Vegetarianism - Spiritual & Practical Reasons

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If there are other significant reasons (especially to appeal to the youths

of today in the US)

please add to this list, with Quotes from our Scriptures/Vedas/Puranas etc.

 

Best regards,

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I am sure we have had others ask us at some point "WHY ARE YOU A VEGETARIAN?"

I had a healthy discussion with some of my colleagues on this today, and

wanted to share this:

Most Info is from Others/books:

 

Before I start on why I am a vegetarian, i want to emphasize that I do not

judge non-vegetarians.

Everyone makes different choices for various reasons, it is not my place to

Judge.

 

A great deal of medical evidence points that a diet centered around animal

products is bad for you.

They cause heart disease, exacerbate cancer, obesity, impotence, diabetes etc.

 

I love other creatures and animals and do not want to cause suffering to them.

A vegetarian diet causes significantly less suffering to others.

 

Animals are sentient creatures with their own free will, it seems very

wrong to

force our will on others just because we are able to.

 

A vegetarian diet is materially very efficient than any animal based diet.

In a non vegetarian diet: You are feeding the animal some vegetarian food/

and then killing that animal. It is much more efficient to use the

original grain/vegetarian

food straight for humans.

 

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Albert Einstein

"It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living would most beneficially

influence

mankind"

 

The Buddha (Sidhartha Gautama)

"Do not kill, but rather preserve and cherish all life"

"Meat eating in any form, in any manner, and in any place is

unconditionally and once and for all

prohibited by me. I have not permitted meat eating to anyone under any

circumstances."

 

Prophet Mohammed

"An act of cruelty towards animals is as same as an act of cruelty to Humans.

Similarly, a good deed done to animals is as good as a good deed done to

humans."

 

Imam Al-Hafiz Basheer

" Any interference with the body of a live animal which causes

pain or disfigurement of any kind, is contrary to Islamic principles."

 

Surangama Sutra

"If we eat the flesh of living creatures, we are destroying the

seeds of compassion"

 

XIV Dalai Lama

"Killing animals for sport, pleasure, adventure, hides and furs

is very disgusting and distressing. There is no justification for indulging

in such acts of brutality"

 

Mohandas Gandhi " Spiritual progress at some stage demand that we should

cease to kill our

fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants "

 

St. John Chrysostom "We, the Christian leaders, practice abstinence from

the flesh of animals.

The unnatural eating of flesh-meat is polluting."

 

GOD " Thou shalt not kill"

Old/New testament

 

Abdul BAHA (BAHA'I) " Educate children in such a way that they become

exceedingly kind

and merciful to all animals"

 

Hosea 6:6 " He that kills animals is as if he killed humans"

 

Cardinal John. H. Neumann " Cruelty to animals is as if man did not love GOD"

 

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