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We are
what we
eat
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Comparative
Anatomy
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Is our body
designed toconsume
meat?Let us compare
our body witha carnivore as
well as a
herbivore
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Carnivore
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Herbivore
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The Comparative Anatomy of
Eating
Well-developedWell-developed
Reduced to
allow wide
mouth gap
Facial
Muscles
HumanHerbivoreCarnivoreComparison
good side-to-
side motion
good side-to-
side motion
minimal side-to-
side motionJaw Motion
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The Comparative Anatomy of
Eating
Broad, flattened
and spade
shaped
Broad, flattened
and spade
shaped
Short and
pointed
Teeth:
Incisors
Short and
blunted
Dull and short
(sometimes long
for defense), or
none
Long, sharp and
curved to tear
flesh
Teeth:
Canines
HumanHerbivoreCarnivoreComparison
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The Comparative Anatomy of
Eating
FlattenedFlattenedSharpTeeth:
Molars
Extensive
chewing
Extensive
chewing
None; swallows
food wholeChewing
HumanHerbivoreCarnivoreComparison
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The Comparative Anatomy of
Eating
HumanHerbivoreCarnivoreComparison
Alkaline saliva:Carbohydrate
digesting
enzymes
present
Alkaline saliva:Carbohydrate
digesting
enzymes
present
Acidic saliva:Carbohydrate
digesting
enzymes not
present
Saliva
pH 4 to 5pH 4 to 5
< pH 1 (to digest
tough animal
muscle, bone,
etc.)
Stomach
Acidity with
food in it
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The Comparative Anatomy of
Eating
10 to 11 times
body length
> 10 times body
length
3 to 6 times
body length
Length of
Small
Intestine
Long, complexLong, complexSimple, short
and smoothColon
HumanHerbivoreCarnivoreComparison
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The Comparative Anatomy of
Eating
Perspires
through millions
of skin pores
Perspires
through millions
of skin pores
No skin pores;perspires
through tongue
to cool body
Perspiration
Flattened nailsFlattened nails
or blunt hoovesSharp clawsNails
HumanHerbivoreCarnivoreComparison
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Health
&
Nutrition
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Let us look
at the
nutritionalvalue of a
vegetariandiet
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Can vegetarianfood ensure a
balanced diet for
good health ?
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Most popular myth:
If I dont eat meat, I would
suffer from lack of protein!
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Elephant is a powerful animal
yet he never eats meat!
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Researchers at Max Planck
Institute, Germany haveshown:
Most vegetables, fruits,seeds, nuts, and grains
are excellent sources ofcomplete proteins.
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FamousVegetarians
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Albert Einstein
Isaac Newton
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Plato
Socrates
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Pythagoras
Leonardo Da Vinci
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Bill Pearl(Mr. Universe)
Andreas Cahling(Mr. International)
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Al Beckles(Top body builder of 60s)
Jack LaLanne(Elite fitness trainer)
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Larry Bird(All-time great basketball player)
Greg Chappell(Former Australian cricketer)
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Carl Lewis
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Edwin Moses(400m hurdles -world record holder)
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Billy Jean King(Tennis champion of 70s)
Martina Navratilova(Tennis champion)
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I brainwashed youngsters into
doing wrong. I want to say sorryto children everywhere for selling
out to concerns who makemillions by murdering animals.
The original Ronald McDonald, Geoff Giuliano
- on quitting his job and becoming vegetarian
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Health
Reasons
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Effects of Meat on Health
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Excess protein cannot be stored
They must be excreted throughthe kidneys, which is a very
taxing process.
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CancerThe NumberTwo Killer
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Meat contains 14 timesmore chemicals & pesticides
than plant foods.
Harmful Chemicals
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Between $23.6 billionand $61.4 billion
Annual health-care costs directlyresulting from the US meat-centered
diet:
Revealed in 1995 by Physicians Committeefor Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a group
of 4,500 medical doctors
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20 million people die
annually as a result of
malnutrition
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...meat consumption
in rich countries is keycause for hunger
around the world.
UN Secretary General recently
admitted that..
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16 kg grain
1 kg beef
20 people
2 people
Access??
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Eighty percent of the corn and 95% of the oats grown
in the U.S. is eaten by livestock.
The percentage of protein wasted by cycling grain
through livestock is calculated by experts as 90%.
Producing one pound of beef requires 16 pounds ofedible grain and soyabeans, which could be used to
feed the hungry.
Vast quantities of food which could feed humans
is fed to livestock raised to produce meat
John Robbins' book Diet for a New America
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One acre of land can produce 40,000 pounds
of potatoes, or 250 pounds of beef. Fifty-six
percent of all U.S. farmland is devoted to beef
production.
One hundred million people could be
adequately fed using the land freed if
Americans reduced their intake of meat by a
mere 10%.
John Robbins' book Diet for a New America
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If everyone adopted a
vegetarian diet, current food
production would theoreticallyfeed 10 billion people, more
than the projected populationfor the year 2050.
According to the Population Reference Bureau
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Cruelty
I id
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Inside
Slaughterhouse
Visions
of Hell!!
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Hens are so
tightly packedin the battery
cages, that theycannot move an
inch during
their
encagement.
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Hens are forced
to lay up to200-220 eggs
every year,leading to
weakened
bones, feather
loss etc.
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This is
the
reality.
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Male chicks
are of no
commercial
value for the
slaughter houses.
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Male chicks are either packed in
garbage plastic bags to suffocate todeath or thrown away in trash cans.
