Request To Indian People From Vegetarians Of World

Author(s): Young Indian Vegetarians
Publisher: Young Indian Vegetarians
Catalog link: https://jainqq.org/explore/007020/1

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A request to the Indian people from the vegetarians of the world duniyA bharake zAkAhArI logoM se, bhArata ke logoM se aMka prArthanA DRAWING BY JACKLE MORRIS U.K. THE YOUNG INDIAN VEGETARIANS NEW DELHI/FEBRUARY-1985

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Contents Page Introduction Message from The Rt. Hon. Bernard Weatherill Message from International Vegetarian Union Message from Mr. P. Merhotra, High Commissioner, India Message from Shri Kapila, Humanitarian Society, Sri Lanka Article from H. H. The Dalai Lama Article from Bhavandas Gosvami Maharaja Message from H. H. Acharya Sushil Kumarji Maharaj Message from 'H. D. H. Pramukhswami Maharaj Message from H. H. Satguru Jagjeet Singhji Maharaj "Manavta Mahori Uthi"- a Gujarati Press Report Message from Mr. D. Gian Nath, High Commissioner, Mauritius Message from Denmark Vegetarian Society Message from Vegetarian Society of South Africa Message from North American Vegetarian Society Why India should not imitate the West - Mark Gold Phisi-ological Difference between the Harbivorous Men and Carnivorous Animals 30 Message from Vegetarian Society of Austria Food Poisoning & Other Health Hazards - Rekha Mavani,Meeta Mavani and Priti Mavani 34 Quptes from Gandhiji - Compiled by.... Nipan Malde Routine Mutilations Practised on British Farm Animals -Dr. Alan Long Destruction at the Hand of Man - David Whiting Conclusion Malde

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VEGETARIANISM A PRESENTATION OF THE IDEAL AND HUMANE WAY OF LIFE New Delhi February, 1985 THE YOUNG INDIAN VEGETARIANS

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THE YOUNG INDIAN VEGETARIANS, ENGLAND Introduction have great pleasure in offering this small booklet, which I hope will help in furthering the cause of Ahimsa and Vegetarianism. Amongst all the nations of the world, 'The Indian Nation' is known for its tolerance and compassion for all living beings. The greatness of Nation is not measured by its wealth or strength. but by its compassion towards the weak and defenceless. Unfortunately, in recent years Meat eating and the general exploitation of defenceless animals is known to be increasing in India. In contrast, in the west the trend is towards Vegetarianism and a general awareness of the rights of animals. I urge you all to check this growth of Meat-eating in India and help, lead the world into a New Era in which mankind will no longer harm the poor defenceless creatures of God. There is an English Proverb, "Taking the coal back to Newcastle". Similarly we are bringing back the ideal of Ahimsa to the Home of Ahimsa - India. Please accept our humble request Promote Vegetarianism, Ahimsa and Compassion in India and set an example for the rest of the world to follow. NITIN MEHTA President Young Indian Vegetarians, 33 Goldwell Road, Thornton Health, Surrey, United Kingdom Feb. 1985.

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da yaMga iNDiyana vejiTeriyansa, ilaiDa prastAvanA bhArata ke bhAiyo aura bahanoM, ___ yaha choTI sI pustikA Apake sAmane rakhate hue mujhe baDI khuzI ho rahI hai. merA vizvAsa hai ki ahiMsA tathA zAkAhAravAda ke uddezyoM ko yaha protsAhita karegI. samasta prANimAtra ke prati apane sneha evaM sahanazIlatA ke kAraNa "bhArata deza' kI apanI alaga pahacAna hai. deza kI mahAnatA usakI saMpatti yA zakti ke nahIM balki kamajora aura asarakSita jIvoM ke prati usake sneha se AMkI jAtI hai. durbhAgyavaza, yaha patA calA hai ki hAla ke kucha varSoM se bhArata meM bhI mAMsa-bhakSaNa tathA asurakSita jIvoM ke zoSaNa kI pravRtti baDhatI jA rahI hai. isake viparIta pazcima meM zAkAhAra kI ora logoM kA jhukAva baDha rahA hai tathA jAnavaroM ke adhikAroM kA bodha bar3hatA jA rahA hai. maiM Apase anurodha karatA hai ki bhArata meM bar3hate hue mAMsa-bhakSaNa kI pravRtti para aika lagAyeM aura duniyA ko naye yuga kI ora bar3hane ke lie madada kareM, tAki izvara ke asahAya evaM nirIha prANiyoM ko mAnava-jAti adhika dukha na pahuMcA sake. eka kahAvata hai-"ulTe bAMsa baMTelI ko." isI prakAra hama ahiMsA ke ghara-bhArata meM hI ahiMsA kA Adarza vApasa lAne kI koziza kara rahe haiM. bhArata meM zAkAhAra, ahiMsA aura sneha ko bar3hAvA dene meM hamAre anurodha ko kRpayA svIkAreM tAki duniyAM ise eka udAharaNa mAnakara usakA anusaraNa kara sake. nitIna mehatA ..... adhyakSa - yaMtra iNDiyana vejiTeriyansa, , 33, molDa pela roDa, thaoNna yona yi, sau yunAiTeDa kiMgaDama

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Mr Speaker SPEAKER'S HOUSE WESTMINSTER SWIA OAA Message from The Rt. Hon. Bernard Weatherill, M.P. I warmly support the Young Indian Vegetarians' latest booklet. At a time when millions are dying of starvation, it is morally indefensible that over half the world's grain is fed to animals, which, in turn, would be fed to people. "Every man for himself" is the last order from a doomed ship. The task before us now, if we are not to be overwhelmed, is to ensure a fairer distribution of the world's Ganghiji has told us "Before a hungry man God may not appear except in the form of bread". resources. Sanand breath all

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mAnada banArDa vitherila ema. pI. kA saMdeza da yaMga iNDiyana vejiTeriyana kI navInatama pustikA kA maiM hArdika samarthana karatA hU~ Aja jahAM eka ora karoDo loga bhUkhoM mara rahe haiM, vahA~ naitika dRSTi se yaha anucita hogA ki saMsAra kA Adhe se adhika anAja pazuoM ko khilAyA jAya aura bAda meM AdamI pazuoM ko khAye. DUbate hue jahAja kA aMtima Adeza hotA hai "pratyeka vyakti kevala apane lie soce''. agara hama dabanA nahIM cAhate to hamArA kArya hogA ki yaha sunizcita kareM ki saMsAra ke laMlAdhanoM kA ThIka se vitaraNa ho. gAMdhIjI ne hama se kahA hai" bhUkhe AdamI ke sAmane bhagavAna roTI ke rupa meM hI AyeMge." A CHARTER FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS * End all experiments on live animals. . Abolish all forms of intensive animal farming. * Ban all blood sports. . * End the use of animals in circuses. * End the export of live animals. * Ban the breeding and killing of animals for furs. From: Animal Aid Report No. 1: Towards Animal Rights

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KATAINTERNATIONAL VEGETARIAN UNION. (Established 1908) Headquarters :10 King's Drive, Marpie. Siockport, Cheshire. SK6 6NQ, England Telephone: 061-427 5850 Please reply to: President: Dr. Gordon Latto, M.B., Ch.B. Deputy President: Herr Ulrich Schroter Hon. General Secretary: Mr. Maxwell G. Lee, B.A., M.Sc.. Cert.Ed., F.R.G.S Hon. Treasurer: Mr. William Parrott. F.I.B., A.C.I.S.M.B.I.M. 10 KING'S DRIVE, MARPLE, STOCKPORT. CHESHIRE, SK6 6NQ ENGLAND October, 1984. A REQUEST TO THE PEOPLE OF INDIA The International Vegetarian Union notes with regret that some. people in India have given up their traditional vegetarian diet. ont respect for all a India's long history of respect for all life is one of which it can be justly proud. At a time when the rest of the world is beginning to appreciate the great value of vegetarianis.n, any decline in India would be very regrettable, . begini justly proud For health, moral and economic reasons, people are increasingly turning to vegetarianism. The growth of vegetarianism in the western world is an undeniable fact. We would ask the people of India to maintain their long vegetarian tradition. We would ask you to consider and accept our humble requcst. Signed Maxwell G, Lee ! Hon. General Secretary I.V.U.

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bhArata vAsiyoM se eka vinatI : iMTaranaizanala vejiTeriyana yUniyana ko yaha batAte hue bahuta kheda hai ki bhArata ke kucha logoM ne apanA pAraMpArika zAkAhArI AhAra chor3a diyA hai. prANimAtra ke prati sammAna kI bhAvanA kA bhArata kA apanA lambA itihAsa rahA hai jisa para use garva honA cAhie. aba jabaki sArA saMsAra zAkAhAravAda ke mahattva ko samajhane kI koziza kara rahA hai, bhArata varSa meM isa saMdarbha meM honevAlA patana nissaMdeha khedajanaka hai. svAsthyaparaka; naitika aura Arthika kAraNoM se adhikAdhika loga zAkAhArI ho rahe haiM. pazcimI jagata meM zAkAhAra ke vikAsa ko nakArA nahIM jA sakatA. hama bhAratavAsiyoM se unakI lambI paramparA ko banAye rakhane kA anurodha karate haiM. Apase nivedana hai ki hamArI vinamra prArthanA para dhyAna deM aura ise svIkAreM. hastAkSara. maiksavela jI. lI mAnada mahAsaciva Aya. vI. yU. QUOTES TO REMEMBER (1) George Bernard Shaw "I am a vegetarian, not a graveyard of dead animals". John Ruskin "I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and protect all natural beauty upon the earth". (3) Lord Buddha "Meat isafood of sub-human beings".

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INDIA HOUSE, ALDWYCH LONDON. W.C.2. satyameva jayata October 22, 1984. MESSAGE Today I am happy to know that vegetarianism is gaining wide acceptance, particularly in the West. Millions of people all over the world are giving up meat-eating not only on moral and ethical grounds, but also for health reasons. I wish all success to the Young Indian Vegetarians in their noble endeavour to encourage and promote vegetarianism among the public. Prakash mehrola ( Prakash Mehrotra)

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MESSAGE FROM SHRI KAPILA, HUMANITARIAN SOCIETY, SRI LANKA The President, M.W.A. De Silva Dear Friends, Your readers will find the following opinions of interest: VEGETARIANISM -- WHAT THE DOCTOR SAY Dr. H.C. Shermaa, Head of the Nutrition Research Dept., Columbia University, New York "FOOD PRODUCTS" "It seems clear from the work of the past 10 to 15 years that the mutually supplementary effect of the proteins from cereals, roots & leafy vegetables is such as to provide an excellent Amino Acid blend for tissue construction and maintenance." Alexander Haig M.D., F.R.C.P. "Comparative Anatomy and Physiology indicate fresh fruits and vegetables as the main food of man." Sir Benjamin W. Richardson, M.D., F.R.S. "A die consisting of any stable grain with milk products and green leafy vegetables contain not only the right kind and amount of Protein, but everything else the body needs for health, strength and well-being." THE OLDEST MAN IN BRITAIN IS A VEGETARIAN His name is Harry Shoerats. He is one hundred and eleven years old. He was born in Russia in 1872 and came to Britain at the age of twenty-five. He is still very active and full of health and vigour. Dare anyone tell him that he probably lacks some vitamins because he never ate meat?

