If we act fast, then the world will not get worse. And then the Earth will be more protected, then maybe some damage will be recovered. I wish really that we have the planet, we continue to live, and the children grow up in a better environment. But it’s up to humanity to decide what they want and which direction they turn.

1. Be Veg Go Green
Save Our Planet The Survival
of the
World is in
Your Hands.
“ If we act fast, then
the world will not get
worse. And then the Earth
will be more protected, then
maybe some damage will be
recovered. I wish really that
we have the planet, we continue
to live, and the children grow
up in a better environment.
But it’s up to humanity to
decide what they want and
which direction they turn.”
Supreme Master Ching Hai
World-renowned humanitarian,
respected spiritual teacher and
accomplished artist.
www.SupremeMasterTV.com
Printed copies are available at w w w.T h e C e l e s t i al S h o p . c o m
So is The Solution.

2. The World Crisis: LATEST NEWS:
“We have a climate crisis that “ The Arctic
is a planetary emergency.” Ocean could
Al Gore Environmental activist and former Vice President of the United States be nearly ice-
free at the end
“The hour is late, it’s time to decide. I’m of summer by 2012.”
quite confident that you will make the Dr. Jay Zwally NASA climate scientist
choice wisely.” Ban Ki- moon Secretary -General, United Nations
“ ...this next year
“It (Climate Change) is the only thing that I believe or two years are the
has the power to fundamentally end the march of
civilization as we know it.” Bill Clinton Former President of the United States critical time periods.
...beyond which it will be
impossible to avoid climate
“Climate change is responsible for conflicts that
can only deepen in the future if we don’t act as soon change with far-ranging
as possible.” José Manuel Durão Barroso President, European Commission undesirable consequences.
These include not only the
loss of the Arctic as we know
“The doomsday clock of climate change is ticking it, with all that implies for
ever faster towards midnight; we are simply not
wildlife and indigenous
reacting quickly enough.” Prince Charles Prince of Wales
peoples, but losses on a
much vaster scale due to
rising seas.” Dr. James E. Hansen
Director of NASA
Goddard Institute for Space Science

3. Earth’s temperature hasn’t varied
by more than 1.8°F (1°C) in the past 10,000 years.
But in the last 100 years alone, it has increased
by 1.1°F (0.6°C). Scientists agree human activity
is causing the Earth to warm and leads to
catastrophic disasters all over the world.
2001 Britain experienced the wettest winter in 270
Natural years • Florida had the worst drought in 100 years • 1.5
million farmers in Central America had no crop
disasters have 2002 1,000 people died from a spring heat wave in
India • Wildfires consumed more than 5 million acres in the
western United States • 235 million people went without
doubled in electricity when hydroelectric sources dried up • 12 million
people in South Asia were displaced by flooding
the last 2003 France: 11,000 dead in heat wave • 1,400 people
died from a heat wave in India and Pakistan • US experience
a record 562 tornadoes in the month of May • Heat wave
20 years. in Britain set new temperature record • Portugal’s worst
forest fires in fifty years
And most 2004 In Haiti 1,000 people killed in flood town •
Hurricane Jeanne left more than 1,050 dead in Haiti •
Storm killed 1,000 in Philippines
are linked 2005 In New Orleans, USA, Hurricane Katrina lashes
coast and 1,836 people lost their lives • Wildfires consumed
to global more than 5 million acres in the western United States • 12
million people in South Asia were displaced by flooding
warming. 2006 Philippines: Typhoon killed 388 • Indonesia: Flood
killed 200
United Nations 2007 Bangladesh: Cyclone Sidr death toll surpasses
3,000 • India: Monsoon killed 2,000 and left 19 million
people stranded • China: Millions fled from typhoon •
Mexico: Floods stranded 300,000 • 1 million people across
Africa hit by rains which destroyed crops, burst dams and
left dozens dead • Southern California: 500,000 fled wildfires
2008 Myanma cyclone death toll above 100,000 •
Britain have the warmest May since 1772, accompanied by
raging wildfires and flash floods...

