Vegetarianism Through the eyes of
Judaism - Christianity - Mormons - Laws of Karma
updated 4th December 2012
And God said, behold I have given you every herb bearing
seed, which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree, in the which
is the fruit of a tree yeilding seed, to you it shall be for food. And
to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every
thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given
every green herb for meat [=food]: and it was so.
Genesis 1, 29 & 30
Thou shalt not kill.
Exodus 20:13 (The Bible)
Speak to the Earth, and it shall teach thee.
Job 12:8 (The Bible)
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the
tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Proverbs 12:10 (The Bible)
Open thy mouth for the dumb, in the cause of all such
as are appointed to destruction.
Proverbs 31:8 (The Bible)
Even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth
the other; yea, they have all one breath, so that a man hath no pre-eminence
above a beast.
Ecclesiastes 3:19 (The Bible)
The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall
lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling
together; and a little child shall lead them ... They shall not hurt nor
destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge
of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
Isaiah 11:6-9 (The Bible)
He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that
sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an
oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if
he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul
delighteth in their abominations.
Isaiah 66:3 (The Bible)
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
Matthew 5:7 (The Bible)
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans (The Bible)
Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees.
Revelation 7:3 (The Bible)
The unnatural eating of flesh-meats is as polluting as
the heathen worship of devils, with its sacrifices and its unpure feasts,
through participation in which a man becomes a fellow-eater with devils.
Clementine Homilies (Second Century AD)
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good
deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants
kindness gathers love.
St.Basil, Bishop of Caesarea (329-379 AD)
The saints are exceedingly loving and gentle to mankind,
and even to brute beasts ... Surely we ought to show them [animals] great
kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they
are of the same origin as ourselves.
St.John Chrysostom (c.347-407)
It should not be believed that all beings exist for the
sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too
have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything
else.
Rabbi Moses ben Maimon (1135-1204)
[Regarding animals and their offspring], there is no difference
between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings, since the
love and tenderness of the mother for the young are not produced by reasoning,
but by feeling, and this faculty exists not only in humans but in most
living beings.
Rabbi Moses ben Maimon (1135-1204)
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures
from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who deal likewise
with their fellow men.
St.Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)
Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them,
but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service
to them wherever they require it.
St.Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)
You, who are innocent, what have you done worthy of death!
(On seeing animals being killed for food)
Richard of Wyche, Bishop of Chichester (1197-1253)
And if thy heart be straight with God, then every creature
shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine, for there
is no creature so little or so vile, but that sheweth and representeth
the goodness of God.
Thomas A Kempis (1379-1471)
Be careful that the love of gain draw us not into any
business which may weaken our love of our Heavenly Father, or bring unnecessary
trouble to any of His creatures.
John Woolman (1720-1772)
I tremble for my species when I reflect that God is just.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
I am to ask your Lordships, in the name of that God who
gave to man his dominion over the lower world, to acknowledge and recognise
that dominion to be a moral trust.
Lord (Thomas) Erskine (1750-1823)
...the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon
a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower creatures
out of the pale of sympathy, and thus had the foundation for this utter
disregard of animals in the light of our fellow creatures.
Anna Bronwell Jameson (1794-1860)
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is
one who never inflicts pain.
Cardinal Newman (1801-1890)
...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam
and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a portion of some
delicate calf or lamb, whose unspotted innocence entitles them to the happiness
of becoming our sustenance.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal
is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people
if they could stand at last before the Judgement Seat and say "I have loved
as truly and I have lived as decently as my dog." And yet we call them
"only brutes"!
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them,
no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible
use.
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought
and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't
deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man,
do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin,
and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your apppearance on it,
and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost
every one of us!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
Love all God's creatures, the animals, the plants. Love
everything to perceive the divine mystery in all.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
He who does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the
devil to let him into heaven.
Hare and Charles (c. 1830)
Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would
go in and you would stay out.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The animal world being altogether external to the scheme
of redemption, was regarded as beyond the range of duty, and the belief
that we have any kind of obligation to its members has never been inculcated
- has never, I believe, been even admitted - by Catholic theologians.
W.E.H.Lecky (1838-1903)
Spain and southern Italy, in which Catholicism has most
deeply implanted its roots, are even now, probably beyond all other countries
in Europe, those in which inhumanity to animals is most wanton and unrebuked.
W.E.H.Lecky (1838-1903)
...the atrocious doctrine that beast and birds were made
solely for man's use and pleasure, and that he has no duties towards them.
