Ahimsa is not Religion It is way of Life

Author(s): Clare Rosenfield, Linda Segall
Publisher: Clare Rosenfield and Linda Segall

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or know their mother's love. A deep pain is carved in both mother and calf. Tears and endless mooing bear witness to this.
Male calves born in a dairy herd are relegated to the veal industry to spend sixteen weeks in nearly total darkness, confined in small indoor pens and fattened on iron-deficient gruel which deliberately renders them anemic and listless so as to produce white, tender meat.
In nations where cows, buffalos, and goats are not separated from offspring and where milking is done humanely, milk products are accepted by many vegetarians willingly.
Vegetarians who eat eggs are called lacto-ovovegetarians. To avoid taking life, such vegetarians would not eat fertile eggs. As a symbol of potential life, eggs are not a part of the diet of strict vegetarians. In countries where factory farming methods confine twenty thousand or more laying hens in one single warehouse, the resultant suffering, neurotic behavior, unsanitary and diseased conditions make vegetarians shun even the infertile egg.
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WHAT ARE THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF A VEGETARIAN DIET?
More and more doctors throughout the world are finding that those who eat a high-fiber, plant-based diet are automatically eating less cholesterol and fat, and are less likely to become victims of heart attack, cancer, high blood pressure, hypertension, and other diseases. Studies reveal that the lower one eats on the food chain, the less pesticides and chemicals one
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