tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-107638862024-03-07T20:17:46.453-08:00ReligionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10763886.post-1126441103821115352011-06-24T06:33:00.000-07:002011-06-24T06:33:00.418-07:00Staggering List Of Products Made From Cattle<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong>Mad Cow/CJD - Staggering List Of Products Made From Cattle</strong><br />
By Jeff Rense<br />
12-24-00<br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://easss.com/health/raw">Raw Food</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> In light of the potentially catastrophic spread of Mad Cow/nvCJD prions worldwide (UN WHO statement) throughout the food chain and environment, and my continuing call for completely new, mandatory universal medical/dental sterilization protocols - including the absolute cessation of the reuse of all invasive instruments and equipment - this incredible list will come as quite a surprise to many.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> I've broken most of the items down into Medical, Food, and General/Industrial categories to facilitate a grasp of the enormity of the use of animal products in our lives and the potential vectors of Mad Cow/CJD prions. This categorization is not necessarily complete; there are some consumables which are not listed in FOOD, for example, but the general point of the list is simple: just because one doesn't eat meat or dairy, doesn't mean one is necessarily safe from potential exposure to Mad Cow prions and contaminated/infected products from cattle.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> With the recent discovery in the UK that tonsils of BSE/TSE infected individuals contain the Mad Cow/CJD killer prions, one wonders if other body tissues might be similar repositories. One also ponders the ongoing and bizarre issue of mass cattle and other animal mutilations and wonders whether this is some kind of monitoring process to track the spread of environmental decay and toxicity...and prion diseases.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> From anti-aging creams to surgical sutures to chocolate milkshakes and marshmallows...we have injected animal products from cattle, sheep, and hogs into nearly every corner of our lives. Behold...</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> GENERAL MEDICAL & HEALTH CARE PRODUCTS</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> antibodies (immunoglobins)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> beef insulin</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> bovine collagen - used as injections to fill in scars</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> bovine fibrinolysin (brand name- Elase) ointment for necrotic tissue</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> bovine super oxide - dismutase cream (Orgotein) - cosmetic skin cream to</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> prevent tissue aging.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> bovine thrombin (brand name- Thrombinar) clotting agent for blood</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> culture medium - diagnosis</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> fetal bovine serum - tissue cultures</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> Hyaluronidase - efficient drug use</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PTH - control tetany</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> pegademase - bovine derivative (brand name- Adagen)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> - for patients who are immuno-compromised...helps prevent</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> white blood cells from breaking down.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> pill capsules - GELATIN</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> whole serum - vaccine manufacturing</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM OVARIES</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> estrogen</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> progesterone - a reproductive hormone</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCT FROM STOMACHS</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> pepsin - aid in protein digestion</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> rennet - aid in milk digestion</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM THYROIDS</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> bovine thyroid (Thyrar) a thyroid replacement</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> TSH - thyroid diagnosis</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> thyroid extract - hypothrodism</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> thyroid hormones</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> myxedema</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> cretinism</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM ADRENALS</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> cortisone - for arthritis, skin allergies, anti-inflammatory medicine</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> epinephrine - aid in raising blood pressure, heart disorders, and allergies</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM LIVERS</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> heparin - anti-coagulant, prevents gangrene</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> liver extract - treatment of anemia</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> intrinsic factor - pernicious anemia</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> Vitamin B12 - prevention of B-complex deficiencies</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM LUNGS</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> heparin - anti-coagulant, prevents gangrene</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM BLOOD</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> plasma protein</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> blood albumin - RH factor typing</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> Fraction I - hemophilia</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> Fraction V - kills viruses</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> iron for anemia</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> thrombin - blood coagulant</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> protein extracts</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> diagnostic microbiology</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM HOG HEARTS</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> heart valves for human transplant</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM INTESTINES</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> medical sutures - surgery</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM BONES</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> bone marrow - blood disorders</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> bone meal - calcium and phosphorous source</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> mineral source in supplements</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> collagen and bone for plastic surgery</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> soft cartilage - plastic surgery</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> xiphisternal cartilage (breastbone) plastic surgery</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM PANCREAS</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> chymotrypsin - contact surgery</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> diastase - aid in starch digestion</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> glucagon - treat hypoglycemia</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> insulin - diabetes mellitus</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> pancreatin - aid digestion</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> trypsin - for burns, wounds, and infection - promotes healing - aid in</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> protein</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> digestion and in cleaning wounds</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM PITUITARY GLANDS</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> ACTH - arthritis, allergies, rheumatic fever, skin and eye inflammations</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> pressor hormone - regulates blood pressure</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> prolactin - promotes lactation</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> vasopressin - controls intestinal and renal functions</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM SPINAL CORDS</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> cholesterol - hormone products</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> OTHER MEDICAL AND HEALTH CARE PRODUCTS</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> nitroglycerine</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> antibodies (immunoglobins)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> beef insulin</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> bovine collagen - used as injections to fill in scars</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> bovine fibrinolysin (Elase - brand name) ointment for use on necrotic</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> tissue</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> bovine super oxide - dismutase cream (Orgotein) - cosmetic skin cream to</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> prevent tissue aging</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> bovine thrombin (Thrombinar - brand name) clotting agent for blood</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> culture medium - diagnosis</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> fetal bovine serum - tissue cultures</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> Hyaluronidase - efficient drug use</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PTH - control tetany</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> pegademase - bovine derivative (Adagen - brand name) -</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> - for patients who are immuno-compromised</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> - helps prevent white blood cells from breaking down.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> pill capsules - GELATIN</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> whole serum - vaccine manufacturing</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> *** GENERAL FOOD PRODUCTS ***</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM CATTLE, SHEEP, HOG FLESH</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> a huge variety of fresh, frozen, and pre-cooked meats</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> and prepared and processed meat products</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM MILK/DAIRY</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> butter</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> casein (proteins)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> cheese and cheese products</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> cream</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> food ethanol</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> ice cream and ice cream mixes</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> lactose (carbohydrates)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> milk powder</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> sherbet</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> whey (proteins)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> fats (lipids)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> yogurt</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM FATS AND FATTY ACIDS (edible)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> chewing gum</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> lard</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> oleo margarine</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> oleo shortening</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> oleostearin</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> pharmaceuticals</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> rennet for cheese (sheep)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> rennet for cheese (sheep)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> shortening</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM BLOOD</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> blood sausage</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> bone meal</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> cake mixes</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> deep-fry batters</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> egg substitute</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> gravy mixes</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> imitation seafood</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> pasta</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> whipped toppings and coffee whiteners</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM BONES</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> whitener in refined sugar</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM BONE, HORNS, AND HOOVES</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> gelatin capsules</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> gelatin deserts</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> ice cream, malts and shakes</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> marshmallow</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> potted meats</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM INTESTINES</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> sausage casings</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM HIDES and SKINS</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> sausage casings</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> gelatin</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> candies and confectionery</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> flavorings</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> foods</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> gelatin desserts</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> ice cream</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> marshmallows</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> mayonnaise</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> yogurt</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> *** INDUSTRIAL AND CONSUMER PRODUCTS ***</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM MILK</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> adhesives</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> animal feed</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> buttons</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> carriers for human medicine</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> cosmetics</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> glue</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> pharmaceuticals</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> sizing</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> specialty plastics</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> veterinary medicines</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM BLOOD</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> adhesives</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> bone marrow</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> bone meal</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> fabric printing and dyeing</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> leather-treating agents</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> livestock