8 January 05: Vegetarian Day

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This came in from NotMilk a week or more back ;=)

 

Best, Pat

 

Celebrate Vegetarian Day on 01/08/05

 

I invite you to join me in the celebration of World Vegetarian Day,

to take place each year from now until eternity on the first Saturday

following New Year's Day.

 

Vegetarians have an obligation to teach meat eaters the joys of our

cooking. All parents and teachers have an obligation to teach

children how to cook and prepare food. In 1913, America's great

health reformer, Ellen White, wrote:

 

" The science of cooking is not a small matter. The skillful

preparation of food is one of the most essential arts. It should be

regarded as among the most valuable of all the arts, because it is so

closely connected with the life.

Both physical and mental strength depend to a great degree upon

the food we eat; therefore the one who prepares the food

occupies an important and elevated position. "

 

There is a point in time between January 1st and January 2nd in which

many New Year's resolutions are broken.

 

Vegetarian Day will re-affirm one's commitment to " do the right

thing " to our bodies.

 

Vegetarian Day is not meant to replace the annual celebration which

falls on Gandhi's birthday, October 1st. On that day, conferences,

lectures, and celebrations of all types are held to promote animal

rights.

Vegetarian Day will be exclusively dedicated to honor and celebrate

the abundance of food choices that replace the standard meat diet

which results in abuse to animals and abuse to the human body.

Vegetarian Day can be celebrated with a party-buffet at home, or a

visit to a local vegetarian restaurant. Invite your friends and

family!

 

Celebrate life by not eating dead animals.

 

Begin your Saturday by purchasing the freshest varieties of produce,

and spend your afternoon preparing Chinese, French, Indian, Italian,

Middle Eastern, African, and American foods.

Serve an Un-Turkey (made by Now & Zen). Prepare homemade soy-based

" Vice Creams " for dessert. Bake your own breads.

Make a 20-ingredient salad. Be festive in teaching others that a

plant-based diet is infinitely more interesting than pig butt or

turkey carcass.

 

Enjoy an alcohol-free meal. Serve homemade apple cider and freshly

squeezed orange juice.

 

Why do we need a new holiday? Ellen White said it best.

 

" Our race is in a deplorable condition, suffering from disease of

every description. Many have inherited disease, and are great

sufferers because of the wrong habits of their parents; and yet they

pursue the same wrong course in regard to themselves and their

children which was pursued toward them.

They are ignorant in regard to themselves. They are sick and do not

know that their own wrong habits are causing them immense suffering. "

(Testimonies, Volume 1, 1867)

 

The first annual Vegetarian Day, 2005, will be observed on January

8th. Let's make this a yearly event. Please mark your calendar and

join me in this new holiday celebration.

 

Robert Cohen

http://www.notmilk.com