The World Peace Diet: Eating For Spiritual Health And Social Harmony

chapter thirteen
EVOLVE OR DISSOLVE
“If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter
of compassion and pity, then you have men who will deal likewise
with their fellow men.”
—St. Francis of Assisi
“Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and
leads to self-destruction.”
—Krishnamurti
“The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
—Albert Einstein
The Two Limited Perspectives
Looking from a variety of perspectives at our animal-based meals, we
discover that eating animals has consequences far beyond what we
would at first suspect. Like a little boy caught tormenting frogs, our culture
mumbles, “It’s no big deal,” and looks away. And yet the repercussions
of our animal-based diet are a very big deal indeed, not only for
the unfortunate creatures in our hands, but for us as well. Our actions
reinforce attitudes, in us and in others, that amplify the ripples of those
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