feed</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> minerals</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> plaster retardant</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> plywood adhesive</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> diagnostic microbiology</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> from colloidal proteins - glue for automobile bodies</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> protein source in feeds</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> sticking agent</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> textile sizing</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM BONES</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> bone charcoal</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> pencils</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> high grade steel</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> bone handles</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> bone jewelry</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> mineral source in feed</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> fertilizer</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> dried bones</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> buttons</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> bone china</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> glass</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> porcelain enamel</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> water filters</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> whitener in refined sugar</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM BONE, HORNS, AND HOOVES</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> adhesives</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> bandage strips</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> collagen cold cream</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> cellophane wrap and tape</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> crochet needles</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> dice</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> dog biscuits</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> emery boards and cloth</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> fertilizer</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> glycerine</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> laminated wood products</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> neatsfoot oil</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> photographic film</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> plywood and paneling</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> shampoo and conditioner</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> wallpaper and wallpaper paste</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> syringes</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM BRAINS</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> anti-aging cream</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> cholesterol</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM FATS AND FATTY ACIDS (edible and inedible)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> animal foods</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> biodegradable detergents</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> biodiesel</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> cellophane</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> cement</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> ceramics</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> chalk</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> chemicals</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> cosmetics</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> crayons</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> creams and lotions (sheep)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> deodorants</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> detergents</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> explosives</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> fertilizer</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> fiber softeners</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> floor wax</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> glycerin</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> glycerol</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> antifreeze</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> herbicides</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> horse and livestock feeds</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> industrial oils and lubricants</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> insecticides</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> insulation</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> linoleum</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> livestock feed</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> lubricants</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> makeup</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> matches</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> medicines</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> mink oil</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> nitroglycerine</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> oil polishes</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> ointment bases</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> oleostearin</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> paints</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> paraffin</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> perfumes</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> pet foods</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> pharmaceuticals</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> plasticizers</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> plastics</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> printing rollers</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> protein hair conditioner</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> protein hair shampoo</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> putty</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> rubber products</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> shaving cream</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> shoe cream</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> soaps</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> solvents</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> stearic acid (sheep)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> tallow for tanning</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> textiles</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> tires</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> water proofing agents</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> weed killers</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM GALLSTONES</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> ornaments</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM HAIR</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> air filters</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> artist's paint brush</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> felt and rug padding</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> insulation material</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> non-wovens</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> plastering material</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> textiles</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> upholstering material</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM HIDES and SKINS</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> belts</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> collagen-based adhesives (from trimmings)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> bandages</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> emery boards</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> glues -for papermaking, bookbinding, cabinetmaking</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> sheetrock</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> wallpaper</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> drum head (sheep)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> pharmaceuticals</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> photographic materials</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> leather sporting goods</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> leather wearing apparel</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> luggage</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> pigskin garments, gloves, and shoes</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> porcine burn dressings for burn victims</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> shoes and boots</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> upholstery</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> wallets</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM HOOVES AND HORNS</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> chessmen</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> combs</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> buttons</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> fertilizer</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> horn handles</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> imitation ivory</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> inedible bone meal</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> livestock feeds</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> ornaments</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> piano keys</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> plant food</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM INTESTINES</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> instrument strings</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> sausage casings</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> tennis racquet strings</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM MANURE</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> fertilizer - used in gardens, lawns and farm cropland</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> nitrogen</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> potash</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> phosphorus</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> minor minerals</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> OTHER PRODUCTS FROM CATTLE SOURCES</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> airplane lubricants and runway foam</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> car polishes and waxes</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> hydraulic brake fluid</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> Stearic acid - helps rubber in tires hold shape under steady surface</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> friction</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> steel ball bearings containing bone charcoal</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> textiles for car upholstery</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> various machine oils and viscous fluids</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> PRODUCTS FROM WOOL</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> asphalt binder</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> carpet</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> clothing</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> cosmetics</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> fabrics</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> felt</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> insulation</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> lanolin</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> medical ointments</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> paint and plaster binder</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> pelt products</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> rouge base</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> rug pads</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> upholstery</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> woolen goods</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> worsted fabric</span></span><br />
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Radical Islam and the Survival of the West</strong><br />
By Ron Banerjee<br />
Friday, February 17, 2006<br />
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The global reaction to the recent cartoons of Muhammad in Denmark is part of a familiar pattern. In 2004, a Dutch filmmaker named van Gogh was shot dead by Islamic fanatics because he made a film which dared to question the treatment of women in Islam. Similarly, global violence and death threats accompanied the publication of Salman Rushdie’s book, the Satanic Verses. His Norwegian publisher, William Nygaard, was shot by Islamic fanatics in his own country. Every supposed ‘insult’ to Islam leads to violence, murder, and threats.<br />
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Other communities, particularly the Hindus, have also suffered their fair share of inaccurate and demeaning assaults on their religion and traditions in the west. In late 2005, the Toronto Film Festival and Canadian media bestowed awards and honor on Deepa Mehta, director of the movie Water. This movie featured a bizarre plot involving widows in the holy city Varanasi (which is equivalent to the Vatican or Mecca) being forced into prostitution by Hindu priests. Despite the fact that the movie was extremely demeaning and depicted practices virtually unheard of in India, Hindus in the west did not resort to violence or murder to express their displeasure.<br />
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This was not the first time that Hindus have been unfairly stigmatized. In 2003, the Toronto Star, which bends over backwards to flatter and please some of their favored minority groups, published a nude picture of a revered Hindu goddess. Again in 2005, the AIDS Committee of Toronto put on a fashion show which featured semi-nude transsexuals dressed as Hindu deities. In both these cases, the large Hindu community in Toronto and the Western world did not burn buildings, destroy public property, or attack Westerners. Instead, they used democratic and peaceful means to voice their protest.<br />
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To understand what gives rise to these divergent reactions, we need to examine the historical record. Unlike Hinduism, Islam was imposed on adherents of other faiths through conquest and subjugation. In South Asia, Islam was spread through a brutal conquest, which began in the 8th century AD. In fact, famed historian Will Durant has referred to this conquest as the bloodiest story in history. During this period, many Hindus were enslaved and millions were massacred. Fear of death, subjugation, and enslavement forced hapless Hindu victims to convert to Islam. Fanatical Islamists, who exercise significant power and influence, continue to nurture these notions and ideals. These elements are responsible for the violence and murder that follows each perceived insult of Islam throughout the west.<br />