4. Nature
“We have to save this planet, Climate changing faster
The prestigious scientific journal
so that we will be able to stay. Because
if the ice all melt, if the pole all melt than IPCC worst-case scenario.
out, and then the sea is warm, then the And the hard part is how to stop it - IPCC, United Nations
gas might be released from the ocean,
and we might be poisoned. I’ve always
talked about how we deforest our
planet, yeah, meat eating and all that,
If global
temperatures that contribute to a lot of poor damage
continue to rise,
massive amounts of
to our planet, you know. Scientists say
methane gas could many things. They are listening now,
be released from
the 10,000 gigaton but I just hope they do it 1979 2007
reserves of frozen fast. Just take action. All NASA - In 2007, Arctic summer sea ice reached its lowest extent on record... The area of
methane that are
currently locked the governments in the the perennial ice has been steadily decreasing since the satellite record began in 1979, at a
rate of about 10% per decade. But the 2007 minimum... is about 38% lower than the
in the world’s world really take it now climatological average.
deep oceans and NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Rob Gerston (GSFC).
permafrost. serious. It’s just that I
“ This is a major am worried now that
concern because
it’s possible the action might be Polar ice
that only a little
warming can too slow that’s all. The reflects light
from the sun.
unleash this
trapped methane. way it is going, if they
Unzippering
the methane don’t fix it, 4-5 years As ice
reservoir could melts, less
potentially warm
time, finito. No more. sunlight gets
the Earth tens of
degrees, and the
It’s really that urgent.” reflected
into space.
Polar temperatures have risen higher
and faster than the rest of the globe.
mechanism could Supreme Master Ching Hai
be geologically World-renowned humanitarian, NASA - When less sunlight gets reflected RealClimate.org - A future worst case scenario:
very rapid.” respected spiritual teacher back into space, it is instead absorbed into Enormous amount of methane is frozen inside
and accomplished artist. the oceans and land, raising the overall the ice.Temperature increase could release this
Professor Martin Kennedy
UC Riverside www.SupremeMasterTV.com temperature, and fueling further melting. gas into the atmosphere causing major disaster.

5. IPCC recommendation: Livestock: a major
Don’t eat meat. cause of global warming.
(IPCC:The United Nation panels of over 2,500 scientists and other experts on Climate Change)
PARIS (AFP) — Don’t eat meat, ride a bike,
and be a frugal shopper -- that’s how you “ This is
can help brake global warming, the head of something
the United Nation’s Nobel Prize-winning
scientific panel on climate change said. that the
“Please eat less meat -- meat is a very IPCC was
carbon intensive commodity,” Rajendra afraid to
Pachauri said, adding that consuming large
quantities was also bad for one’s health. say earlier,
Studies have shown that producing 1 kg (2.2 lbs) of meat but now
causes the emissions equivalent of 36.4 kg of carbon dioxide we have Livestock’s gas and waste produces the no.1 Livestock industry produces 18% of the world’s
said it.”
(from raising the animals, transporting them to slaughterhouses, source of nitrous oxide and methane, which greenhouse gas emissions.That is more than
slaughter them, refrigerate their carcasses, and distribute their flesh are 296 times and 25 times more power that of the total world transportation systems
all across the country). Dr. Rajendra Pachauri than carbon dioxide respectively. - of all the cars, trains and planes combined.
Head of IPCC
In addition, raising and transporting that slab of beef, lamb or
pork requires the same amount of energy as
lighting a 100-watt bulb for nearly three weeks.
“The picture is quite grim
-- if the human race does not
do anything, climate change
will have serious impacts.”
he warned.
Since the Nobel was awarded in Oct. 2007
to the IPCC and the former US vice president
Al Gore, Rajendra Pachauri has criss-crossed
Deforestation accounts for 18.3% of the Non meat diet cut down on greenhouse gas
the globe sounding the alarm on the dangers global emissions. Livestock overgazing and emissions, and stop further deforestation, thus
of global warming. crops production for the animals a key factor. effectively reducing global warming.

