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Does a reasonable Vegetal Diet improve Life Quality and health?.

Why a Vegetal Diet?

Because of health reasons since an animal diet is associated with many types of cancer, as well as heart ailments, diabetes, obesity, diseases of the gall bladder and hypertension.

Because with a vegetable diet people life is longer, with smaller risk of became sick, of going fat, suffering cancer and osteoporosis.

Because meat contains approximately 14 times more pesticides than vegetables.

Because million kilograms of antibiotics and hormones are used in the animal production each year, these drugs finish in the meat. 95- 99 percent of toxic chemical residues in human diet come from animal sources.

Because reducing the meat consumption 50%, reduces the risk of an heart attack 45%. And following a pure vegetarian diet reduces the risk over 90%. Because meat increases the blood acid level causing a calcium depletion from the bones to restore the balance of the body natural pH. This calcium reduction weakens the bones.

Because the meat is contaminated very often with toxoplasmosis and parasites. It is much less probable a bacteriological infection (E. coli, Camphylobacter, and Salmonella) with a vegetable diet.

Because of environment respect, since the industry of animal exploitation damages the nature consuming large quantities of water, land and energy with a very small profit and a very high pollution level.

For social justice because 72 % of the cereals from developed countries goes to feed animals, but if those cereals where used for human nourishment then it would be enough for all the planet population. Sixty million of persons could be adequately fed with the saved grain if the Europeans reduced the meat intake 10 percent.

Because the environmental problems that generates the cattle production are an important cause of desert growing and deforestation. The meat that comes from cattle bred in tropical jungles destroys the land and exhausts it in very short time. Tomorrow we will need to destroy more jungle and on our back desert will remain.

Because we do not consider ourselves superior to them and we do not have right to kill them.

Because we believe that we do not have the real need of eating animals, and therefore we do not eat them.

Because old life stiles are not always right only because people did it from long time ago. It does not imply that this will be correct because all the old traditions do not have to be good.

Because to feel pity towards the animals, we believe is bound with the character.

Because the no- violence gives tranquility.

Because until we do not cease of injuring to other live beings, we are still ignorant savages.

Because the respect from the human being towards the animals it´s bound to the respect of the persons mutually.

Because the issue is if the animals can suffer; and if they can suffer it can not exist moral justification so as not to take that suffering in consideration and to avoid it.

Because while our affection does not involve all live beings, the human being will not feel peace.

Because is the respect toward all the living creatures of the human being noblest attribute.

Because no human being wants consciously to kill any living creature.

Because one who is cruel with animals, is likely to be more unkind in his relations with other people.

Because the supremacy of the human beings over the animals would have to be demonstrated caring for and protecting them.

Because we believe that animals exist in the world by themselves, and they were not made for the human being to exploit them.

Because as an ancient wise told: "while the men continue slaughtering animals, the war and the suffering will remain on the earth and people will kill one to other, since the one that sows pain and death will not be able to harvest neither JOY, nor PEACE, neither LOVE."

Because we know the reality of a slaughterhouse and we do not want be accomplices of it.

Because some animals are crowded in a small farm cage all life without seeing a leaf of fresh grass, without any chance of moving. For example, male chicks are considered so useless that are thrown frequently in a waste´s mill machine - LIVE!.

Because when God forbade us to kill, did not made any exception.

Because according to our anatomy, the man has not been physiologically disposed to eat meat. The fruits and vegetables are the food convenient to human being, as seems to demonstrate dents structure and the length of the digestive system.

Because if it can be possible to live and be well without killing animals; we now kill them only to satisfy the appetite. And such act is avoidable.

Because if God said us in the Bible (Genesis 1:26 1:30 and 2:9) that we govern over the animals, He did not mention that we are allowed to mistreat them.

Because the meat has few carbohydrates, principal fuel for the human being; by the other way it has much fat, cholesterol, uric acid, toxins and hormones.

Because there is no danger of nutritional deficiency, all the nutrients can be obtained from vegetables. The cereals and legumes have sufficient proteins.

Because to eat vegetable is also more affordable.

Compassion for animals is a human characteristic. (See "Human Being")

For the yoga of diet (mitahara) the use of meat meals does sicken the body, reduces the intuition and isolates the mind.

Is easy to prepare good food at home... for example a good Home Made Vegetal Food can be Chapati Bread and Potato samosa:

1- Preparing chapati bread at home

Place two caps of flour in a bowl	and add a little of oil
A little of salt	Knead it well for a while
until the dough will be uniform	and well mixtured
stretched the dough with a roller	until forming a fine wafer
Heat the pan	and place the chapati in it
after few minutes turn it to the other side	and it is prepared Ready for lunch

2- Potato Samosa:

Another option can be from the row dough

Cut the fine wafer	and place over it the potato filling
Ply it by one side	and fix the border
Ply it by the oter side	and it is ready
Ready to fry	Heat the oil
Fry it	and it is finished

3- Prepare good fruit juice:

If you can do it with organic fruits much better.

What is meat?

It is very illuminating the discussion and conclusions reached by the uruguayan teenagers that fell in the airplain crash on the Andes mountains in the year 1972 and where in the real need to eat human flesh to survive.

"...but, why to eat meat? Canessa insisted in the fact that they had the moral obligation of staying alive at all cost and using all the resources available, and as he was sincere in his religious beliefs; he tried to put more emphasis on what he said to the most pious survivors: - Is only meat and nothing else that meat- he added -souls have abandoned the bodies and they are now with God in the heaven.

All that remains here is not more than the body that was containing the soul, and so, it is no more a human being.

It is just the SAME as the meat of the animals that we eat at home-.

Zerbino continued speaking: - I know perfectly that if my dead body could contribute to maintain you alive, I wish you use it without any doubts. More, if I die and you do not eat me, I will return from wherever I may be to give a kick in the back of each one-. Canessa did take a piece of meat with the hand. He stop hesitating. Though he was thoroughly decided, the horror of the moment paralyse him. The hand was neither rising toward the mouth nor falling downwards, as the repugnance he was feeling was fighting against his will.

Gustavo Nicolich wrote to his girlfriend: "Dearest Rosina, There is something that will seem incredible to you (I still do not believe it myself) today they have begun to cut meat of the died bodies to eat it. There is no other way".

"Liliana and Javier, the two eldest of the group were the only two that had not eaten meat. Marcelo was insisting in it once and again so that they may overcome the repugnance and ate the meat. Liliana was listening to what was saying to her, but she keep on moving her head denying. - there is nothing bad in what you are doing, but I can not, simply, I can not -".

"Had remained some embers and did seem reasonable trying to roast a little of meat. They did not left it much time to the fire, but the light roasted gave to the meat better flavor, a little softer than cowmeat but very similar".

"The smell coming out of it gathered several boys about fire, and Inciarte, that was the one of the persons feeling more repugnance by the raw meat, found it very good once roasted.

For Roy Harley, Numa Turcatti and Eduardo Strauch was also easier to overcome the repugnance if meat was ligthly roasted and they ate it as if it where cow meat."

¡VIVEN! Piers Paul Read Ed. Moguer S.A. 1974

When there is no other alternative, perhaps one could justify oneself the need of eating an animal (or even a human body) but today there is a wide variety of food in our scope to choose. Today is possible to choose among many eatable things. They could not choose, to eat or to die. But in their effort to survive they understood the truth that was in front of them:

we are also animals, same with our body to those others.

"If one who cut trees, kills animals, or makes bloody mud in a battle is happy; then please let me ask you... who is unhappy?"

A vegetal diet is a way to fight againts this:

Cooking Short Courses
(pratical exercises)

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