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Apologists, whether in the West or India, often attempt to justify the acts of Islamic fanatics by arguing that such acts are legitimate means of protest against discrimination or imperialism. This argument is untenable: Islamist fanatics are not victims but rather champions of imperialism and bigotry. Their utter disregard for people of other faiths and their desire to Islamize, through conquest, the non-Muslim world, including India and Europe, clearly demonstrates their imperial designs.<br />
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Democratic societies, both in India and the West, can dissuade these fanatics only by demonstrating that legitimate means of protest are more successful than violence and murder. Fanatical Islamists receive tremendous incentives to continue their behavior when they find that their methods are more successful than those employed by groups which utilize democratic means.<br />
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A just democratic society should reward good behavior and penalize negative conduct. Western democracies, when dealing with radical Islamists, appear to be doing the precise opposite. The West, for its own survival, ought to reconsider this curiously self-destructive attitude.<br />
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Ron Banerjee is the director of the Hindu Conference of Canada. He can be reached at letters@canadafreepress.com<br />
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Although some historians and anthropologists say that man is historically omnivorous, our anatomical equipment teeth, jaws, and digestive system favors a fleshless diet. The American Dietetic Association notes that "most of mankind for most of human history has lived on vegetarian or near-vegetarian diets."<br />
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And much of the world still lives that way. Even on most industrialized countries, the love affair with meat is less than a hundred years old. It started with the refrigerator car and the twentieth-century consumer society. But even with the twentieth century, man's body hasn't adapted to eating meat. The prominent Swedish scientist Karl von Linne states, "Man's structure, external and internal, compared with that of the other animals, shows that fruit and succulent vegetables constitute his natural food." The chart below compares the anatomy of man with that of carnivorous and herbivorous animals.<br />
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When you look at the comparison between herbivores and humans, we compare much more closely to herbivores than meat eating animals. Humans are clearly not designed to digest and ingest meat.<br />
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Meat-eaters: have claws<br />
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Herbivores: no claws<br />
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Humans: no claws<br />
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Meat-eaters: have no skin pores and perspire through the tongue<br />
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Herbivores: perspire through skin pores<br />
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Humans: perspire through skin pores<br />
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Meat-eaters: have sharp front teeth for tearing, with no flat molar teeth for grinding<br />
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Herbivores: no sharp front teeth, but flat rear molars for grinding<br />
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Humans: no sharp front teeth, but flat rear molars for grinding<br />
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Meat-eaters: have intestinal tract that is only 3 times their body length so that rapidly decaying meat can pass through quickly<br />
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Herbivores: have intestinal tract 10-12 times their body length.<br />
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Humans: have intestinal tract 10-12 times their body length.<br />
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Meat-eaters: have strong hydrochloric acid in stomach to digest meat<br />
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Herbivores: have stomach acid that is 20 times weaker than that of a meat-eater<br />
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Humans: have stomach acid that is 20 times weaker than that of a meat-eater<br />
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Meat-eaters: salivary glands in mouth not needed to pre-digest grains and fruits.<br />
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Herbivores: well-developed salivary glands which are necessary to pre-digest grains and fruits<br />
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Humans: well-developed salivary glands, which are necessary to pre-digest, grains and fruits<br />
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Meat-eaters: have acid saliva with no enzyme ptyalin to pre-digest grains<br />
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Herbivores: have alkaline saliva with ptyalin to pre-digest grains<br />
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Humans: have alkaline saliva with ptyalin to pre-digest grains<br />
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Based on a chart by A.D. Andrews, Fit Food for Men, (Chicago: American Hygiene Society, 1970)<br />
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Clearly if humans were meant to eat meat we wouldn't have so many crucial ingestive/digestive similarities with animals that are herbivores.<br />
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Many people ask me, "If we weren't supposed to eat meat than why do we?". It is because we are conditioned to eat meat. Also, the ADA (American Dietetic Association) tells us that "most of mankind for most of human history has lived on a vegetarian or Lacto-ovo vegetarian diet.<br />
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A popular statement that meat eaters say is; "In the wild, animals kill other animals for food. It's nature." First of all, we are not in the wild. Secondly, we can easily live without eating meat and killing, not to mention we'd be healthier. And finally, as I have already shown, we weren't meant to eat meat. Meat and seafood putrefies within 4 hours after consumption and the remnants cling to the walls of the stomach and intestines for 3-4 days or longer than if a person is constipated. Furthermore, the reaction of saliva in humans is more alkaline, whereas in the case of flesh-eating or preying animals, it is clearly acidic. The alkaline saliva does not act properly on meat.<br />
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The final point I would like to make on how we as humans were not meant to eat meat is this. All omnivorous and carnivorous animals eat their meat raw. When a lion kills an herbivore for food, it tears right into the stomach area to eat the organs that are filled with blood (nutrients). While eating the stomach, liver, intestine, etc., the lion laps the blood in the process of eating the dead animals flesh. Even bears that are omnivores eat salmon raw. However, eating raw or bloody meat disgust us as humans. Therefore, we must cook it and season it to buffer the taste of flesh.<br />
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If a deer is burned in a forest fire, a carnivorous animal will NOT eat its flesh. Even circus lions have to be feed raw meat so that they will not starve to death. If humans were truly meant to eat meat, then we would eat all of our meat raw and bloody. The thought of eating such meat makes one’s stomach turn. This is my point on how we as humans are conditioned to believe that animal flesh is good for us and that we were meant to consume it for survival and health purposes. If we are true carnivores or omnivores, cooking our meat and seasoning it with salt, ketchup, or tabasco sauce would disguise and we as humans would refuse to eat our meat in this form.<br />
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Overall advantages of vegetarianism<br />
You can indeed reap a lot of benefits by being a vegetarian and people have become more aware of the health benefits of being a vegetarian. Animal rights issues is only one of the reasons why people decide to go on a vegetarian diet. People are beginning to care more about the environment. However, the main reason why people go on vegetarian diet is because of health benefits.<br />
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Meat is not good for you as it clogs your thinking. This is especially true if you eat red meat; white meat has less fat compared to red meat. Excessive intake of fats into your body can result in having a high level of cholesterol. If you think that not eating meat is going to make you look scrawny or unhealthy please think again. Just imagine that cows, goats, gorillas, elephants, rhinoceroses and so on are all vegetarians (herbivores) but look at how tough these animals are, not to mention their life span which is longer compared to the carnivores (meat eating animals).<br />
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If you look at the chicken and vulture (carnivores), these animals eat just about everything and notice how unhealthy these animals look. The Chinese believe that the chi or life force in your body is less when you consume meat and so do the Indians with their ancient yogic principles, their life force was called prana.<br />
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The great Tai Chi masters of China were adept at preserving their chi, even if some of the masters were not vegetarians, they still had a balanced diet. It has now been scientifically proven that a balanced vegetarian diet is better compared to a diet that is taken with meat.<br />
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There are a lot of misconceptions about being a vegetarian; protein is one of the main topics of debate as a lot of people think that you can only get protein from meat. Vegetarians get a lot of protein, if they eat a variety of fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes. What vegetarians don't get is the excess protein of traditional American diet, excess that leads to kidney overload and mineral deficiency diseases.<br />
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A lot of people also think that a vegetarian diet is not a balanced diet. Vegetarian diets have a proportion of three macronutrients, which are complex carbohydrates, protein, and fat. Vegetarian food sources (plants) tend to be higher sources of most micronutrients. Another myth that needs to be clarified is the so-called lack of calcium among vegetarians. Many vegetables, especially green, leafy ones, have a good supply of calcium. The truth is that vegetarians suffer less from osteoporosis (a deficiency of calcium that leads to weak bones).<br />
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It is not my intention to force people to become vegetarians. However, vegetarianism is my answer to complete health and wholeness. The three issues to consider in regard to vegetarianism are: spiritual, mental, and physical (nutritional).<br />
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The spiritually aspiring person attempts to work on his/her self. The purpose of spiritual growth is to move away from the animal nature into the more human nature that God intended for us to have. Meat eating inhibits this. Again, the same science that sometimes attempts to ignore the existence of a force higher than man also has proved, in the laboratory, that aggression levels are much higher in meat eaters than non-meat eaters! The animal instincts become more powerful every time you eat meat. Another spiritual aspect of being a meat eater is when one must question the necessity and the method as well as the karma of killing animals. However, everyone has their own mores which they must determine for themselves. It is not the purpose of my dissertation to force a specific moral behavior on anyone. Most spiritual people believe auras. Kirilian photography shows us that a force field remains around dead or amputated tissue. You adopt that animal aura when you eat a dead animal. Fruits and vegetables have a higher vibrational aura than animal products. Is it not personal evolution that the spiritual candidate is interested in? If so, meat eating is urgently prohibited.<br />
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“You are what you eat”, is a slogan that I love to use to show the mental aspect of vegetarianism. When animals are slaughtered, fear and aggression enzymes are shot into their cells from their glands and other organs, just as in humans, and are part of the dead carcass that goes on to the food store. They remain in the meat until the consumer ingests those same enzymes, which are molecularly very similar to those found in humans. Fruits and vegetables do not have emotions; therefore, when they are picked they do not release any emotions cells prior to digestion. The enzymes within fruits and vegetables supply the body with sufficient nutrients that will always uphold a healthy state of mind.<br />
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Fruits and vegetables are high in nutrients; the very thing the body needs to live a long disease and pain free life. The same cannot be said for meat. Nutritionally, the alkaline-based digestive system of humans will not properly break down substantial acid substances, the greatest of which is meat.<br />
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Colon cancer is rampant! This is caused by the slow evacuation and the putrefaction in the colon of the remains of meat. Lifelong vegetarians never suffer from such an illness. Many meat eaters believe that meat is the sole source of protein. However, the quality of this protein is so poor that little of it can ever be utilized by humans because it is incomplete and lacks the correct combination of amino acids, the building blocks of protein. Studies show that the average American gets five times the amount of protein needed. It is a common medical fact that excess protein is dangerous, the prime danger being that uric acid (the waste product produced in the process of digesting protein) attacks the kidneys, breaking down the kidney cells called nephrons. This condition is called nephritis; the prime cause of it is overburdening the kidneys. More usable protein is found in one tablespoon of tofu or soybeans than the average serving of meat!<br />
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Have you ever seen what happens to a piece of meat that stays in the sun for three days? Meat can stay in the warmth of the intestine for at least four days until it is digested. It does nothing but wait for passage. Often, it usually stays there for<br />
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much longer, traces remaining for up to several months. Colonic therapists always see meat passing through in people who have been vegetarians for several years, thus indicating that meat remains undigested there for a long time. Occasionally this has been documented in twenty-year vegetarians!<br />
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Some vegetarians claim they are more satisfied after they eat. The reason for this is that there are fewer ketones (protein-digestive substances) formed when vegetable protein is digested. For many, ketones cause a trace amount of nausea which one normally interprets as a decreased desire for food due to this uncomfortable and slight degree of queasiness. Although the body calls for more food, the taste buds tolerate less. This is the danger of the popular high-protein diet substances on the market. This abnormally high level of ketones is called ketosis and refers to the state of starvation that the body incurs due to the inability of the appetite to call for nutrition. Most Americans who eat the wrong<br />
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type of carbohydrates never recognize the high amount of complex carbohydrates required to overthrow this condition. Also, when the blood ketone level is too high, it results in abnormally acidic blood, called acidosis.<br />