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The recent trend is to grind themale chicks alive and use it as high
fertility manure for the farms.
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In the U.S. alone,
6,60,000 animals are
killed for meatevery hour.
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In the U.S. alone,
6,60,000 animals are
killed for meatevery hour.
The average percapita consumption
of meat in the U.S.,
Canada and Australia
is 200 pounds per
year!
Manure fumes and rotting carcasses will force workers to wear gas masks
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g g
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Number of meat, and egg
producing animals slaughtered
each year in World:
over 24.1billion
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William Ralph
We have enslaved
the rest of animalcreation and have
treated so badly
that, if they were toformulate a
religion, they woulddepict the Devil in
human form.
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Video ShowMEET YOUR MEAT
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Truly man is the
king of beasts
Leonardo da Vinci
for his brutality
exceeds theirs.
While our bodies
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While our bodies
are the living
graves of
murdered animals,
how can we expectany ideal
conditions onearth?
George Bernard Shaw
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Man suppresses in
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Man suppresses in
himself, unnecessarily,
the highest spiritualcapacity - that of
sympathy and pitytoward living creatures
like himself - and by
violating his ownfeelings becomes
cruel Leo Tolstoy
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Its a fact that
meat eating
reduces
respect for allkinds of life
including thatof humans.
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Can we deny thatbrutality against
animals makes us
more brutal too?
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Those that
kill animals, to
eat their flesh,
tend tomassacre their
own.
Pythagoras
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KarmicConsequences
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All of our actions including our
choice of food have karmic
consequences. By inflicting
injury, pain and death, one must
in the future experience thesufferings caused.
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By killing
animals, not onlywill we be bereft
of the human
form but we will
have to take an
animal formand
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somehow orother be killed
by the same
type of animalwe have killed.
This is the law
of nature.
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The Sanskrit word
mamsameans "meat."It is said:
mam sah khadati
iti mamsah.That is, "I am now
eating the flesh of an
animal who will someday in the future be
eating my flesh."
Mahabharata
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Mahabharata
The purchaser of flesh performsviolence by his wealth;
He who eats flesh does so byenjoying its taste;
The killer does himsaby actually
tying and killing the animal.- all of these are to be considered
meat-eaters.
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SrilaPrabhupada
explains
In human society, if one
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y,
kills a man he has to be
hanged (or punished). That
is the law of the state.
Because of ignorance people
do not perceive that
there is a complete statecontrolled by the
Supreme Lord. Every living
creature is the son of
the Supreme Lord, and Hedoes not tolerate even
an ants being killed. One
has to pay for it.
Meat eating and
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Meat-eating and
intoxication excite the senses
more and more, and theconditioned soul falls
victim to women. In order to
keep women, money is
required, and to acquiremoney, one begs,
borrows or steals. Indeed, he
commits abominable acts
that cause him to suffer bothin this life and in the next.
-Srila Prabhupada
Even the heads of religions
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indulge in killing animals
while trying to pass as
saintly persons. This
mockery and hypocrisy in
human society
bring about unlimitedcalamities; therefore
occasionally there are great
wars. Masses of such peoplego out onto battlefields and
kill themselves-Srila Prabhupada
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Those who are
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animal killers, their
brain is dull as stone.Therefore meat-eating
should be stopped. In
order to revive thefiner tissues of the
brain to understand
subtle things, onemust give up
meat-eating.
-Srila Prabhupada
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I d f l h
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I do feel that
spiritual progressdoes demand at some
stage that we should
cease to kill ourfellow creatures for
the satisfaction
of our bodily
wants.Mahatma Gandhi
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Our task must beto widen our circle
of compassion to
embrace all living
creatures including
animals.
Albert Einstein
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Non-violence leadsto the highest ethics,
which is the goal of
all evolution. Untilwe stop harming all
other living beings,
we are still savages.
Thomas Edison
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To say we love Godand at the same time
exercise cruelty
towards a creaturemoving by life derived
from God is a
contradiction in itself.
John Woolman
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If a man aspires
towards a
righteous life, his
first act ofabstinence is from
injury to animals.
Leo Tolstoy
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Lord rishna
describes in the
it
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Foods such as meat & fish are
described as putrid,decomposed, and unclean
On the contrary
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Plants and
the treesalso have
souls!
Isnt eating
themkilling?
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jivo jivasya jivanam
One living entity is food
for another in the
struggle for existence.
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If we eat our
designated food in a
way prescribed by theLord we are freed of
all sins.
Krishna instructs
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Arjuna
The devotees of the Lord are
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The devotees of the Lord are
released from all kinds of sinsbecause they eat food which is
offered first for sacrifice.
Others, who prepare food for
personal sense enjoyment, verily
eat only sin.
(Bhagavad-gita3.13)
Srila Prabhupada
explains:
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Human beings areprovided with food
grains, vegetables,
fruits, and milk bythe grace of the
Lord, but it is the
duty of the human
beings to
acknowledge the
mercy of the Lord.
explains:
As a matter ofgratitude, they
should feel obliged
to the Lord for their
supply of foodstuff,
and they must first
offer Him food in
sacrifice and then
partake the
remnants.
Krishna instructs:
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If one offersMe with love
and devotion aleaf, a flower,
fruit or water, I
will accept it.(Bhagavad-gita9.26)
Krishna instructs:
Offer Food to
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Nourishment
of Body
Nourishment
of Soul
Krishna
Prasadam
Krishna
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