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10 H.H. THE DALAI LAMA COMPASSION AS THE PILLAR OF WORLD PEACE According to Buddhist psychology, most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities. The pursuit of the objects of our desire and attachment involves the use of aggression and competitiveness as supposedly efficacious instruments. These mental processes easily translate into actions, breeding belligerence as an obivous effect. Such proceses have been going on in the human mind since time immemorial, but their execution has become more effective under modern conditions. What can we do to control and regulate these 'poisons'-- delusion, greed, and aggression? For it is these poisions that are behind almost every trouble in the world. As one brought up in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, I feel that love and compassion are the moral fabric of world peace. Let me first define what I mean by compassion. When you have pity or compassion for a very poor person, you are showing sympathy because he or she is poor; your compassion is based on altruistic considerations. On the other hand, love towards your wife, your husband, your children, or a close friend is usually based on attachment. When your attachment changes, your kindness also changes; it may disappear. This is not true love. Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering as long as beings continue to suffer.

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This type of compassion is what we must strive to cultivate in ourselves, and we must develop it from a limited amount to the limitless. Undiscriminating, spontaneous, and unlimited compassion for all sentient beings is obviously not the usual love that one has for friends or family, which is alloyed with ignorance, desire, and attachment. The kind of love we should advocate is this wider love that you can have even for someone who has done harm to you: your enemy. The rationale for compassion is that every one of us wants to avoid suffering and gain happiness. This, in turn, is based on the valid feeling of 'l', which deter mines the universal desire for happiness. Indeed, all beings are born with simi-. lar desires and should have an equal right to fulfil them. If I compare myself with others, who are countless, I feel that others are more important because I am just one person wheras others are many. Further, the Tibetan Buddhist tradition teaches us to view all sentient beings as our dear mothers and to show our gratitude by loving them all. For, according to Buddhist theory, we are born and reborn countless numbers of times, and it is conceivable that each being has been our parent at one time or another. In this way all beings in the universe share a family relationship. Whether one believes in religion or not, there is no one who does not appreciate love and compassion. Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents; later in lilfe, when facing the sufferings of dis ease and old age, we are again dependent on the kindness of others. If at the * beginning and end of our lives we depend upon others' kindness, why then in the middle should we not act kindly towards others? The development of a kind heart (a feeling of closenes for all human beings) does not involve the religiosity we normally associate with conventional religious practice. It is not only for people who believe in religion, but is for everyone regardless of race, religion, or political affiliation. It is for anyone who considers himself or herself, above all, a member of the human family and who sees things from this larger and longer perspective. This is a powerful feeling that we should develop and apply; instead, we often neglect it, particularly in our prime years when we experience a false sense of security. sneha vizvazAMti kA stambha bauddha manovijJAna ke anusAra hamArI bahuta sI takalIkoM kI vajaha hai hamArI kAlpanika vastuoM kI prApti ke lie adam icchA tathA tatsaMbaMdhI lagAva. icchita vastu kI prApti evaM tadpanya lagAva meM haThadharmitA tathA pratiyogitA paraka upakaraNoM kA honA Avazyaka ho jAtA hai| ye sabhI mAnasika prakriyAeM kAryarUpa meM pariNata hote hue beligerancs jaise prabhAva ko janma detI hai| aisI prakriyAeM mAnava mastiSka meM anAdi kAla se hotI A rahI hai| kiMtu inakI kAryarUpa meM hone vAlI pariNati vartamAna paristhitiyoM mai aura bhI prabhAvotpAdaka bana gaI hai| prama, lAla aura AkramaNAtmaka pravRtti jaise "viSo" ko niyamita aura niyaMtrita karane ke lie hama kyA kara . sakate hai? kyoMki saMsAra kI hara parezAnI ke pIche vahi viSa kArya kara rahe hote hai|

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bauddha dharma kI mahAyAna dhArA meM pAlana poSaNa hone ke kAraNa maiM samajhatA hU~ ki vizvazAMti ke lie pyAra aura sneha hI naitika taMta hai : sneha kyA hai, pahale maiM ise spaSTa karanA cAhUgAM. jaba kabhI Apa kisI garIba vyakti ke prati dayA yA sahAnubhUtI pragaTa karate hai to Apa isIlie sahAnabhUti, pragaTa karate hai ki vaha garIba hai, ApakA sneha svArtha paraka samajha para AdhArita hai. dUsarI tarapha, ApakI patnI, Apake pati, Apake baccoM yA kisI nikaTastha mitra ke prati ApakA pyAra samAnyatayA unake prati Apake lagAva para hI AdhArita hotA hai| jaba Apake isa lagAva meM tabdIlI AtI hai to pariNAmasvarUpa ApakI dayA bhAvanA bhI badalatI hai; yahAM taka ki yaha lupta bhI ho sakatI hai| yaha vAstavika pyAra nahIM hai| sahI pyAra lagAva para nahIM balki svArtha para AdhArita hotA hai| isa sthiti meM ApakA sneha sarala mAnavIya AdhAra para taba taka dukha darda ke lie udabhuta hotA rahegA jaba taka ki prANimAtra dukha darda jhelate raheMge. yahI vaha sneha hai jise hameM svayaM meM utpanna karanA hai| aura eka nirdhArita sImA se ananta taka ise vikasIta bhI karanA hai sabhI sacetana prANiyoM ke lie bhedabhAva rahita, satat aura apAra sneha vAstava meM vaha sahaja pyAra nahIM hai jo vyakti kA apane mitroM va parivAra ke prati hotA hai, jisameM ki ajJAnatA, icchA aura lagAva kA juDAva rahatA hai. hameM usa pyAra kA pratipAdana karane hai jo apAra hai aura jise hama apane zatru ke prati bhI prakaTa kara sakate haiM jisane hameM takalIpha taka pahuMcAI ho. sneha kA mulAdhAra yahI hai ki hama meM se hareka dukha takalIkoM se dUra rahakara khuzahAlI prApta karanA cAhatA hai. badale meM, yaha "ahaM" kI mAnya bhAvanA para hI AdhArita hai jo khuzahAlI ke lie sArvabhaumika lalaka ko darzAtI hai| nizcita hI, sabhI prANimAtra isI prakAra kI AkAMkSAoM sahita paidA hue haiM aura ina AkAMkSAoM kI pUrti karane kA adhikAra unheM milanA cAhie. jaba mai svayaM kI tulanA dUsare logoM, jo ki anaginata hai, se karatA hU~ to maiM pAtA hU ki dUsare loga mujhase adhika mahatvapUrNa haiM kyoMki maiM akelA hU~ jabaki ve bar3I tAdAda meM haiM isake alAvA, tibbatIya bauddha paraMparA hameM yaha sikhAtI hai ki hama sabhI sacetana prANiyo ko apanI pyArI mAM kI taraha dekheM aura unheM pyAra karate hue apanI kRtajJatA prakaTa kareM. kyoMki bauddha matAnusAra, hamAre kaI janma aura punarjanma hue hai aura yaha mAna jA sakatA hai kabhI na kabhI pratyeka prANi hamArA janaka rahA hI hogA. isa taraha sabhI prANI saMsAra meM pArivArika saMbaMdhoM ke sUtra meM baMdhe haiN| koI dharma para vizvAsa kare yA na kare, lekina aisA koI vyakti nahIM hai jo pyAra aura sneha kA kAyala na ho hama paidA hone kI ghaDI se hI apane mAtA - pitA kI dayA va dekharekha meM palate haiM; jIvana ke uttarArdha maiM jaba hameM musIbatoM va buDhApe kA sAmanA karanA hotA hai. hama punaH dusaroM kI sadAzayatA para hI nirbhara rahate haiM. yadi jIvana ke prAraMbhika aura aMtima kAla meM hameM dUsaroM kI sadAsayatA para hI nirbhara rahanA hai to kyoM na hama usa bIca ke kAla meM dUsaroM ke sAtha prema se peza Aye ?

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- mana meM dayAbhAva ke vikAsa (pratyeka manuSya mAtra se dhaniSThatA-bhAva) kA saMbaMdha kisI dharma vizeSa se nahIM hai jaisA ki aksara hama ise pAraMpArika dhArmika vyavahAra ke sAtha jor3akara dekhate hai| yaha na kevala kisI dharma para vizvAsa karane vAloM ke lie hai, avitu yaha jAti, dharma yA rAjanItigata vicAra dhArAoM kI sImA se pare sabhI logoM ke lie hai| yaha una saba ke lie hai jo svayaM ko, anya bAtoM se pare, eka mAnava-parivAra kA sadasya samajhate hue vastuoM kA isI vyApaka aura vistRta pariprekSya meM Akalana karate haiM yaha eka prabhAvazAlI bhAvanA hai jise hameM vikasita karate hue kAryarupa bhI denA cAhie; isake badale meM hama isakA parityAga karate haiM vizeSakara taba jaba hama apane jIvana ke prAraMbhika daura se gujarate hue asurakSA kI bhAvanA kA . zikAra hotA hai| Eeeeeeeeee zrI kapilA hyumaeNniTeriyana sosAyaTI kA saMdeza adhyakSa, ema. DablyU. e. DIsilvA dosto, Apake pAThako ko nimnAlikhita vicAra pasaMda AyeMge : zAkAhAra-vAdaH DaoNkTara kyA kahate hai DaoN. eca. sI. zemA, nyUTrIzana risarca vibhAga kolaMbiyA yunivarsiTI, nyUyArka "phuDa praoNTakTas " "pichale 10 yA 15 varSoM ke kArya se yaha spaSTa huA hai ki anAja, kaMda aura pattI sabjiyoMse prApta proTIna kA pAraspArika pUraka prabhAva majjArajju ke nirmANa va rakharakhAva ke liye sarvottama emino esiDa upalabdha karatA hai." alekjhaiDara hega ema. DI. epha. Ara. sI. pI. "sApekSa zarIra saMracanA vijJAna aura manuSya zarIra vijJAna batAte haiM ki AdamI kA pramukha AhAra hai tAje phala aura sabjiyA~" sara beMjAmina DablU. ricarDasana, ema. DI. epha. Ara. es. "dUdha kI banI huI cIjeM aura harI pattI vAlI sabjiyoM ke saMtulita AhAra meM na kevala sahI aura paryApta proTIna hotA hai balki vaha sabhI kucha hotA hai jo zarIra ko svastha, zaktidAyaka aura taMdurusta rakhane ke lie Avazyaka hotA hai."

