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Greetings,

 

This message is to introduce you to SERV (Society of Ethical and

Religious Vegetarians) and to invite you to join us if you share our values

and goals. Your membership will add prestige and strength to SERV and will

not require a major time expenditure on your part.

 

SERV is an interfaith effort to gain a more humane, just, peaceful, and

environmentally sustainable world. We believe that applying spiritual values

to scientific knowledge encourages plant-based diets, with major benefits for

humans, animals, and the environment. We wish to respectfully make religious

communities aware that the realities of animal-based diets and agriculture

are inconsistent with basic religious teachings, such as those to preserve

our health, treat animals with compassion, protect the environment, conserve

natural resources, reduce hunger, and pursue peace and nonviolence. Further

information is at our web site at http://www.serv-online.org.

 

SERV does not aim to replace any religious vegetarian groups, but hopes

to help all such groups by showing the strong teachings in every religion

that point to vegetarianism as the ideal diet today. We also believe that

our interfaith approach will help gain greater media coverage.

 

Among the initial leaders of SERV are the following vegetarian and

animal rights authors and activists: Keith Akers, Nathan Braun, Bruce

Friedrich, Roberta Kalechofsky, Stephen R. Kaufman, Norm Phelps, Richard H.

Schwartz, and Richard Young. We expect to add many more leading people in our

movement as we strive for a very diverse group involving representatives of

all the major religions.

 

Our initial efforts include producing a bibliography of religion-based

vegetarian books and key articles, compiling a list of websites with

religious teachings on vegetarianism, compiling a set of religious

vegetarian-related quotations, and setting up a website.

 

If you are committed to promoting vegetarianism through religious

teachings, please become a member of SERV and join us in our efforts to make

breakthroughs toward getting vegetarianism squarely onto the agenda of

religious groups and society. As a member, you will be kept appraised of

SERV activities through periodic e-mail messages and, will have

opportunities to have input on SERV projects. There are no obligations - you

can do as much or as little as you wish.

 

Please tell us if you would like to be a member of SERV, and, if so,

please send a brief bio. We also welcome any questions, comments, and

suggestions you may have about SERV, including contact information about

other vegetarian activists you think we should contact about SERV.

 

Information about SERV, including information about how to join is

below. Please contact us if you would like any further information or have

suggestions.

 

Thanks, and best wishes,

 

Richard Schwartz

Acting Coordinator

 

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Richard H. Schwartz, Ph.D.

Author of Judaism and Vegetarianism, Judaism and Global Survival, and

Mathematics and

Global Survival, and over 100 articles at jewishveg.com/schwartz.

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, College of Staten Island

2800 Victory Bulevard, Staten Island, NY 10314

Phone: (718) 761-5876 Fax: (718) 982-3631

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