can veganism bring about peace to our planet?

Question

I've asked this q before but after reading a bk called world peace diet I think I should ask it again cos the author, Dr. Tuttle, suggests that its the 1 way we're gonna end exploitation , pain and misery cos we'll be eliminating them from our diets and , eventually, our world. I'm in agreement with this philosophy and was wondering how others felt about it...

Answer 1

If people were forced to ge vegan,then no.But if for some odd reason all the people in the world decided to go vegan to have compassion for animals then maybe they would have compassion for eachother.

"We pray on Sundays that we may have light/To guide our footsteps on
the path we tread;/We are sick of war, we don't want to fight,/And yet
we gorge ourselves upon the dead." -George Bernard Shaw

"Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole
world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind."
-Albert Einstein

"Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an
act which is contrary to moral feeling: killing. By killing, man
suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity,
that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by
violating his own feelings becomes cruel."
-Leo Tolstoy

"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields." -Leo Tolstoy

"I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals." -Henry Thoreau

"There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals." -Isaac Bashevis Singer

"In all the round world of utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And in a population that is all educated and at about the same level of physical refinement, it is practically impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. We never settled the hygienic aspect of meat-eating at all. This other aspect decided us. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse." -H.G. Wells

"Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable."
-John Robbins

"The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and
offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts
satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because
horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass. As long as men massacre
animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of
murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."
-Pythagoras

Answer 2

Unfortunately this is a myth, while it sounds good to me too, you might be surprised to learn that Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian. "According to historian Colin Spencer, Hitler wanted to be set apart from other people, to feel superior to meat eaters. He also was greatly influenced by the vegetarianism of his hero, the German composer Richard Wagner....After the war (WW2), vegetarianism literature stopped making claim that eating meat led to aggression and that wars could be ended if people stopped slaughtering animals for food. The idea of the vegetarian as pacifist and humanist, embodied in a figure such as Gandhi, was put aside after the revelation that Hitler was a vegetarian."

Though honestly this should not discourage the thought that peace could be achieved though the implement of a vegetarian diet. We cannot seriously allow the life of a man whose mental state is indeed questionable to discourage possibly the best mark we could make on the face of this planet.

Answer 3

Look, I can see you are serious. But Doctor Tuttle? Come on! Exploitation, pain and misery etc etc etc are not about diet. It's all about man being programmed to survive as a unit regardless of ANYTHING else.

We have that in common with the all living things, sentient or not.

Answer 4

concepts like good or undesirable, precise or incorrect etc are human categories, no longer something that exists in nature. no longer even precise or left, up or down, in case you think of approximately it. for this reason, no longer something gets worse or extra ideal. that's no longer the stunning gauge right here. yet while we evaluate the "worse" as in "no longer good for our survival", then the respond is definite. definite, we are doomed. In approximately 5 billion years, the solar will strengthen right into a crimson widespread whose warmth will vaporize the earth. it extremely is going to be curtains for us, if we live to tell the tale that long it is. in the previous or after the 5 billion 365 days mark, the Andromeda galaxy will collide with our Milky way galaxy. right it extremely is yet another doom. this could be a fact. So, besides the fact which you look at it, you and that i are too short-lived to witness the two of those activities till an asteroid like Apophis will hit the earth throughout our lifetime. (Apophis is extremely unlikely to hit us in accordance to the main present calculation)

Answer 5

heck no. Too many omnivores are closed minded to the whole concept. The controversy between omnivores and herbivors is one of the most heated debates. Too many people are set in their ways, and refuse to even open their minds to the FACTS about why many of us choose this lifestyle. It would certainly be a great start though, but won't ever happen.

Answer 6

People would be healthier and happier. In answer to Frank meat inhibits libido and fruit and veg makes you more fruity. I find vegetarians and vegans are more peaceful types. Look at the aggression from some of the meat eaters on here !

Answer 7

It won't be enough on it's own as some of the grievances people have with each other are too old and run too deep.

It won't hurt though.

Answer 8

yeah i reckon it probably would! but i doubt that a significant amount of people would ever become vegetarian, let alone vegan, cuz it seems quite hard to find a decent amount of food to eat - thats the only thing thats stopping me from becoming totally vegan! well, that and what my parents would say!!! lol

Answer 9

Certainly not because we would be overrun by the animals we allowed to live by not eating them!! As an aside - have you ever seen/met a happy & healthy looking vegan? They all look as miserable as sh!t and as pale as a stem of blanched celery ( & prob as half interesting!!) Please bear in miond that all of these"bibles" are written from a biaised point of view. As a further aside - a quote from "Hair" the musical - "Fighting for peace is like F***ing for virginity" - think about it!!!

Answer 10

Um....short answer, no. It won't bring peace to our planet if everyone quits eating meat. I don't know where these people get these ideas.....but I do know why. How much did you pay for that book??