Lighthouse

Author(s): Udayvallabhvijay
Publisher: Pragna Prabodh Parivar

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to 16 kg. of foodgrain. Consider the water requirement for growing this quantity of foodgrain. Add to this the drinking water required to be provided for the animal. Add further the water requirement for washing animals' body and the slaughter house machinery, floor, drainages in slaughter houses etc. etc.).
If a person realizes how exploitative is non-vegetarianism and how dangerous it is for health and environment, any sensitive person will not go for non-vegetarianism.
A book titled `A Diet for New America' written by an American author John Robbins may be recommended to an educated but unprejudiced non-vegetarian person who is prepared to consider arguments with an open mind. After publication of this book there was a virtual wave against non-vegetarianism in America.
A person cannot be a non-vegetarian unless he is totally insensitive. If there is a small cut on a finger from a knife while mending vegetables for cooking and a person cries in pain, he should definitely be able to understand what an animal undergoes when its throat is slit under a sharp knife. A sensitive person will never be able to swallow even a single morsel of non-vegetarian food. One fact which is visible is that an animal is dead and then only its meat is consumed by someone. The invisible fact is that a person becomes like lifeless (devoid of all humane and fine feelings) and then only consumes meat.
A famous Gujarati litterateur, Shri Gunwant Shah has written somewhere that if slaughter houses were to have transparent walls, hardly anyone would eat meat.
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