7. The Comparative Anatomy of
Eating
Comparison Carnivore Herbivore Human
Reduced to
Facial
allow wide Well-developed Well-developed
Muscles mouth gap
minimal side-to- good side-to- good side-to-
Jaw Motion side motion side motion side motion
8. The Comparative Anatomy of
Eating
Comparison Carnivore Herbivore Human
Broad, flattened Broad, flattened
Teeth: Short and
and spade and spade
Incisors pointed
shaped shaped
Dull and short
Long, sharp and
Teeth: (sometimes long Short and
curved to tear
Canines for defense), or blunted
flesh
none
9. The Comparative Anatomy of
Eating
Comparison Carnivore Herbivore Human
Teeth:
Sharp Flattened Flattened
Molars
None; swallows Extensive Extensive
Chewing food whole chewing chewing
10. The Comparative Anatomy of
Eating
Comparison Carnivore Herbivore Human
Acidic saliva: Alkaline saliva: Alkaline saliva:
Carbohydrate Carbohydrate Carbohydrate
Saliva digesting digesting digesting
enzymes not enzymes enzymes
present present present
Stomach < pH 1 (to digest
tough animal
Acidity with muscle, bone, pH 4 to 5 pH 4 to 5
food in it etc.)
11. The Comparative Anatomy of
Eating
Comparison Carnivore Herbivore Human
Length of
3 to 6 times > 10 times body 10 to 11 times
Small body length length body length
Intestine
Simple, short
Colon and smooth
Long, complex Long, complex
12. The Comparative Anatomy of
Eating
Comparison Carnivore Herbivore Human
No skin pores;
Perspires Perspires
perspires
Perspiration through tongue
through millions through millions
of skin pores of skin pores
to cool body
Flattened nails
Nails Sharp claws
or blunt hooves
Flattened nails
18. Elephant is a powerful animal…
…yet he never eats meat!
19. Researchers at Max Planck
Institute, Germany have
shown:
“Most vegetables, fruits,
seeds, nuts, and grains
are excellent sources of
complete proteins.”
27. Annual health-care costs directly
resulting from the US meat-centered
diet:
Between $23.6 billion
and $61.4 billion
Revealed in 1995 by Physicians Committee
for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a group
of 4,500 medical doctors
34. Vast quantities of food which could feed humans
is fed to livestock raised to produce meat.
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 of
edible grain and soyabeans, which could be used to
feed the hungry.”
John Robbins' book “Diet for a New America”
35. “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”
36. The average American
consumes in a 72-year
lifetime
approximately 11
cattle, 3 lambs and
sheep, 23 hogs,
45 turkeys, 1,100
chickens and 862
pounds of fish!
37.
38. According to the Population Reference Bureau
“If everyone adopted a
vegetarian diet, current food
production would theoretically
feed 10 billion people, more
than the projected population
for the year 2050.”
51. Male chicks
are of no
commercial
value for the
slaughter
52. Male chicks are either packed in
garbage plastic bags to suffocate to
death or thrown away in trash cans.
53. The recent trend is to grind the
male chicks alive and use it as high
fertility manure for the farms.
54.
55. In the U.S. alone,
6,60,000 animals are
killed for meat
every hour.
56. In the U.S. alone,
6,60,000 animals are
killed for meat
every hour.
The average per
capita consumption
of meat in the U.S.,
Canada and Australia
is 200 pounds per
year!
57. Manure fumes and rotting carcasses will force workers to wear gas masks
58.
59.
60.
61. Number of meat, and egg
producing animals slaughtered
each year in World:
over 24.1 billion
62. “We have enslaved
the rest of animal
creation and have
treated so badly
that, if they were to
formulate a
religion, they would
depict the Devil in
William Ralph human form.”
95. “I brainwashed youngsters into
doing wrong. I want to say sorry
to children everywhere for selling
out to concerns who make
millions by murdering animals.”
The original Ronald McDonald, Geoff Giuliano
- on quitting his job and becoming vegetarian
96.
97. “While our bodies
are the living
graves of
murdered animals,
how can we expect
any ideal
conditions on
George Bernard Shaw
earth?”
98.
99.
100.
101.
102.
103.
104. “Man suppresses in
himself, unnecessarily,
the highest spiritual
capacity - that of
sympathy and pity
toward living creatures
like himself - and by
violating his own
feelings becomes
Leo Tolstoy cruel.”
105.
106. It’s a fact that
meat eating
reduces
respect for all
kinds of life
including that
of humans.
107.
108.
109. Can we deny that
brutality against
animals makes us
more brutal too?
110.
111. “Those that
kill animals, to
eat their flesh,
tend to
massacre their
own.”
Pythagoras
114. All of our actions including our
choice of food have karmic
consequences. By inflicting
injury, pain and death, one must
in the future experience the
sufferings caused.