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922)
It is a deplorable fact that many Christians are so accustomed
to a certain creed and dogma of their own that they will adhere to it even
at the sacrifice of the great moral laws of love and mercy.
E.D.Buckner MD, AM, PhD (1843-1907)
Man should regard lower animals as being in the same dependent
condition as minors under his government ... For a man to torture an animal
whose life God has put into his hands, is a disgrace to his species.
E.D.Buckner MD, AM, PhD (1843-1907)
You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you
they will be there long before any of us.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we
are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations
which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession
has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.
William Ralph Inge (1860-1954)
God gave our first parents the food He designed that the
race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature
taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the
garden was the food man's wants required.
- Ellen White, founder Seventh Day Adventists (1864)
Kindness to all God's creatures is an absolute rock-bottom
necessity if peace and righteousness are to prevail.
Sir Wilfred Grenfell (1865-1940)
Cruelty to animals is the degrading attitude of paganism.
Cardinal Hinsley (1865-1943)
The infliction of cruelty with a clear conscience is a
delight to moralists. That is why they invented hell.
Bertand Russell (1872-1970)
I hated the things they believe in, the things they so
innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that
let people hurt helpless creatures. I hated the prayers and the hymns -
the fountains and the red images that coloured their drab music, the fountains
filled with blood, the sacrifice of the lamb.
Ellen Glasgow (1874-1945)
Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists,
the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and
often downright domineering and violent. Taking their cue from an unfortunate
remark in Genesis, Catholic moralists have regarded animals as mere things
which men do right to regard for their own ends....
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion
and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God.
Meher Baba (1894-1969)
To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow
beings. If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear
ones, we love God.
Meher Baba (1894-1969)
If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy
in the happiness of others, we are loving God.
Meher Baba (1894-1969)
The diet of animals is vegetables and grains. Must the
vegetables be animalized, must they be incorporated into the system of
animals, before we get them? Must we obtain our vegetable diet by eating
the flesh of dead creatures? God provided fruit in its natural state for
our first parents. He gave to Adam charge over the garden, to dress it,
and to care for it, saying, "To you it shall be for meat." One animal was
not to destroy another animal for food."
- Ellen White, founder Seventh Day Adventists (1896)
Let our ministers and canvassers step under the banners
of strict temperance. Never be ashamed to say, "No thank you; I do not
eat meat. I have conscientious scruples against eating the flesh of dead
animals.
- Ellen White, founder Seventh Day Adventists, 1901
Flesh was never the best food; but its use is now doubly
objectionable, since disease in animals is so rapidly increasing.
- Ellen White, founder Seventh Day Adventists, 1902
Animals are becoming more diseased and it will not be
long until animal food will be discarded by many besides Seventh-day Adventists.
Foods that are healthful and life sustaining are to be prepared, so that
men and women will not need to eat meat.
- Ellen White, founder Seventh Day Adventists, 1902
Vegetables, fruits, and grains should compose our diet.
Not an ounce of flesh meat should enter our stomachs. The eating of flesh
is unnatural. We are to return to God's original purpose in the creation
of man.
- Ellen White, founder Seventh Day Adventists, 1903
The moral evils of a flesh diet are not less marked than
are the physical ills. Flesh food is injurious to health, and whatever
affects the body has a corresponding effect on the mind and the soul. Think
of the cruelty to animals meat-eating involves, and its effect on those
who inflict and those who behold it. How it destroys the tenderness with
which we should regard those
creatures of God!
- Ellen White, founder Seventh Day Adventists, 1905
Animals are often transported long distances and subjected
to great suffering in reaching a market. Taken from the green pastures
and traveling for weary miles over the hot, dusty roads, or crowded into
filthy cars, feverish and exhausted, often for many hours deprived of food
and water, the poor creatures are driven to their death, that human beings
may feast on the carcasses.
- Ellen White, founder Seventh Day Adventists, 1905
It is a mistake to suppose that muscular strength depends
on the use of animal food. The needs of the system can be better supplied,
and more vigorous health can be enjoyed, without its use. The grains, with
fruits, nuts, and vegetables, contain all the nutritive properties necessary
to make good blood. These elements are not so well or so fully supplied
by a flesh diet. Had the use of flesh been essential to health and strength,
animal food would have been included in the diet appointed man in the beginning.
- Ellen White, founder Seventh Day Adventists, 1905
Those who eat flesh are but eating grains and vegetables
at second hand; for the animal receives from these things the nutrition
that produces growth. The life that was in the grains and the vegetables
passes into the eater. We receive it by eating the flesh of the animal.
