When Sir Isaac Newton was criticized for refusing to eat a type of "blood pudding" (a dark sausage containing pork, dried pig's blood and suet), it was pointed out that diet was closely tied to Christian Theology in Europe during this period. Yes, Sir Isaac Newton was a vegetarian.
Even before this period in history in the sixth century B.C., Pythagoras founded what was known as "a mystical mathematician community who observed a general prohibition against eating animals as having a right to live in common with mankind. Yes, Pythagoras too was a veggie.
Modern day vegetarians such as Paul McCartney have continued the moral debate. McCartney said, "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian”
A recent report by the U. N. Food and Agriculture Organization reckons that at least eighteen per cent of the global-warming effect comes from livestock, more than is caused by all the world's transportation systems.
It has been estimated that forty percent of global grain output is used to feed animals rather than people, and that half of this grain would be sufficient to eliminate world hunger.
2007-02-05
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