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Tigers or lions who eat meat and grow strong on it have acid-based digestive systems. Our Hydrochloric Acid isn’t strong enough to fully digest meat. Also, their intestines are in a straight run of about five feet long, not twisted and turned, layer over layer, compacted into a small area like the human intestine, which is twenty feet long.<br />
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Meats are frozen for a long period of times. Some meat (especially poultry) is frozen up to two years. Cold temperatures do not kill all species of bacteria. Worse than this, as it is shipped and stored, most frozen meat is thawed and refrozen many times. This is almost unavoidable.<br />
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Meat eaters suffer more frequently from various types of food poisoning than vegetarian eaters, so much so that statistics show that every American has had food poisoning on at least one occasion. When you've felt ill, out-of-sorts, had<br />
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diarrhea, or were just a little sick to your stomach, no doubt you had not the slightest idea that you had been poisoned by scavengers living off the dead carcass you just ate.<br />
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Meat is costly and it is the most wasteful source of resources. When one removes meat from his or her diet, a whole new world of eating opens up. Cooking and preparing vegetarian style is no more time consuming than cooking meat. It costs less than half as much to eat vegetarian as it does to eat meat. There are excellent, nutritious, and easy to prepare vegetarian dishes that are Italian, Chinese, Indian, Mid-Eastern, French, Spanish, etc.<br />
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Additionally, one can enjoy many other foods that he has never tasted because of the meat craze. Most consumers have eaten no more than five or six varieties of beans and legumes — less than 10% of what is available and grains, including different appetizing types of wheat, nuts, and seeds. And they can be prepared very creatively!<br />
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In my opinion, there are far more benefits to becoming a vegetarian then there are becoming or staying a meat eater. Due to the fact that I was raised on meat, I have the wonderful experiences from both worlds. As a meat eater, I was constantly sick, tired, and overweight. As a vegetarian, I am healthy, full of energy, and maintaining a perfect weight. I love being a vegetarian and it shows. Because I wish the best for myself, it’s just second nature to want the best for others. From my past experience and research, going vegetarian is the best thing anyone can do for their mind, body and spirit.</span></span><br />
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By: Jerry Friedman jerry@activist.com<br />
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Among others, Prof. Richard Schwartz, Rev. Andrew Lindsy, and Rev. J. R. Hyland have each written more scholarly work than what is summarized below. This serves as a good introduction to why Jews and Christians should not eat animal flesh and arguably all animal products, enough of an introduction at least to open the subject for discussion. (All quotes are from the Revised Standard Version)<br />
</span></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Genesis 1:25; And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the cattle according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.<br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> Each stage of Genesis through 1:25 describes creation and ends with God's judgment that what he made was good. This is the core of thinking that what God makes is good, and what is good we should protect. By virtue of the creator, we are responsible to be caretakers of everything that is good, so to harm or destroy the land, the water, the air, or "the beasts of the Earth" is to harm or destroy what is good. Without specific instruction otherwise, the default position for any Jew or Christian should be to protect nature.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> Genesis 1:29; And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> This is the most important passage about how humans are to eat. We already have instruction to protect nature, but God gives the exemption that we are given plants to eat. We may harm plants to survive. This is important not only as instruction from God, but it indicates what all of science knows: that humans are anatomically similar to plant-eaters. Every segment of our digestive tract, how our whole anatomy corresponds with eating plants, and how we maintain better health as exclusive plant-eaters, are all powerful reminders that in Genesis, God made us to eat plants.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> Moses Cassuto (1883-1951), for example, in his commentary "From Adam to Noah" (p. 58) states: You are permitted to use the animals and employ them for work, have dominion over them in order to utilize their services for your subsistence, but must not hold their life cheap nor slaughter them for food. Your natural diet is vegetarian... This opinion is consistent with the Talmud, which states that people were initially vegetarians: "Adam was not permitted meat for purposes of eating."</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> Had God made us to eat meat, God would be more likely to have made us as more effective hunters and killers. We would have large incisors like lions, large claws like bears, not the insignificant teeth and nails which even among other plant-eaters are small in proportion to our body and mouth size. God made us to eat plants as Genesis and our bodies reveal.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> Combined, Genesis also shows the love God has for all His creation. God elevates the moral standing of animals over plants as we are instructed to eat one, not the other. Unlike what Descartes believed, had animals had no sensation of pleasure or pain (sentience), there would be no clear reason why God would instruct us to eat only plants. Descartes does indicate that humans and other animals are anatomically identical -- as far as he could determine -- which goes to say that like humans, animals can suffer, and this is most likely the reason why God made humans to eat only plants.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> Also consider "of every tree of the garden, thou mayest freely eat..." (Gen.2:16) "...and thou shalt eat the herbs of the field." (Gen. 3:18). [KJV]</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> Chapter 5 of Genesis tells of the long lives of people in the generations of the vegetarian period from Adam to Noah. Adam lived 930 years; Seth (Adam's son) lived 912 years; Enosh (Seth's son) lived 905 years; Kenan (Enosh's son) lived 910 years; and so on, until Methuselah, who lived 969 years, the longest time of life recorded in the Torah. After the flood, people lived for much shorter periods. Abraham, for example, lived only 175 years. Why the tremendous change in life spans? Before the flood, people were forbidden to eat meat; after the flood it was permitted (Gen. 9:3). A partial explanation, therefore, may be that it was the change in diet that contributed to the change in life spans. This view was held by the Jewish philosopher and Bible commentator Maimonides.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> Genesis 9:3; And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the air, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook (1865-1935) has a common view of why this message was given to Noah. Kook believes that through the time of Noah human morality had degenerated so much that a concession was made to humans . Permission to eat meat was God's means of softening the rules to make moral living easier for men who had previously corrupted. "And God saw the earth, and behold it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth" (Gen. 6:12, KJV). Despite God's instructions in Gen. 1:29, the people of Noah's day did eat meat. Eating meat is one of many corruptions of those people.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> However this passage may be interpreted, it is significant both that Noah and his sons were granted permission to eat meat -- God does not declare everyone does -- and permission is not an admonition like God gives Adam in Gen. 1:29. It is more likely that this passage is a temporary measure or easier rules for the morally weak than a complete change of God's immutable moral sense as we see in Isaiah 11:9.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> Isaiah 11:6-9; The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall feed; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The sucking child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> "My holy mountain" describes heaven as a place where all animals eat plants, as in Eden, and all animals do not harm another, even humans. Isaiah reminds us that despite any permission given to Noah or all of mankind, heaven is a place of peace. For lions to eat straw like the ox says that peace is in vegetarianism.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> This adds considerable credibility to Rabbi Kook's understanding of Gen. 9:3. If God's new instruction was permanent for Noah and all descendents, we would expect that the lowered moral standing of animals (to be equal to plants) would continue into heaven. As heaven remains a place of no meat eating, this represents that God's attitude has not changed, but some concession was made to humans.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> To believe that God is good is to believe that He makes good laws, and the best of humans will follow them. While we may have permission to eat meat depending upon your understanding of Gen. 9:3, it is clearly moral to abstain from meat. And as there is considerable reason to believe this instruction does not endure to this day, to eat meat is to risk making a grave moral mistake.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> Mark 7:18-23; And [Jesus] said to them, "Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him, since it enters, not his heart but his stomach, and so passes on?" And he said, "What comes out of a man is what defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, fornication, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a man."</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> The question posed to Jesus by the Pharisees was about washing one's hands before eating. The Pharisees said Jesus and His followers were not obeying the kosher law because they did not wash their hands. Jesus said it's not what enters the body that makes one a sinner, but what comes out of the heart.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> This will be applied to the morality of meat-eating however the reader wants to assume it. Invariably, those who look for justification to eat meat will cite this passage, for at face value a sophomore will use this passage solely to justify eating meat.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> It is more sophisticated to read this as Jesus saying that "what" you eat does not make one moral, but "why" you eat does. Here, for example, Jesus could be saying that cannibalism is moral because what passes through one's stomach does not make one moral. But cannibalism is murder, and Jesus says murder, among other things, make one (im)moral. Hence, eating anything is moral if you are not contributing to the evil in the world. Eating meat when you do not need to is certainly immoral considering the Bible as a whole. Eating meat, or not washing your hands, et al., is moral when it is necessary.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> Romans 14:20-21; Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for any one to make others fall by what he eats; it is right not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes your brother stumble.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> Apostle Paul was concerned that Christians were using pride to divide the church. He used as a specific example the eating of meat. The point of Christianity, says Paul, is to be good to another. If the other is troubled by something you do, don’t do it.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> Paul does say in Romans 14 that it is forgivable to eat meat, but we are not commanded to eat meat. Each of us is able to make that decision, hopefully within the guidelines of what Jesus said in Mark 7.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> Significance is drawn from Paul declaring that is it fine to be vegetarian, which reverses anyone's belief that after Noah's Flood we are required to eat meat.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> The Bible should not be used to override good medical sense. Like Noah, you may have permission to eat meat, but the animals that are raised for meat, dairy and eggs these days are nothing like the animals two thousand years ago. Visit a slaughter house and ask if Jesus would condone the brutal conditions these animals are forced to endure. Go to the emergency room of a big hospital and watch how many people die from heart attacks and strokes, evidence that we were created as vegetarians and how our bodies haven't changed from that.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> Consider how gluttony is one of the cardinal sins, and how American culture is one of gluttony over meat, dairy and eggs. We are one of the highest consumers of animal flesh in the whole world contrary to good medical advice and sound Biblical understanding. It is probable that the early Christians ate significantly more plants than modern Americans do. They didn't have the meat and dairy industries telling us how to eat -- much like the multinational oil companies telling us to drive more because God told us to have dominion over the earth.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> Remember what Jesus said: blessed are the merciful. Jesus promoted charity and healing. And when the Roman government and Jewish religion thought he was a bad man, they laughed at him, they ridiculed him, and they killed him. Just like Paul said in Romans 14, be good to another. Be good to all creatures and God will be good to you.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10763886.post-1108108829165660052011-05-24T23:53:00.000-07:002011-06-24T06:09:41.404-07:00Sant Mat Religion<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Sant Mat Religion</strong><br />
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The Lanka News Service 13th March 2002<br />
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Sri Lanka - There is a misconception in the minds of some people that (a) man is created to eat meat and (b) that eating meat is essential for man to lead a healthy life.<br />
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There are millions of vegetarians in this world who lead much healthier and longer lives compared to non -vegetarians. In United States alone,statistics show that there were 9 million vegetarians in 1989 according to North American Vegetarian Society (Christion Science Monitor, 18-04-1990). Highest number of vegetarians are found in India. From anatomical and physiological point of view man has not been created to eat flesh as illustrated by the following arguments.<br />
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(1) Human beings have large molar with small incisors unsuited for meat consumption but, ideal for consumption of large quantities of vegetable matter. We have flat teeth like vegetarian animals unlike sharp teeth of flesh - eaters. Some people suggest that the existence of canine teeth proves that we are adapted to eat meat. In gorillas and gelid baboons who are vegetarians, canines function as defence weapons and not to eat meat.<br />