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BHAGVANDAS GOSVAMI MAHARAJA Acharya for International Society for Krishna Conciousness in U.K., Southern Europe, South Africa & Mauritius Tridandi Gosvami Bhagavandasa Gosvami Maharaja 25th November, 1984. Mr Nitin Mehta, President, The Young Indian Vegetarians, 33 Goldwell Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey. Dear Nitin Mehta, Please accept my greetings and blessings for your spiritual well being. It is highly commendable that you are espousing the need for vegetarianism. From all points of view, whether they be economical, ethical, psychological or spiritual, a vegetarian diet is far superior to a non-vegetarian diet. Due to the association of young asians with westerners and their traditions, they are becoming more and more deviated from their own wonderful culture which is Sanatana Dharma. It is an undeniable fact that vegetarianism is one important facet of Sanatana Dharma. Essentially it is to teach people the sanctity of life, whether it be manifested in human or animal form. Also, in the Bhagavad Gita Lord Krsna specifically asks for vegetables, fruits and flowers to be offered to him, if these are offered with love then he accepts them. So, we are glad that you and your collegues are taking up this ideal of vegetarianism and are hopeful that you will take things one step higher and incorporate the idea of prasadat or offering food to Lord Sri Krsna before eating it. This will give you all positive, material and spiritual advancement. Le paul betu Bhagavandasa Gosvami Acharya for ISKCON in U.K., Southern Europe, South Africa and Mauritius. BG/Adb/bn

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tridaNDI gosvAmI / bhagavAnadAsa gosvAmI mahArAja nitina mehatA adhyakSa di yaMga iNDiyana vejiTeriyaMsa 33, golDavaila roDa thaoNrnaTana hItha priya nitina mehatA kRpayA ApakI AdhyAtmika svasthatA ke lie merI zubhakAmanAeM evaM AzIrvAda svIkAreM nissaMdeha yaha prazaMsanIya hai ki Apa zAkAhAkhAda kI AvazyakatA kA samarthana kara rahe haiM. sabhI pahaluoM se, cAhe vaha Arthika ho, manovaijJAnika ho yA AdhyAtmika, sAmiSa AhAra se zAkAhArI AhAra kaI gunA zreSTha hai. pazcimI logoM evaM unake taura-tarIkoM se jyAdA dhulamilane ke kAraNa yuvA eziyAI apane hI mahAna saMskRti - sanAtana dharma se dUra hote jA rahe haiM yaha eka akATya tathya hai ki zAkAhAkhAda sanAtana dharma kA eka Avazyaka aMga hai. vAstava meM isakA matalaba hI logoM ko jIvana kI pavitratA se paricita karAnA hai phira cAhe zArIrika DhAMcA manuSya kA ho yA pazu kA. yahAM taka ki bhagavad gItA meM zrIkRSNa bhagavAna bhI vizeSa rUpa se kahate hai ki yadi sneha ke sAtha vanaspatiyAM, phala tathA phUla unheM arpita kiye jAte haiM ho ve unhe svIkAra karate isalie hameM prasannatA hai ki Apa aura Apake sAthI zAkAhAravAda ke isa Adarza ko bar3hAvA de raha haiM aura hameM vizvAsa hai ki Apa ise aura Age bar3hAyeMge isa vicAra ke sAtha sAdha ki khAne se pahale bhojana ko prasAda ke rupa meM zrIkRSNa bhagavAna ko arpita kareM. isase ApakA racanAtmaka bhautika evaM AdhyAtmika vikAsa hogA. bhagavAnadAsa gosvAmI yU.ke, dakSiNI yUropa, dakSiNa aphrIkA aura maoNrizasa meM iskaoNna ke AcArya

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16 SIDDHACHALAM . RD 4, Box 374. Blairstown New Jersey 07825 (201) 362-9793 Founder - H.H. Acharya Sushil Kumarji Maharaj INTERNATIONAL MAHAVIR JAIN MISSION WORLD FELLOWSHIP OF RELIGIONS KUNDALINI SCIENCE CENTER September 5, 1984 Nitin Mehta 33, Goldwell Rd. Thornton Heath Surrey, London, England Dear Nitin, I was very happy to hear from you concerning your efforts to spread the message of vegetarianism. I am pleased to hear today's young people are doing very courageous work in this area. I firmly believe that if we can completely organize the vegetarian society, then easily 100,000 people can be converted every year. More and more scientists are proving the superiority of the vegetarian diet with facts leading toward the right path for food. The non-vegetarian diet is nutritionally inferior. If we are so concerned about protein, then the soybean is a much better source, In non-vegetarian food there is so much cholesteral, so much poison, negativity and vengefulness. A very subtle destructive current is moving in these foods. We must train the people. When we are propagating vegetarianism, then we must also teach proper food preparation in making a balanced healthy diet. We must also go to India and educate the people about balanced diet and the bad effects of alcohol and meat and tobacco. Sixty percent of cancer is caused by an imbalanced diet, drinking and smoking. Since I have been in America I have been happy to have so many converts to vegetarianism. And they are not only eating non-violently, but they are also knowledgable of natural foods systems Health is a gift of divine law. If one's health is not correct then it is very difficult to reach Perfection. Lord Mahavir experiented with many systems for health of body, mind and soul. Ultimately, when he attained omniscience, he taught that the purpose of life is health, self-realization and samadhi. Vegetarianism is one of the main policies of non-violence. I offer my good wishes and support in promoting this noble principle. Our main purpose is to create a non-violent society. Non-violence is the way for total salvation and peace. And by spreading the message of vegetarianism we are serving all of mankind. My blessings are with you, Nitin, and all your sincere workers. You must get success in this noble cause. With Blessings, Acharya Sush Acharya Sushil Kumar

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nitina mahetA 33, golDavaila roDa. sUre, laMdana iglaiMDa priya nitina, zAkAdAravAda ko pratipAdita karane ke lie Apake prayAsoM kI jAnakArI Apase hI prApta kara mujhe bahuta saMtoSa huA hai. mujhe prasannatA hai ki Aja ke yuvaka isa kSetra meM utsAhI kArya kara rahe haiN| yaha merA dRDha vizvAsa hai ki yadi hama zAkAhArI samAja ko ekajuTa karane meM saphala rahe to prati varSa 1,00,000 loga AsAnI se zAkAhArI bana sakate haiM. adhika se adhika vaijJAnika tathyapUrvaka dRSTi se zAkAhArI bhojana kI uttamatA ko sAbita karate hue bhojana kA sugama patha prazasta kara rahe haiN| pauSTikatA ke lihAja se sAmiSa bhojana nimna stara kA hai| yadi hama proTIna hI jyAdA mAtrA meM prApta karanA cAhate haiM to isake liye soyAbIna eka behatara zrota hai. sAmiSa bhojana meM kolesTarAla, viSa pratikUlatA tathA pratizodhAtmaka pravRtti pAtra mAtrA meM pAyI jAtI hai. isa prakAra ke bhojana meM vinAzakAraka sUkSma dhArA kA pravAha niraMtara hotA hai....... hameM logoM ko samajhAnA cAhie. jaba hama zAkAhAravAda ko prasArita karate haiM to hameM cAhie ki hama logoM ko saMtulita va svastha AhAra taiyAra karane kI vidhi bhI batAeM. saMtulita AhAra kI AvazyakatA evaM alkohala, mAMsa va taMbAkU ke kuprabhAvoM ke bAre meM logoM ko batAne ke lie hameM bhAratavarSa jAnA cAhie. kaiMsara ke sATha pratizata mAmaloM kA kAraNa hai asaMtulita AhAra, madyapAna tathA dhUmrapAna karanA. cUMki maiM amerikA meM raha rahA hUM, ataH yaha mere lie saMtoSa kI bAta hai ki maiM bahuta se zAkAhAriyoM ko jAnatA hUM. ve loga na kevala gaira hiMsAtmaka tarIke se bhojana karate haiM, balki unheM prAkRtika khAdya-paddhatiyoM kA jJAna bhI hotA hai.. svAsthya devI dena hai. yadi koI vyakti asvastha hai to taba usake lie pUrNatA prApta karanA bahuta.. duSkara ho jAtA hai. bhagavAna mahAvIra ne zarIra, mana evaM AtmA ko svastha rakhane ke lie bahutere upAya kiye. aMta meM jaba unheM sarvajJatA prApta huI, taba unhoMne batAyA ki jIvana uddezya hai susvAsthya, Atmabodha tathA samAdhi. zAkAhAravAda ahiMsA ke nItiyoM meM se eka pramukha nIti hai. isa mahAna siddhAnta ko bar3hAne ke.. lie maiM apanA sahayoga tathA zubhakAmanAeM detA hai. hamArA pramukha udezya hai eka hiMsA vihIna samAja kA nirmANa. parama mokSa evaM zAMti ko prApta karane kA ahiMsA hI eka mAtra tarIkA hai. isa taraha zAkAhAravAda ke saMdeza ko phailAte hue hama samasta manivamAtra kI sevA kara rahe haiM. nitina, merI AzIrvAda Apako aura Apake sabhI ImAnadAra sAthiyoM ke prati hai. isa mahAna udezya kI prApti meM Apa avazya saphala hoMge AzIvAda sahita, AcArya suzIla kumAra

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18 PHONE : 23891 26744 GRAM : BAPSANSTHA. bhagavAna vAminArAyaNaM his divine holiness Pramukh Swami Maharaj Bochasanwasi Shree Aksharpurushottam Sanstha Shah ibaug Road, Ahmedabad 380 004. India. NO Li JdharmojhevaHsAcAra: hogakoMga, tA.22- 9-' - prata SHREE NITIN MEHTA PRESIDENT Y. I.V. 33 GOLDWELL ROAD THORNTON HEATH SURREY vi, AA pate ema. 984nA patra ma mo. Apa bhA rI yajano ne lhArI rahelA che Apa nA nerjIna mAM vi za Sa yA to khAnA che te jAna AnaMda thayo. ane jIvana ApI zakatA natu tenuM 9 vana la I levAno Apano koI adhikAra naLa. bha0A dhAna ramatA rAmaeo kahyuM che ke koI paNa hetu mATe koi mae! jIvanI hiMsA karI nahi. bhagavAne mANa' ane khAvA mA 2 D* 4 zAka!!I vastuo banAvI che. 21 kra! hArI ya teja manuSya ka he vAya. ranaM mAratA / rI prANI che. te koI divasa ghAsa khAya nahiM. hA 24, zA ya vagere zA krANArI mA o che. te mAM ta kha ma na hi . pazuo a!! 2no viveke samaje che. paNa A narsa tama jato na, e dale mA rasane kahe vuM paDe che ke 'sArasa tuM mA ( sa dha ke sAkAhArI pa 5 o zA kramay ane zA ta mAM 24 2 (kta e cha e che. mA bhArana zAkrAhArI paraone mArIne khAya che. ane te mAM 1 vAjI 1 ti re 8 ON D H AND EN E 69EY meLave che nAJ51x2051141 Azitinaaasaram sana tene peTa mAM prayALa oN 2 ne kraba stana batAvuM te vAta ked kimatra che! tranI yu nuM mULa mAM nA hAra che. sa AdhAna svAminArA ane prA thenA kazI e chI e ke vizva mAM krAITa kalarsa je mA (aa nA mana pavitra bane te mu dha dha to a2 ke ate mA rana sarve , # re zAMti,khAne bhagava ? ya { A1 2 a6, 6 nA thaote ja ha ta pUve ke jaya zrI svAminA rAThaet,