115. By killing
animals, not only
will we be bereft
of the human
form but we will
have to take an
animal form
and …
116. …somehow or
other be killed
by the same
type of animal
we have killed.
This is the law
of nature.
117. The Sanskrit word
mamsa means "meat."
It is said:
mam sah khadati
iti mamsah.
That is, "I am now
eating the flesh of an
animal who will some
day in the future be
eating my flesh."
118. Mahabharata
The purchaser of flesh performs
violence by his wealth;
He who eats flesh does so by
enjoying its taste;
The killer does himsa by actually
tying and killing the animal.
- all of these are to be considered
120. “In human society, if one
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 state
controlled by the
Supreme Lord. Every living
creature is the son of
the Supreme Lord, and He
does not tolerate even
an ant’s being killed. One
has to pay for it.”
121. “Meat-eating and
intoxication excite the senses
more and more, and the
conditioned soul falls
victim to women. In order to
keep women, money is
required, and to acquire
money, one begs,
borrows or steals. Indeed, he
commits abominable acts
that cause him to suffer both
in this life and in the next.”
-Srila
Prabhupada
122. Even the heads of religions
indulge in killing animals
while trying to pass as
saintly persons. This
mockery and hypocrisy in
human society
bring about unlimited
calamities; therefore
occasionally there are great
wars. Masses of such people
go out onto battlefields and
kill themselves”-
Srila Prabhupada
123.
124.
125.
126. “Those who are
animal killers, their
brain is dull as stone.
Therefore meat-eating
should be stopped. In
order to revive the
finer tissues of the
brain to understand
subtle things, one
must give up
meat-eating.
-Srila Prabhupada
128. Foods such as milk products,
grains, fruits and vegetables
“increase the duration of life,
purify one’s existence, and
give strength, health,
happiness, and satisfaction.”
129. On the contrary…
Foods such as meat & fish are
described as “putrid,
decomposed, and unclean”
130. Plants and
the trees
also have
souls!
Isn’t eating
them
killing?
134. “The devotees of the Lord are
released from all kinds of sins
because they eat food which is
offered first for sacrifice.
Others, who prepare food for
personal sense enjoyment, verily
eat only sin.”
(Bhagavad-gita 3.13)
135. Srila Prabhupada
explains:
As a matter of
“Human beings are
gratitude, they
provided with food
should feel obliged
grains, vegetables,
to the Lord milk by
fruits, and for their
supply of foodstuff,
the grace of the
and they must first
Lord, but it is the
duty of thefood in
offer Him human
sacrifice and then
beings to
partake the
acknowledge the
remnants.”
mercy of the Lord.
136. Krishna instructs:
“If one offers
Me with love
and devotion a
leaf, a flower,
fruit or water, I
will accept it.”
(Bhagavad-gita 9.26)
137. Offer Food to
Krishna
Krishna
Prasadam
Nourishment Nourishment
of Body of Soul
Notas del editor
The USDA recommends giving each hen four inches of 'feeder space'. In this little space the birds cannot stretch their wings or legs, and cannot fulfill normal behavioral patterns. Constantly rubbing against the wire cages, they suffer from severe feather loss, and their bodies are covered with bruises and abrasions.
The USDA recommends giving each hen four inches of 'feeder space'. In this little space the birds cannot stretch their wings or legs, and cannot fulfill normal behavioral patterns. Constantly rubbing against the wire cages, they suffer from severe feather loss, and their bodies are covered with bruises and abrasions.
The USDA recommends giving each hen four inches of 'feeder space'. In this little space the birds cannot stretch their wings or legs, and cannot fulfill normal behavioral patterns. Constantly rubbing against the wire cages, they suffer from severe feather loss, and their bodies are covered with bruises and abrasions.
For every egg-laying hen confined in a battery cage, there is a male chick that was killed at the hatchery. Male chicks of egg laying breeds are of no economic value. They may be thrown in trashcans where they are suffocated or crushed under the weight of others. Another common method used to dispose of unwanted male chicks is grinding them up alive.
For every egg-laying hen confined in a battery cage, there is a male chick that was killed at the hatchery. Male chicks of egg laying breeds are of no economic value. They may be thrown in trashcans where they are suffocated or crushed under the weight of others. Another common method used to dispose of unwanted male chicks is grinding them up alive.
For every egg-laying hen confined in a battery cage, there is a male chick that was killed at the hatchery. Male chicks of egg laying breeds are of no economic value. They may be thrown in trashcans where they are suffocated or crushed under the weight of others. Another common method used to dispose of unwanted male chicks is grinding them up alive.
A newborn calf is likely to be taken to a veal factory. There, he will be locked up in a stall and chained by his neck to prevent him from turning around for his entire life. He will be injected with antibiotics and hormones to make him grow.
A newborn calf is likely to be taken to a veal factory. There, he will be locked up in a stall and chained by his neck to prevent him from turning around for his entire life. He will be injected with antibiotics and hormones to make him grow.
