Elaine Magee
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 In reality, there are many forms of vegetarianism, each based on varying degrees of dependence on animal products. For the purposes of our discussion, "semi-vegetarian" refers to someone who eats some fish and poultry sometimes, but also eats meals that are meat-free. The other common type of vegetarianism is lacto-ovo-vegetarian, which includes dairy products and eggs but excludes meat, fish, and fowl. The lacto-vegetarian excludes eggs as well.
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Andreas Moritz
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 Albert Einstein had this to say about vegetarianism: "Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chance for survival on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." He predicted that producing and eating so much meat would literally kill us and our environment. Leo Tolstoy stated, "Vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism."
The world's output of meat increased fivefold in the second half of the 20th century. |
Gary Null, Ph.D.
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 One of these is the practice of vegetarianism. And not simply vegetarianism, but organic vegetarianism.
VIRTUES OF VEGETARIANISM
Is it possible to eat without filling our bodies with the poisons perpetrated by commercial farming? Yes, it is. A natural food diet, which is filled with nutritious fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes, seeds, and nuts, and avoids unnatural additives is a major step in the right direction. Cutting down on your meat intake or, ideally, cutting it out altogether, is even closer to optimum healthy eating. |
Andreas Moritz
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| From a historical perspective, the "forced" vegetarianism of the Danes due to the allied blockage of Denmark during World War I, led to a 17 percent reduction of mortality rates in the first year of meat rationing. Norway experienced a similar positive side effect from meat-rationing during the years of World War II (1940-1945). There was an immediate drop in national mortality rates from circulatory diseases during the period of meat shortage. Mortality rates returned to pre-war levels when the population fully resumed meat consumption. |
| See also Chapter 6 on vegetarianism.) Research conducted by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as well as by Japanese and European scientists indicates that heterocyclic amines are created within muscle meats during most types of high temperature cooking. Such powerful poisons alone are enough to leave the body vulnerable to any kind of infection.
In most hospitals, both young and older patients are given meat, such as sausages, eggs, fish and poultry to eat, sometimes on the day after the patient has undergone surgery or other invasive treatments. |
| See the section on vegetarianism later in this chapter.) When heated, their proteins coagulate, which makes them even more harmful for the body. All cadaver foods are deprived of their life force. The body is not able to bring them back to life. It has to mobilize extra energy to get rid of these foods. This strongly stimulating effect, which always engages an immune response, may give you the false impression that these foods make you stronger. The overall, long-term effect is physical, mental and emotional deterioration. |
| By contrast, some people have adopted vegetarianism as a way of life and subsequently have significantly lower disease rates, especially of cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Vegetarians do not claim to understand the mechanisms of or treatments for these diseases, yet through the elimination of meat from they diets, they have attained a significant degree of success in preventing and conquering these illnesses. |
| Leo Tolstoy stated, "Vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism."
The world's output of meat increased fivefold in the second half of the 20th century. Given the current trend, by 2050, the increases in meat production will have reached a point where we could feed 4 billion extra people with the plant food that is now being used to raise cattle. Only 10 percent of the protein and calories we feed to our livestock are recovered in the meat we eat. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 However, during my fifteen-year stint as a professor at a medical school that espouses vegetarianism, I encountered very few long-term vegetarians and vegans who were in thriving good health. This is largely because the eating habits of most vegetarians in this country make them pasta and grain dependent. They might be more appropriately called "grain-etarians." The vegetarians of southern India, where I perform heart operations as a part of missionary work, develop diabetes and heart disease in their twenties. Repeat, they're vegetarians! |
Elaine Magee
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| The other common type of vegetarianism is lacto-ovo-vegetarian, which includes dairy products and eggs but excludes meat, fish, and fowl. The lacto-vegetarian excludes eggs as well.
