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A case for Vegetarianism/240
an omnipotent despot I would have arranged such a state of affairs as to ban fish, fowl, meat intoxicants..... as to free my subjects of them". In India Rukamani Devi Arandale established Animal-Welfare-Board and later Karuna-Mandals' in every school in a number of states.
Man has evolved much and rightly a galaxy of personages volunteered for non-violence and vegetarian diet. Some of those eminent persons inter-alia were Mahaveer, Buddha, Nanakdeo, Kabir, Sant- Tukaram and recently Gandhi, Einstein, Charles Darwin, LeoTolstoy, Srimad Raichand, Walter--Newton. One whose hands are soiled in blood and butchery of fellowcreatures cannot pray God for piety and mercy. There are in India over 36000 registered slaughterhouses and other ones, where millions of sheep, goat and lakhs of buffaloes, cows, etc are slaughtered every year, driving them to brink of extinction not faraway. Yet some give strange arguments deludedly or misguidedly.
Life is there in water, air and plants. How then can we avoid taking life? It is true, but such invisible bacterias, microbes or unicellular or other-life is more or less neither saved nor lost in our process of living as compared to willfully slaughtering animals like us of flesh, blood and feeling, as cow, goat, pig etc. for palate. Unicellular beings do not possess mind. Lacs occupy hardly a point of needle.
It is also contended that unless animals are killed they would fill entire earth. It is a lie, in present age where in big animal-farms they are fed corn wheat etc in ratio of 8 Kg cereals to derive 1 kg, of meat. It is therefore,