How much better to get it direct by eating the food that God provided for
our use!
- Ellen White, founder Seventh Day Adventists, 1905
I write in sorrow [on vivisection]: as far as I can tell,
no voice has been heard from the Church about this evil. The matter is
forgotten for another year. It should not be. It is one of the most appalling
blots on our plentifully blotted civilisation.
Rev Geoffrey Mather (1910- )
It is man who has fallen, not the beasts: that is the
message even for the irreligious, and to some extent salvation can be measured
by his very treatment of them.
Roy Fuller (1912- )
Let the law of kindness show no limits. Show a loving
consideration for all God's creatures.
General Advices (1928) (Quakers)
We shall respect that of God in all creation. We shall
live in loving harmony with the earth. Humankind shall be a joyful gardener
of the world given us by God, and shall use its fruits wisely and moderately.
Quakers (1979)
From the Mormon's
Word of Wisdom Doctrine and Covenants
Jesus speaking to Joseph Smith 1833.
10/. ...and again, verily I say
unto you, all wholesome herbs God hath ordained for the constitution, nature,
and use of man...
11/. ...every herb in the season
thereof, and every fruit in the season thereof, all these to be used with
prudence and thanksgiving...
12/. ...Yea, flesh also of the
beast and fowls of the air, I , the Lord have ordained for the use of man
with thanksgiving, nevertheless they are to be used sparingly...
13/. ...and it is pleasing unto
me that they should not be used, only in times of winter, or of cold, or
famine...
14/. ...All grain is ordained
for the use of man and of beasts, to be the staff of life, not only for
man but for the beasts of the field, and the fowls of heaven, and
all wild animals that run or creed on the earth...
15/. ...and all these that hath
God made for use of man only in times of famine and excess of hunger...
16/. ...All grain for the food
of man, as also the fruit of the vine, that which yeildeth fruit, whether
in the ground or above the ground...
17/. ...Nevertheless, wheat for
man, and corn for the ox, and oats for the horse and rye for the fowls
and for swine, and for all beasts of the field, and barley for all useful
animals, and for mild drinks, as also other grain...
18/. ...and all saints who remember
to keep and do these sayings walk in obeidience to the comandments, shall
receive health in their navel and marrow in their bones...
19/. ...and shall find wisdom
and great treasures of knowledge, even hidden treasures.
* Winter, Cold and Famine. Jesus stipulated only in these times one may eat meat and then only to survive. It would seem that in these times vegetables and grain are hard to grow around Salt Lake City, maybe snow. So that it is understandable forthis order in 1833 (ie with a lacking of shops and superettes to bring in fresh produce or bags of processed grain from. But in today's age produce can be sourced and sent all over to towns and cities that are lacking there is no excuse for meat eating today - so the excuse of winter and cold is out. Famine does not or rarely applies in most countries that the Mormons preach in - NZ, AUS, USA, UK, etc.)
Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty,
chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are
but the entourage of morality.
Sila-prabhrita (Jainism)
All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should
not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor
driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.
Sutrakritanga (Jainism)
Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout
one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto
others what you would not they should do unto you.
Analects (Confucian)
When you doubt, abstain.
Zoroaster (B.C. 628?-551?)
To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage,
or of principle.
Confucius (B.C. 551-479)
I have enforced the law against killing certain animals
and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes
from the exhortation in favour of non-injury to life and abstention from
killing living beings.
Asoka's Edicts (Buddhist)
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every
crime.
Horace (B.C. 65-8)
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
Treat others as thou wouldst be treated. What thou likest
not for thyself, dispense not to others.
Sufism - Abdullah Ansari (Islam)
Every man without passion has within him no principle
of action, nor motive of act.
Claude Adrien Helvetius (1715-1771)
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is
a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest
duty.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or
to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor, or with an intention injurious
to his interest in them, is criminal. But the animals themselves are without
protection. The law regards them not substantively. They have no RIGHTS!
Lord (Thomas) Erskine (1750-1823)
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark
of a civilized man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that
makes life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue
only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilisation
concerns man's behaviour to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable
toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily
terminate.
Dr Edward Mayhew (1813-1868)
I say, break the law.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behavior.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance,
and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner
he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than
it was before he entered it.
Thomas Huxley (1825-1895)
The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not
a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency ... At one time
the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding
includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then
all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man
with the animal world.
W.E.H.Lecky (1838-1903)
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds
that it was human nature.
A.A.Milne (1882-1956)
No man was ever endowed with a right without being at
the same time saddled with a responsibility.
