Ghee, The Butter which is good for you

 To some it’s known as clarified butter, to others it’s the golden elixir of healing – ghee is a staple ingredient in Indian cooking and Ayurvedic healing known for its versatility, great taste, and many health benefits. It’s derived from butter through a process of cooking off its milk solids until it becomes an easily […]

Heal with Honey

By Traci Brosman for Natural NewsHoney is known for its many healing properties. Many believe that adding unfiltered, unprocessed, unheated honey to your daily diet can alleviate arthritis, reduce heart disease, lower cholesterol and reduce allergies. Honey has also been known to calm an upset stomach, lessen cold symptoms, strengthen the immune system and provide […]

E. Coli: Blame the Meat, Not the Sprouts

As I write this, there is still uncertainty about the source of the E. coli outbreak in Europe that has killed more than 20 people. But whatever the ultimate conclusion is regarding the delivery vehicle for this deadly bug, don’t blame the sprouts. As I write this, there is still uncertainty about the source of […]

Periodic Fasting Increases Fat Burning And Reduces The Risk Of Disease

By T.M. Hartle for Natural News on 29 Apr 2011(NaturalNews) Fasting has been a popular practice among health conscious individuals for centuries. In general, doctors have discouraged the practice of fasting deeming it a dangerous fad among ignorant health seekers. Recent research has proven that regular fasting is not merely a fad, but a health […]

Junk Food As Addictive As Street Drugs

By David Gutierrez for Natural News on 23 Dec 2010Scientists are increasingly becoming convinced that junk food can be just as physically addictive as street drugs like heroin. Scientists are increasingly becoming convinced that junk food can be just as physically addictive as street drugs like heroin. Researchers at Rockefeller University have found that foods […]

Vegan Compassion Is in The Bag

By Eva Friede for The Gazette on 14 Dec 2010Inder Bedi has often told the story of how he built a handbag empire on compassion. The 37-year-old founder of Matt & Nat vegan accessories was asked at age 18 by a Hare Krishna priest to go vegetarian for 30 days: Inder Bedi has often told […]

Honoring Life in Santan Dharma

The ancient Sanatana Dharmic diet of vegetarianism has recently been gaining a great deal of popularity, both as a diet and as a way of life. Influenced by a number of different factors, millions of people worldwide have been increasingly turning to this ancient vegetarian lifestyle. In the United States alone, there are an estimated […]

22 Reasons to Go Vegetarian Right Now – benefits of vegetarian diet

Your body, the planet and the animals will thank you for it Why go vegetarian? Better yet, why not go vegetarian? Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop has said that 70 percent of all Americans are dying from diseases that are directly tied to their eating habits. Stacks of studies confirm that a diet full […]

Vegetarian Foods: Powerful for Health

World-renowned figures as diverse as philosophers Plato and Nietzsche, political leaders Benjamin Franklin and Gandhi, and pop icons Paul McCartney and Bob Marley have all advocated a vegetarian diet. Science is also on the side of vegetarianism. Multitudes of studies have demonstrated the remarkable health benefits of a vegetarian diet. “Vegetarian” is defined as avoiding […]

Open letter to the Dalai Lama

After more than two decades of waiting for you to bring your personal regime into line with your public pronouncements—and the clear teachings of the Lord Buddha Shakyamuni in the Mahayana Scriptures—I have reluctantly concluded that you do, in fact, speak in soothing platitudes to people like me while continuing to eat the flesh of […]

Where to Get Karma Free Food

BY: HASTI GOPALA DASATo acquire karma free food as described in Vedic literature translated by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder of the Hare Krishna Movement, please follow the instructions in this posting. These instructions have been downloaded from the ISKCON Mauritius temple web site. To acquire karma free food as described […]

The Vegan Threat to Bovine Welfare

BY: MAYESVARA DASA (ACBSP)Jul 13, 2010 — OJAI, CALIFORNIAWhen all the “Studies” are objectively considered, the so called “Scientific Research” used to buttress up the Vegan agenda is very limited, controversial, inconclusive, speculative and zealously misleading. For every questionable esoteric study Vegan use to attract new converts, there is a mountain of research that confirms […]

UN urges global move to meat and dairy-free diet

Lesser consumption of animal products is necessary to save the world from the worst impacts of climate change, UN report says. A global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst impacts of climate change, a UN report said today. As the global population surges […]

No To Violence

Here is a moving and thought provoking video by “Supersoul Cooncetion” entitled “No to Violence.”  

Food ethics: you are what you eat

Presenter: Madonna KingParam Satya, a Hare Krishna chef at Govinda’s vegetarian restaurant believes the people are becoming increasingly interested in the food they eat. When it comes to food, most of our energy goes into chopping it up and preparing it for eating, rather than considering what the food’s gone through before it makes it […]

Famous Vegetarians Part 3

Some noteworthy quotations on Vegetarianism, continued:Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends. George Bernard Shaw Visit the meatrix….http://www.peta.org/feat/meatrix/ “There is not an animal on the earth, or a flying creature flying on two wings, but they are peoples like unto you.”Koran, surah 6 verse 38 “Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it […]

Famous Vegetarians Part 2

Some noteworthy quotations on Vegetarianism, continued:“If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.” St. Francis of Assisi “If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion […]

Famous Vegetarians

Some noteworthy quotations on Vegetarianism:“Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.” Albert Einstein “Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.”Albert Einstein “If man wants freedom […]

Meat and the Environment

by Kurma Dasa “Today, millions of people are consuming countless hamburgers, steaks, and roasts, oblivious to the impact their dietary habits are having on the biosphere and the very survivability of life on earth. Every pound of grain-fed flesh is secured at the expense of a burned forest, an eroded rangeland, a barren field, a […]