Craig Peckham MD

Vegan Diet Cookbook For Beginners Craig Peckham MD

It takes immense inner strength to oppose the status quo. It takes courage to resist the pressure to accept what the influential people in your life consider morally and culturally reasonable, and perhaps even necessary. Yet, if people didn't rise up against social injustice, slavery still would be legal, the poor would remain uneducated, and women wouldn't be able to vote. What does a vegan lifestyle have to do with social justice? Nothing-if animals are regarded as resources; everything-if animals are recognized as sentient beings. It's possible that the greatest social injustice of our time doesn't involve humans at all, but rather our fellow beings-nonhuman animals. Becoming vegan is about taking a stand against this injustice. The seeds of vegan ethics were sown by philosophers and spiritual leaders in the East, where prevalent religions, such as Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism, emphasized compassion toward animals and included vegetarianism as a part of their core doctrines. These seeds were nurtured and spread in the West by Pythagoras, a sixth-century BC Greek philosopher and mathematician. Pythagoras shunned the consumption of animal flesh and directed his followers to do the same.