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Non Vegetarianism

It is very interesting to know that in Asia everyone uses (including the highly educated and qualified people) the word “Non-Vegetarian”.

There is no such word in dictionary or encyclopedia as “Non vegetarian”. Even though there are words like Non union, Non starter, Non stricker, Non Christian, Non sense but no such word as non vegetarian. The reason is once the word comes non, non means no, that means no to Vegetarianism, no vegetable, no food. Only a tiger and lion or Carnivorous can be called non vegetarian even though the word used for them is not correct. Ever since English was formed, how Asians have been wrongly using non vegetarian. Its a matter of debate and interest.

People for Vegetarianism:

Morarji Desai, in his Nature Cure wrote that the majority of mankind is non-vegetarian though its percentage is lower in India. His arguments in favour of vegetarianism was that herbivorous animals are stronger and they have better capacity to work than their carnivore brothers. To establish his point he showed the example of elephants, camels, horses, buffaloes and such animals. He further argued that man is more like an herbivorous animal. Even the meats that he eats are those of the herbivorous animals. Here we may look into some scientific observations made about the meat and meat eating.

Meat is a poor source of minerals, carbohydrate, starch, roughage and it contains considerable amount of saturated fat or cholesterol and uric acid, both harmful for health. There are toxins in all flesh. Eating such flesh is adding other’s toxins to one’s body, endangering one’s heart, kidney, liver, lungs and other parts of the body. DDT, pesticides, antibiotics are contained in meat. Meat eating is linked to many diseases like cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, gallstones, osteoporosis, diabetes, asthma and other diseases.

It remains a fact that Morarji Desai and Guljarilal Nanda, both former vegetarian prime ministers and Gandhians, lived more than hundred years. Many other vegetarians like G. B. Shaw enjoyed long life. But it cannot be said that non-vegetarians have always a shorter life span.

On the question of vegetarianism the name of M. K. Gandhi aptly comes to mind. In London he started partial fasting rather than meat eating. His landlady and his friends were worried about his health. But he would never touch meat. Vegetarianism was a new cult in England at that time, as we learned from him, though the movement had already begun. He started a club in his locality, of which he became the secretary and Dr. Oldfield, the editor of Vegetarian, became the president.

Though there are both vegetarians and non-vegetarians among humans, the distinct rivalry must be of recent origin. It may be local also. Some of them make vegetarianism a principle of life and they work ardently for its cause. We give below the story of such a person.