Honor Gandhi’s Birthday–Go Vegetarian

Published by PETA.

Today is Gandhi’s birthday, and it’s also the second day of Vegetarian Awareness Month. I can’t think of a better way to celebrate both than by giving a vegetarian diet a try.

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Gandhi ardently advocated nonviolence and campaigned to end poverty, expand women’s rights, encourage self-reliance, and promote peace and respect for all living beings. He believed that “the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

If you think about the billions of animals who suffer in America’s filthy, crowded factory farms and who are cruelly killed in slaughterhouses every year, it’s clear that this nation has a long way to go to become “great” and “moral.”

So if PETA’s sexy babes haven’t yet inspired you to go vegetarian, check your pulse. Then read Gandhi’s book The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism and PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk’s The PETA Practical Guide to Animals Rights.

Written by Karin Bennett

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