Be Vegetarian

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Dr. Acharya Yogeesh speaks on Vegetarianism. We are not born as meat-eaters and our human body was not meant to digest meat. He talks about the first animal rights movement in history alongside animal cruelty. 3 part series.

Be Vegetarian

There is currently great awareness about vegetarianism especially among celebrities. Truly, we are born vegetarian. The most obvious factor is that our teeth don't match those of meat eating animals. We lack claws to prey on our food source. Animals can digest raw meat without cleansing. Humans cannot do that. All our foods have to be washed of dirt and insects. Our intestines are very long in comparison to animals. Animals can digest meat very fast because of it. In humans digesting meat takes about three days, which means that food spoils in the intestines causing sickness and disease. Meat also clogs our arteries.

In Hindu culture our ancestors who were hunters ate meat. Unfortunately, their blood is still running in our veins. We need to purify it. Thousands of years ago however, out of realization that eating beef was harmful they declared the cow a sacred animal. When people considered the cow sacred they could no longer kill it. The cow is also considered like a mother because we are raised on her milk. The animal rights movement started in order to protect the life of animals.

Krishna's cousin, a Jain tirthankar, had this vision. Krishna arranged for his wedding in a city in an area where many animals were caged in. His cousin inquired of his charioteer why they were there. The charioteer informed him that they were there for the wedding waiting to be slaughtered. He immediately ordered the charioteer to free all the animals from the cage. That was the origin of animal rights awareness. He then asked his charioteer to take him up the hill and there he became a monk and later became enlightened. He was the 22nd Jain Tirthankar. Krishna followed his example and now you see Krishna's pictures always with animals around him. While he plays the flute the animals are in trance next to him. Even animals can go into trance around peaceful people. Krishna loved his cousin and so he left his kingdom and became enlightened.




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[LordsOfTheQ]

God didn't make anymals because we would kill them, he made them for us beacuse the humans wouldn't be so lonley... i hate humans.. :(

I do not belive in God, but if he made animals he wanned that we are gonna share the world. Not kill those who are inecent

[marekiller8]

Our society: blended goldfish, raped orangutans, de-skinned livig dogs, burned and crucified living cats, animals thrown in water to drown, animals shredded alive, animals forced to smoke, animals forced to eat by getting a steel tube shoved down their mouths, animals stepped on (and not just poor insects), animals knifed and hung upside down while still breathing, animals with bricks thrown on them, with their throats slit so their vocal cords hang out, animals whipped and beat. BE VEGETARIAN.

[WhereYouWannaBe]

@MrInjerreau But not as many are being killed because vegetarians aren't contributing or supporting the industry. It is estimated that if one person becomes vegetarian, 100 animals are saved per year. Therefore, 100 animals are not killed for that person to eat. So there is some help in that.

[Dzongka]

I'm happy that I was born into the Brahmanic tradition of vegetarianism.

[MrInjerreau]

@Frogstomp121 Becoming a vegeterian isent helping since the cows are still being killed

[HdjoRn]

@WorldOfPubic

awsome @ 9 months here :)

[bliss6120]

@Frogstomp121 I fully agree with you, I wish those who eat meat will get a chance to watch the poor animals getting killed ! Maybe only then, will they stop and think again and decide to be vegetarian, this will surely benefit themselves and of course our planet !

[gypsyqueenmaya]

@marekiller8 Very true. TOO many people are in denial, meat is not an essential part of a human's natural diet, animals are tortured like crazy (just because they're not there, or ignoring it, doesnt mean its not happening..) If people just woke up and realized what damage meat produce is causing to the beautiful natural world, all the bad would turn good in no time, and improve at least instead of just keep on getting worse & worse & dying out slowly :( that is the REAL world trouble.

[gypsyqueenmaya]

@No0ne712 its scientifically proven that we are natural herbivors, some people just got the idea to start eating meat, and others liked it, then the whole rampage started and everyone became fat, sick, and cruel to the animals.

Now all people have to do is try to reverse it. It has caused many things like world hunger, polution, extinction to the animals who lived in the forests which are cut down for more room for beef cattle.

RESEARCH.

[numani12345]

@marekiller8 PLANT LIVE TO AND FELL PAIN

[numani12345]

@WorldOfPubic WHY

[yekshemesh4alig]

I hate it when people claim they're vegetarian, even though they add stuff like "I'm sort of vegetarian because I only eat chicken".

On a related note: I hate it when people claim they're straight edge when they're really not... "I don't drink a lot of alcohol so I'm almost straight edge..."

Regarding lifestyles like vegetarianism/straight edge/veganism, there is no "almost", either you are or you're not, period.