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(2) Human hands are different from the hands of flesh-eaters who have claws.<br />
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(3) Humans and vegetarian animals have gastric juice with low acidity suited to digest vegetarian diet unlike flesh eaters who have gastric juice with very high acidity (i.e. very low pH suited to digest flesh.<br />
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(4) Man and all vegetarian animals have very long intestines suited to digest fully, nutrients in plant foods. On the other hand, flesheaters like the tigers and lions have very short intestines which allow rapid excretion of decomposed material released during digestion of meat. But when human beings consume flesh, these decomposed products are not excreted rapidly due to presence of very long intestines, thus causing chronic diseases of gastrointestinal treat such as carcinoma of the large gut, which are quite common among non-vegetarians.<br />
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(5) Vegetarians including all vegetarian animals sweat to cool the body unlike flesh eaters who pant to cool the body.<br />
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(6) Humans sip water unlike the flesh-eater who laps water.<br />
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(7) Man and all vegetarian animals obtain their Vitamin C requirement from vegetarian diet. All flesh-eaters manufacture their Vit. C internally.<br />
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(8) Mans as in the case of vegetarian animals has grasping hands and manual dexterity unlike flesh-eaters who have no manual dexterity.<br />
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(9) Flesh-eaters pass putrid excreta unlike vegetarian animals whose excreta is not so offensive.<br />
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(10) Man and all vegetarian animals do not gulp down food unlike flesh-eaters who gulp down the food they take.<br />
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(11) Vegetarians are predominantly sweet-toothed unlike flesh-eaters who have preference to fatty food.<br />
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(12) Human beings have large brains able to rationalize unlike small brains of flesh-eaters who are less capable of adaptive behaviour.<br />
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(13) Vegetarians are less prone to carcinoma of intestine, ovaries and testes as compared to meat-eaters. Vegetarians are less prone to other chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, gall stone disease, obesity (over weight) and psychiatric illnesses such as alcoholism when compared to meat eaters.<br />
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(14) Coronary heart disease (heart attacks) which is the biggest killer in Sri Lanka and all other developing and developed countries is not common among vegetarians as vegetarian food does not contain cholesterol unlike animal products, which are full of cholesterol. Vegetarian diet also contains mostly unsaturated fats which lower blood cholesterol level, unlike saturated fats (which increase the blood cholesterol level) contained in animal flesh. It is common knowledge that high blood cholesterol is the leading risk factor of heart attacks. As mentioned earlier coronary artery disease is the biggest killer in all the developing and the developed countries.<br />
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(15) The consumption of vegetables, fruits, nuts and grains which contain all the proteins, fats, minerals, carbohydrates fibre and vitamins we need, should be our priority in order to leed long and healthy lives and to prevent chronic diseases such as heart diseases, hypertension, stroke, diabetes mellitus and cancer which are common among meat eaters.<br />
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BY: ARVIND KALA<br />
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Oct 26, INDIA (TIMES OF INDIA) — Though largely unnoticed, a historic dietary shift is taking hold in India. Non-vegetarian<br />
Indians are eating eggs, chicken, and meat more often and in<br />
greater amounts. And a vast number of vegetarians - 20% of<br />
India's population, according to the authoritative Peoples of India - have begun to try out flesh foods outside home.<br />
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Hard data and anecdotal evidence bear out this dietary shift.<br />
India's per capita consumption of poultry meat has doubled in<br />
the last five years. Though urban areas eat three-quarters of<br />
India's poultry meat, the consumption of egg, fish, and meat has also gone up in rural homes, reports the National Sample<br />
Survey.<br />
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This dietary change isn't surprising because global trends show that increa-sed meat-eating accompanies rising incomes. For India, however, it's an irreversible moment in its history. Home to over 90% of the world's Hindus, Hinduism is the world's only major religion with a streak of vegetarianism. But globalisation is changing that, as Indian food habits move in tune with a meat-eating world.<br />
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India's per capita consumption of meat is still tiny at 5.2 kg per annum. The average Pakistani, Chinese and American eats two times, 10 times and 23 times more meat, respectively, than an Indian. The Hindu unease over flesh food has fallen for three reasons.<br />
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First, the falling price of eggs and poultry meat thanks to<br />
spiralling production; second, the seductiveness of inexpensive tandoori chicken available at every street corner; and third, the overseas travel of some four million Indians every year. When they go abroad and find everybody eating meat and vegetarian food hard to find, they can't help but be influenced.<br />
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The cheapest meats will sell the most in a poor country. This is entirely true of India. Despite BJP propaganda, hard data<br />
suggests that Indians have little aversion to eating beef<br />
(available only in West Bengal and Kerala) and buffalo meat.<br />
These two meats sell nearly twice as much as chicken because their cost is half.<br />
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And chicken sells four times as much as goat meat because it's much cheaper by Rs 40 a kg in Delhi. It's all a question of<br />
money. Pig meat, for instance, is widely regarded by traditional Hindus as unclean. But it sells much more than goat meat, thanks to its lower cost. A person's wallet decides his meat<br />
preferences.<br />
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A non-vegetarian Muslim Bangladeshi eats less meat per capita<br />
than a partly vegetarian Indian because Bangladeshis are<br />
poorer. Despite a trend towards increased meat-eating, India<br />
has more vegetarians than the whole world put together. A few<br />
decades can't wipe out centuries of tradition. Meat-eating (and<br />
even egg-eating) in India is full of idiosyncrasies.<br />
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Strict vegetarians will eat a cake with egg in it but will recoil from<br />
a fried egg. Experimenting vegetarians will eat a meat kebab or<br />
mutton curry but not a meat piece. Lakhs of north Indians will eat<br />
mutton but not fish or buffalo meat. More men than women eat<br />
meat. People don't eat meat on religious days and when they<br />
grow old.<br />
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Meat sales fall on Tuesdays, a Hindu holy day. Many Hindu<br />
pilgrim towns don't permit the sale of meat and even eggs.<br />
Widespread vegetarian eccentricities make it impossible to<br />
estimate the number of vegetarian households in India. The<br />
National Sample Survey puts the percentageat a questionable<br />
42. But it's the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation<br />
which best describes India's dietary shift to meat.<br />
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"Strict vegetarians are becoming less strict", it says.<br />
Globalisation, however, irons out crinkles in human behaviour.<br />
Globalisation plus the need of the stomach has even eroded<br />
India's taboo against eating beef and buffalo meat. Twenty years<br />
ago, beef and buffalo meat accounted for 3% of India's meat<br />
production. Today, they account for 50%.<br />
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Anecdotal evidence suggests that it's only the upper castes<br />
estimated at 16% of India's population in the 1931 census which avoid buffalo meat. Other castes have no such reservations. They have the numbers.</span></span><br />
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<strong>Early Christians Practice Vegetarianism</strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">Christian scholars have concluded vegetarianism to be the more consistent with respect to the spirit of Christ's teachings. There are the Ebionites, Athanasius, and Arius, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Tertullian, Heronymus, Boniface, St. Jerome, and John Chrysostom. Clement wrote, "It is far better to be happy than to have your bodies act as graveyards for animals. The Apostle Matthew partook of seeds, nuts and vegetables, without flesh". Of the earliest Christian documents is, Clementine Homiles', a second-century work based on the teachings of St. Peter. Homily XII states, "The unnatural eating of flesh meats is as polluting as the heathen worship of devils, with its sacrifices and its impure feasts, through participation in it a man becomes a fellow eater with devils". Many monasteries in ancient times to the present practiced vegetarianism. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">Many early Christians were vegetarian, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, John Chrysostom, and Basil the Great. In some early church writings, Matthew, Peter and James (Brother of Jesus and first leader of the New Jerusalem Church) were all Vegetarian.<br />
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<strong>Early Christian Vegetarians</strong><br />
The apostle Matthew partook of seeds and nuts and vegetables without flesh. Clement of Alexandria (The Instructor, book 2, chapter 1., Peter said, "I live on olives and bread to which I rarely only add vegetables." Pseudo-Clementine Homolies 12,6; also Recognitions 7,6.<br />
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<strong>Early Christians Practice Vegetarianism</strong><br />
Christian scholars have concluded vegetarianism to be the more consistent with respect to the spirit of Christ's teachings. There are the Ebionites, Athanasius, and Arius, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Tertullian, Heronymus, Boniface, St. Jerome, and John Chrysostom. Clement wrote, "It is far better to be happy than to have your bodies act as graveyards for animals. The Apostle Matthew partook of seeds, nuts and vegetables, without flesh". Of the earliest Christian documents is, Clementine Homiles', a second-century work based on the teachings of St. Peter. Homily XII states, "The unnatural eating of flesh meats is as polluting as the heathen worship of devils, with its sacrifices and its impure feasts, through participation in it a man becomes a fellow eater with devils". Many monasteries in ancient times to the present practiced vegetarianism.<br />
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<strong>Clement of Alexandria</strong><br />
Sacrifices were invented by men to be a pretext for eating flesh.<br />
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<strong>James</strong><br />
James, the brother of the Lord was holy from his mothers womb; and he drank no wine nor strong drink, nor did he eat flesh. Hegesippus, quoted in The Church History of Eusebius, book 2, chapter 23.<br />
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<strong>Regenstein</strong><br />
Says that nowhere in the New Testament is Jesus depicted as eating Flesh and "if the Last Supper was a Passover meal, there is, no mention of the Pass Over Lamb Dish".<br />
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<strong>Saint Augustine</strong><br />
Says: Jacobus, the brother of Jesus, lived of seeds and vegetables and did not accept meat or wine.<br />
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<strong>Saint Basil</strong><br />
The steam of meat meals darkens the spirit. One can hardly have virtue if one enjoys meat meals and feasts. In the earthly paradise, no one sacrificed animals, and no one ate meat.<br />
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<strong>St Francis of Assisi </strong><br />
All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothersof man, God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in distress has the same right to be protected.<br />
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<strong>Saint Jerome</strong><br />
The eating of meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the flood they have the strings and stinking juices of animal meat into our mouths, just as they threw in front of the grumbling sensual people in the desert. Jesus Christ, who appeared when the time had been fulfilled, has again joined the end with the beginning, so that it is no longer allowed for us to eat animal meat.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">By Stephen Knapp</span><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> It seems that as we browse through the internet and the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> media we see the word avatara is increasingly used in a number of</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> ways. But often it is in ways that have nothing to do with its real</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> meaning. Or we also find that an increasing number of people are</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> referring themselves as avataras of God. So let us really understand</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> what the word means and how it is referred in relation to its real</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> purpose, or how to discern who is really an avatara.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 130%;">First of all the word avatara actually means a form of<br />
God when He descends into this material world. There are many such<br />
forms listed in the Vedic texts, which will be discussed in this<br />
article. Many times they are referred to as incarnations of God. But<br />
the word incarnation is not proper either because it actually means<br />
when someone or something reincarnates, or takes another material<br />
body of flesh and blood. However, people use the word incarnation in<br />
this context quite often anyway. But God does not take such a<br />
material form. His form is always spiritual, transcendental to the<br />
norms and laws of material nature. And He descends from the spiritual<br />
strata as He is, or in a form to do a specific activity, mission, or<br />
carry out a particular purpose. For this reason, the Supreme has many<br />
names, according to His forms and activities that He displays in His<br />
cosmic creation.<br />
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As mentioned in the Puranas and other portions of the<br />
Vedic literature, the Supreme Being descends in various forms, called<br />
avataras. Each avatara has a specific objective, but primarily they<br />
help maintain the world and guide the living beings in life, and<br />
attract them back to the spiritual domain.<br />
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To dispel the power of the illusory energy, the Lord<br />
maintains all of the planets in the universe and assumes roles or<br />
incarnations to perform pastimes to reclaim those in the mode of<br />