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majority of global warming. de : now to stop the global warming,
Di oxi
bon to balance the scale of the negative
9% of carbon Car 73% of nitrous
dioxide come oxide come from consequences. Even physically
from livestock livestock
The number 1 source. speaking, most of the pollution
• Land use: • Crop growing practices will be stopped by all the people
- For livestocks Nitrus
- Growing crops to raise animals (More
oxide 8% es than 3/4 of all nitrous on the planet being vegetarian.
for livestock tim
: 72 rful *
ne we
oxide are from agriculture
I really mean it. 80% of the
• Energy use: tha soil. And about 90% of its
Me ore po
80%
Carbon
- Growing crops
dioxide
crops are used for feeding pollution will
for livestock Methane m livestock).
- Operate factory 77% 14%
• The rest is from animal be stopped.
farms
- Operate meat-
processing plant
waste management.
37% of methane
of the global
- Keep the meat
refrigerated or frozen “...livestock come from livestock
The number 1 source.
warming will
• Transportation fuels:
- Deliver feed to factory farms
production must
be cut by one half, • 85% of which are produced in be stopped
the digestive processes of
- Truck animals to slaughter
just to avoid the livestock. if all people begin to
- Transport meat to
grocery stores Percentage of greenhouse gases
from human activities.
level of damage • 15% of which are released
from the massive animal
be vegetarian. ”
worsening beyond waste “lagoons”. Supreme Master Ching Hai
its present level.”
* Global Warming Potential measures a greenhouse gas relative
to that of the same mass of carbon dioxide (GWP: 1). United Nations
Besides global warming, others most serious environmental threats are all linked to meat eating: Wasted Resources: Land • Food • Energy • Water • Rain forest Pollution: Feces • Water • Air

7. And preserve a future for
Be Green. Go Veg. ourselves and our children.
“If the future of the world and
of human beings depended on
me, what would I do?”
Buckminster Fuller
Because we are all in it together, we can no longer
ignore the issue. What is your stand? There are two
possibilities: Because
1) Resign in helplessness. Blame the world at large, we are here.
go on living life as usual and hoping the problem will
just go away. After all, what can one person do? Isn’t
For example, if every American go on one Leading health experts agree that going this the job of the governments?
meat-free day per week, it would be the same vegetarian is the single best thing that we can
as taking 8 million cars off American roads! do for ourselves and our families. OR
2) Choose to do our part as individuals. Have
faith in mankind - believing that many others like
ourselves will also rise to the occasion and act too.
Together, our accumulated efforts will stop the
planet crisis.
If the vegetarian diet can save the world, are we all
Mahatma Alicia
Gandhi
Tobey Maguire Silverstone Carl Lewis willing to sacrifice a little? What do we have to lose,
comparing to what we stand to lose?
Change your Life.
Change your Heart.
John Robbins Shania Twain Albert Einstein
Sir Paul
McCartney Change your Diet.
Animals are intelligent beings that love life Going veg also saves 90% of world’s crops
and feel pain too. Stopping the killings is also (from feeding livestock). It is the solution to
the noble and compassionate thing to do. stop world hunger. Do the right thing. Join us.
危機 The Chinese expression for ‘crisis’ consists of two characters: ‘danger’ and ‘opportunity’. Our present
crisis may be the ultimate opportunity to touch our hearts and make us realize that love is the only
answer: that world peace is indeed possible when we all unite and do our parts to stop the killings in this planet.

