Sharon Gannon Quotes - Page 5

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• Raising crops to feed animals for human consumption requires a lot of land. It takes eight or nine cows a year to feed one average meat eater; each cow eats one acre of green plants, soybeans and corn per year; so it takes eight or nine acres of plants a year to feed one meat eater, compared with only half an acre to feed one vegetarian.

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  Animal, Eight, Average

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Welfarists are concerned with the quality of the animals' lives before or even during their slaughter and want animals to be treated, and slaughtered, "humanely." Welfarists don't necessarily feel that it is wrong for humans to use animals for our own purposes.

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  Animal, Quality, Purpose

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• We have been conditioned, taught, and coerced by the agents of our culture (parents, grandparents, advertisers, food critic, etc.) to eat the flesh and drink the milk of other animals. Because of this conditioning, which has occurred over a long period of time (thousands of years), we have developed addictive eating habits and blinded ourselves to the facts of our biological system and its true needs.

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  Animal, Years, Long

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Most of the plants grown to be fed to farm animals are heavily saturated with pesticides and herbicides and have been genetically modified, all of which contributes to the pollution and destruction of our environment, which harms us all.

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  Animal, Pesticides, Environment

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Yes, all of life is sacred, including plants; and yes, there is research that demonstrates that plants have feelings - they feel it when their leaves or stems are ripped - and there is scientific evidence that while plants do not have brains and nervous systems like animals, they nevertheless actively work to ensure their survival - they want to live, thrive, reproduce, evolve.

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  Animal, Feelings, Brain

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• By choosing to be kind instead of cruel, we can break the karmic chain of reacting to violence with more violence, contributing to a more peaceful future for everyone.

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  Peaceful, Be Kind, Violence

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• By working to alleviate the suffering of animals you are working at the cause level of human suffering.

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  Animal, Suffering, Levels

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Human population growth is a problem in that most humans consume more than they need. The Earth's resources are now strained to sustain the needs and wants of the human population, which continues to escalate.

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  Growth, Population, Needs

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem.

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  Meat Eating, Growth, Population

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment or for any exploitative purpose.

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  Animal, Purpose, Use

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Some people may argue that if the animals are treated humanely prior to being slaughtered, this justifies their confinement and slaughter. Is it ethical to rob beings of their freedom but give them a comfortable prison and provide them with food until they become fat enough to be slaughtered? Any way you look at it, farms are places where animals are kept in preparation to be slaughtered and ultimately eaten as food.

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  Animal, People, Giving

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Cows that are fed organic food are still kept as slaves on farms, regardless of whether it is a large corporate factory farm or a small family farm. Besides, every dairy cow, no matter what she has been fed, has her babies stolen from her shortly after birth and she will inevitably end up in the slaughterhouse.

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  Baby, Cows, Matter

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Flesh isn't the only source of protein. You can get all the protein you need from a varied plant-based diet. Protein is found in greens, veggies, beans, grains, nuts & seeds, avocados and so on. And there is no need to consume these foods in any special combination.

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  Nuts, Special, Needs

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• To be politically activated is to dare to care about the happiness of others and that is just about the most important activity anyone can be involved in at this time, because it changes a person - it lifts them from normal self-centeredness to a state of other centeredness. That is a good thing because it expands our perception of self. This expansion of consciousness leads to enlightenment, which is the meaning of yoga.

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  Yoga, Self, Perception

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• To be political actually means to care about your community.

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  Mean, Community, Political

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• When many people start practicing yoga, they are amazed to discover that their body isn't just something used to carry their head around - their body has intelligence too. We start to feel how our actions affect the lives of others - this could be described as becoming political, because the word politic means the "greater body" - it refers to the community of others with whom we share the Earth.

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  Yoga, Mean, People

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• The fact is that eating meat and dairy is bad for your health, the health of the animals eaten, as well as the health of the planet.

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  Animal, Meat, Facts

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• What you eat affects you physically as well as other beings you share this planet with.

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  Share, Planets, Wells

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• What could be more physical than what you eat, where you live, and who you live with? These are all very physical issues.

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  Issues, Where You Live

  "Fit: Boost Brain and Brawn". Interview with Vicky Hallett, www.washingtonpost.com. September 25, 2007.

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• Some well-to-do parents may say, "I have a right to have as many children as I want because I can take care of them." That may be so, but can the Earth take care of them?

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  Children, Parent, Earth

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Today's fishing industry supplies land farms with fish as well. Over fifty percent of the fish caught is fed to livestock on factory farms and "regular" farms. It is an ingredient in the enriched "feed meal" fed to livestock.

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  Fishing, Land, Meals

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• It's a common myth that athletes and other highly active people need the protein from meat and dairy to fuel their activities and build and repair muscles and other bodily tissues. In fact, there is growing evidence that consumption of too much protein can lead to very serious health issues, including kidney disease, osteoporosis, and cancer. The active body can get all the protein it needs from a diverse, 100% plant-based diet.

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  Cancer, Athlete, Osteoporosis

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• Have you seen how fish are able to swim in a school so precisely relating to their fish-fellows and never clumsily bump into one another? That's because they have a highly developed sense of feeling in their bodies, which enables them to feel not only the movement of the water against their skin but the presence of other beings who are close. They certainly are not cold-blooded in the sense that they are dull, insensitive, and have no feelings.

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  School, Water, Feelings

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". Q & A with Sharon Gannon, jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• If you were a fish, and you were to touch a doorknob, you would be able to feel the presence of every person who had touched that doorknob during the course of a day.

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  Would Be, Able, Fishes

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Actually, fish are very sensitive creatures with highly developed nervous systems. They feel pain acutely. If they weren't able to feel pain, they, like us, could not have survived as a species. Their nervous systems, like ours, secrete opiate-like, pain-dampening biochemicals in response to pain.

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  Pain, Opiates, Able

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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