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He fasted for long periods to cleanse his system and to know his limits. Therefore, we can say that relish is dependent upon hunger not outside it. Uploaded by . Cateris paribus, there is therefore a moral advantage in a vegetarian diet; and the humani­tarians and sentimentalists are only fulfilling a real duty in a real duty in abstaining from animal food, if ‘experience has shown it to be in their case unnecessary.

. He used to share such knowledge as articles in his journal Young India and Harijan which were later compiled as a book Diet and Diet Reform.

Flesh-meat is so much more expensive than cereals and vege­table products, that it must be accounted very extravagant and unbusinesslike to use it as a common article of food, unless, as is generally believed, its superior quality compensates in the long run for its dearness. by Salt, Henry Stephens, Publication date Topics Vegetarianism Publisher Manchester. .

. to sum up all religion in terms of diet, as is often done in India, is as wrong as it is to disregard all restraint in regard to diet and to give full reins to one’s appetite.

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. A Plea for Vegetarianism, and Other Essays has 2 ratings and 0 reviews: Published by The Vegetarian Society. . He respected and cared for the animals so much so that he proudly took Nirmala, his goat, when he went to London for the Round Table Conference of 1931. But most of the world has been doing so for a very long time, and changes don’t come quickly.

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Born to a vegetarian family, Gandhi became a strict vegetarian.

WordStar, The objection of chemists and medical men to a vegetarian diet is based rather on the belief that meat is the most convenient form of food: they admit that Vegetarianism is possible, but deny that it is advisable : a vegetarian diet may be well enough, but a mixed diet is preferable. Your browser may not be compatible with all the features on this site. But unfortunately the current is nowadays flowing strongly in the opposite direction. I once heard of a physician, of some local repute, who not only condemned the prin­ciples of Vegetarianism„ but professed himself entirely unaware of the existence of Vege­tarians. . .

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However that may be, it can do no harm to my readers if they hear what can be said in favor of Vegetarianism ; then, if they are not persuaded to adopt a fleshless diet, they will have a clear conscience, and be able to enjoy their beef and mutton all the more afterwards.

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He was remorseful that he had to take milk against his ideology.

I am amazed and totally impressed by this person. He was a noted ethical vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist, socialist, and pacifist, and was well known as a literary critic, biographer, classical scholar and naturalist. . . The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism www.mkgandhi.org Page 4 proteins. .

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English: A plea for vegetarianism, and other essays.

I mention this point first as being the most plain and indisput­able, not necessarily the most important; yet that it is also of great importance will scarcely be denied, in a country whose food supply is yearly becoming a matter of greater difficulty, and where thousands of people are in a state of abject poverty and want.

Others, again, are of opinion that though his bodily health may not suffer, yet his mental powers will be sapped by a fleshless diet, and he will soon sink into a state of hopeless idiocy and imbecility. . ” Methinks at meals some odd thoughts might intrude,” says Byron ; and if they do not intrude in most cases, it is only another proof of the well nigh insuperable power of custom and prejudice.

Even in well-to-do house­holds the price of meat is a source of constant complaint and vexation to the prudent house­wife ; yet she would laugh to scorn the bare idea of living without flesh, and, if she has ever thought of Vegetarianism, has thought of it only as an impious absurdity and dangerous halluci­nation of modern times, to be classed with Mormonism, Spiritualism, Anglo-Israelism, Socialism, and possibly Atheism itself. . Thank you for commenting. Gandhi was much more than just a rebel leader.

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Secondly : Is it not equally unquestionable that it is both more humane, and what, for want of a comprehensive word, I must call more “aesthetic,” not to slaughter animals for food, unless it be really necessary to do so? . It is, of course, impossible for Vegetarians to prove to demonstration that such a theory is wrong ; but it should be observed that it is a theory only: all the practical evidence that can be obtained goes to indicate that abstinence from flesh-food causes no physical deterioration, but rather the reverse, Indeed, those who have themselves made practical trial of Vegetarianism, although perhaps devoid or any technical knowledge of the digestive organs, cannot but smile at the arbitrary assertions and objections of learned men ; nor can they be much interested by the information that flesh-meat is chemically supe­rior, when they happen to have learnt by expe­rience that they are much better without it.

Edition Notes Reprinted from various journals. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. Many and many a time have I been reminded, not as a joke, but as a serious argument, that animals were “‘sent” us as food! Others content themselves with the more cautious assertion that he is undermining his health by slow degrees, and will inevitably fall a victim to the first severe attack of illness that may befall him. Lists containing this Book. Aside from destroying the military budget and progressive taxation, this is the Best Idea Ever. Henry Stephens Salt (/sɔːlt, sɒlt/; 20 September 1851 – 19 April 1939) was an English writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions, and the treatment of animals.

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wholly unlike that of the carnivora, and that the apes, who are nearest akin to us in the animal world, are frugivorous, is a somewhat strong indication that flesh is not the natural food of mankind, And if it be said that man, unlike other creatures, is omni-vorous, and has there­fore to seek not what is “natural,” but what is best, then I readily accept the challenge, and reply that there is a strong concurrence of proof, on economic, moral, and physical grounds, that a vegetarian diet is the most suitable and beneficial.

. A plea for vegetarianism, and other essays Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. I once heard of a physician, of some local repute, who not only condemned the prin­ciples of Vegetarianism„ but professed himself entirely unaware of the existence of Vege­tarians.

Please post your valuable opinions in the comment box below. Drawing from vast research, experimentation and observation, Gandhi concluded that a vegetarian diet is the best.
Thanks Bruno. . Such was the line of argument taken up by the scientific champions of flesh-eating, in the con­troversy on the “Great Food Question,” to which a good deal of space was devoted a few months ago ( 1882) in the columns of the Echo. .

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I MUST preface this essay by the confession that I am myself a Vegetarian, and that I mean to say all the good I can of the principles of V egetarianism. Loading Related Books.