Gerald W. Johnson (1890- )
I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty
is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in pursuit of justice
is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater (1909- )
The individual is capable of both great compassion and
great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and
outgrow the latter.
Norman Cousins (1915- )
I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience
tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail
to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality
expressing the very highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this
vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive
killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities
and capabilities?
H.Jay Dinsah (1933- )
Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating
obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding
within us an ever-increasing sense of the worth of creation. It is about
how we can develop and deepen our intuitive sense of beauty and creativity.
Andrew Linzey (1952- )
All beings hate pains; therefore one should not kill them.
This is the quintessence of wisdom: not to kill anything.
Sutrakritanga (Jainism)
Viler than unbelievers are those cruel ones who make the
law that teaches killing.
Yogashastra (Jainism)
Beings which kill others should not be killed in the belief
that the destruction of one of them leads to the protection of many others.
Purushartha Siddhyupaya (Jainism)
For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each
other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy
and love.
Pythagoras (6th century BC)
Not to kill is a supreme duty.
Hitopadesa (Hindu)
Those who have forsaken the killing of all; those who
are helpmates to all; those who are a sanctuary to all; those men are in
the way of heaven.
Hitopadesa (Hindu)
Let him not destroy, or cause to be destroyed, any life
at all, nor sanction the acts of those who do so. Let him refrain from
even hurting any creature, both those that are strong and those that tremble
in the world.
Suita-Nipata (Buddhist)
One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending
the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods ...
Dhammapada (Buddhist)
He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings
who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.
Dhammapada (Buddhist
But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive
a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it
had been born into the world to enjoy.
Plutarch (c.AD 46-c.120)
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and
the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals
as they now look upon the murder of men.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds
theirs. We live by the death of others: We are burial places!
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures
gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment
of which our human nature is capable.
Thomas More (1478-1535)
>From thence the beasts be brought in, killed and clean
washed by the hands of their bondsmen. For they permit not their free citizens
to accustom themselves to the killing of beasts, through the use whereof
they think clemency, the gentlest affection of our nature, by little and
little to decay and perish.
Thomas Moore (1478-1535)
After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles
of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of
men, to the gladiators.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has
the power to let the fish live or die.
Hung Tzu-ch'eng (1593-1665)
It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many
lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.
William Penn (1644-1718)
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures
that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some
use to us?
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse
is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood,
will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure
that he does.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life,
the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal
food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance
of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling -- killing.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill,
makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of
generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it
is perhaps also in ours.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts,
how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
To a man whose mind is free there is something even more
intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man.
For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and
that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are
uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were
to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable
crime.
Romain Rolland (1866-1944)
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than
that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb
for the sake of the human body.
Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)
Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset...
there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence
for Life'.
Dr Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to
him, that of plants and animals as well as that of his fellowman, and when
he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
Dr Albert Sweitzer (1875-1965)
The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion
to give every will-to-live the reverence for life that he gives his own.
Dr Albert Sweitzer (1875-1965)
Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect
for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
Dr Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)
The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow
creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War
One] will startle the world into some new realisation of the sanctity of
life, animal as well as human.
Christopher Morley (1890-1957)
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight
in killing any living creature.
Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone
such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society
- reverence for life.
Jon Evans (1917- )
Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another
creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life's scale
ofvalues, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it
than the largest...
Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923- )
Killing an animal to make a coat is a sin. It wasn't meant
to be and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses
to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful!
Doris Day (1927- )
I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum
obligations not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals. I know
I would not have the right to kill you, however painlessly, just because
I liked your flavour, and I am not in a position to judge that your life
is worth more to you than the animal's to it.
Brigid Brophy (1929- )
We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us. We've
been through a lot and we've reached a stage where we really value life.
Sir Paul McCartney (1942- )
Respected Bible scholar Rev. V.A. Holmes-Gore has researched
the frequent use of the word "meat" in the New Testament Gospels. He traced
its meaning to the original Greek. His findings were first published in
World Forum of Autumn, 1947. He reveals that the nineteen Gospel references
to "meat" should have been more accurately translated thus:
Greek Numbers of References Meaning
Broma 4 "food";
Brosis 4 "the act of eating food";
Phago 3 "to eat";
Brosimos 1 "that which may be eaten'
Trophe 6 "nourishment";
Prosphagon 1 "anything to eat";
Thus, the Authorised Version of John 21:5, "Have ye any meat? " is incorrect. It should have been translated: "Have ye anything to eat?
from Bhajahari dasa ACBSP
Vegetarianism
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