“..Turning Vegetarian..”
“..What do Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin, Charlotte Bronte, Leonardo Da Vinci and Sir Isaac Newton all have in common?
You guessed it! (Or perhaps you didn’t…)
They were all vegetarians!
As far back as the 6th century BC the famous Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras was advocating vegetarianism ..
.. and many great minds since, including Wordsworth, Tolstoy and Mahatma Ghandi, have opted for a vegetarian diet.
George Bernard Shaw was particularly vocal about his sentiments ..
.. famously proclaiming, “A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows”.
So just what drove these mega brains and many others since to ditch their meat pies?
The answer will probably encompass one or more of the following: ..
.. because of religious beliefs ..
.. because of the health benefits ..
,, because of the environmental impact of rearing meat ..
..because it’s economical ..
.. and because of ethical reasons..”
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