goodness.1 In this way, throughout the many millions of universes in<br />
which the Supreme Being appears, the purpose is to bring society to<br />
its senses, at least those who are in the higher grades of<br />
consciousness and are receptive to understanding their spiritual<br />
relation with Him. He also sends His pure representative and<br />
instructions in the authorized scripture to guide people. In either<br />
case, the purpose is the same, to point the suffering living beings<br />
back toward the spiritual world. Only there can the living beings<br />
find the true happiness for which they are hankering. That kind of<br />
happiness is not found in any part of the material universe.<br />
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The source of the various avataras within this cosmic<br />
creation is the Lord of the universe, namely Garbhodakashayi Vishnu.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">2<br />
The form of the Lord that descends to the material world to create is<br />
called an avatara. All expansions of Lord Krishna are residents of<br />
the spiritual world who are also called avataras when they descend<br />
into the material world.3<br />
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There are six kinds of incarnations of Krishna, which<br />
include those of Vishnu (purusha-avataras), pastime incarnations<br />
(lila-avataras), incarnations that control the modes of nature (guna-<br />
avataras), incarnations of Manu (manvantara-avataras), incarnations<br />
in different millenniums (yuga-avataras), and the empowered<br />
individuals (shatyavesha-avataras).4 However, Lord Krishna Himself<br />
descends to this world once in a day of Brahma to manifest His<br />
transcendental pastimes.5 All other incarnations are potentially<br />
situated in the body of the primeval Lord Krishna. Thus, according to<br />
one's opinion, one may address Him as any one of the incarnations.6<br />
This is because all of the plenary expansions of the Supreme exist<br />
within the body of the original person. Thus, He can expand Himself<br />
as one flame from a candle lights another, but all such flames come<br />
from the original. Some say that Krishna is directly Nara-Narayana.<br />
Others say that He is Vamana, or the incarnation of Ksirodakashayi<br />
Vishnu, the Supersoul. However, as it is explained, none of these<br />
statements is impossible. Everything is possible in Krishna, for He<br />
is the primeval Lord.7<br />
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From Krishna comes innumerable incarnations, the most<br />
prominent of which are the lila-avatars, such as Matsya, Kurma,<br />
Varaha, Rama, etc. I will describe most of these later. There are<br />
also the qualitative incarnations who are in charge of the modes of<br />
material nature, such as Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, along with the<br />
Manus and the yuga-avatars.8<br />
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The time and reason for these incarnations is that<br />
whenever and wherever there is a decline of religion and a rise in<br />
irreligion, at that time Lord Krishna manifests Himself. In this way,<br />
in order to protect the sadhus (the pious), destroy the envious, and<br />
reestablish the principles of religion, He advents Himself millennium<br />
after millennium.9<br />
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Let us remember that Lord Maha-Vishnu is resting in His<br />
yoga-nidra trance, in which He manifests the material energy. He is<br />
also the seed of the other incarnations of the Supreme who appear in<br />
the material world. So you could say that the Lord is like a sleeping<br />
person who creates a separate world in His imagination and then<br />
enters His own dream and sees Himself within it.10<br />
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THE AVATARAS OF THE LORD ARE ALWAYS DESCRIBED IN THE VEDIC LITERATURE<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;">Even though there are so many incarnations of the Supreme</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 130%;"> Being and plenary expansions of Him who appear in this world, we have to be aware of how to distinguish who is and who is not an<br />
incarnation. As in other ages, an incarnation is accepted according<br />
to the directions in the scriptures.11 In all descriptions of an<br />
incarnation the scripture will provide the name of the father and the<br />
name of the place of birth in which the incarnation will appear.12<br />
Such descriptions will also elaborate on His bodily symptoms and<br />
activities. Therefore, we must be able to recognize the<br />
characteristics of an incarnation of God by the descriptions and must<br />
not be whimsical about accepting someone as an incarnation, or even a representative of the Supreme.13 An actual incarnation of God never proclaims that He is God or an incarnation. The great Vedic texts have already recorded the characteristics of all the avataras.14<br />
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Whenever Lord Sri Krishna desires to manifest His<br />
incarnation on earth, He first sends His respectable predecessors.<br />
These take the form of the incarnations of His father, mother, and<br />
spiritual master. They appear first in order to prepare the way for<br />
the Supreme Being's appearance.15 These people, however, are the<br />
Lord's great devotees who serve Him by participating in His pastimes.<br />
Thus, though the Lord personally has nothing to do with this material<br />
existence, He comes to earth and imitates material life just to<br />
expand the varieties of ecstatic enjoyment for His devotees.16 In<br />
this way, Krishna, the original Soul of all living beings, has<br />
appeared as an ordinary human being for the benefit of the whole<br />
universe and out of His causeless mercy. This He has done by the<br />
strength of His own spiritual potency.17 Not only do the devotees<br />
enjoy Krishna's pastimes, but He also enjoys His transcendental<br />
activities in various forms in this material world, which cleanse<br />
away all the unhappiness of those who joyfully chant His glories.18<br />
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THE LORD APPEARS IN EVERY UNIVERSE<br />
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In this way, Lord Krishna appears in each universe. When<br />
His activities are finished in one universe, He begins His pastimes<br />
in another. Thus, His eternal pastimes go on like this in the<br />
universes as long as the material manifestation continues.<br />
Furthermore, His eternally liberated devotees also follow Him from<br />
one universe to another to accompany Him in His blissful pastimes.19<br />
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The Supreme is also joined by those devotees who are<br />
nearly perfect in their spiritual consciousness. By joining the<br />
Lord's pastimes in another universe, and by their personal<br />
association with the Lord and His pure devotees, they can complete<br />
the necessary qualifications for entering directly into the spiritual<br />
atmosphere. This is how the Supreme Being displays the eternal<br />
pastimes of the spiritual domain within the material creation and<br />
attracts the materially conditioned souls.<br />
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In this way, the consecutive pastimes of Krishna are<br />
manifest in one of the innumerable universes moment after moment.<br />
There is no possibility of counting the universes, but in any case<br />
some pastime of the Lord is being manifest at every moment in one<br />
universe or another.20<br />
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THE MAIN INCARNATIONS OF THE SUPREME BEING<br />
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There are 22 main lila-avataras of the Supreme Being who<br />
appear throughout the ages. They all have specific forms or bodily<br />
features, and particular purposes for appearing. These are listed in<br />
the various Vedic texts, especially the Puranas, and their many<br />
pastimes are explained in detail therein. I will only give a short<br />
summary of each of the main avataras, however I would encourage<br />
everyone to delve more deeply into the Puranas to read these pastimes<br />
more extensively.<br />
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The first listed of these incarnations are the four sons<br />
of Brahma, the Kumaras. They took a vow of celibacy and underwent<br />
severe austerities for realization of the Absolute Truth. They are<br />
considered empowered incarnations, or shaktyavesha-avataras, whose<br />
mission was to teach the process of spiritual development.21<br />
Knowledge of spiritual truth had disappeared from the previous<br />
universal devastation and they helped re-establish it.22<br />
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Lord Varaha was the second incarnation who appeared in<br />
the form of a huge boar. He lifted the earth out of the nether<br />
regions of the filthy waters of the universe, which was a suitable<br />
activity for a boar. He did this to counter the nefarious activities<br />
of the demons who had put the earth planet into jeopardy.23<br />
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The third incarnation was the empowered avatara known as<br />
the sage among the demigods, Devarshi Narada Muni. He collected<br />
expositions of the Vedas which dealt with the process of devotional<br />
service to Lord Krishna, and authored the great classic Narada-<br />
pancaratna. He also traveled throughout the universe singing His<br />
praises and giving instruction on bhakti-yoga and how to attain real<br />
happiness. Thus, he has many disciples all over the creation.24<br />
Narada Muni had once been taught the science of loving service to the<br />
Supreme during the Lord's Hamsavatara incarnation, the swan-like form<br />
of the Supreme, who had been very much pleased by Narada.25<br />
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In the fourth incarnation, the Lord became the twin sons<br />
known as Nara and Narayana. They were born of Murti, the wife of King Dharma. They underwent severe austerities in the area of<br />
Badarikashrama in the Himalayas to demonstrate the process of<br />
controlling the senses for spiritual advancement.26 The celestial<br />
beauties who were the companions of Cupid went to distract Narayana<br />
from His vows, but were unsuccessful when they could see many other<br />
beautiful women like them emanating from the Supreme Being.<br />
Everything comes from the Supreme, who remains unattached to all His<br />
manifestations.27<br />
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The fifth incarnation was Lord Kapila, the foremost among<br />
perfected beings. He explained for the first time the system of the<br />
Sankhya philosophy and the way of understanding the Truth by the<br />
analysis of material elements.28 He was the son of the sage Kardama<br />
Muni and his wife Devahuti. He also gave great expositions to his<br />
mother on the science of devotional service to the Supreme Lord. By<br />
that means she became cleansed of all material tendencies and<br />
achieved liberation.29 This spiritual knowledge is provided in detail<br />
in the Srimad-Bhagavatam.<br />
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The sixth incarnation was born as Dattatreya, the son of<br />
the sage Atri and his wife Anasuya, both of whom had prayed for an<br />
incarnation to be their son. Dattatreya spoke on the subject of<br />
transcendence to Alarka, Prahlada, Yadu, Haihaya, and others.30<br />
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The seventh incarnation was Yajna, the son of Ruci and<br />
his wife Akuti. During the time of Svayambhuva Manu there was no<br />
living entity qualified to take the post of Indra, the King of<br />
Heaven, Indraloka. So Yajna took up the post of Indra and was<br />
assisted by His own sons, such as Yama, the lord of death, and other<br />
demigods to rule the administration over universal affairs.31<br />
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King Rishabha was the eighth incarnation, who appeared as<br />
the son of King Nabhi and his wife Merudevi. Again He demonstrated<br />
the path of spiritual perfection by performing yoga and instructing<br />
His sons in the process of tapasya, austerities for spiritual<br />
development. This path sanctifies one's existence and leads to<br />
eternal spiritual happiness. This is followed by those who have fully<br />
controlled their senses and are honored by all orders of life.32<br />
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The Lord also appeared as the Hayagriva incarnation in a<br />
golden color during a sacrifice performed by Brahma. When He<br />
breathed, all of the sweet sounds of the Vedas came out of His<br />
nostrils.33<br />
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The ninth incarnation was Prithu, who accepted the body<br />
of a king. He had been prayed for by the brahmana priests to<br />
counteract the problems that had been brought on by impious<br />
activities of the previous king, Vena. Prithu made various<br />
arrangements to cultivate the land to yield various forms of<br />
produce.34 Although King Vena was bound for hell due to the reactions<br />
of his misdeeds and the curse of the brahmanas, he was delivered by<br />
Prithu.35<br />
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After the time of the Chakshusha Manu there was a<br />
complete inundation over the whole world by water. Manu had been<br />
warned about this flood and built a ship in which he and his family<br />
survived. The Lord accepted the form of a huge fish to protect<br />
Vaivashvata Manu and guide the ship to safety on a huge mountain<br />
peak. This was the Matsya avatara. After the period of each Manu<br />
there is a devastation by water over the earth. The Lord then appears<br />
to show special favor to His devotees and protect them from the<br />
devastation and allow society to start anew. In this way, He protects<br />
all of the living entities as well as the Vedas from destruction.36<br />
After the last flood, Manu and his family and the surviving living<br />
creatures again repopulated the earth. Local people of Uttarakhand in<br />
Northern India identify the Nanda Devi mountain as the one in the<br />
story of the flood.<br />
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The eleventh incarnation of the Supreme was in the form<br />
of a huge tortoise, Kurma, whose main mission was to act as a pivot<br />
for the Mandara Hill, which was being used as a churning rod between<br />
the demons and demigods. The scheme was that the demons and demigods<br />
wanted to produce a nectar from the ocean by this churning action<br />
which would make them immortal. Each side wanted to be the first to<br />
get it, and the back of Lord Kurma was the resting place for the<br />
hill.37 As the mountain moved back and forth on the back of Matsya<br />
while He was partially asleep, He felt it as an itching sensation.38<br />
<br />
In the twelfth incarnation the Lord appeared as<br />
Dhanvantari who produced the nectar that came from the churning<br />
action. He is considered the lord of good health. It is He who<br />
inaugurated the medical science in the universe.39 The Lord accepted<br />
the thirteenth incarnation by becoming Rohini, the most beautiful<br />
woman who allured the demons away from the pot of nectar and gave it<br />
to the demigods. Thus, the Lord prevented the havoc that would have<br />
taken place if the demons had gotten the nectar and became<br />
immortal.40<br />
<br />
In the fourteenth incarnation the Lord appeared as<br />
Narashimhadeva, the half-man half-lion form that displayed the anger<br />
and power of the Supreme Being when one of His devotees was in peril.<br />
The Lord placed the demon Hiranyakashipu on His lap and with His long<br />
