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Jainism : The Cosmic Vision Stella exclaimed, "Oh, this would mean that protein ensured from vegetables is better and cheaper than protein obtained from meat.”
I said, “This has been conclusively proved some 40 years ago. The simple truth is that meat-producers have been hiding this fact. During the 50's, experiments were made on the rats, with financial assistance from meat-industry. Two scientists associated with the experiment project arrived at the conclusion that rats nurtured on Vegetables had a speedy growth and development. After this conclusion was arrived at, the meat industry started facing difficulty. There was a counter effect. Pressure was put on those two scientists to change their statement. One scientist climed that his experiment is limited to the race of rats only. It is not applicable to any other race. The second scientist claimed further that experiments on rats do not have any similarity with those on human beings. Whatever may be the conclusion, meat producers tried day and night to ensure that facts do not come out in the open.
Rene said, “Today there is a crusade against animal fat and animal protein. Cancer and heart attack are major diseases of the present age. Non-vegetarian diet is the important solution for them. So, countries like America also opposed this. A well known thinker, Karlyle has claimed that one cannot change the next era by ethics, but you can change it by dietetics."
I said, "A well known writer of England, Bernard Shaw once said that man digs his own grave by his own teeth. He has made his own stomach a dead animal's cemetery." Stela became quiet. Pole's excitement was still not under
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