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recommend their patients to eat fruit rather than meat? It is a false notion that a vegetarian diet is not as strengthening as a nonvegetarian one. After all, a child grows up on milk; and witness the elephant, the strongest of animals who is a strict vegetarian.
Economically, too, a vegetarian diet is cheaper. This is of particular relevance to poor countries like our own. A man with a limited income—and we all know how many such there are in India-would find it much easier to support himself and his family on a vegetarian diet. ".
Talking of our country, -is it fitting, I ask you, that a country like ours which sends out its messengers of peace all over the world, should also export such things as frogs' legs, deer and monkeys and other animals, either for food or for experiments ? Is it not a glaring incongruity?, I would appeal to our youth and to our leaders to think over this.
There are some champions of nonvegetarianism who claim that if all human beings were to become vegetarians, there would be an acute shortage of food supply. But do they really believe that the change will take place overnight? It will be slow and gradual, spread over several decades, and meanwhile would it not be possible to bring under the plough the millions of acres of land which are untilled all over the world : Today, countries like the United States throw away thousands of tons of wheat because they do not have
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