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worms are boiled alive in hot water. There should be a collective realization that such violence is not going to bring about a peaceful, non - violent world. There must be a complete change in ones lifestyle. We never stop to think that eating meat for taste involves much torture and pain to life: a life that cannot be created in the laboratory. A very precious life with a strong will to live, a life that needs time to unfold its own destiny on the earth. A premature death breaks the cycle of natural expression of that life. The philosopher Plutarch states, "But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy."
Thus a holistic approach to life leads to a compassionate way of life, and expresses our reverence for all life forms, including us. As we develop reverence for ourselves, we will not abuse our body, we will not do anything that will hurt and harm our thinking and our speech and action. So the reverence first begins with our own self, leading to the reverence for all life on earth. Through this approach one can live a compassionate, happy, peaceful and a non-threatening life.
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