Dear Editor;
Since I’m often called a nut for promoting animal rights and vegetarianism, I thought the readers would be interested to read the following comments made by other “nuts” throughout history on this subject:
Albert Einstein: “Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
Leonardo Da Vinci: “The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”
Leo Tolstoy: “If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal foods.”
Albert Schweitzer: “There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “You have dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”
Gandhi: “To my mind the life of the lamb is no less precious than the life of a human being.”
I can only add to these quotes by saying that being in the spiritual company of a Gandhi, a Schweitzer or a Leonardo Da Vinci, is more than any reasonable man could ever ask for.
Eric Bahrt
