Few reasons why I am vegetarian

The Environment:

1. Water conservation: It takes 3 to 15 times as much water to produce animal protein as it does to plant protein.
2. Efficient use of grains: It takes up to 16 pounds of soya beans and grains to produce 1lb of beef.
3. Soil conservation: When grains and legumes are used more efficiently, our precious topsoil is automatically made more efficient in its use.
4. Conservation of Fossil fuel: It takes 78 calories of fossil fuel to produce 1 calorie of beef protein: 35 calories for 1 calorie of pork; 22 calories for 1 calorie of pultry: but just 1 calorie of fossil fuel for 1 calorie of soya beans.
5. Saving our forests: By not supporting the meat industry, I directly reduce the demand to pillage the irreplaceable treasures of nature. Since the forest land 'filters" our air supply and contains botanical sources for new medicines, this destruction is irreversible.
6. Aesthetics: Decaying animal parts, whether in a freezer case or served in restaurants, can never be an aesthetically pleasing to the senses as the same foods made from wholesome vegetable sources.

Personal Health:

7. No deficiencies: There is no nutrient necessary for optimal human functioning.
8. High fat plus cholesterols: Animal foods are higher in fat than most plant foods. Plants
do not contain cholesterol.
9. "Carb" deficient: Meat is deficient in carbohydrates.
10. Vitamin deficient: Except for the B complex, meat is largely deficient in vitamins.
11. Agricultural chemicals: Being higher on the food chain, animal food contains far higher concentrations of of agricultural chemical than plant foods.
12. Exposures to livestock drugs: There are over 2000 different drugs, including steroids, antibiotics, growth harmones and other veterinary drugs that are given to livestock
animals.
13. Pathogenic microorganisms: There are a host of bacteria and viruses, some quite dangerous, that are common to animals.
14. Worms and other parasites: There are host of worms and parasites, some quite dangerous, that are common to animals.
15. Shelf life differential: Plant foods last longer than animal foods
16. Organoleptic indications of Pathogens: Plant foods give tell-tale signs of going bad.
17. Heart disease: Meat eating increases the risk of heart disease, country's number one killer.
18. Cancer prevention: Of all the natural cancer prevention substances found: Vitamin C, B17, hydroquinone, beta carotene, NDGA - none has been found to be animal deerived.
19. Disease inducing: The correlation between meat consumption and a wide range of degenerative diseases is well founded and includes......
20. Osteoporosis
21. Kidney stones and Gallstones
22. Diabetes
23. Multiple Sclerosis
24. Arthritis
25. Gum diseases
26. Acne: Aggravated by animal food
27. Obesity: Studies confirm that vegetarians tend to be thinner than meat eaters.
28. Intestinal Toxemia: Animal products putrefy the colon.
29. Transit time: Wholesome food travels quickly through the "G 1" tract, leaving this time to spoil and incite disease within the body
30. Fiber deficient: Fiber absorbs unwanted, excess fats, cleans the intestine; provides bulk and aids in peristalsia. Plant food is high in fiber content.
31.Body wastes: Food from animals contain their waste, including adrenaline, uric and lactic acid etc.
32. Excess protein: The average american eats 400% of the RDA for protein. This causes excess nitrogen in the blood that creates a host of long term health problems.
33. Longevity: To increase ones risk of getting degenerative diseases means decreasing ones chance to live a naturally long healthy life.
34. Well being: will feel better after "giving up" meat and becoming vegetarian

Personal Finance
35. Health care costs: Being healthier on a vegetarian diet means spending less on health care.
36. Foods costs. Vegetarian foods tend to cost less than meat based items

Ethics
37. Love of animals: I love animals as I love myself. I have no desire to kill them or cause them harm.
38. Stance against factory farming: I cannot make a statement against factory farming if I myself eat animals.
39. Respect for sentient life: I show gratitude to our creators.
40 Economic vote: I show support to the meat industry and the way they operate when I purchase and use their products.
41. Small sacrifice: The sacrifice I make is nothing compared to the animals, their life.
42. Natural diet: Our hands, teath, feet, intestinal tract....even our body chemistry is that of an herbivore.



Can readers help me to make it half century?

20.06.10 7.00 P.M
I collected these details from various sources, mainly from certain Jain organsations. Mr Bhaskaran Sivaraman has sent me a link of one Pamela Rice with 101 reasons. If you are interested, please click this link http://www.vivavegie.org/vvi/pdf/101reas2009.pdf 
and read it

Prakash said...

Great Information! Me too in ur group :)

June 19, 2010 10:40 PM

BHASKARAN said...

I was given to understand Hitlor was a vegetarian - who literally ruled the world. 101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian by Pamela Rice - The site has wonderful reasons Certainly I am vegetarian and I campaign for this.

