Hitler, says his biographer Speer, who
was his architect,
often patted dogs' heads at the dinner
table and asked generals
how they could eat animals. One of his
last acts was
to free the captive animals of the
Berlin Zoo to give them
a greater chance in relation to
Allies' bombs.
However, Hitler had frequent lapses
from his vegetarian diet
(the trioxypurine or uric acid in meat
is addictive). He had
bull testosterone shots derived from
slaughtered animals, wrote
Dudley Giehl, HarperCollins author.
In addition Hitler ok'd the purchase of meat for the German
army, which is akin to someone's professing to be a celibate
monk while running a house of prostitution.
His soldiers bombed, overran with tanks, shot and bulldozed
millions of animals as well.
From his own meat consumption, his testosterone shots, his
purchase of meat for soldiers and his army campaign which
killed millions of animals, Hitler was personally responsible
for the deaths of millions of voiceless mammals, birds,
etc.
Today, Hindu India has the greatest number of vegetarians.
High vegetarian population percentages are also in Buddhist
Thailand, Jewish Israel, and in the UK, a majority of whose
population is Christian.
http://www.ivu.org
http://www.hindu.org
http://www.jewishveg.com
http://www.jesusveg.com
http://www.islamveg.com
http://seaox.com/~thich
Please support these
efforts:
concentration camp survivor Hershaft's
http://www.meatout.com
Wasserman's http://www.vrg.org
Cohen's http://www.notmilk.com
Eisenberg's lawsuit
http://www.nodowners.org
CHAI
Jewish Veg
http://www.jewishveg.com
Marvin Katz' fruitarian
diet
http://www.acorn.net/fruitarian
Moses met his wife when he defended the right of strangers' flocks
to be watered. The Midrash says that Moses was chosen to be
the leader of Israel because he had first been kind to the animals
of his flock. Moses went to look for a baby goat and carried
the kid back on his shoulders because she was tired. God said
"Because you have been merciful in tending this flock you shall
be the Shepherd of Israel."
Moses inaugurated many laws for the protection of animals
.. including that one cannot muzzle the mouth of an ox which
treads out grain. He ordained a day of rest each week
for animals and the absolute minimum of pain for animals
being slaughtered for human consumption
(http://www.jewishveg.com)
Anyone who came across a lost or wounded animal was
ordered to stop and help. The Torah says animals are to be fed
before people (as did the Vedas ordain thousands of years earlier)
People can be circumcised but animals are to have no docking
or mutilation.
...
Isaiah wrote of his visions of a world in which no force
was used to conquer others.. in which no animal was eaten..
no being harmed.. there are many passages in Isaiah about
nonviolence to humans, animals, birds, fishes, insects and trees.
If this is compared to Ariel Sharon, Israel's biggest
cattle butcher, one sees that he is not kind enough
in practice.. to be leader of Israel.. he is not a legitimate
leader. May the Omnipotent Spirit Infinite in all beings finite
remove Sharon from power.. or strike him with compassion
as was Paul struck on the road to Damascus.