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prati zrI nItina mehatA, pramukha, vAI. AI. vI. 33, golDavela roDa, thornaTana hItha, sare. hoMga koMga dinAMka 22-9-1984 ( ApakA ) agasta kA patra milA. Apa apane sAmAyika meM bhAratIya janoM ko zAkAhArI rahane ke lie vizeSa jAnakArI dene vAle haiM. yaha jAnakara AnaMda huA. jisako jIvana pradAna nahIM kara sakate haiM, usake prANa lene kA hameM koI adhikAra nahIM hai. bhagavAna svAmI nArAyaNa ne kahA hai ki kisI kAraNa kisI kI hiMsA na karanI cAhie. bhagavAna ne manuSya ke bhojana ke lie bahuta cIjeM banAI haiM. manuSya vahI hai jo zAkAhArI hai. siMha mAMsAhArI pazu hai, vaha kabhI ghAsa nahIM khAtA. pazu bhI AhAra meM viveka rakhate haiM; parantu manuSya nahIM rakhatA, isalie manuSya se kahanA par3atA hai ki "tuma manuSya bano "" zAkAhArI pazu tarakArI aura sabjI (bhAjI) meM se zakti pAte haiM. manuSya to zAkAhArI pazu kI hiMsA karake, usameM se nimna kakSA kI zakti pAtA hai. zAkAhAra se hI ucca kakSA kI zakti kyoM na pAye ? jIvita pazu kI hiMsA karake, usako khA karake apane peTa ko kabristAna banAnA, yaha kaisI ajIba ghaTanA hai ? tathaiva yuddha kA mUla mAMsAhAra hI hai. bhagavAna svAmInArAyaNa se prArthanA karate haiM ki vizva meM zAkAhAra kA pravartana ho, jisase manuSyoM kA mana pavitra bane evaM yuddha na ho aura mAnava bhI saba taraha se zAMti prApta kareM ! bhavadIya, zA. nArAyaNa svarUpadAsa ke atyAdhika sneha pUrvaka jaya zrI svAmI nArAyaNa. 19

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20 Sri H.H. Satguru Jagjeet Singhji Maharaj (Present Spiritual Head of Sikhs) 16 Pfur oft For guruu raam , Afgara Universal Peace is the chief aim of SRI SATGURU JAGJEET SINGH JI MAHARAJ. He Sermonizes, inter alia, to. respect all creeds. It is His notion that the persons from the various religions should terminate the profanation or the loathsome criticism, His Divine Grace, wishes all the religious persons to love each other heartily. Only in this way, can we help establish peace on our Planet Earth.

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mAnavatA mahorI UThI katalakhAne laI javAtAM gheTAMbakarAne bacAvI leto jainasaMgha surendranagara jillAnA pATaDI gAmamAM jIvadayAnA uttama udAharaNarUpa banI gayela eka vila ghaTanAe gAmanI mATImAM vadhu maheka umerI che. sAMjano samaya hato. gAmanI bhAgoLe be Traka UbhI hatI. 300 jeTalAM gheTAM-bakarAM ThAMsoThAsa bhA hatA. A tamAma abola nirAdhAra jIvonuM Ayakhu have 24 klAka pUratuM hatuM A pazuone katalakhAne laI javAtAM hatA. be jaina yuvAno bahAra karavA nIkaLyA hatA. emanI AMkhoe pArakhI lIdhuM A ke A Trako katalakhAne jaI rahI che. dheTAMbakarAnA vepArI mAlikane maLyA. vAtacIta mAM A yuvAno jANI zakyA ke e 300 jeTalA jIvatA jIvanI kiMmata g2a.70 hajAra jeTalI thAya che. bhItaramAM bhAre maMthana cAlyuM ane nirNaya kyo ke koIpaNa upAye A abola prANIone motanA mukhamAMthI bacAvI levA joIe. rAtorAta ATalI moTI rakama paNa lAvavI kyAMthI e prazna paNa mUMjhavaNarUpa .hato. sthAnika pAMjarApoLanI tijorImAM paNa najIvI ja rakama hatI. rAtabhara maMthana cAlatuM rahyuM. savAre sthAnika AgevAno viramagAmanA jaina ane jainetara AgevAnone maLyA. viramagAma mahAjane saMpUrNa sahakAranA vacano ApyA. hAthohAtha maLyA. ane 67 hajArano DrAkaTa pelA vepArIne suprata kyo. TUMkamAM dayAmaNe cahere ekITaze tAkI rahelA 300 jeTalA gheTAM-bakarAM ne TrakamAMthI utAryA. kasAInI bhItaramAMthI paNa kyAreka ruNAnA jharA vahevA mAMDe che tema je vepArI A pazuone katalakhAne laI jato hato te vepArI paNa A virala ghaTanAthI gadgadita thaI. hajAranI kiMmata ochI levAno sAmethI prastAva mUke che ane kahe che ke ATalI rakamanA gheTA-bakarAnuM jIvatadAna huM mArA taraphathI karuM chuM. sthAnika pAMjarApoLe navA jIvonA bharaNapoSaNa mATe UbhA thayelA navA kharcIne pahoMcI vaLavA have kamara bAMdhI che. Aja paMthakanA jhIMjhuvADA, dhAmA, AdariyANA, dasADA, paMcAsara vagere gAmoe paNa A dharmakAryomAM potAno kALo Apyo hato. vAta vikaTa hatI. jaina saMghanA AgevAnoe sthaLa para bolAvyA. saMdhanA keTalAka TrasTI amadAvAda hatA. pATaDI jaina saMgha gatizIla thayo ane pAMceka klAka thaMbhI vA mATe pelA vepArIne vinaMtI karI. mAratI moTare saMdha amadAvAda AvI TrasTIone vigate vAta karI. sarvAnumate nakkI karyuM ke e nirAdhAra jIvone jaina saMghe bacAvI levo joIe. motanA mukhamAMthI choDAvavAnA 67 hajAra cUkvI dIdhA. 21

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22 01-581 0294/5 Your Ref.: Our Ref.: PERS/N MAURITIUS HIGH COMMISSION 32/33 ELVASTON PLACE LONDON S.W.7. 12 September, 1984 Attention of Mr Nitan Mehta, President of Y.I.V. Message, as requested, from His Excellency Mr. D. Gian Nath High Commissioner for Mauritius in London In the hey-day of the Arya Samaj movement in the thirties and forties, the Jingoism of the Shakaharis and Mansaharis was probably best reflected during public Shastrarths- religious debates in Mauritius. The two sides would address their case in an atmosphere of bitterness which left little room for live and let live. In my family of Shakaharis, this anathema had gripping dimensions. It was therefore with heavy trepidation that I tasted my first egg at age 22, while overseas at University. It was a traumatic experience. It was a sin, a fall from grace. I recall hiding my predicament from friends with common background only to find out later that they were also doing the same. I was 36 when I was finally prevailed upon to swallow my first piece of chicken tikka. Well, I thought, it was an enforded situation and it had nothing to do with my own weakness in that I had succombed. Instead, I told myself, the situation was merely This desired by the requirements of my diplomatic duties. The search for refuge is of course inexcusably self-evident. fact remains that I still feel a tinge of sadness and guilt at having to touch meat now and then. I believe very strongly that vegetarian food is wholesome. Indeed I like to think that a vegetarian is a better human. We. murder to dissect - Wordsworth. Do we need to murder to eat? The growth of health food fads and shops transmit a kind of global awareness in favour of vegetarianism. phenomenon stops short of asking us to forego meat. nevertheless a compromise which is fair and worth encouraging. This It is Indians have been blessed with a natural preference for a non-meat diet. There would be little wisdom in rejecting the wholesome. Meat is not a sine qua non of social experience, however royal the circle. Turning pukka vegetarian again remains my aim and aspiration. Vegetarianism is more than a simple matter of food choice. It is a way of life. humanism. I believe in it. Its essence is G. Noth D. Gian Nath High Commissioner

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ADAM SMITH, THE WEALTH OF NATIONS It may indeed be doubted wehther Butchers' Meat is anywhere a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of milk, cheese and butter or oil, where butter is not to be had, afford the most plentiful, the most wholesome, the most nourishing, and the most innigorating diet. Decency nowhere requires that any man should eat Butchers' Meat. The First GUJARATI NEWS WEEKLY of Europe 20 vararAyo mAnavatA kAje temaja ArogyanI jALavaNI mATe zAkAhArI banavAnuM AMdolana pazcimamAM puravege zarU thaI gayuM che ane tenI sAthe AkhI duniyA zAkAhArI Adarza tarapha DhaLI rahI che. eTale ja to A evo samaya che. jyAre bhArate tenA zAkAhAranA saMskArane vaLagI rahevuM joIe. sI.bI.paTela taMtrI ane prakAzaka gujarAta samAcAra, julAIka, vizvadharma Gujarat Samachar Tel: 01-729 vaDache. 8/16 Coronet Street, London N.1 6HD.

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**24 4th July-84 Rendebaeksvej 24, Smorumnedre . '2760 Malov, Denmark. Dear Mr Mehta, There are three vegetarian societies in Denmark with a total of ab. 1,200 members. An organisation has been founded with a view to purchasing land. and buildings where elderly vegetarians (and non-smokers) can be together, attend vegetarian cooking courses and join in different health activities for body and mind. The ultimate hope is to set up a permanent home for senior vegetarians. The name and address of this organisation is: Vegetarernes Omsorgs- og Stotteforening, c/o Povl Olesen, Rendebaeksvej 24, Smorumnedre, 2760 Malov, Denmark More and more young people in Denmark are interested in living on a diet without meat. Our newspapers and magazines now regularly offer a "green recipe along with ordinary recipes. There are several restaurants in Copenhagen of different vegetarian denominations. Sincerely yours, pa Meren (Povl Olesen

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Nitin Mehta President Y.I.V 33 Goldwell Road THORNTON HEATH Surrey England The Vegetarian Society of South Africa PO Box 23567 JOUBERT PARK 2044 9 July 1984 Dear Friend We beg to acknowledge your letter. The increase of meat-eating in India is probably due to two factors: a) a higher standard of living, and b) a lowering of moral standards. We are ofcourse pleased that poverty is on the decrease, but we have also noticed that a higher standard of living often results in a lowering of moral standards. Drinking, smoking and meat-eating are apparently status symbols in the eyes of some people. The fact that we are living in a world where the emphasis is more on the importance of technical miracles than on spiritual development, one can only hope that wiser council will prevail in the not too distant future, and we wish you success with your next publication. Although there is here undoubtedly a growing awareness that the killing of animals for food is unethical and unnecessary, we do not underestimate vested interests and a long tradition that meat is the best source of protein and essential for one's health. However, as heart disease and cancer are most prevalent in those countries (and Sough Africa is one of them) where the intake of animal protein is highest, we do get reports that some doctors advise their patients to cut out red meat". Although this does not mean that the road to our way of living is now open, it could be the stepping stone in the right direction. Yours sincerely Steward J Beeldman 25