June 20, 2010 5:05 PM

Varadarajan.R said...

consuming meat also increases carbon emission http://cme.medscape.com/viewarticle/562956

June 24, 2010 6:23 PM

Anonymous said...

Ethics, ethics, ethics. How we treat the most defenseless beings says a lot about us. O.M.

September 23, 2010 2:34 AM

thinkofthedevil said...

Eat to Live but not live to eat. Basically we have no right to kill other creatures just for your pleasure of taste or something. They too have a beautiful life. They too want to live. Can u cut your finger? Only one out of your ten? Then how can u cut their throat? Eat to live, but not other's lifes. Be vegetarian.

February 27, 2011 9:57 PM

ambrosia said...

Great post about the reasons for being vegetarian! To respond to one comment here, Hitler was not vegetarian. This was a facade to mislead the public opinion about him. In fact he was responsible for curtailing vegetarian publications in Germany during his years in power. Please read this article by historian Rynn Berry here: http://www.kranti.org/connect/forum/8-challenge-our-philosophy/8-the-myth-of-a-vegitarian-hitler.html

April 7, 2011 2:16 AM

Harisankar said...
Non vegetarians have been around from the time of the vedas. The society was divided even then and also some tensions too on veggies and non veggies. In the rig veda there is a prayer to Indra/a god which says 'death to the devourers'. scary na?

May 14, 2011 3:23 PM

But, it is interesting to read

This is the man that the UK would not let in last year (2009) but have just this week (March 2010) allowed to enter the UK and address the UK Parliament.

Interesting, and frightening message

 

                                          Geert Wilders is a Dutch Member of Parliament.

America as the last man standing

'In a generation or two, the  US  will ask itself: who lost  Europe ?'

Here is the speech of Geert Wilders , Chairman, Party for Freedom, the  Netherlands , at the Four Seasons,  New York , introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in  Jerusalem .
Dear friends,

Thank you very much for inviting me.

I come to  America  with a mission.  All is not well in the old world.  There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic.  We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe.  This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to  America  and the sheer survival of the West.  The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe.

First I will describe the situation on the ground in  Europe .  Then, I will say a few things about Islam.  To close I will tell you about a meeting in  Jerusalem .

The  Europe  you know is changing.

You have probably seen the landmarks.  But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world.  It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.

All throughout  Europe  a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. 

 And if they are, they might regret it.  This goes for the police as well.  It's the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children.  Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead.  With mosques on many street corners.  The shops have signs you and I cannot read.  You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity.  These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics.  These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe .  These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of  Europe , street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.
There are now thousands of mosques throughout  Europe .  With larger congregations than there are in churches.  And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region.  Clearly, the signal is: we rule.

Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take  Amsterdam , Marseille and  Malmo  in  Sweden .  In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim.   Paris  is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods.   Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.
In some elementary schools in  Amsterdam  the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.

Many state schools in  Belgium  and  Denmark  only serve halal food to all pupils.  In once-tolerant  Amsterdam  gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims.  Non-Muslim women routinely hear 'whore, whore'.  Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in the country of origin.

In  France  school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot ; the same is increasingly true of  Darwin .  The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.

In  England  sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighborhoods in  France  are no-go areas for women without head scarves.  Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in  Brussels , because he was drinking during the Ramadan.

Jews are fleeing  France  in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II.  French is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and  Netanya ,  Israel .  I could go on forever with stories like this.  Stories about Islamization.

A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in  Europe .   San Diego   University  recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in  Europe  will be Muslim just 12 years from now.  Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.

Now these are just numbers.  And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate.  But there are few signs of that.  The  Pew   Research   Center  reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to  France .  One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks.  The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate.  Muslims demand what they call 'respect'.  And this is how we give them respect.  We have Muslim official state holidays.

The Christian-Democratic attorney general is willing to accept sharia in the  Netherlands  if there is a Muslim majority.  We have cabinet members with passports from  Morocco  and  Turkey .

Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behavior, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example against ambulance workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots.   Paris  has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus.  I call the perpetrators 'settlers'.  Because that is what they are.  They do not come to integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam.  Therefore, they are settlers.

Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighborhoods, their cities, their countries.  Moreover, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.

The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the prophet.  His behavior is an example to all Muslims and cannot be criticized.  Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem.  But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages - at the same time.  Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed.   Mohammed himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza .  If it is good for Islam, it is good.  If it is bad for Islam, it is bad.

Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion.  Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72 virgins.  But in its essence Islam is a political ideology.  It is a system that lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every person.  Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life.  Islam means 'submission'.  Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is sharia.  If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.

Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam 'the most retrograde force in the world', and why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran.  The public has wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees  Israel  as the aggressor.  I have lived in this country and visited it dozens of times.  I support  Israel .  First, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand years of exile up to and including Auschwitz, second because it is a democracy, and third because Israel is our first line of defense.

This tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad, frustrating Islam's territorial advance.   Israel  is facing the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the  Philippines , Southern Thailand, Darfur in  Sudan ,  Lebanon , and Aceh in  Indonesia .   Israel  is simply in the way.  The same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War.

The war against  Israel  is not a war against  Israel .  It is a war against the West.  It is jihad.   Israel  is simply receiving the blows that are meant for all of us.  If there would have been no  Israel , Islamic imperialism would have found other venues to release its energy and its desire for conquest.  Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and lay awake at night, parents in Europe and  America  can sleep well and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.

Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning  Israel  in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities.  But if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to the West It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values.  On the contrary, the end of  Israel  would give enormous encouragement to the forces of Islam.  They would, and rightly so, see the demise of  Israel  as proof that the West is weak, and doomed.  The end of  Israel  would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the beginning.  It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination.  If they can get  Israel , they can get everything.  So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islamization as a 'right-wing extremists' or 'racists'.  In my country, the  Netherlands , 60 percent of the population now sees the mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since World War II.  And another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest threat. 

Yet there is a danger greater danger than terrorist attacks, the scenario of  America  as the last man standing.  The lights may go out in  Europe  faster than you can imagine.  An Islamic Europe means a Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for  America  - as its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs.  With an Islamic Europe, it would be up to  America alone to preserve the heritage of  Rome ,  Athens  and  Jerusalem .
Dear friends, liberty is the most precious of gifts.  My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with their lives.  All throughout  Europe , American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we cherish.  My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely its custodians.  We can only hand over this hard won liberty to  Europe 's children in the same state in which it was offered to us.  We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams.

Future generations would never forgive us.  We cannot squander our liberties.  We simply do not have the right to do so.
   
We have to take the necessary action now to stop this Islamic stupidity from destroying the free world that we know.  

Visakha Hari - Sriranga mahaathmiyam

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December 15, 2010 4:50 PM

Think before you say "I do"

After reading this interesting article in internet, I thought it will be useful to many of my readers. So, it is here.

About two and half years back, I wrote quite a controversial piece on marriages in India. The point I was trying to put across was, there are a few crucial things that you need to know about your partner before you get hitched, tie the knot, say ‘I do’… you know, the works.
In a country where arranged marriages are prevalent, how much does one really know about a prospective bride or groom before taking such a major decision? And keeping that in mind, love marriages are no better. I have heard of so many shocking stories about how new brides/husbands are jolted out of their happily-ever-afters, with revelations they never had a clue about; even if they have dated their husbands/wives, sometimes for years.
What is the solution to this problem? After interviewing many married couples, dating couples and singles at that time, I came up with 35 intimate questions you need to know about your would-be, before saying the all-important “yes”.
Now, make no mistake, I am not asking you to tie your would-be up in a chair, splash cold water over him/her and torture him/her until you get your answers. But, isn’t it always good to know as much as you can about who you are going to spend your life with, so that you don’t get rude shocks later in life?
How about if you can’t ask? Get someone close to you to find out. My only point is, find out now, before it is too late.
Here are some excerpts from that piece. I have picked 10 important things to know before saying ‘I do’. To read the entire story, click: 35 INTIMATE questions to ask your would-be!
For the sake of money:

1. What is his/her monthly in-hand income?
2. Any personal loans that he/she is paying off?
3. On a home loan? How many more years does he/she have to pay off the installments?
4. Is he/she okay if you have a separate bank account?

Okay so far? Moving on. What about the following career issues?

5. How many jobs has he/she switched till date? Any particular reasons for doing so?
6. If he/she gets a job overseas, will he/she take it? What if it doesn’t offer a family status?

Now comes the tricky part. Could these health queries make or break a marriage?

7. Will he/she take an HIV test with your family doctor?

… and these behavioural pointers:

8. Does he/she get violent when angry?

Here’s another tricky part, sexual preferences. Not THAT necessary, but useful, nonetheless:

9. Is he/she into deviant sexual practices?

And last but not the least, these social queries will give you a better idea about your future life with him/her:

10. Are the both of you going to live with the parents or separately?

As a footnote, I would like to add, I had written this piece on a site dedicated to women; so it is like a finger pointed at men/prospective grooms. But in this day and age, it is imperative for both prospective partners to know as much as they can about their partners.

By Kristina in Yahoo news

Saras said...

It is absolutely essential to know in detail about each other before getting into the Bond of Marriage as it could be the foundation for the Edifice of Happy Matrimony. I agree with the Author.

June 17, 2010 8:25 AM

Anonymous said...