fingernails tore apart the body of the atheist who had threatened the<br />
life of his son, Prahlada, who was a staunch devotee of the Lord.41<br />
This is one of the most popular stories described in the Puranas.<br />
<br />
In the fifteenth avatara, the Lord as Vamana assumed the<br />
form of a dwarf-brahmana. He appeared as the youngest son of His<br />
mother, Aditi. He visited the sacrificial arena of Bali Maharaja on<br />
the pretense of asking for a measly three steps of land. Bali quickly<br />
agreed, thinking that this dwarf could not take up much land.<br />
However, when Vamana took two steps, His body became so gigantic that<br />
it covered the whole universe. There was no where else to place His<br />
third step, so Bali, understanding that this was the Supreme Being,<br />
offered his own head. Thus, Vamana humbled Bali, who then became<br />
qualified to be given his own planet.42<br />
<br />
In the sixteenth incarnation, the Lord accepted the<br />
mighty form of Parashurama and annihilated the wicked class of<br />
warrior kings twenty-one times in order to free the earth of the<br />
burden of these nefarious rulers. In this way, He could establish a<br />
noble administration.43<br />
<br />
The seventeenth incarnation was Srila Vyasadeva, who<br />
appeared as the son of Parashara Muni and his wife Satyavati. His<br />
mission was to divide the one Veda into various branches and sub-<br />
branches so the people who are less intelligent can more easily<br />
understand them.44 He then composed the more important Vedic texts,<br />
culminating in his own commentary of the Vedic writing in the form of<br />
the Srimad-Bhagavata. In this way, the one Veda became the four main<br />
samhitas, namely the Rig, Yajur, Sama, and Atharva Vedas. Then came<br />
the Brahmana texts, the Vedanta Sutras, the Mahabharata, and then the<br />
Puranas, of which Vyasadeva considered the Bhagavat Purana the most<br />
important and complete.<br />
<br />
It is also explained that the Bhagavat Purana is the<br />
literary incarnation of God, which is meant for the ultimate good of<br />
all people, and is all-blissful and all-perfect. Sri Vyasadeva<br />
offered it to his son after extracting the cream of all Vedic<br />
literature. This Bhagavat Purana is as brilliant as the sun, and has<br />
arisen just after the departure of Lord Krishna to His own abode.<br />
Persons who have lost their vision due to the dense darkness of this<br />
age of Kali can get light from this Purana.45<br />
<br />
To explain further about Srila Vyasadeva, Jiva Gosvami<br />
quotes the Vishnu Purana (3.4.2-5) in his Tattva-sandarbha (16.2)<br />
that a different empowered jiva soul takes the position of Vyasadeva<br />
in each incarnation as a shaktyavesha-avatara. However, in this<br />
particular divya-yuga, or cycle of the four ages, Lord Narayana<br />
Himself appears as Srila Krishna-Dvaipayana Vyasa to divide the Vedic<br />
literature into various branches, and is not simply an empowered<br />
living entity.<br />
<br />
In the eighteenth incarnation, the Lord appeared as King<br />
Rama. In order to please the demigods and mankind, He displayed His<br />
superhuman powers as the ideal king and killed the demon King<br />
Ravana.46 This is one of the most popular stories in all of India<br />
that make up the great Vedic epic known as the Ramayana. Lord Rama<br />
appeared in the family of Maharaja Ikshvaku as the son of Maharaja<br />
Dasaratha, with His internal potency and wife, Sita. Under the order<br />
of Dasaratha, Lord Rama had gone to the forest to live with Sita and<br />
His brother Laxmana. While in the forest, Sita was kidnaped by the<br />
demon Ravana, which made way for the telling of the Ramayana. Being<br />
aggrieved, Rama went to search for Sita. With red-hot eyes, He looked<br />
all over India and on to the city of Ravana, which was on present day<br />
Sri Lanka. All of the aquatics in the ocean were being burnt by the<br />
heat in His angry eyes, so the ocean gave way to Him. During the<br />
course of battle, proud Ravana was killed by the arrow from Lord<br />
Rama, who was then reunited with Sita.47<br />
<br />
In the nineteenth and twentieth incarnations, the Lord<br />
advented Himself as Lord Krishna and His brother Lord Balarama in the<br />
Yadu dynasty near the end of Dvapara-yuga. He displayed wonderful<br />
pastimes to invoke the attraction of the people and, again, to<br />
relieve the burden of the world of numerous demons and atheists.48<br />
Lord Krishna is directly the original Personality of Godhead, and<br />
Balarama is the first plenary expansion of the Lord. From the<br />
original Lord Balarama comes all the other expansions of the Divine.<br />
<br />
The next incarnation of the Lord appeared in the<br />
beginning of Kali-yuga as Lord Buddha, the son of Anjana, for the<br />
purpose of deluding the envious who had misused the Vedic path, and<br />
to preach a simple system of nonviolence.49 At the time people in<br />
general were falling away from the proper execution of the Vedic<br />
system and had misused the Vedic recommendation of sacrifice and<br />
began offering and consuming animals. Buddha denounced all such<br />
actions and taught people simply to follow him and his teachings.<br />
Thus, he fooled the faithless people who then believed in Lord Buddha<br />
and gave up the misuse of the Vedic system.<br />
<br />
The twenty-second and final incarnation of the Supreme<br />
will appear at the end of Kali-yuga, at the conjunction of the next<br />
yuga. He will take His birth as the Kalki incarnation, the son of<br />
VishnuYasha in the village of Shambala, when the rulers of earth will<br />
have degenerated into common thieves and plunderers.50 At the time<br />
there will be no topics on the subject of God, nor any knowledge of<br />
religion. Then, rather than trying to teach or show the way of<br />
progress when people will be too retarded and slow minded to<br />
understand philosophy, He will simply slaughter the foolish rogues<br />
who wander the earth. This will take place about 427,000 years from<br />
now. [Details about Lord Kalki and His activities are provided in my<br />
book, The Vedic Prophecies: A New Look into the Future.]<br />
<br />
As is summarized in the Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.3.28), all<br />
of these incarnations are either plenary portions or portions of the<br />
plenary portions of the Lord. However, as explained, krishnas tu<br />
bhagavan svayam, Lord Sri Krishna is the original Supreme Personality<br />
of Godhead.<br />
<br />
Although learned men discuss the birth and activities of<br />
the Supreme unborn, Lord of the heart, the foolish who have a poor<br />
fund of knowledge cannot understand the transcendental nature of the<br />
forms, names, and activities of the Supreme Being, who is playing<br />
like an actor in a drama.51 However, only those who render favorable<br />
service to Lord Krishna can know the creator of the universe in His<br />
full glory, power and transcendence.52<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
THE MANU INCARNATIONS<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The Manus appear for certain durations during a day of<br />
Brahma. Brahma's day is calculated as 4,300,000 years (the time of<br />
one cycle of the four yugas) times 1,000. Within one day of Brahma<br />
there are 14 Manus. The list of the 14 Manus in this universe are as<br />
follows: Yajna is Svayambhuva Manu, Vibhu is Svarocisha Manu,<br />
Satyasena is Uttama Manu, Hari is Tamasa Manu, Vaikuntha is Raivata<br />
Manu, Ajita is Ckakshusha Manu, Vamana is Vaivasvata Manu (the Manu<br />
of the present age), Sarvabhauma is Savarni Manu, Rishabha is Daksha-<br />
savarni Manu, Vishvaksena is Brahma-savarni Manu, Dharmasetu is<br />
Dharma-savarni Manu, Sudhama is Rudra-savarni Manu, Yogesvara is Deva-<br />
savarni Manu, and Brihadbhanu is Indra-savarni Manu. These fourteen<br />
Manus cover the 4,320,000,000 solar years of one day of Brahma.53<br />
<br />
To understand more completely how long these Manus reign<br />
we can consider the following information. For example, there are<br />
four ages, namely Satya-yuga, Treta-yuga, Dvapara-yuga, and Kali-<br />
yuga, which comprise a divya-yuga, one set of the four yugas. Let's<br />
remember that Satya-yuga lasts 1,728,000 years, Treta-yuga 1,296,000<br />
years, Dvapara-yuga 864,000 years, and Kali-yuga 432,000 years. That<br />
is a total of 4,320,000 years. A day of Brahma, called a kalpa, lasts<br />
for 1,000 of these cycles, and is thus 4,320,000,000 solar years.<br />
There are 14 Manus in each day of Brahma. Each Manu is said to exist<br />
for one manvantara, which is a period of time lasting 71 divya-yugas.<br />
Therefore, each Manu exists for roughly 306,720,000 years.<br />
Additionally, Brahma lives for 100 years, composed of 365 of such<br />
days in a year.54 Let's remember also that we are talking about<br />
beings who do not live in the same dimension as we do, and are thus<br />
free from the same influences of time and matter with which we must<br />
contend.<br />
<br />
From further analysis we can also discover the age of the<br />
earth from these Vedic calculations. The present Manu is the seventh<br />
in line, called Vaivasvata Manu, the son of Vivasvan. Twenty-seven<br />
divya-yugas, or cycles of the four yugas, of his age have now passed.<br />
So 27 divya-yugas means 116,640,000 years. It is scheduled that at<br />
the end of the Dvapara-yuga of the twenty-eighth divya-yuga of the<br />
seventh Manu, Lord Krishna appears on earth with the full<br />
paraphernalia of His eternal spiritual abode, named Vrajadhama or<br />
Goloka Vrindavana. Brahma's day consists of 4,320,000,000 years. Six<br />
of these Manus appear and disappear before Lord Krishna takes birth.<br />
This means that 1,975,320,000 years of the day of Brahma have gone by<br />
before the appearance of Lord Krishna.55 Therefore, this is also the<br />
age of the earth in this particular day of Brahma by these Vedic<br />
calculations. Science is sometimes surprised that such lengths of<br />
time were part of the ancient Vedic conception of the universe.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
THE YUGAVATARAS<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Getting back to the various incarnations of the Supreme,<br />
we now come to the yugavataras. The yugavataras are divided by the<br />
millenniums in which they appear. They appear in a particular color<br />
according to the yuga. In Satya-yuga the color is white, in Treta-<br />
yuga the color is red, in Dvapara-yuga it is black, and in Kali-yuga<br />
the color is yellow or golden. For an example, in Dvapara-yuga Lord<br />
Krishna was a blackish color while in Kali-yuga Lord Chaitanya had a<br />
golden complexion.56<br />
<br />
In Satya-yuga the people were generally quite advanced in<br />
spiritual knowledge and could meditate upon Krishna very easily.<br />
During the time in the white incarnation, the Lord taught religion<br />
and meditation, and in this way showed His mercy to the people of<br />
that era. In the Lord's reddish incarnation during the Treta-yuga, He<br />
taught the process of performing great rituals and religious<br />
sacrifices. In Dvapara-yuga, the Lord appeared in His blackish form<br />
as Krishna and induced people to worship Him directly. Then in Kali-<br />
yuga the Lord appears with a golden complexion as His own devotee,<br />
showing others the spiritual process for this age. Accompanied by His<br />
personal associates, He introduces the process of hari-nama-<br />
sankirtan, or the congregational singing and chanting of the Lord's<br />
holy names, specifically in the form of the Hare Krishna mantra. He<br />
personally chants and dances in ecstatic love of God. Through this<br />
process He delivers this love of God to all. Whatever spiritual<br />
results are attained through the other processes in the previous<br />
three yugas can easily be achieved in Kali-yuga by the chanting of<br />
the holy names of Krishna. It is the easiest process for becoming<br />
freed from material existence and reaching the transcendental<br />
kingdom.57<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
THE SHAKTYAVESHA-AVATARAS<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The last kind of avataras are what is called the<br />
shaktyavesha-avataras. These are the living beings who are empowered<br />
by the Supreme to act in certain ways or accomplish a particular<br />
mission. Such avataras include the four Kumaras, Narada Muni, Lord<br />
Parashurama, and Lord Brahma. Lord Seshanaga in the spiritual<br />
Vaikuntha worlds and His expansion as Lord Ananta in the material<br />
world are also empowered incarnations. The power of knowledge was<br />
given to the Kumaras. The power of devotion to the Lord was given to<br />
Narada. Brahma was, of course, empowered with the ability to create.<br />
Parashurama was given the power to kill the many rogues and thieves<br />
who were on the planet at His time. Whenever the Lord is present in<br />
someone by a portion of His various potencies, that living entity is<br />
considered a shaktyavesha-avatara--a living being invested with<br />
special power.58<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
It is through these many incarnations that the Lord<br />
maintains the universe and provides guidance to the living beings<br />
within it. It is also through these descriptions that we can<br />
understand that not just anyone can call themselves an incarnation of<br />
God, without being verified by Vedic descriptions. To understand this<br />
knowledge is an important part in perceiving the plan behind the<br />
universe and our purpose in it, and it provides great benefits for<br />
all who hear it. As it is explained in the Srimad-Bhagavatam<br />
(8.23.30), "If one hears about the uncommon activities of the Supreme<br />
Personality of Godhead in His various incarnations, he is certainly<br />
elevated to the higher planetary systems or even brought directly<br />
back to Godhead, the spiritual domain."<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
CHAPTER NOTES<br />
<br />
1. Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.34<br />
<br />
2. Ibid., 1.3.5<br />
<br />
3. Chaitanya-caritamrita, Madhya-lila 20.263-4<br />
<br />
4. Ibid., Madhya-lila 20.245-246<br />
<br />
5. Ibid., Adi-lila 3.6<br />
<br />
6. Ibid., Adi-lila 2.112<br />
<br />
7. Ibid., Adi-lila 2.133-115<br />
<br />
8. Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.3.5.purport<br />
<br />
9. Bhagavad-gita 4.7-8<br />
<br />
10. Srimad-Bhagavatam 10.86.45<br />
<br />
11. Chaitanya-caritamrita, Madhya-lila 20.352<br />
<br />
12. Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.7.2.purport<br />
<br />
13. Chaitanya-caritamrita, Adi-lila 14, 18.purport<br />
<br />
14. Ibid., Madhya-lila 20.354<br />
<br />
15. Ibid., Adi-lila 3, 93-94<br />
<br />
16. Srimad-Bhagavatam 10.14.37<br />
<br />
17. Ibid., 10.14.55<br />
<br />
18. Ibid., 10.40.16<br />
<br />
19. Ibid., 3.2.7<br />
<br />
20. Chaitanya-caritamrita, Madhya-lila 20.382<br />
<br />
21. Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.3.6<br />
<br />
22. Ibid., 2.7.5<br />
<br />
23. Ibid., 1.3.7 & 2.7.1<br />
<br />
24. Ibid., 1.3.8<br />
<br />
25. Ibid., 2.7.19<br />
<br />
26. Ibid., 1.3.9<br />
<br />
27. Ibid., 2.7.6<br />
<br />
28. Ibid., 1.3.10<br />
<br />
29. Ibid., 2.7.3<br />
<br />
30. Ibid., 1.3.11 & 2.7.4<br />
<br />
31. Ibid., 1.3.12<br />
<br />
32. Ibid., 1.3.13 & 2.7.10<br />
<br />
33. Ibid., 2.7.11<br />
<br />
34. Ibid., 1.3.14<br />
<br />
35. Ibid., 2.7.9<br />
<br />
36. Ibid., 1.3.15 & 2.7.12<br />
<br />
37. Ibid., 1.3.16<br />
<br />
38. Ibid., 2.7.13<br />
<br />
39. Ibid., 2.7.21<br />
<br />
40. Ibid., 1.3.17<br />
<br />
41. Ibid., 1.3.18 & 2.7.14<br />
<br />
42. Ibid., 1.3.19 & 2.7.17-18<br />
<br />
43. Ibid., 1.3.20 & 2.7.22<br />
<br />
44. Ibid., 1.3.21& 2.7.36<br />
