. Offer Food to Krishna Krishna Prasadam Nourishment Nourishment of Body of Soul
Editor's Notes
- #49 The USDA recommends giving each hen four inches of 'feeder space'. In this little space the birds cannot stretch their wings or legs, and cannot fulfill normal behavioral patterns. Constantly rubbing against the wire cages, they suffer from severe feather loss, and their bodies are covered with bruises and abrasions.
- #50 The USDA recommends giving each hen four inches of 'feeder space'. In this little space the birds cannot stretch their wings or legs, and cannot fulfill normal behavioral patterns. Constantly rubbing against the wire cages, they suffer from severe feather loss, and their bodies are covered with bruises and abrasions.
- #51 The USDA recommends giving each hen four inches of 'feeder space'. In this little space the birds cannot stretch their wings or legs, and cannot fulfill normal behavioral patterns. Constantly rubbing against the wire cages, they suffer from severe feather loss, and their bodies are covered with bruises and abrasions.
- #52 For every egg-laying hen confined in a battery cage, there is a male chick that was killed at the hatchery. Male chicks of egg laying breeds are of no economic value. They may be thrown in trashcans where they are suffocated or crushed under the weight of others. Another common method used to dispose of unwanted male chicks is grinding them up alive.
- #53 For every egg-laying hen confined in a battery cage, there is a male chick that was killed at the hatchery. Male chicks of egg laying breeds are of no economic value. They may be thrown in trashcans where they are suffocated or crushed under the weight of others. Another common method used to dispose of unwanted male chicks is grinding them up alive.
- #54 For every egg-laying hen confined in a battery cage, there is a male chick that was killed at the hatchery. Male chicks of egg laying breeds are of no economic value. They may be thrown in trashcans where they are suffocated or crushed under the weight of others. Another common method used to dispose of unwanted male chicks is grinding them up alive.
- #60 A newborn calf is likely to be taken to a veal factory. There, he will be locked up in a stall and chained by his neck to prevent him from turning around for his entire life. He will be injected with antibiotics and hormones to make him grow.
- #66 A newborn calf is likely to be taken to a veal factory. There, he will be locked up in a stall and chained by his neck to prevent him from turning around for his entire life. He will be injected with antibiotics and hormones to make him grow.