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2. Based on Department of Agriculture statistics for the slaughtering of over ten billion
mammals and birds in the U.S. in 2002, and the 2004 U.S. military budget of $400
billion.
3. The World Game Institute, in “What the World Wants.” Cited in Helen
Caldicott, The New Nuclear Danger. See www.worldgame.org; also www.idealog.us/2004/02/ever_hear_of_th.html.
4. Ten billion land animals slaughtered per year works out to about three hundred animals
being killed in the U.S. every second. One way to get a feel for this abstract
number is to imagine a line the length of a football field, with animals standing on
the line next to each other and each animal occupying an average of one foot of
space. A new one-hundred-yard line filled with three hundred animals whizzes by
every second around the clock.
5. Katsuki Sekida, Zen Training (New York: Weatherhill, 1975), p. 62.
6. Steven Rosen, Diet for Transcendence (Badger, CA: Torchlight, 1997), pp. 59–76.
See also Vasu Murti, They Shall Not Hurt or Destroy: Animal Rights and
Vegetarianism in the Western Religious Traditions (Cleveland: Vegetarian
Advocates Press, 2003), pp. 101–106.
7. Norm Phelps, The Dominion of Love (New York: Lantern Books, 2002), p. 33.
8. Peter Walker, “Makah Whaling Also a Political Issue,” Whales Alive!, Cetacean
Society International, October 4, 1999; see http://csiwhalesalive.org/csi99409.html.
9. Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson, The Emotional Life of Boys (New York:
Ballantine, 1999), p. 250.
10. Ibid., p. 87.
11. Matthew Scully, Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the
Call to Mercy (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002), pp. 199–226.
12. Cited in Beverly-Collene Galyean, MindSight: Learning Through Imagery (Long
Beach: Center for Integrative Learning, 1983), p. 5.
Chapter 14—Journey of Transformation
1. “Dalai Lama Campaigns to End Wildlife Trade,” Environmental News Service,
April 8, 2005.
2. Though most Tibetan lamas eat meat, there is also a strong tradition in Tibetan
Buddhism of abstaining from meat and showing great kindness and respect to animals.
Tibet’s cold, harsh climate is another factor. For more details, see Shabkar,
Food of Bodhisattvas, translated by Padmakara Translation Group (Boston:
Shambhala, 2004) and Norm Phelps, The Great Compassion: Buddhism and
Animal Rights (New York: Lantern Books, 2004). Besides the Dalai Lama, there are
other noted contemporary Buddhist spiritual leaders who have strongly taught and
exemplified compassion for animals, particularly Thich Nhat Hanh, Bhiksuni
Cheng Yen, S. N. Goenka, A. T. Ariyaratne, and the late Roshi Philip Kapleau and
Tripitika Master Hsuan Hua.
3. Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (New York:
HarperCollins, 1987), pp. 42–103.
Chapter 15—Living the Revolution
1. Thich Nhat Hanh, Creating True Peace (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003), p. 77.
2. Jeremy Rifkin, “The World’s Problems on a Plate: Meat Production Is Making the
Rich Ill and the Poor Hungry,” The Guardian, May 17, 2002.
3. See www.foodnotbombs.org for further information.
4. See www.godsdirectcontact.org for further information. Ching Hai has said, “If
everyone practiced meditation and ate a wholesome diet without killing involved,