8. You
The 100th Monkey story illustrates the concept of morphogenetic fields.
In 1952, on the island of Koshima scientists were providing monkeys with sweet potatoes
dropped in the sand. One monkey found that by washing the sweet potatoes in the stream,
can make the they tasted better. She taught this radical new trick to another in her group. Soon, little by
little, the behavior spreaded. When a critical mass was reached with the 100th monkey, the
difference: field of awareness suddenly spilled over to other and larger groups.
The research suggests that when enough of us make the efforts to translate our positive
Be ‘The 100th Monkey’
. ideas into action, the expanding energy field creates the
evolutionary breakthrough that can change our cultural habit.
“ When you are inspired by some great purpose, some expands in every direction and you
extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds: find yourself in a new, great and
Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness wonderful world.” Yoga Sutras by Patanjali
The time to act is now!
Our planet is well on the way to 1°C
rise in temperature and beyond.
Extinction.
6°C increase
5°C increase Life on Earth ends
4°C increase Methane from ocean with apocalyptic
2°C increase 3°C increase Runaway thaw of floor accelerates storms, flash floods,
1°C increase Europeans dying of heat-
Carbon release permafrost makes global warming; ice hydrogen sulphide gas
Global temperatures are expected Ice-free sea absorbs from vegetation and global warming gone from both poles;
stroke; forests ravaged by and methane fireballs
to rise a further 1.8 - 4.0°C more heat and soils speeds global unstoppable; much humans migrate in
fire; stressed plants begin- racing across the
accelerates global warming; death of the of Britain made search of food and
(3.2 - 7.2°F). IPCC, United Nations ning to emit carbon rather globe with the power
warming; fresh water Amazon rainforest; uninhabitable by try vainly to live like
than absorbing it; of atomic bombs; only
What exactly is going to happen loss from a third of super-hurricanes severe flooding; animals off the land...
a third of all fungi survive...
as Earth heats up? Here is the the world’s surface; hit coastal cities; Mediterranean
species face
degree-by-degree guide: low-lying coast- starvation in Africa... region abandoned... ‘Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet’ by Mark Lynas.
extinction... Based on authoritative scientific articles, the latest computer models,
lines flooded... and information about past warm events in Earth history.

9. Saves Saves Saves
1 person 3,267 pounds of CO2 emissions 5 people from starving 25 lives
going veg 0.4 cow
for By growing crops directly for human,
1 year:
0.5 pig
1 hectare of land can feed 30 persons
instead of only 5 persons.
Equivalent to savings from not using (comparing to feeding crops to livestock, and then
all the equipments below for 1 year: use these animals meat to feed human). 0.1 sheep
= + +
24 chickens
“ If anyone wants to save the planet, all they It’s staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism
have to do is just stop eating meat. That’s the takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology,
single most important thing you could do. famine, cruelty.” Sir Paul McCartney Musician and composer
= + +
If the whole population 655 billion pounds 1 billion 5 billion
ugh to
of United States of 301 million of CO2 emissions could of starving people Eno e care of animal lives
tak
people eat 2/3 less meat: be saved. could be fed. of world !
could be spared.
hunger

10. “Refusing meat” is the • Install alternative
energy like
• Take a shower
instead of a bath.
• Use public
transportation,
• Buy hybrid model
if you are shopping
“the single most effective solar panel and (You save more water ride a bike or for a car.
thing you can do to reduce windmill. by not eating 1 pound share a car.
• Change to compact of beef than by not (Producing 1 fast-food hamburger uses
your carbon footprint.” fluorescent bulbs.
showering for at least
6 months !)
enough fuel to drive a car 20 miles and
enough energy for 17 showers!)
The official handbook of the Live Earth concerts
that Al Gore helped organize:
Going Veg is something
everyone of us can do easily
every day to save our planet.
And it’s much healthier too.
The World Cancer
Research Fund says:
“Eat mostly foods
of plant
origin.”
Save our Save resources
Effectiveness
Convenience Travel efficiently
Effectiveness
Convenience
planet Trees revive the
atmosphere by
• Be a frugal shopper.
• Reduce • Reuse • Recycle.
the smart
replenishing
(Vegetarians do more for the planet than
oxygen while meat-eaters who recycle!)
removing carbon
dioxide, methane,
way. and other green-
house gases.
(The livestock
sector drives 1/3
of the world’s
deforestation!)
Go Veg
HIGH
Effectiveness vs. Convenience
Plant trees Recycle things
(Ratings take into consideration how much Effectiveness Effectiveness Effectiveness
an individual can do on the average) Convenience Convenience Convenience
LOW

