Shakahar

SR No.: 032442
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hukamchand Bharilla, Madhu G Barvalia
Publisher: Chamanlal D Vora
Publication Year: 1992
Total Pages: 26
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Book_Gujarati
File Size: 6 MB

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VEGETARIANISM............ DR. S. D. MEHTA
Biological evolution keeps pace with social evolution of man. Best example is our loosing hair of the body. As the man started wearing clothes, so also biology changed and we lost the hair. In the similar way as we advanced socially and culturally and started eating prepared food, our sharp cannine teeth started getting smaller and smaller.
Eating non-vegetarian food cooked or not cooked is a step backward socially and culturally. Since nature is evolving us towards vegetarianism by taking away our cannine teeth which were needed to eat animal food when we could not use our hands.
Whatever may be our religious views, no one would wish that we should go biologically or evolutionally backwards by not using clothes, not using hands or loosing spoken or written speech. Why then one should wish us to become premitive in our food habits? Vegetarianism is a biological evolution.
We need six elements in our food; namely carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals and fluids. Carbohydrates, Fats and proteins can change one into another. A carnivorous animal eating only animal proteins (with some fat of the animal) converts them into carbohydrates which are then used as energy producing fuel. similarly a grass eating animal converts mainly carbohydrates of the food into body building proteins.
We need proteins to grow and build our bodies and to repair our body. Superficial layer of our skin, internal lining of our intestines, hair, and nails of our fingers are our daily losses. This much amount of proteins we get from our Vegetarian items like pulses and milk and to a certain extent from other cereals.
Arguments in favour of "Proteins" from the advocates of non vegetarian diet are thus not valid.
A non-vegetarian person generaly becomes hot tempered, aggrasive and intolerent. This is seen very well in lion, tiger, wolf etc. A vegetarian comparatively is calm, tolerant and less aggrasive. If one wants this world to survive, human being ultimately will have to become tolerant, understanding and co-operative towards each other. This is vegetarianism, This is AHIMSA.
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