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The Right Choices
The Right Choices
The 6th Commandment: Thou shalt not kill "He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man (Isaiah 66:3) According to the Bible, the first people were vegetarians "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food (Genesis 1:29) "What I want is mercy, not sacrifice (Hosea 6:6)
Raising animals for food is extremely inefficient. Animals raised for food have to eat as many as 16 pounds of grain to create just 1 pound of edible flesh. There is more than enough food in the world to feed the entire human population. While more than a billion people are chronically hungry, 40% of the worlds grain is fed to farmed animals. It takes about 300 gallons of water per day to produce food for a vegan, and more than 4,000 gallons of water per day to produce food for a meateater.
REASON 4: HEALTH
Vegetarians and vegans have a significantly lower incidence of hypertension, cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, gallstones, obesity, food-borne illnesses, and mortality. Meat has a lot of toxins. Soy provides all essential amino acids in addition to proteins. Over 70 animal diseases can be transmitted to humans through meat-eating, including mad cow disease, swine flu, bird flu, salmonella, and e-coli. Regular milk is very harmful for humans.
About 58 billion land animals are killed every year worldwide. The figure does not include sea creatures, wild animals killed by hunters, animals killed for fur or leather, and wildlife displaced by animal agriculture. In 2006, the global production of fishing and aquaculture reached approximately 144 million tons, of which 110 million tons (76.4%) were used for human consumption. All living creatures, including for example lobsters and mice, can feel pain. Some animals have senses that humans do not. Insects also have senses that are triggered by stimuli and a nervous system that translates stimuli into a response.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. ~ Immanuel Kant
The money-hungry farm animal industry exploits poor people, immigrants, and children. According to figures from the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly one in three slaughterhouse workers suffers from illness or injury every year, compared to one in 10 workers in other manufacturing jobs. Killing animals is inherently dangerous work; the fast pace, filthy killing floors, and lack of training make working at a slaughterhouse "the most dangerous factory job in America," according to Human Rights Watch.
The American Dietetic Association notes that most of mankind for most of human history has lived on vegetarian or near-vegetarian diets The prominent Swedish scientist Karl von Linne states, "Man's structure, external and internal, compared with that of animals, shows that fruit and succulent vegetables constitute his natural food Our teeth, saliva, stomach acid, and intestines are most similar to other herbivores, and dissimilar to carnivores and true omnivores Our so-called "canine teeth" are not at all comparable to the really long and pointed teeth of carnivores
The most merciful shows mercy to those who have mercy on others. Show mercy to those on earth, and the One above the heaven will show mercy to you." ~ Prophet Mohammed "If a man eats meat, he will take on the qualities of the animal he eats and once those qualities enter, the man's anger, his hastiness, and his animal qualities will increase. If he does not kill anything on the inside he will not kill anything on the outside." ~ Islamic Holiness M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion. ~ Buddha "I do feel that spiritual progress does demand, at some stage, that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants." ~ Mahatma Gandhi "When one becomes a vegetarian, it purifies the soul ~ Isaac Bashevis -- singer, author, Nobel laureate
As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love. ~ Pythagoras "As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields. ~ Tolstoy "Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. ~ Thomas Edison "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. ~ Einstein "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. ~ Gandhi
Animal Agriculture: The Facts (video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcjyn2GFJxk&feature=player_embedded Milk The Deadly Poison (video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYpafipJyDE Livestock and Climate Change (report) http://www.worldwatch.org/files/pdf/Livestock%20and%20Climate%20Change. pdf "A New Global Warming Strategy: How Environmentalists are Overlooking Vegetarianism as the Most Effective Tool Against Climate Change in Our Lifetimes (article) http://www.earthsave.org/globalwarming.htm The Case Against Meat (article) http://www.emagazine.com/view/?142 Meat the Truth (film) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uTJsZrX2wI Earthlings (film) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6361872964130308142# A Cow at my Table (film) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8259454408352493301#