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Vegetarian Options Abound
There's never been a better time to become a part-time vegetarian and eat meatless meals more often. Today's supermarkets have many healthful and creative options for when you fire up the grill and beyond. Look for meatless convenience items to keep in your freezer. They're great fast fixes for action-packed weeknights or microwave lunches. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 This reality is also concisely stated in the chapter "Vegetarianism in the World's Religions" in my book Conscious Eating and in Spiritual Nutrition, two books containing arguably the best scientifically documented case for a life-long vegan diet of live foods. We have seen evidence that a processed diet is a diabetogenic diet, and the Culture of Death way of eating and living creates far more suffering and sickness worldwide than just diabetes. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 I have also seen the public image of vegetarianism emerge from being considered a dangerous, passing fad to a healthful, enduring lifestyle choice. The popularity of plant-based diets has been increasing, and both the variety and availability of convenient vegetarian foods have been skyrocketing.14 Restaurants around the country now regularly offer meat-free and dairy-free options." Scientists are publishing more articles about vegetarianism and writing more about the health potential of a plant-based diet. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I have now mostly given up meat (and red meat entirely), but I don't believe in aggressively pushing vegetarianism onto others. I simply have arrived at the obvious conclusion that there's nothing better for the human body, mind and spirit than food based on plants.
If you eat nothing but a plant-based diet, you will be far healthier than if you were to introduce any amount of meat into your diet. All the information out there about people having nutritional deficiencies on a vegetarian diet is misguided and flat-out wrong. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 This is why many people have found that becoming vegetarian has made a difference for them. vegetarianism tends to make people more acidic because vinegar is produced. Most vegetarians don't have trouble with high blood pressure.
"We can sometimes spot these people. Say a child of 9 or 10 is somewhat hyperactive. He has circles under his eyes and he's got a nose full of junk. He's got a nasal sound. We look at his jaw and it's narrow. His front teeth are crowded. |
| I learned the benefits of vegetarianism, juicing, supplements, and meditation. In 1994,1 became disabled due to carbon monoxide poisoning. I am still in the process of recovery. I no longer work. I cannot look at computer screens. Surgery for two detached retinas affected my eyesight. My blood pressure was extremely high. My heartbeat accelerated to a dangerous level. I took several pharmaceutical drugs to control these conditions. A few years later, seizures began with Alzheimer-like symptoms. Abnormally severe edema in my legs incapacitated me. I was in a coma for sixty days. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 Department of Pediatrics, Cambridge University, and chairman since 2002 of the British Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment, puts it, "There is a clear association between child deformities and vegetarianism and this is a cause for concern."81
Another estrogenic substance linked to hypospadias is diethyl-stilbestrol (DES). |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 According to the 1961 Journal oj the American Medical Association, heart disease would be reduced by 97 percent if people would switch to vegetarianism. Vegetarian women have one-quarter the rate of breast cancer as meat-eating women. Vegetarian women have one-fifth the rate of osteoporosis as meat-eating women and one-half the rate of osteoporosis as meat-eating men. Twenty-six percent of meat eaters manifest high blood pressure, compared to 2 percent of vegetarians. |
| The Essenes were a Jewish mystical sect who the evidence suggests may have practiced live-food vegetarianism as early as the sixth century B.C. It was suggested in a biography of Pythagoras, the great Greek spiritual teacher and mathematician, that he studied with the Essenes on Mt. Carmel in the sixth century B.C. and returned Enlightened. After this, although this has not been firmly documented, it was said he taught about live foods, and that he required his students to do a forty-day water fast so their minds would be clear enough to receive his deeper teaching. |
| Ramana Maharshi is quoted in his book, Be As You Are: "Of all the restrictive rules, that relating to the taking of sattvic food in moderate quantities is the best; by observing this rule the sattvic quality of the mind will increase, and that will be helpful to self-inquiry."2 vegetarianism is one of the main pillars of purifying the mind. It is part of an ancient wisdom, which is also known as Sanatana Dharma, natural way to Enlightenment, or Yoga Dharma. It continues its importance in our modern times. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike: This makes the case for vegetarianism or veganism. Those of us who don't eat meat, we don't have to worry about mad cow or bird flu or salmonella in chicken or mercury in fish. We get clean food.
