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With growing population pressure, realization has also dawned that it is possible to feed seven times as many people on crops consumed directly than on crops first consumed by livestock and then converted into meat, milk and eggs to be eaten by human beings.
Anthropologically also the human beings are destined to be vegetarians and non-vegetarianism is secondarily imposed on them. Meat eating animals have long canine teeth for tearing apart the flesh. Human dentition on the other hand, is designed to biting and chewing, Carnivores gulp down large pieces of food with little or no mastication Unlike in the humans, the digestive system of the meat eating animals secretes 10 times more hydrochloric acid as compared to the vegetarians in order to dissolve/digest raw flesh and bones in the stomach.
Thus vegetarian diet becomes an integral part of human intake (Aahar) of what is simultaneously nourishing for the body as well as a tonic for the soul. It becomes an element in the spiritual upliftment of human beings while serving to satisfy their appetite as well as taste buds. It is also cleaner, healthier, cheaper and full of wide variety of items.
Jain experience has been that vegetarianism strengthens moral and ethical fiber and reinforces qualities of tolerance, piety and kind-heartedness. Vegetarianism makes eating a pure delight and a celebration of communion with life.
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