Yes. In the current scenario where both girl and boy earn or have to earn these questions are a must and one need not feely shy,or shocked as answers to these will pave way for a smooth life without misunderstanding. Also now a days girls earn more than the boys which is also one of the reason for the delayed marriage of either boys or girls, the delayed marriage causing problems in the later years.

June 17, 2010 11:37 AM

Anonymous said...

I though this interesting information got from viewing a prog. called Raja Neram in Jaya Plus beamed every day between 6.30 to 7 PM. This purely on astrology and planetary position queries being answered. During an interlude the presenter made a very curious observation regarding love marriage and astrology.He presented case of a love marriage. An extremely beautiful girl was loved by a boy and both got married. Sometimes after marriage and sexual consummation the girl lost her beauty, became leaner and contracted some disease which led her almost to her death.This, the presenter, said happened in Tuticorin. The parents of the girl came to this astrolger who after casting and analysing horoscope opined there was no 'Rajju' porutham among them and consequent on the sexual consummation the girl contracted allergy and became sick.Here he was emphasising that 'Rajju' should not be ignored and he this was among other things which resulted in love marriages going wary. After all our forefathers,perhaps, were not fools.

June 19, 2010 10:32 PM

Harisankar said...

too complicated algorithm for the problem. this is simpler solution. While (you are not married && you want to get married) { if ( you are a boy ) { //you look for a girl to get //married to!! let your mother talk to the prospective girl first; you talk to the girl; } else { //a girl looks for a groom!! let your dad talk to the boy first; you talk to the boy; } }//while this algorithm should eliminate 98% of all the problems. exit loop when you are happy.

July 28, 2010 9:14 AM

Anonymous said...

While the questions are logical, the problem is, most guys/gals in love will NOT care about the answer to most of the questions above! It's only after a bit of time, they start lamenting about the answers to these questions, in later point of life!

January 6, 2011 10:00 PM

hvaidya said...

The purpose of publishing this, is that they should not be careless and emotional.

January 6, 2011 10:28 PM

Anonymous said...

Apart from what is said and done, one more important question or rather clarification is regarding the girl's mensuration cycle and a 'all clear' medical report from the authorised doctor so that you do not end up visiting the doctor for treatment with the current gen's late marriages. For the boy, all clear for teetotaller.

January 19, 2011 6:34 PM

Anonymous said...

All I can say now is, I wish I had read your post before I said the life-menacing "Yes" :(

January 23, 2011 1:51 PM

Anonymous said...

I appreciate the time and effort that was taken in preparing this questionnaire. But life does not work that way. Especially with regard to marriages in India (Arranged marriages) work totally by trust on our parents and trust in the divine. We can always be certain that our parents will not choose something lesser than the best for us. You might want to think again before you post such questionnaires online - so that they don't misguide youngsters and those in the threshold of marriage. Thanks!

April 11, 2011 2:20 AM

hvaidya said...

I do not think what I post here are gospel or Geetha. Nobody is going to take this posting as granted. It is only a guideline. There is nothing to misguide. I WONDER, YOU STILL BELIEVE THAT THE MARRIAGES ARE FIXED BY PARENTS (ARRANGED MARRIAGES), EVEN NOW. Do you know one thing? This subject is in top of the "POPULAR POST" list for the past one year

April 11, 2011 8:26 AM

 Anonymous said...

25 yrs back my father , while hunting for a groom for me, my fathaer asked a bommbay based groom's father if he had accomaodation in Bombay-knowing very well the difficulties of renting/buying flat in Bombay, having lived there for 23 yrs himself.The 'boy''s father didn't like this questioning and stopped corresponding -this even after my father had not bothered to ask even more delicate questions about the boy's looks, habbits, financial status etc........

Can't imagine a probable bride's father throwing up a list of questions like the one given by you here......EVEN THOUGH I DO AGREE ALL OF THEM MAKE PRACTICAL SENSE.
This is the flaw in arranged marrainge.....we have to know all these through reliable sources only

September 20, 2011 10:02 AM

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Learn a lesson with smile

There was a family with one kid. One day the mother was out and dad was in charge of the kid, who just turned three.

Someone had given the kid a little 'tea set' as a birthday gift and it was one of his favourite toys. Daddy was in the living room engrossed in the evening news when kid brought Daddy a little cup of 'tea', which was just water. After several cups of tea and lots of praise for such yummy tea from father, kids Mom came home.

Dad made her wait in the living room to watch the kid bring him a cup of tea, because it was 'just the cutest thing!!'

Mom waited, and sure enough, the kid comes down the hall with a cup of tea for Daddy and she watches him drink it up, then she says to him, 'Did it ever occur to you that the only place that baby can reach to get water is the toilet??'
....Mothers know!!
MORAL OF THE STORY:
Domain knowledge is very important!!! Else your supplier will trick you......


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sudharsam said...

great. enjoyed it

June 21, 2010 9:47 AM