Wolfe: I'm not real dogmatic about being a vegetarian or being a vegan, but I'm so glad that those choices were made available to me. Freedom means being able to eat what you want, but you have to be a little bit clever these days, because what you're getting is not exactly what you suspect it is. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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| In considering this transition, it is important to remember that flesh foods slow down the spiritualizing action of the Kundalini in the body
- Stage III Diet -
This is the first stage of vegetarianism. We completely stop eating all red meat, fowl, fish, and any other sort of seafood, animal life, or eggs. Although eggs are a lighter protein than flesh foods, they still have an animal vibration. They are part of the transition step between stage II and III. In stage III we become lactovegetarian or vegetarian. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This is not a place that is ranting about veganism or vegetarianism. People here just enjoy the foods, and they share them freely and enjoy them openly. There's just a lot of pure enjoyment here.
The ultimate discovery: your true self
So those, I think, are the three levels of what you find at the Center. You find connection with foods, you find a connection with the earth, and you find a spiritual connection. Any or all of those are available to you as part of your experience here, but ultimately, those are not what you find here. |
David Wolfe
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 Raw animal foods cannot be eaten in good conscience and in a natural way (without tools) and this is strong evidence in favor of vegetarianism.
Conclusion
As I have demonstrated, radio-isotope dating is inaccurate, "smooth" transitions are ric led with irreconcilable gaps, natural selection cannot form a new species, the f ssil record contradicts the darwinian theory, there are no missing links, etc. The e truths indicate that the theory of evolution is flawed and predicated on wrc g assumptions. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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| Meanwhile in Europe, Adolf Hitler was fervently promoting soybeans, vegetarianism and natural foods.18 In 1929, Benito Mussolini ordered the formation of the Committee for the Study of Soya, and boldly announced a plan to require soy flour as a mandatory ingredient in the Italian staple polenta.19,20 In 1940, a vegetarian physician used the forum of the British Medical journal to scold the British Ministry of Food for not following the examples of Hitler and Mussolini, which he perceived as "a great sign of the times. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Robert Cohen: "God's Nutritionist" is 500 quotations about vegetarianism, and it also contains quote from scientific journals supporting vegetarianism.
Mike Adams: And they can find that through all the traditional channels?
Robert Cohen: It will be in any bookstore -- Barnes and Noble, Amazon, of course. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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 Deficient diets are caused by dairy allergy, strict vegetarianism, excessive use of sunscreens, and decreased sun exposure. Even in the developing world where there is ample sunlight, rickets still occurs. It was discovered that a lack of both dietary calcium and vitamin D-3 were responsible. The widespread use of fish oil supplements (cod and halibut) in school public health programs was very successful in preventing rickets, but recently this disease has returned and nearly 100 cases of rickets in children have been reported. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 He is an advocate of vegetarianism and veganism for reasons relating to nutrition, sustainability and a deep respect for all forms of life, including animals. Adams eats a partial "live foods diet" (raw foods) combined with high-concentration fermented proteins and an enormous assortment of nutritional supplements and superfoods.
Adams believes the body is a temple. He uses no drugs whatsoever (no caffeine, nicotine, over-the-counter drugs, prescription drugs or recreational drugs) and engages in high-intensity physical training on an almost daily basis. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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| In this context, vegetarianism can be seen as charity because it provides for the poor and the hungry in the way that supports the principles of ahimsa.
Kundalini and Flesh Food
The author's observations in working with Kundalini and diet is that flesh foods act as "intense sludge" to the purifying and spiritualizing flow of Kundalini. Because of this "sludge effect," in rare emergency cases, meat may be successfully used to slow the Kundalini, when people feel the Kundalini energy has become too intense for them. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike: So, how do you reach a person who is a meat-and-potatoes kind of man or woman, and their only knowledge of vegetarianism is some girl downtown who tells everyone they should be vegetarian? How do you reach a person like that and bridge that?
Cousens: Well, as a meat-eating football player, I didn't even meet a vegetarian until I was 28. Up until then, I thought steak and potatoes, so I have some understanding of that transition, but really, maybe half the people that come here are still eating meat. |
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