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26 In the Advocacy of Vegetarianism: MORAL ETHICAL AESTHETIC SCIENTIFIC HEALTHFUL ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICAL HUMANITARIAN NORTH AMERICAN VEGETARIAN SOCIETY Young Indian Vegetarians " Hitin Mehta 33 Goldwell Road Thornton Heath Surrey, England P.O. Box 72 DOLGEVILLE, NEW YORK 13329 Phone: (518) 568-7970 Dear Hitin Mehta;; Best wishes for the publication of your booklet, "A Request to the People of India from the Worldwide Followers of Ahimsa--Non-violence." July 4, 1984 We regret that there is an increasing trend towards meat consumption in India, and hope that your publication and the efforts of many other individuals will help people to realise that a vegetarian diet offers a healthy option for those who believe that all life is sacred, and that animals have rights. We have been' pleased to note that there are growing ambers of vegetarians in this country as well as an increasing awareness that meat and dairy products play a contributory rela in heart diseases, high blood pressure and many other diseases. Around our country, many more restaurants are offering vegetarian meals that cater to Americans who are concerned about their health, weight and the lives of animals that would be slaughtered for food. It has been estimated that over 10 million Americans are now practicing vegetariage, while another 40 million are outting down on the meat they eat. People are motivated by health concerns, ethics, and alarm over world hunger, the ecology of our planet, and the high costs of meat-centered diets. Most sincerely, Jennie O Collura Jennie 0. Cellara For XAVS NAS We wish you the best of success in helping to educate people in India, and please feel free to contact us if you require any additional assistance. HOST OF THE 27TH WORLD VEGETARIAN CONGRESS With over 50 independent NAVS-affiliated local vegetarian organizations from coast-to-coast in the U.S.A. and Canada.

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naoNrtha amerikana vejiTeriyana sosAyaTI yaMga iNDiyana vejiTeriyans nitIna mahetA 33, golDavela roDa, thaoNrnaTona hitha, sare, iMglaiDa.. priya nitIna mehatA, hiMsA aura atyAcAra ke virodha meM AvAja uThAnevAle, vizvabhara meM phaile anuyAyiyoM kI ora se bhAratavAsiyoM se eka anurodha karanevAlI ApakI pustikA ke prakAzana hetu zubhakAmanAeM: hameM kheda hai ki bhArata meM mAMsa kI khapata baDhatI jA rahI haiM. hameM vizvAsa hai ki ApakA yaha prakAzana aura bahuta se logoM ke prayatnoM se anya loga kI yaha jAna jAyeMge ki jo yaha mAnate haiM. sAre jIva pavitra hote haiM aura pazuoM ke bhI kucha adhikAra haiM tathA unake lie zAkAhArI AhAra hI eka svastha vikalpa hai. . hameM yaha jAnakara saMtoSa hai ki isa deza meM zAkAhAriyoM kI saMkhyA bar3ha rahI hai aura logoM ko yaha bodha bhI hotA jA rahA hai ki hRdaya-roga, ucca rakta-cApa tathA anya bImAriyoM ko bar3hAne ke lie mAMsa evaM DearI utpAdana sahAyaka hote haiM. hamAre apane hI deza meM bahute resTaoNrenTas meM amerikI logoM ko zAkAhArI bhojana diyA jA rahA hai jo jo apane svAsthya, vajana tathA una pazuoM ke adhikAroM ke prati jAgaruka haiM jinakI hatyA bhojana ke lie kI jAtI hai. aisA anumAna hai ki takarIbana dasa araba se adhika amerikI loga zAkAhArI bhojana karate haiM aura 40 araba loga apane mAMsAhAra kI mAtrA ko kama karate jA rahe haiM. svAsthya, naitikatA, saMsArabhaTa meM phailatI jA rahI bhukhamarI kI cetAvanI, pRthvI kI jalavAyu aura mAMsAhArI AhAra kI bar3hatI huI kImatoM se aisA karane ke lie AdamI prerita huA hai. bhArata ke logoM ko zikSita karane meM Apa jo madada kara rahe haiM usake lie hama saphalatA kI kAmanA karate haiM. yadi Apako. anya kisI prakAra kI sahAyatA kI jarurata paDe to kRpayA bejhijhaka hamase samparka kareM bhavadIya, jenI o. kolUsa ena. e. vI. esa. ke lie

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WHY INDIA SHOULD NOT IMITATE THE WEST: Our message to the people of India is this: Please stick to your religious vegetarian traditions. It is infinitely superior to our meat eating habits. Indeed, in Britain now, over one million people have come to the same conclusion, realising that vegetarianism is the only humane and healthy diet for the human race. We can feed ten times more people on vegetarian food than on meat; we can keep more healthy on a well balanced vegetarian diet and, just as importantly, only by avoiding meat can we rid ourselves of the horror of slaughterhouses. Every year in British slaughterhouses millions of frightened animals are pushed and prodded and inhumanely killed in bloody and smelly buildings, to produce food that we do not need. On the contrary, many doctors are now claiming that eating too much meat is one of the factors contributing towards the main killer disease in Britain - heart disease. . Depressingly, we in the West hear that India is now imitating our factory farming methods. We read with dismay that millions of chickens are being reared in factory farms, as they are in our country. As well as being degarding for humans and animals, such methods have, by the India Poultry Industry's own admission, made no impression upon beating malnutrition. How can they when the poor cannot possibly. afford to buy such luxury goods? There may be many aspects of Western life you admire and wish to emulate but meat eating is neither admirable nor necessary. The imprisonment of farm animals in factory farms, where they never take excercise feel fresh air or in many cases, even turn around and the carnage of slaughterhouses is something which increasingly many of us in the West feel ashamed about, not proud. Rather than imitating us you in fact should go on setting a more human and civilised example to us in the West by continuing to take the path of non-violence to animals and humans. Vegetarianism is the only answer. Remember the vegetarian slogan; live and let live, MARK GOLD OF THE ANIMAL AID SOCIETY U.K.

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bhArata pazcima kA anukaraNa kyoM na kareM : . bhArata ke logoM ko hamArA saMdeza hai ki : kRpayA apanI dhArmika zAkAhArI paraMparA ko banAye rakheM. yaha hamArI samiSa pravRtti se kaI gunA baDI hai, briTena mai bhI nizcita rUpa se, yaha jAnate hue ki mAnava-jAti ke lie zAkAhAravAda hI sahI evaM svAsthyaprada hai, eka miliyana se bhI jyAdA loga isI niSkarSa para pahuMce hai. mAMsAhArI bhojana kI tulanA meM hama zAkAhArI bhojana se dasa gunA adhika logoM ko khilA sakate haiM; saMtulita zAkAhArI bhojana se hama jyAdA svastha raha sakate haiM aura, itanA hI mahatvapUrNa hai, ki mAMsAhAra se dUra rahakara hI hama kasAIkhAnoM kI bhayAvahatA se mukti pA sakate haiN| prati varSa briTena ke kasAIkhAnoM meM karoDoM bevarza jAnavaroM ko jhoMkA jAtA hai tathA durgaMdhabharI evaM raktaraMjita imAratoM meM amAnavIya vyavahAra se unakA katala kiyA jAtA hai tAki aise khAdyapadArtha banAye jA sakeM jinakI hameM jarUrata nahIM hai| isake viparIta adhikAMza DAkTaroM kA kahanA hai ki hRda-roga jaisI ghAtaka bImArI kA kAraNa jyAdA mAtrA meM mAMsabhakSaNa karanA bhI hai| aphasosa ke sAtha hameM yaha patA calA hai ki bhArata varSa aba hamArI phaikTrI phArmiMga paddhatiyoM kA anukaraNa kara rahA hai. hama nairAzya ke sAtha yaha par3hate haiM ki hamArI deza kI taraha hI phaikTrI phArmoM meM karor3oM kI saMkhyA meM cUje pAle jAte haiM. mAnavamAtra evaM pazuoM ke lie nimnastarIya hone ke sAtha hI sAtha, isa prakAra kI paddhatiyoM, jaisA ki svayaM bhAratIya murgIpAlana udyoga ne bhI kabUla kiyA hai, kA kapoSaNa para koI asara nahIM ho pAyA hai| aura yaha ho bhI kaise sakatA hai ki jaba eka garIba vyakti isa prakAra kI aizo ArAma kI cIjeM kharIdane bhI samarthya hI nahIM rakhatA hai? pAzcAzya jIvana ke kaI pahalU haiM jinheM Apa prazaMsApUrvaka apanAnA cAheMge lekina mAMsabhakSaNa na prazaMsanIya hai aura na hI Avazyaka. phaikTrI phArmoM meM kaida jAnavaroM, jahAM na ve hilaDula sakate haiM aura na hI khulI havA meM sAMsa le pAte hai, kI kasAIkhAnoM meM nirdaya hatyA ko dekhakara hama pazcimavAsiyoM kA sira zarma se jhuka jAtA hai, garva anubhava karane bhI ho bAta hI nahIM uThatI. hamArA anukaraNa kara ke bajAya Apa ko cAhie ki Apa hama pazcima vAsiyoM ke lie jAnavaroM va manuSya samudAya ke prati ahiMsA kA rAstA apanAkara eka mAnavIya aura susaMskRta udAharaNa rakheM isakA ekamAtra uttara hai zAkAhAravAda. zAkAhAravAda ke bAre "jio aura jIne do" ko yAda rakheM mArka golDa da enimala eDa sosAyaTI, yu.ke.

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Courtsey of SATYARAJA DASA, ASCON MEAT EATER LEAF GRASS EATER FRUIT EATER HUMAN BEINGS no claws no claws : no claws no pores on. skin, perspires through tongue to cool body perspires through millions of pores on skin perspires through millions of pores on skin perspires though millions of pores on skin sharp, pointed front teeth to tear flesh no sharp, pointed front teeth no sharp, pointed front teeth no sharp, pointed front teeth small salivary glands in the mouth (not needed to pre-digest grains and fruits) well-developed salivary glands, needed to pre digest grains and fruits well-developed salivary glands, needed to predigest grains and fruits well-developed salivary glands, needed to pre digest grains and fruits acid saliva, no enzyme ptyalin to pre-digest grains alkaline saliva; much ptyalin to pre-digest grains alkaline saliva; much ptyalin to pre-digest grains alkaline saliva; much ptyalin to pre-digest grains No flat back molar teeth to grind food flat back molar teeth to grind food flat, back molar teeth to grind food flat, back molar teeth to grind food much strong hydrochloric acid in stomach to digest tough animal muscle, bone, etc. stomach acid 20 times less strong than meateaters stomach acid 20 times less strong than meateaters stomach acid 20 times less strong than meat eaters intestinal tract only intestinal tract 10 times intestinal tract 12 times 3 times body length body length, leaf and body length, fruits do not so rapidly decaying grains do not decay as . decay as rapidly so can intestinal tract 12 times meat can pass out of quickly so can pass more pass more slowly through body length body quickly. slowly through the body body The Phisiological Differeance between Harbivours Men and Carnivourous Animals.

