QUOTA IN HUMAN DIET (p 9-10) Principle of every sensible senisitive person should be I shall cause as less pain as possible to others. Vegetarian diet helps the world. DO PLANTS FEEL THE PAIN? Scientific point of view: trees have less developed nervous system Natural point of view: crops perish if not cut, animals are killed long before their normal death. Intuitive point of view: harvesting has festive atmosphere, slaughtering horrific atmosphere. Parents will happily take children to see harvesting, almost never to see slaughtering. Why? That's why vegetarian food is much more preferrable. Yet Srila Prabhupada's point is much deeper. In Vedic culture those who were on lower level were allowed to eat meat, but under regulation to take only 1/6 and give rest to charity and to take a wow that in this life I kill in next life I shall be killed.
But despite the levels of deforestation, up to 60 percent of their territory is still covered by natural tropical forests. In fact, today, much of the pressures on their remaining rainforests comes from servicing the needs and markets for wood products in industrialized countries that have already depleted their own natural resources. Industrial countries would not be buying rainforest hardwoods and timber had we not cut down our own trees long ago, nor would poachers in the Amazon jungle be slaughtering jaguar, ocelot, caiman, and otter if we did not provide lucrative markets for their skins in Berlin, Paris, and Tokyo.
tinal tract, which contaminate the environ- 2000; Reid et al. 2002; Koutsoumanis and ment as well as food and water, forming a Sofos 2004; Koutsoumanis et al. 2006). complete cycle. In general, external animal Reduction of pathogen contamination surfaces, as well as their feces and the envi- levels in meat products could reduce the ronment, may serve as sources of contamina- burden of food-borne diseases, and thus, tion for: (i) carcasses during the slaughtering, decrease the estimated $12 billion annual dressing, chilling, and cutting processes; (ii) economic losses in medical costs, lost pro- meat products during processing, storage and ductivity, recalls, legal fees, and loss of busi- handling; (iii) water and other foods through nesses in the United States (Buzby et al. contaminated manure; or (iv) direct transfer 1996; Stopforth and Sofos 2005). Therefore, and infection of humans (Sofos 2002)
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