Ethical Grounds Those who claim to be sane and rational beings and care for ethical and humanitarian values and the moral uplift of the spirit will try to fee themselves from this thralldom of social conventions and fashions, and instead of pampering the corpus by a wanton pursuit of Epicureanism will take to vegetarianism in…
Case for Vegetarianism In fact, as human consciousness develop[s so the scope of man’s compassion expands. At first, it was freedom only for the elect, then the serfs were freed from oppression, then the slaves were given freedom. The uplift of the so-called Harijans, untouchables, outcastes, the Adivasis, and the hitherto down and trodden has…
Movement for Vegetarianism It was well-nigh two hundred years ago that the traditionally and conventionally meat-eating west began to wake up to the necessity of changing over to vegetarianism. As early as 1809 A.D. Rev. Williams Cowherd established the Bible Christian Church Salford, which initiated the advocacy of vegetarianism as one of its objectives. In…
Thinkers against Meat-eating Meat-eating has, however, been regarded as an inhuman, barbarous and unwholesome habit by most of the sane and sagely thinkers of all times. Even the Vedas which are believed to have initiated the sacrificial cult and advocated the killing of animals and eating meat as part of religious ritual otherwise denounced this…
Result of Meat-eating The habit obviously made man violent and cruel. He started fighting with fellow human beings and the result has been bloody and devastating wars. Man has indulged in unscrupulous, wanton. Wholesale destruction of life for political, religious or personal reasons, such as gluttony, gourmandize, luxury, lust, sport, rapacity, exploitation, loot and plunder….
Addiction to Meat-eating, why? The question arises when, how and why man came acquire, against the inherent nature, the habit of eating meat? In a few regions the absence or paucity of vegetable food was the reason, while in some others climatic or environmental conditions prompted man to become a flesh-eater. In certain primitive societies,…
Man by nature Frugivorous Nature has divided the entire animal kingdom, including human beings, generally into three categories – carnivore, herbivore and frugivora. All flesh-eating animals like the tiger, panther, leopard, hyaena, cat, wolf and jackal, birds like the hawk and vulture and certain reptiles are carnivorous by nature. The elephant, bison, camel, horse, cow,…
Food Necessity Fear, and craving for food, sex and acquisition are the primary instincts of a living being. The instinctive love of life urges it to hunt for food and satisfy its physical hunger by feeding the body in order to sustain it and live. Food is the first of the primary physical necessities of…
Definition Vegetarianism is the theory or practice of a ‘vegetarian’, a term derived from the Latin root Vegetare* and coined for the first time in 1842 A.D. to mean ‘One who abstain from the use as food of flesh, fish and fowl, with or without the addition of eggs and dairy produce’. In other words,…