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zAkAhArI manuccA aura sababhakSI pArI meM zArIrika saMracanA aMtara mAMsabhakSI ghAsa pattI khAnevAle phalabhakSI mAnava-prANI jabar3e hote hai jabar3e nahIM hote * jabar3e nahIM hote jabar3e nahIM hote chidrarahita tvacA; zarIra ko zIta banAye rakhane ke lie jIbha se kheda kriyA tvacA meM asaMkhya chipoM dvArA sveda-kriyA tvacA meM asaMkhya chidroM dvArA sveda -kriyA tvacA meM asaMkhya chidroM dvArA . sveda-kriyA tIkSNa evaM nukIle mukhAgra dAtoM dvArA mAMsa phADanA mukhAgra dAMta tIkSNa evaM nukIle nahIM mukhAgra dAMta tIkSNa evaM nukIle nahIM hote mukhAgra dAMta tIkSNa evaM nukIle nahIM hote hote muMha meM nanhIM lAra graMthiyAM hotI haiM (pUrva-pacita anna evaM phaloM ke lie jarUrI nahIM) suvikasita lAra graMthiyAM pUrva patita anna evaM phalo ke lie Avazyaka suvikasita lAra. graMthiyAM pUrva pacita anna evaM phaloM ke lie Avazyaka suvikasita lAra graMthiyAM pUrva pacita anna evaM phaloM ke lie Avazyaka amlIya lAra "pUrva pacita anna ke lie TAyalina enjAima nahIM kSArIya lAra "pUrva pacita anna . meM jyAdA TAilina kSArIya lAra pUrva pacita anna meM jyAdA TAilina kSArIya lAra pUrva pacita anna meM jyAdA TAilina bhojana cabAne ke lie pichale molara dAMta cauDe nahIM hote. bhojana cabAne ke lie pichale moTara dAMta cauDe hote haiM. bhojana cabAne ke lie pichale molara dAMta cauDe hote haiM bhojana cabAne ke lie pichale molara dAMta cauDe hote haiM zakta mAMsa peziyAM, har3iyAM Adi pacAne ke lie AmAzaya meM paryApta hAiDroklorika esiDa mAMsa bhakSiyoM se AmAsaya janya amla vIsa gunA kama zaktizAlI mAMsa bhakSiyoM se AmAsaya janya amla vIsa gunA kama zaktizAlI mAMsa bhakSiyoM se AmAsaya janya amla vIsa gunA kama zaktizAlI AMta kI lambAI zarIra kI kula lambAI kA tIna gunA tAki avaziSTa mAMsa zarIra turanta bAhara nikala sake AMta kI lambAI zarIra kI lambAI kA kula dasa gunA pattiyAM aura dhAnya sIghra avaziSTa nahIM bana pAteM ataH zarIra se dhIre dhIra bAhara nikalate haiM AMta kI lambAI zarIra kI kula lambAI kA bAraha gunA phala avaziSTa nahIM bana pAte ataH zarIra se dhIre dhari . bAhara nikalate haiM. AMta kI lambAI zarIra kI kula lambAI kA bAraha gunA

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OSTERREICHISCHE YEGFTAPIER !NION Sakrat. Ing. J. Fleischandari A-8010, Leechgasse, Graz. Austria Graz, 6 July 1984 To the Young Indian Vegetarians c/o Mitin lehta Fresident .I.V. 33 Goldwell Road Thornton Heath Surrey G.. Dear Zriend, I have received your circular. As President of the Austrian Vegetarian Union since its foundation in 1970 and as one of the Executive Vice Presidents of the I.V.U. I wish you a good success. Hyself attending two orld Vegetarian Congresses in India in 1967 and 1977 Iappreciate your activity in the cause of Vegetarianism. As an old i'riend of Srimati Rukmini Devi since 1925, I am a gtrict vegetarian from the ethical point of view, but as food-chemist by profession, now retired from the food-control-office since 1968 I had experienced the growing interest in vegetarian diet also from the health aspect. As I am also active in the public health I have close contact with the University in Graz. The Professors are more and more interested in Vegetarianism, because they know me since 40 years and never have seen me ill. As now I have passed my 81th . birtuday in buoyant health and fitness, they acknotledge my success. Vegetarianism in Austria has an old tradition since 1870 and myself have experienced 60 years of it. Inour big hospital in Graz one also can get vegetarian food. Of course I have also close con- . tact with the Animal Welfare organisations and Antivivisectionorganisations and one of our younger fellow Thomas Stiegler is very avtive on that line. As Secretary of the Austrian-Indian Society in Graz I am cooperating in the spirit of Ahimsa and we are planning again on the 3+ october a compaign against factory-farming, like hen-batteries-cages and calf-boxes. I receive many magazines from abroad also, the british Vegetarian, the German magazine "Der Vegetarior", Regeneration from Switzerland and Leven and Leven latsen from the Netherlands. Also "Animal Citizen" from India and"Animals Defender! As I am also a Theosophist since 60 years, I am also active on the spiritual aspect of Vegetarianism and giving lectures. The difficulty is only, we have little money, 80 I am not able to contribute by a donation. With best wishes and kindest regards Yours sincerely 1 Jutlenchander

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33 COMMITTEE MEMBERS Committee Members Standing from left Vaid Bharath, Nitin Mehta, Nipan Malde, Chandresh Malde. Seated from left - Maiuri Shah, Mrs. Pratibha Mehta, Varsha Shah

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34 FOOD POISONING AND OTHER HEALTH HAZARDS FOR MEAT EATERS Meat being the flesh of dead animals presents numerous hazards to health. One such health hazard is food poisoning. The term food poisoning is applied to acute inflammation of the gastro-intestinal tract following the consumption of food contaminated by harmful organisms. More than threequarters of all bacterial poisoning have ben identified with animal foods. Certain bacteria of salmonella are the principle agents of food poisonig and many of these have acquired resistance to the drug used against them. Epidemics of salmonella infection are usually traced in such foods as meat pies, sausages, beef, poultry. A vegetarian diet can greatly reduce the risks of food contamination. The vegetarian starts off with an advantage since salmonella do not grow well on plants. When they do appear, it is almost certainly due to contamination by contact with affected surfaces or in general through unhygenic practices. Recently there have been many cases of food poisoning in Britain. One example is salmonella poisoning in a number of London hospitals. It was verified that some patients died of salmonella infection. Roast beef was the vehicle by which the disease was spread in wards. In Britain notified cases of salmonella poisoning have risen from 10,000 in 1977 to 17,000 in 1983 and deaths from 25 in 1972 to 65 in 1982. Apart from food poisoning there are various hazards associated with meat diet. Intestinal worms, the most common of which is tapeworm have ben found living within the human body since man began eating animal flesh and sea foods. If the eggs of the pork tapeworm are swallowed by man, they hatch in the small intestine and larval forms develop in various regions of the body. Consequence of this may be grave. Future freedom from intestsinal worms can only be guaranted by a total vegetarian diet. As well as presenting physical hazards, eating also affects our mental faculties. Animals are under severe emotional stress prior to and at the time of death. Their flesh is fed by a bloodstream which is loaded with stress hormones, lactic acid and other toxic waste products, mostly constitute the "Delicious flavours" associated with cooked animal flesh. All these free chemical are ingested without realisation that they are materially contributing towards modern man's mental unbalance. Nutritionists are now agreed that distinctsion between plant and animal proteins is no longer valid and that it is perfectly possible to blend plant proteins together to previde a product which is as nutritionally aceptable as animal protein. The people who profit by exploiting large numbers of animals do not need our approval. They need our money. The purchase of the corpses of the animals they rear is only the support factory farmers ask from the public. They will be able to defend themselves against criticism with the reply that they are only providing the public with what it wants. In conclusion it can be stated that a vegetarian diet is by far a healthier diet in all respects: Physically, Mentally and spiritually. Rekha Mavani Meeta Mavani Priti Mavani

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bhojana kA viSAktIkaraNa evaM mAMsa bhakSaNa karane vAloM ke lie svAsthya saMbaMdhI anya khatare mRta jAnavaroM kA mAMsa svAsthya ke lie aneka khatare paidA karatA hai. inameM se hI eka hai bhojana kA viSAktIkaraNa. hAnikAraka jIvANuoM dvArA dUSita kiye gaye khAdya-padArtha ke sevana se AmAzaya. evaM choTI AMta meM jo jalana paidA hotI hai use bhojana ke viSAktIkaraNa ke nAma se jAnA jAtA hai. viSAkta bhojana kA tIna cauthAI hissA pazu-AhAra meM pAye jAne vAle jIvANuoM ke kAraNa dUSita hotA hai.sAlbhonelA ke kucha jIvANu pramukha rUpa se bhojana ko viSAkta karane ke lie jimmedAra hote haiM, inameM se adhikAMza jIvANuoM meM itanI pratirodhAtmaka zakti hotI hai ki inake viruddha prayukta kiye jAnevAlI davAoM kA ina para koI asara nahIM hotA hai. mAMsa kI kacauriyAM saoNseja gaumAMsa, machalI ke mAMsa jaise bhojana padArthoM meM sAmAnya rUpa se sAlmonelA ke mAraka evaM saMkrAmaka jIvANu pAye jAte hai. zAkAhArI bhojana ke prayoga se bhojana ke dUSaNa ko kAphI hada taka kama kiyA jA sakatA hai. . prAraMbha se zAkAhArI manuSya lAbhadAyaka sthiti meM rahatA hai kyoMki sAlmonelA paudhoM para AsAnI se nahIM panapa sakatA hai. jaba kabhI ye dikhAI deM, to yaha mAnanA cAhie ki nizcita rUpase yaha dUSita stara yA sAmAnya rUpa se asvAsthyakara paristhitiyoM ke kAraNa huA hai. hAla hI meM briTena meM mojana ke viSAktIkaraNa ke kaI mAmale prakAza meM Aye hai, yaha pAyA gayA ki sAlmonelA roga saMcAra ke kAraNa kucha marIjoM kI mRtyu ho gaI. bhUne hue gau mAMsa ke kAraNa yaha bImArI anya vArDoM meM bhI phaila gaI varSa 1977 kI tulanAmeM briTena meM sana 1983 meM sAlmonelA ke viSAktIkaraNa ke mAmale 10,000 se baDhakara 17,000 ho gaye tathA mRtakoM kI saMkhyA jo varSa 1972 meM 25 thI, baDhakara 1982 meM 65 taka pahuMca gaI. bhojana ke viSAktIkaraNa ke alAvA mAMsAhAra se kaI aura bhI khatare jur3e hue haiM. jabase manuSya ne jAnavaroM kA mAMsa tathA samudra se prApta khAdya padArtha khAne prAraMbha kiye, taba se hI manuSya ke zarIra meM jIvita AMtra-jIvANu vizeSakara Tepavarma, pAye jAte rahe haiM. yadi kisI vyakti dvArA porka Tepavarma ke aNDe nigale jAte haiM to ve choTI AMta meM jamA ho jAte hai, tathA manuSya ke zarIra ke vibhinna hissoM meM lArvA kI Akati ke cinha dikhAI par3ane lagate haiM. isake natIje bhayAnaka ho sakate haiM. AMtra saMbaMdhI jIvANuoM se pUrNa rUpa se mukti kevala saMpUrNa zAkAhArI bhojana se hI ho sakatI hai.

