Bring Non-Violence Into Your Diet & Celebrate Gandhi’s Birthday

October 2 is the birthday of one of the greatest practitioners of nonviolence, Mohandas Gandhi popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi. It is also World Farm Animals Day , a day to remember our duty to stop the suffering inflicted upon billions of terrified animals who are beaten, crippled, and killed on factory farms and in slaughterhouses around the globe—all for nothing more than a fleeting taste of their flesh.
One meaningful way to celebrate Gandhi’s legacy and the peaceful principles he stood for is to refrain from all forms of violence – specifically in your diet. Gandhi was himself a strict vegetarian and wrote the book The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism. It makes sense: in the meat, dairy and egg industries, animals are violently mistreated, mutilated without painkillers, separated from their loved ones, shoved into crowded spaces and killed – often painfully.

Gandhi taught that nonviolence begins with what we eat. “To my mind,” he said, “I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.”
In his total commitment to nonviolence, Gandhi always included the animals, stating, “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
Nearly 70 years after his death, Gandhi remains a source of wisdom and inspiration to the world. As we pray for an end to violence and terrorism, please remember his words, “It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elemental compassion toward our fellow creatures.” We may not be able to stop all the violence in the world, but we can lessen the amount of violence in our own lives. Won’t you follow Gandhi’s example and turn your fork into a powerful tool for peace—by keeping the broken bodies of animals off your plate?

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