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Hare Krishna..

every now n then i keep on explaining benefits of a Vegetarian diet to my friends..

i was wondering that it would be really appreciable if all the devotees could put up the possible reasons regarding "why be a Vegetarian".. in this Thread..

if possible, whatever cross questions you have faced and answered , eg - even plants are living beings?, can also be put up..

this will help others in dealing with the outside world people and helping them in becoming Vegetarian:

also, please provide reasons which will look practical to people, i mean, to many of them, we just can not simply say "that god has forbidden", they take that statement too lightly..

few of the reasons, ive listed below..

thnks.

Most vegetarians are people who have understood that to contribute towards a more peaceful society we must first solve the problem of violence in our own hearts. So it's not surprising that thousands of people from all walks of life have, in their search for truth, become vegetarian. Vegetarianism is an essential step towards a better society, and people who take the time to consider its advantages, will be in the company of such thinkers as Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Clement of Alexandria, Plutarch, King Asoka, Leonardo da Vinci, Montaigne, Akbar, John Milton, Sir Isaac Newton, Emanuel Swedenbourg, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Jean Jacques Rousear, Lamartine, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, George Bernard Shaw, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Schweitzer, and Albert Einstein.

A Vegetarian diet reverses heart diseases,
In a report to the British medical journal The Lancet, D.C.R. Sirtori concluded that people with the type of high cholesterol associated with heart disease "may benefit from a diet in which protein comes only from vegetables."

Why do meat-eaters seem more prone to these diseases? One reason given by biologists and nutritionists is that man's intestinal tract is simply not suited for digesting meat. Flesh-eating animals have short intestinal tracts (three times the length of the animal's body), to pass rapidly decaying toxin-producing meat out of the body quickly. Since plant foods decay more slowly than meat, plant-eaters have intestines at least six times the length of the body. Man has the long intestinal tract of a herbivore, so if he eats meat, toxins can overload he kidneys and lead to gout, arthritis, rheumatism and even cancer.

n above all, all creations of god have an equal right to live.. even animals feel pain, if we can not spare the "weaker" ones, then we can never attain a higher level in life..

quotes:
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." - Albert Einstein.

"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian."

"I do feel that spiritual progress does demand, at some stage, that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants."