Jain Digest 1992 07 Vol 19 No 03

Author(s): Federation of JAINA
Publisher: USA Federation of JAINA

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Jain Digest
Life After Beef fills a niche on the bookshelf of anyone practicing or considering a vegetarian lifestyle. It is one of the few books telling what that lifestyle is really like.
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vegetarian lifestyle, Inglis has recorded the experience and shared his thoughts.
Starting with his non-vegetarian upbringing, only one generation removed from the American family farm, Inglis takes the reader back to a country kitchen in Missouri where his mother is learning to cook vegetarian food. Referring to his dad as "meateater extrordinaire," he invites you to peer in at a 1940s family backyard barbecue now seen in the memory of a vegetarian. An interesting comparison of the difficulties of giving up smoking with the relative ease of giving up animal based foods suggestsan answer to the question, "Is meat-eating an addiction?"
Family longevity or the lack of it, their chronic diseases, cholesterol problems and a hereditary tendency toward heart disease are presented through the vegetarian eye with sincerity, feeling, and occasional humor.
Inglis touches on hunting, vivisection and intensive animal farming as he develops these subjects through personal reflections.
Inglis, who is also director of The Humane Society of the United States, the country's largest animal protection organization, could have waded in with a variety of facts and figures about animals, but with rare exception he avoids the didactic and chooses instead a clear display of his experiences and feelings.
Asian Humanities Press, a division of Jain Publishing Co., has just published the book Life Force: The World of Jainism which retails for $12 and will be supplied to JAINA at a 40 percent discount plus shipping of $3 for the first book and fifty cents for each additional book in the same order. A quantity of at least ten copies must be purchased at a time to qualify for the discount. An Indian edition of Life Force will be released in October of this year.
A second book, entitled The World's Living Religions, is also planned to be published by the next JAINA convention in July 1993 at Pittsburgh. The World's Living Religions will contain substantial chapter on the history of Jainism.
Asian Humanities Press can be contacted at: P.O. Box 3523, Fremont, CA 94539,(510) 659-8272 or FAX (510) 659-0501.
Call 1-800-99-JAINA for borrowing, or for any other information.
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Young Jains are invited to the JAINA library during this summer vacation, to work on developing new video educational programs. The persons must be interested in working on personal computer, graphics programs, and write ups. A deluxe IBMPC will be made available with Animation, Deluxe Paintbrush, CorrelDraw, Harvard Graphics, etc. programs, and a laser printer. Free lodging and boarding with TLC will be provided at Dr. Gada's residence. There is no time limit, you can work from one week, up to two months. Please call 800-99-JAINA, and discuss your plans in details.
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