<br />
45. Ibid., 1.3.40-43<br />
<br />
46. Ibid., 1.3.22<br />
<br />
47. Ibid., 2.7.23-5<br />
<br />
48. Ibid., 1.3.23 & 2.7.26<br />
<br />
49. Ibid., 1.3.24 & 2.7.37<br />
<br />
50. Ibid., 1.3.25 & 2.7.38<br />
<br />
51. Ibid., 1.3.35, 37<br />
<br />
52. Ibid., 1.3.38<br />
<br />
53. Ibid., 1.3.5.purport & Chaitanya-caritamrita, Madhya-lila 20, 319-<br />
328<br />
<br />
54. Bhagavad-gita 8.17 & Srimad-Bhagavatam.3.11.20 & Vishnu Purana,<br />
Book One, Chapter Three, p.35<br />
<br />
55. Chaitanya-caritamrita, Adi-lila 3, 7-10 & Srimad-Bhagavatam<br />
4.30.49 purport<br />
<br />
56. Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.3.5.purport & Chaitanya-caritamrita, Madhya-<br />
lila 20, 329-333<br />
<br />
57. Chaitanya-caritamrita, Madhya-lila 20, 334-347 & Srimad-<br />
Bhagavatam 11.5.32, 36 & 12.3.51-2<br />
<br />
58. Chaitanya-caritamrita, Madhya-lila 20.369-73</span><br />
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</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10763886.post-1130456692563795872011-05-14T16:42:00.000-07:002011-06-24T06:36:29.684-07:0010 Reasons to Celebrate Diwali<span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong style="font-size: x-large;">10 Reasons to Celebrate Diwali</strong><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://ramsss.com/bhakti/diwali">http://ramsss.com/bhakti/diwali</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 130%;">The Festival of Lights is for All<br />
Why do we celebrate Diwali? It's not just the festive mood in the air that makes you happy, or just that it's a good time to enjoy before the advent of winter. There are 10 reasons why Diwali is a great time to celebrate. And there are good reasons not just for Hindus but also for all others to celebrate this great Festival of Lights.<br />
<br />
1.Goddess Lakshmi's Birthday: The Goddess of wealth,<br />
Lakshmi incarnated on the new moon day (amaavasyaa) of the Kartik month during the churning of the ocean<br />
(samudra-manthan), hence the association of Diwali with<br />
Lakshmi.<br />
<br />
2. Vishnu Rescued Lakshmi: On this very day (Diwali day), Lord Vishnu in his fifth incarnation as Vaman-avtaara rescued<br />
Lakshmi from the prison of King Bali and this is another reason of worshipping Ma Larkshmi on Diwali.<br />
<br />
3. Krishna Killed Narakaasur: On the day preceding Diwali, Lord Krishna killed the demon king Narakaasur and rescued 16,000 women from his captivity. The celebration of this freedom went on for two days including the Diwali day as a victory festival.<br />
<br />
4. The Return of the Pandavas: According to the great epic<br />
`Mahabharata', it was `Kartik Amavashya' when the Pandavas appeared from their 12 years of banishment as a result of their defeat in the hands of the Kauravas at the game of dice (gambling). The subjects who loved the Pandavas celebrated the day by lighting the earthen lamps.<br />
<br />
5. The Victory of Rama: According to the epic `Ramayana', it was<br />
the new moon day of Kartik when Lord Ram, Ma Sita and<br />
Lakshman returned to Ayodhya after vanquishing Ravana and<br />
conquering Lanka. The citizens of Ayodhya decorated the entire<br />
city with the earthen lamps and illuminated it like never before.<br />
<br />
6. Coronation of Vikramaditya: One of the greatest Hindu King<br />
Vikramaditya was coroneted on the Diwali day, hence Diwali<br />
became a historical event as well.<br />
<br />
7. Special Day for the Arya Samaj: It was the new moon day of<br />
Kartik (Diwali day) when Maharshi Dayananda, one of the<br />
greatest reformers of Hinduism and the founder of Arya Samaj<br />
attained his nirvana.<br />
<br />
8. Special Day for the Jains: Mahavir Tirthankar, considered to be<br />
the founder of modern Jainism also attained his nirvana on<br />
Diwali day.<br />
<br />
9. Special Day for the Sikhs: The third Sikh Guru Amar Das<br />
institutionalized Diwali as a Red-Letter Day when all Sikhs would<br />
gather to receive the Gurus blessings. In 1577, the foundation<br />
stone of the Golden Temple at Amritsar was laid on Diwali. In<br />
1619, the sixth Sikh Guru Hargobind, who was held by the<br />
Mughal Emperor Jahengir, was released from the Gwalior fort<br />
along with 52 kings.<br />
<br />
10. The Pope's Diwali Speech: In 1999, Pope John Paul II<br />
performed a special Eucharist in an Indian church where the<br />
altar was decorated with Diwali lamps, the Pope had a `tilak'<br />
marked on his forehead and his speech bristled with references<br />
to the festival of light. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10763886.post-1108124405133970472011-05-14T04:11:00.000-07:002011-06-24T06:18:49.983-07:00Vedic Gods Of Japan<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Vedic Gods Of Japan</strong><br />
By Subhash Kak </span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The Vedas tell us that the gods (deva in Sanskrit) reside within the mind. But since physical reality is also experienced as a construction of the mind, therefore, one may see the Vedic gods in the physical space and its relationships. These conceptions led to the detailed exposition of the devas in yoga, tantra as well as in architecture and iconography.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">1 The Vedic way recognizes that reality is a synthesis of opposites.<br />
We are suspended between being and becoming, between hazy memories of the past and fears for the future.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Within each of us lie not only sublime thoughts but also avarice and greed. We are the battlefield of a struggle between the gods and demons. The opposites require an act of balance so that the individual's relationship to Truth is articulated only partly by means of abstract ideas, and it needs art – in performance and representation – to complete the picture. </span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The two poles of the approach to reality are provided by the Upanishadic mahâvâkyas: " I am Brahman" or "I am the Universe" (aham brahmâsmi) and "Not this, not this" (neti,<br />
neti). These lead to two artistic styles: one rich and textured, the other spare and austere.<br />
<br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">One speaks of infinite possibility and structure (Brahman), the other of nothingness (úûnyatâ). Each of these is the ground of the other; within one lays the other in endless<br />
recursive details. This is the essence of the paradox taught in the Vedas to help one learn that one is not a thing, but a process. On the one hand are the maddeningly complex rituals, on the other the simplicity of dhyâna (meditation). Both these styles are to be incorporated within the life process. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Western philological approach to the Vedas not only misses this understanding of the<br />
Vedas, it has misguided generations of scholars and laypersons into a simplistic view of Indian culture. It sees Hinduism and Buddhism in dichotomous terms that appear absurd to those within the tradition. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Buddha himself affirmed on the basis of his own direct experience the existence of the various elements of the Vedic world view, including the existence of many hells, heavens, and various supernatural beings like devas, asuras (demons), and râkshasas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Buddha claimed to have seen these realms and beings with his divine sight, and he also claimed to have observed how sentient beings cycle through these diverse forms of existence in the interminable process of transmigration. The Buddha, therefore, took for granted the Vedic cosmic geography wherein all these natural and supernatural beings lived. It is no wonder then that the anthology Subhâsitaratnakosha of Vidyâkara (c. 1100) a Buddhist abbot at the monastery of Jagaddala in present-day Bangladesh,2 has 20 verses to the Buddha, but 73 to Úiva, and 40 to Visnu. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The philologists and the anthropologists wonder what Úiva and Visnu are doing in a book by a Buddhist. Neither can they explain how the Vedic devas continue to be a part of the<br />
Mahâyâna pantheon. Their texts absurdly describe the Vedic devas of Japan and China as Buddhist since according to legend they became followers of the Buddha when he started<br />
preaching. The Buddha in the Mahâyâna tradition is the principle of Understanding, who fits in perfectly within the Vedic conception, and we see this most emphatically in the<br />
Lotus Sûtra (Saddharma Pundarîka Sûtra). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Living in an isolated valley, Kashmiris have maintained many old customs, although their recent tragic history has been responsible for much loss of the meaning of their ceremonies. For example, we were told of six psychological states of the existence, where the lowest three states represented (1) ideas of evil people, (2) ghosts of unfulfilled desires, and (3) our animal nature. The highest three states are (4) asuras, who take the bodies to be all that we are; (5) humans; and (6) devas, who embody the essence of the various tattvas (or their combinations) that constitutes the world of the mind. There were ceremonies in which the yakshas were invoked. We didn't quite understand these ceremonies although we were reminded of their connection to architecture and directions by their appearance in the ruins at Avantipur and Martanda.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Vedic devas went to China and Japan through Kashmir. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The fourth great council was held there under the patronage of the Kushana emperor Kanishka (r. 78-120) in around 100 CE, where monks of the Sarvastivâdin School compiled a new canon. This became the basis of Mahâyâna. The Vedic devas were a part of this understanding, as was dhyâna of the Vedic tradition (Ch'an in China and Zen in Japan) with devotion to Îúvara (Úiva) as its ultimate objective (Yogasûtra 1.23). The Parihâsapura monuments (near Úrînagar) of the Cankuna stûpa (Kârkota dynasty, 8th century) "served as a model all across Asia from the Pamir Mountains to Japan".3 The Kashmiri images of the Vedic devas were also much copied. The art historian Susan Huntington reminds us: "The Yunkang caves in China, the wall paintings from several sites in Inner Asia, especially Qizil and Tun-huang, the paintings from the cache at Tun-huang, and some iconographic manuscripts from Japan, for example, should be evaluated with Kaúmîr in mind as a possible source."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">5, and mandala. In the Vedic fire-ritual manuals, some instructions regarding mudrâ are given. For example, the ladles are to be held in the úankha-mudrâ, and when the priest enters the chamber, he is to put his right palm downward on his left palm at right angles and close the hands. The fire-ritual is the quintessential Vedic ritual, emphasizing the process of transformation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">7 Abhisheka Another Vedic rite that is widely practiced is abhisheka (consecration). The initiates are given a potion to drink before they enter the room. Inside, the initiate places the right foot on an elephant, which represents Ganesha or Vinâyaka, (Kangitan in Japanese) as he is<br />
the remover of obstacles. Next, the initiates rub powdered incense on their hands, and dab it on their foreheads and also on their tongues, and then swallow the potion. </span><br />
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Now the candidate enters the first room, where the samaya vow (sammaya-kai) – the vow<br />
of secrecy -- is administered. They hear hymns being chanted as they are given instructions as to the meaning of the rite by the priest. Another image of Ganesha is seen<br />
surrounded by offerings. Two mandalas are used in the ceremonies:8 the garbhadhâtu (womb mandala) and the vajradhâtu (diamond mandala). The candidates are first initiated into the garbhadhâtu; the following day they are initiated into the vajradhâtu. The candidates are each blindfolded with a strip, white for the womb mandala, red for the vajra mandala.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A folded paper flower, white or red depending on the mandala, is put between their joined hands, with their fingers slightly crossed at the end, and then they are led in<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The candidate goes through a landscape-screened labyrinth of the oblong buildings (corresponding to the Vedic goddess temple), to its centre, the womb, (the garbhagrha<br />
section of the Indian temple), where the mandala is located. The squares of the mandala corresponding to the deities are left blank, with white circles. A homa fire is burning in<br />
the chamber. The candidate now is given a flower to throw at the mandala. The circle on which it lands becomes the candidate's tutelary deity for life, and this is whispered into his ear by the master. Now the blindfold is taken off and the candidate is taken to a side table. A crown is placed on his head, showing his initiation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Water from a well has been drawn in advance with special mantras to make it symbolic of the five oceans. Now the master pours five drops of it on the crown of the candidate<br />
and consecrates him as a monarch, chakravartin, of dharma. Next the master takes a bronze needle (úalâkâ in Sanskrit) and applies it to his eye, saying "the scales of ignorance have fallen from your eyes; your eyes are open." Then he takes a bronze mirror and holds it up to the newly initiated master (no longer a candidate), for him to see his face. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">TOKYO, JAPAN, April 10, 2002: An exhibition called "Gods Derived From India to Japan" is showing at the Okura Shukokan Museum of Fine Arts until May 26. The story behind the showing is a fascinating one. It all started 51 years ago when Toshio Yamanouchi's job took<br />
him to India as general manager for an iron importer company. His passion for religious art took him all across the country and in twenty-five years he built up his collection. In northern Uttar Pradesh, he discovered a miniature painting of "Govardhana Krishna." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In Madhya Pradesh, he purchased a 18th century three-headed Ganesha made of ivory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A sandalwood Saraswati was found in the NW state of Rajasthan. Yamanouchi's entire collection, which he has donated to the Okura Shukokan Museum of Fine Arts, consists of 350 statues, sculptures, reliefs and paintings. Seventy of these pieces are part of the present exhibition. Indian law would now prohibit the export of any historical object more than 100 years old. This law was passed in the early 70's. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, by this time, the collection had already been brought back to Japan. Diagnosed with terminal cancer at the age of 73, Yamanouchi chose to utilize what he thought might be his final years to write three books about how India and Japan are bound by their roots in Hinduism and Buddhism. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The article says, "Yamanouchi identifies <span class="Apple-style-span">Benzaiten, the Japanese goddess of good fortune, with Saraswati; </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Seiten of the Jogan Period with Ganesha; and Enma, the Japanese lord of hell, with his Indian counterpart Yama."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Interestingly, Yamanouchi was fascinated with the Hindu gods that he saw during weekly visits to Buddhist temples when he was a young boy. He recalls, "My parents were very religious. I saw many Buddhas at the temples, but I also noticed many Indian Gods protecting the central Buddha figure."</span><br />
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