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Want Alle !). "Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world and Hinduism will live so long as there are Hindus to pratect the Cow. Protection of the Cow means protection of the whole dumb creation of God." "Cow protection to me is infinitely more than mere protection of the cow, the cow is merely a type of all that lives. Cow protection means protection of the weak, the halpless, the dumb and the deaf. Man becomes then not the Lord and Master of all creation but he is its servant". "Cow protection is the dearest possession of the Hindu heart. No one who does not believe is cow protection can possibly be a Hindu. It is a noble belief". "Cow worship means to me worship of innocence. For me, the cow is the personification of innocence. Cow protection means the protection of the weak and the helpless. As Professor Vaswani truly remarks, "Cow protection means brotherhood between man and best". "A Hindu who protects the cow should protect every animal". "He is a poor specimen of Hinduism who stops merely at cow protection' when he can extend the arm of protection to other animals."

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"The appeal of the lower order of creation is all the more forciblee because it is speachless". "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it treats its animals". "Vivisection (experiments on live animals) is the blackest of all the blackest of all the black crimes that man is at present committing against God and his fair creation". "I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfanction of our bodily wants". - Gandhiji Compiled by NIPAN MALDE. SOSOS SOSOSOSOS SOS) isI taraha svAsthya saMbaMdhI khataroM tathA mAMsa bhakSaNa kA kuprabhAva hamAre snAyu taMtra para bhI par3atA hai. mRtyupUrva tathA mRtyu ke samaya jAnavara bhAvAtmaka tanAva ke caramotkarSa para hote hai. ina jAnavaroM ke mAMsa ko tanAvakAraka hAramona, laikTika amla tathA anya Tauksika vyakta padArthoM se yukta rakta milatA rahatA hai jisase kiM pakAye gaye mAMsa meM "surucipUrNa sugaMdha" kA nirmANa hotA hai. ina sabhI rAsAyanika tatvoM kA nA soce-samajhe bhakSaNa kiyA jAtA hai jabaki ye Aja ke manuSya ke mAnasika asaMtulana ke jimmedAra haiM. poSaNa-zAstrI aba isa bAta para sahamata ho gaye haiM ki vanaspati aura jAnavaroM se prApta proTIna meM koI bheda nahIM hai tathA yaha saMbhava hai ki vanaspati proTInoM ko eka sAtha milAkara koI padArtha banAyA jA sakatA hai jo poSaka tatvoM kI dRSTi se jAnavaroM se milanevAle proTIna se kama nahIM hogA. una logoM kA hamArI rAya se sahamata honA jarUrI nahIM hai jo baDI tAdAda meM pazuoM kA zoSaNa kara lAbhAnvita ho rahe haiM. unakA lakSya dhana prApti hai. ve yahI cAhate haiM ki phaikTrI phArma meM pAle gaye jAnavaroM kI lAzoM ko kharIdakara janatA unase sahayoga kare. isa Alocana se bacane ke lie unake pAsa sIdhA sA uttara hogA ki ve vahI upalabdha karA rahe haiM jo janatA cAhatI hai. aMta meM, yahI kahA jA sakatA hai ki zArIrika, mAnasika tathA AdhyAtmika sabhI dRSTi se kula milAkara zAkAhArI bhojana jyAdA svAsthyaprada hai.

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38 DR. ALAN LONG, VEGETARIAN SOCIETY OF U.K.. ROUTINE MUTILATIONS PRACTISED ON BRITISH FARM ANIMALS The modern livestock rearer is not content with yields from wild animals domesticated and kept in some sort of confinement. Cash flows and the need for a constant output, over-riding natural cyclical processes, require intensified methods of rearing, raising of prolific breeds, perhaps ill-equipped for the severity of inclement conditions to which they are not fully adapted. On the British hills, for instance, ewes bred to lamb early in the year to catch a more lucrative market may succumb to the rigors of a severe winter, in which as many as 1 in 5 of the flock may die of exposure and neglect. Such breeding leads to travesties and plays merciless tricks on the animals' maternal instincts. It stimulates the breeding of these competitors for the world's food-supplies while human populations are prudentaly urged to control their numbers. The British cow of today averages a milk-yield double the output of the milch-cow of the half-a-century ago, she in turn was producing up to 5 times the yields of an animal in the wild. The sow has been exploited similarily. In the wild she would produce an annual farrowing of 3 or 4 piglets. She is now induced by drugs and tricks of feeding and rearing to farrow 5 times in 2 years, with 10 or 12 piglets in each litter. The pig-farmer has therefore as many as 25 young animals to fatten every year, whereas the cattlerearer may have only one - and then of the wrong sex for his purposes. Intensive pig-rearing, with relatively low demands on care and stockmanship, has therefore gained adherents, although the nuisances caused by the pollution has driven some local authorities to impose restraints. Sow and cow fall victim of this exploitation and the consequent overproduction disease. The sow lasts about 2 years in regimens of pregnancy, birth, reimpregnation, and pregnancy again. Weaning being accomplished prematurely. The average British Cow is culled before she can begin her 4th lactation, mastitis, lameness, liver-disorders or reproductive failures having taken their toll. At the livestock-market sheep and cattle that "grade" (meet certain requirements of conformation) attract subsides for the farmer. As a means of preventing dishonest merchants from collecting further disbursements of "luckmoney", a piece is punched out of the ears of such animals. This mutilation is widely condemned by animal welfarists, and could be avoided by grading carcases, i.e. on the hook rather than on the hoof, which would be more reliable too. The conditions of the market causes the animals much-distress. They too attract widespread condemination:

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Rearers are still limited by certain physiological constraints, among them choice of the sex of the off-spring, the dam's complement of teats - from 2 on a ewe to 14 on a sow - and the capacity of her organs: for instance farmers overriding the ewe's natural birth-control may so overload her womb that her digestive tract becomes too compressed to meet the consequent nutritional demands. Many calves are snatched from their dams a few days old, barely having had time to suck their fill of colostrum, to be pitched into harsh markets. Stress and disease are rife, farmers and vets ply drugs recklessly, resistance develops, and serious risks spread into the human community as the nemesis wrought by such sick methods of farming. Vets and scientists have won acclaim by intensifying the reproductive processes further, with the aim of lessioning the intervals between birth and a new pregnancy and of overcoming the restraints imposed by the slow process of gestation. "Cheap" cows lend themselves to this, while "aristocratic" mothers, stimulated by drugs into synchronized estrus and superovulation, can be kept as suppliers of embryos. One plan of this kind subjected an animal to 15 "surgical interferences" and 4 natural pregnancies during a period of 51/2 years. Cystic ovaries developed in some animals so mutilated and abused. Poultry have been specially for the battery-cage and the broiler-unit. Wild turkeys fly, but today's farm animal can barely walk without suffering arthritis, for it has to meet the demand for breastmeat, so extreme that the animals are unable to copulate; artificial insemination is therefore essential. Extremes of breeding to satisfy disparate requirements in beef and dairy farming, which are closely integrated in the U.K., result in broad-beamed offspring, with consequent difficulties in calving. Mutilations on farm animals may be performed by stockmen using methods that would be illegal if a vet applied them to a dog or cat. Male farm animals are emasculated to make them more manageable end to produce beef of the type the customer demands. Painful procedures such as disbudding and dehorning are carried out on the farm. The pressure of intensive rearing induces vices in the stock, so the teeth and tails of pigs are clipped and the beaks of poultry are "trimmed". Crude methods of cautery are applied, with litle reason, except to induce scarring for 'firming' the tendons of overworked horses. Hormones are implanted in many animals in partial restoration of the growth promotion that castration might curtail or to beef up cull-cows or to facilitate the handling of bulls being reared for beef. As a final indignity cattle going for slaughter may be injected with enzyme preparations that tenderize the flesh and thus improve the value of otherwise cheap cuts needing prolonged cooking. Such procedures have been condemned by the British Government's Farm Animal Welfare Council as unacceptably cruel. Some organs, such as the liver, may thus be rendered unsalable, but the butcher's loss on this count is small, as he can sell such-offals for petfood. Cold shortening and toughening of the muscles post mortem are prevented by pasing heavy electric pulses through the carcase. Shortcoming in the salughter of food animals by various methods are legion and occupy several reports receiving tardy action. The euphemistic concept of "humane" killing is a cruel delusion. The abuses implicit in modern livestock rearing condemn it as a sick perversion of husbandry. DR. ALAN LONG, VEGETARIAN SOCIETY OF U.K.

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40 DESTRUCTION AT THE HAND OF MAN The damp, cold and grey days of December herald the mass slaughter of countless millions of animals for food or furs. in the affluent Western World. At this time we celebrate Christmas. A time of peace on Earth, and good will to mankind (but not apparently for the rest of God's creation which we selfishly plunder). This time of feasting originates from the ancient Roman festival of Saturnalia and yet in memory of the birth of the Christ who brought a teaching of love. We celebrate Christmas with such cruelty. There are those who hold the view that Jesus himself may have been a vegetarian, coming from an Essene family. Surely he would not have condoned the terrible cruelty to animals by the growing use of factory farm methods and the horrors of the slaughterhouse.

