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ANNOUNCEMENT

 

 

Free e-mail publication of The Higher Taste - A Guide To Gourmet Vegetarian

Cooking and a Karma-Free Diet - including international recipes, especially

Indian, The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, U.K. 1985.

 

Contents

 

Chapter 1 - Health and a Meatless Diet

Chapter 2 - The Hidden Cost of Meat

Chapter 3 - "Do Unto Others ..."

Chapter 4 - Karma and Reincarnation

Chapter 5 - Beyond Vegetarianism

Chapter 6 - A Higher Taste

Recipes

 

 

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"In his 1975 beststeller, The Eco-Spasm Report, futurist Alvin Toffler, author

of Future Shock and The Third Wave, suggested a positieve hope for the world's

food crisis. He anticipated 'the sudden rise of a religious movement in the

West that restricts the eating of beef and thereby saves billions of tons of

grain and provides a nourishing diet for the world as a whole'."

"The emphasis in The Higher Taste on the spiritual dimension of food choice and

preparation will probably serve to strengthen the resolve of currently

practising vegetarians ... it is excellent food for thought." - Heres Health

Magazine.

 

"The Higher Taste is a cause for celebration. This book is a practical guide to

the exciting new world of gourmet vegetarian cooking ... for a higher purpose.

In The Higher Taste you will discover the health and economic advantages, as

well as the important ethical and spiritual considerations, of this all-natural

approach to diet and nutrition. The Higher Taste will teach you how to

dramatically improve your life by changing the way you eat."

 

"The Roman author Plutarch delivered this challenge to flesh-eaters: 'If you

declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for

yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources,

unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax'."

 

"Each year about 134 million mammals and 3 billion birds are killed for food in America."

 

"I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its

gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals." - Thoreau.

 

The opening chapters of The Higher Taste explain the whole philosophy behind

spiritual vegetarianism, and reading them will help you prepare food in the

best possible state of mind.

 

Chapter One reveals how modern medical research has shown links between

meat-eating and killer diseases such as cancer and heart disease. Chapter Two

exposes the myth of a worldwide food scarcity and explains the economic

advantages of a vegetarian diet for society and the individual. In Chapter

Three, the ethical foundations of vegetarianism are set forth, focusing on the

writings of some of the world's greatest philosophers, authors, and religious

leaders, among them Pythagoras, Plato, Leonardo da Vinci, Rousseau, Franklin,

Shelley, Tolstoy, Thoreau, Gandhi, and others. The principle of nonviolence, as

found in the teachings of Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, and Hinduism, is also

examined. An analysis of how the laws of karma and reincarnation are related to

vegetarianism forms the basis of Chapter Four. Chapter Five explains in detail

the rationale and procedures for offering vegetarian food to the Supreme Lord

as part of the bhakti-yoga system. In Chapter Six, excerpts from the writings

of Srila Svami Maharaja, one of India's greatest authorities on Vedic culture,

provide a concise, highly readable summary of the philosophy underlying the

spiritual vegetarian diet outlined in The Higher Taste.

 

 

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