Vegetarian Diet Chews Up Excess Flab

Study: Lacto-Ovo-Vegetarian Meal Plan Helps Men And Women Shed Pounds“Giving up meat is a huge, difficult change for Americans. One-third of participants didn’t want to be on the vegetarian diet at the start of the study.” Nov. 15, 2006 (CBS/The Early Show) “Giving up meat is a huge, difficult change for Americans. One-third of participants […]

What to do for the day they call Turkey Day?

Provided by: Jayasri Radha The Vedic Viewpoint and Other Spiritual Perspectives The day that many people all over America call Turkey day, is not a good day for the turkeys. All over America people will be preparing something called stuffing which they are going to stuff into the end of a dead turkey carcass and […]

Vegetarian Quotes

Some vegetarian writers/thinkers and some related quotes by writers, artists and others “To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.” -Gandhi “To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.” -Gandhi “It is only by softening […]

World’s Top Destroyer

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2062484.ece Cow ’emissions’ more damaging to planet than CO2 from cars By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor Published: 10 December 2006 Meet the world’s top destroyer of the environment. It is not the car, or the plane, or even George Bush: it is the cow. A United Nations report has identified the world’s rapidly growing herds […]

Religion you can Drink

 by Suresvara dasa (originally published in BTG, 1985) “It’s fitness you can drink,” say the billboards, as a sportsman goes diving for a ball. The milk ads these days hit us right where we live — the body. For ages, though, India’s sages and scriptures have offered us a spiritual reason to drink milk. From […]

Latter Day Saints and Concern for Animals

A vegetarian, Joseph Fielding Smith in 1978 delivered a strong denouncement of killing for sport and advanced humaneness in general, quoting the previous prophets extensively. Noting that “it was important the animals be on the earth” he called the destruction of wildlife “wicked” and said “every soul should be impressed by the sentiments of all […]

Go easy on the curd!

Kripamoya Das Not a photo of me, but please read on if you’re a male devotee and over 35… In all my years as a devotee of Krishna, and that’s thirty-three this summer, I have never really been ill – ever. Well, alright, that’s if you exclude bouts of Delhi-Belly and the Calcutta-Quickstep on my […]

Food Additives Linked to Child Aggression

Life and Travel with Kurma I have had personal experience of a ‘Mr Hyde incident’ with my son when he was younger. He was offered a large bottle of Fanta (by a well-meaning family member) which he drank in one swig and which subsequently turned him into a kicking, screaming emotional wreck for over an […]

Hitler Was a Vegetarian like Bush Was a Valedictorian

Thursday, March 8, 2007 The Editor The New York Times Book Review 229 West 43rd Street New York, NY 10036 To the Editor, I must take issue with Mr. Rothstein’s glib characterization of Hitler and his Nazi henchmen, Hess, and Himmler, as vegetarians, in his review of Tristram Stuart’s The Bloodless Revolution (February 25). As […]

Soft drink damage to DNA

May 28th, 2007 Editor Latest research by a British scientist shows that a preservative used in cold drinks could switch off vital parts of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), causing serious damage to cells particularly in children. Sodium benzoate or E211 has been used as a preservative for decades by the 74 billion pound global carbonated drinks […]