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I have been a strict vegetarian for 35 years, and on the death of my Stepfather, Lord Dowding, in 1970 I gave up my aerospace career to join my Mother in her dedication to animal welfare. I am greatful to Shri Nitin Mehta, President of the Young Indian Vegetarians in England, for inviting me to make myself known to you and to share with you some aspects of my work in India. In this connection 1. must thank Shri Prabuddha N. Chatterjee for his help to me and to his dedication to animal welfare through the "All Lovers of Animals Society", which was run by the late Dorothy Matthews. Also my thanks to Asoke and Shunta Mukerjee for their great friendship to me and my wife while in Calcutta. How delicate is our relationship with nature? The importance of a harmonious relationship between man and nature has always been an important aspect of the Indian culture. Yet this is now threatened by the intrusion of Western material values - the values that I speak of are the very ones which have been proved to be untenable and are being discarded in the West. Consider the matters of wildlife and pest control. The scene is idyllic. A humid Indian summer evening with the sun sinking behind the billowing monsoon clouds, the beating wings of a family of giant fruit bats foraging in the mango trees; the insect whine of attacking mosquitoes, and the air filled with the wooing chorus of the Indian bull frog. How I long to be back amongst my friends in a country I have come to love so dearly. Even as I write, there is tragic news from India. Thousands of people and animals died near Bhopal in agony from an escape of toxic Methyl isocynate gas, used in the manufacture of insecticides. The increasing dependence on dangerous insecticides in India is directly linked to the needless and cruel mass slaughter of millions of bull frogs to provide a delicacy for the North American and European market. The range of delicacies for the gourmet is proliferating - lobster, crab, pate de foie gras, and now frogs' legs. . Commercial interests supplying the supermarkets and fast food trade are cashing in by making these one-time-rare delicacies available to all. Alas for India - a beautiful country whose heart beats in thousands of small villages. Its farming communities, their livelihood, the rural ecology and economy are threatened by a small number of influential business entrepreneurs with big fish processing and freezing plants. They are cashing in on the live cutting of millions of frogs each year which pass through their plants on the outskirts of cities such as Madras, Bombay, Hyderabad and Calcutta. Over the past 25 years the trade has growth at an alarming rate. In 1959, India exported about 93,5 tonnes (equivalent to at least 5.8 millions frogs). By 1973, this had risen to 2.698 tonnes, and to 3,570 tonnes in 1978 (which is the equivalent of 10,700 tonnes live frogs). Ecologically, these frogs would have eaten over 10.000 tonnes of crop pests PER DAY during the monsoon season, had they been left alive in the rice paddies and coconut gardens to fulfil their natural task. ---

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There are about two hundred species of frog in the world. Of the sixteen species in India and Bangladesh four species of frog are used, mainly the larger Rana tigrina and R. hexadactyla. In 1973 the USA temporarily banned the import of frogs legs from India, Indonesia and Japan, due to problems with bacteria such as salmonella. Solutions of water and chlorine or 10% common salt are used to wash the frogs to help reduce this problem. India exported 1.935 tonnes to the United States in 1982 In an attempt to dispel allegations of cruelty in India a National Award was given to a researcher who came up with the idea that a 10 minute immersion in 10% sodium chloride immobilised the frogs and it was assumed to anaesthetise them. This however has been scientifically disproved, and, to the contrary a process is highly irritant and damaging to the skin of amphibians. Peasant farmers now have had to try and compensate for the loss of this natural pest control by using pesticides, such as DDT, DNOC and other highly toxic chemicals, many of which are imported from Europe, where their use is restricted or banned. Britain, the world's third largest exporter of pesticides derived more than half its income from export sales in 1983. The EEC accounts for two-thirds of the world's pesticides exports. This growing dependence on insecticides by India and Bangladesh is being increased by the seasonal mass slaughter of hundreds of millions of bull frogs each year to provide this food delicacy, causing a growing health threat to peasants - especially children. The Head Surgeon of the Skin Clinic in Bangladesh's capital Dacca is concerned that 20% of the population suffer from skin diseases caused by contact with pesticides. "If the toxic chemicals are not reduced, we shall have to face enormous problems". According to Oxfam, 375,000 people in the Third World are poisoned - 10,000 fatally - by pesticides each year. These figures do not include chronic or longterm damage, such as cancers and birth defects. India spends 13 million pounds (rupees 200 crores) a year on the insecticide imports, more than double the amount it earns from the frogs legs trade. Across the border in Bangladesh, now the largest exporter of frogs legs, the bill for pest control has escalated to 17.5 million dollars. For every 35 paisas (51/2 pence) earned in foreign exchange this has prevented the natural destruction of 1 kg. of agricultural pests. The surest means of exterminating an animal is to put a price on it. But there are other considerations, if only man would seek to understand the wonderful relationships in nature. Frogs control parasites which harm freshwater fish. These fish live in village ponds and keep the water clean during the dry season when water is so vital. Frogs also provide a major food source for snakes, such as the cobra and also birds of prey. The use of toxic insecticides such as DDT have caused many birds to disappear and the loss of frog spawning grounds, as well as poisoning fish. The result is that without an abundance of snakes and other predators the rodent population has increased, and in the Indian sub-continent they outnumber people by ten to one. In Bangladesh, for instance, 1.2 million tonnes of grain are eaten or spoiled by rats every year -- exactly the amount that is imported to feed its starving

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people. India has allocated one and a half million dollars for rat-extermination programmes. In November 1977, my Mother Lady Dowding, as President of the National Anti-vivisection Society was invited by Smt. Rukmini Devi Arundale, Chairman of the Indian Government's Animal Welfare Board, to address their Third National Conference in New Dehil. There she had discussions with Prime Minister Desai, a fellow vegetarian, who agreed to Lady Dowding's request to ban India's export of monkeys, painted finches and frog's legs. Despite the announcement that the trade in frogs' legs would be stopped, only the ban on the export of monkeys for experiments has been implemented, which incidentally is still enforced. During 1977-79, whilst again in India on a wide range of animal welfare and conservation issues, I had discussions concerning the trade in frogs' legs with the Prime Minister. However, the short-term commercial pressure were so strong that no action could be enforced to save India's ecology and resulting hardship to its people from this cruel trade. In April 1983, the Animal Welfare Board declined to publish my reports on trade in frogs' legs and commented "it is not desirable for us to publish an article on such sensitive subjects". India has so devastated its own wild frog population that Bangladesh has taken over, as the largest exporter of frogs' legs, exporting some 1,300 tonnes-42% of total exports to the largest importer the USA. The Netherlands took 39% of Bangladesh's total exports. The Dutch are the second largest importers of frogs' legs, taking 1,048 tonnes in 1982, 303 tonnes from India. China who used to supply both an internal and external demand, has banned the sale of frogs after their importance in controlling rice pests was revealed. Britain's imports increased to 109.6 tonnes of frogs' legs in 1983. In May 1984, the BBC showed some of my film of the cruelty involved in the frogs' legs trade. The showing of this film launched a national and international campaign to ban the import of frogs' legs. The success of the campaign so far is that a major American-owned food chain and two importers, as well as many retail outlets, have stopped selling frogs' legs in the UK. Questions have been raised for me in Parliament and a resolution has been tabled in the European Parliament calling for a ban on the import of frogs' legs into European Community (EEC). I have asked my friend the Deputy High Commissioner to express our concern over the cruel trade in frogs' legs. In England we are circulating petitions opposing the cruel and destructive trade in frogs' legs. Already, and in only a few weeks, we have 35,000 signatures. A presentation and protest will be made to the Goverment in 1985. On the Occasion of the Gandhi Birthday celebration I had the privilege of meeting the new High Commissioner for India, Shri Prakash Mehotre, and his charming wife-what a wonderful example for statesmanship they set. They are vegetarians and very talented singers. They shared my concern and I hope they will also express the growing anxiety over India's continued involvement in this cruel trade. Regrettably, their stay in England is only very short.

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44 Inside a processing factory. Degrading task of pulling the flesh from the severed legs in preparation for freezing and packing The live frog being cut in half. Top discarded to die later.

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The embrrassed Indian High Commission has issued a barrage of statements citing improved hygiene, control in catching and exports, immersing frogs in salt water! and research into improved slaughter methods to justify this cruel and disastrous trade. Whether they are killed humanely or not, the ecological damage remains, and as already stated, India has to spend more than twice the foreign exchange earned from the frogs' legs trade, on the import of highly dangerous insecticides to replace these useful insect eaters. Why does the Government of India allow this wanton salughter to continue to provide a mere food delicacy for the affluent West and to the deteriment of its own people and country? Have those in power forgotten the teaching of Ahimsa and the retribution of Karma? Each one of us bears a personal responsibility. It is our world and the way we act as individuals will collectively shape its future. It is for you to protest to the Government and write to the press about the cruelty of the frog trade, the increase in factory farming methods, the trade in furs, reptile skins, and live animals, and to resist the pressures of the multinational drug and chemical companies. "Evil will triumph so long as good men do nothing". As Mahatma Gandhi pointed out, protest must be non-violent, for if we protest against violence with violent actions we fight against ourselves. We can contribute to violence, famine and war, or we can work for peace. If we choose the latter, the fundamental basis is a harmonious relationship with the whole Natural World. If we get the wrong it will all be wrong. It starts with personal responsibility... "All life is one, and all its manifestations with which we have contact are climbing the ladder of evolution. The animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder but a few rungs lower down than we are. It is an importnat part of our responsibilities to help them in their ascent, and not to retard their development by cruel exploitation of their helplessness. What I am now saying, if people would realise it, is of very great practical importance, because failure to recognise our responsibilities towards the animal kingdom is the cause of many of the calamities which now beset the nations of the world. Nearly all of us have a deep-rooted wish for peace -peace on earth; but we shall never attain true peace the peace of love, and not the uneasy equilibrium of fear - until we recognise the place of animals in the scheme of things and treat them accordingly". These words were spoken by my Stepfather, Lord Dowding, on 18th July 1957 as he concluded one of the 27 speeches on animal welfare he gave in the House of Lords. England - December 1984 from David Whiting

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46 THIS IS LEGAL. IS IT RIGHT? IS IT NECESSARY? All factory farm animals know nothing but confinement. Life in a cage or crate: all day, every day, until slaughter. We must change the law NOW. We need funds - spokesmen - activists. COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING Write or phone: Zeleon 20 Lavant Street, Petersfield, Hampshire GU32 3EW Telephone Petersfield (0730) 64208

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THIS IS A BATTERY HEN "MANY PEOPLE HAVE WRITTEN TO ME ON THE SUBJECT OF HENS IN BATTERY CAGES AND VEAL CALVES IN CRATES. OF COURSE THESE SYSTEMS OF EXTREME CONFINEMENT ARE TO BE ABHORRED... HISTORY HAS REPEATEDLY SHOWN THAT WHEN MAN EXPLOITS HIS FELLOW CREATURES FOR IMMEDIATE GAIN IT REBOUNDS ON HIM EVENTUALLY AND LEADS TO SPIRITUAL POVERTY. IN THE END, LACK OF REGARD FOR THE LIFE AND WELLBEING OF AN ANIMAL MUST BRING WITH IT A LOWERING OF MAN'S OWN SELF-RESPECT: 'INAS MUCH AS YE DO IT TO THESE THE LEAST OF MY LITTLE ONES YE DO IT UNTO ME." Dr. Robert Runcie Archbishop of Canterbury February 1981

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CONCLUSION This Booklet will have been successful in geting its message across, if every individual who reads it, decides to play his own little part in promoting AhimsaNon-violence. Ask yourself if you have convinced any Meat-eater to become a Vegetarian. Is there any hunting of animals in your area which you can have stopped? These are just a few things individuals can do on their own. Collectively, we have to do much more. There should be a powerful lobby of the followers of Ahimsa who should persuade the parliame nt to legislate against all forms of animal abuse. Because Animals mean profits to many people, they will always be finding new ways of exploiting them. We will have to be ever vigilant-It is a great challenge, but the followers of Mahaveera, Buddha and Krishna can be expected to overcome it. The next leap forward in the civilization of mankind has to be the liberation of defenceless animals from the tyranny of Man. India must lead the way. NITIN MEHTA Young Indian Vegetarians 33, Goldwell Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey.

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