11. VIDEO RECOMMENSATION: “It’s not first and foremost a crisis of
technology. It isn’t even a crisis of public The Vegetarian
The 11th Hour.
Turn Mankind’s Darkest Hour
opinion. If you ask the public, ‘Do you
want solar energy? Do you want efficient
Solution.
Into Its Finest. appliances? Do you want efficient From the key issues raised, it
cars?’ The answer is overwhelmingly, ‘Yes, becomes clear of the power and
Produced and narrated by Leonardo
we do.’ It’s the bridge across this chasm simplicity of the vegetarian solution:
DiCaprio, this environmental documentary
of public opinion to public policy. It’s
confronts viewers about the indelible called government. That’s where Bypasses politics.
human footprint that we have left on the failure has been.” To cut CO2 involve fighting powerful
this planet, and the catastrophic effects business interests. Environmental
David Orr Chair, Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College
of environmental abuse. Its message is groups have been lobbying for years
potently delivered with an impressive band without success. Whereas vegetarian
“It’s not just gonna to be a matter of foods are readily available, and cuts
of talking heads.
tweaking a policy here and there. It’ll greenhouse gases with every meal.
The film recounts the myriad sins perpetrated against the take a board social mobilization. It’s
environment, the reasons behind it and what it means for the human Everyone can act.
gonna take involvement at all levels, Most people wanting to make a
race. The movie follows with a spirited discussion of solutions. from governments through industries difference are feeling helpless aside
Stirring design visions of alternate energy for transportation, homes and on down to our communities. And a from writing to their legislators and
and cities, enlightened governmental agendas and, most importantly, welling up of involvement of citizens.” turning off their lights. Unless they
more conscious consumer choices. Sandra Postel Director, Global Water Policy Project happen to be buying a car. Cutting
The 11th Hour is, at heart, a call to arms. And it on meat consumption is something
all citizens can do every day to help.
points hopefully towards a new dawn: if we act now.
“Not only it is the 1 1th hour, it’s 1 1:59
The fastest way.
and 59 secs. And although prior
Shifts in diet is much faster to
people’s movements have taken 30 to 40 implement.The turnover rate for
Stephen Hawking years to actually build to a point where farm animals is 1 to 2 years but the
Cambridge physicist they had the power to drive changes into turnover rate for cars and power
the fundamental structure of govern- plants can be decades. It takes years
ments, we don’t have 30 to 40 years.” to build and replace our massive
Tom Linzey Executive Director, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund economical infrastructure.
Safe and plentiful.
“Our food are becoming poisoned to Beside reducing the leading source
the point that we should worry about it.
of water pollution from farm waste
Mikhail Gorbachev lagoons, the vegetarian diet is the
Former Soviet leader There’s less and less of it.”
safest and healthiest food source.
Jeremy Jackson Scripps Institute for Oceanography And the crops saved from feeding
livestock is more than enough to
feed the whole world.
www.EarthSave.org

12. “ I’m sorry, I have Everything else is secondary. ”
to be blunt. I’ve been too .....
polite all these years, it doesn’t Q: Do you have a message for the leaders of the world?
work. Now the thing is, most often
the world is doing things that Supreme Master Ching Hai: I would say to them to use their mighty power
to change the diet of the planet. And adopt immediately, renewable energy. And set
are second or third important an example by themselves by becoming a vegetarian or vegan. They first have to be
in line. Now the number one vegetarian and then they use their power truly. Like the way they forbid smoking.
thing that is important is non- They could do that in forbidding meat as well. By citing all the harm that meat would
do to humans and the planet.
violent. Non-violent to humans
Supreme Master Ching Hai shared Her views and animals. Of course, that It’s not just the technologies. Because the karma is more
on the dire situation in teleconferences. means vegetarian diet. important than just the technology. So we have to meditate on
vegetarianism, you know, for all the people to have peace and to be vegetarian and the
That means completely abstain from all animal products.That is the thing that has been
technology add into it as well.
ignored up to now. I mean, some people have spoken out. Even some government officials
and some organizations have spoken out about that, but too little.If we stop killing, if we .....
practice non-violence, non-violent to humans, non-violent to animals, if we stop
all the killing, then all bad effects will stop, almost Q: Are the recent disasters around the world somehow connected with the billions
instantly. There wil be no end to happiness and freedom, of any aspects, body and of animals slaughtered every year for human consumption?
mind, if we stop the main cause of disaster, that is the killing.
Supreme Master Ching Hai: Of course it is.
The main cause of disaster is the violence of the people, mostly from the people. We
have to stop all this. We have to stop all the killings. I keep telling again, and again, and “As you sow, so shall you reap.” “Like attracts like.”
again. We have to live and let live. We have to respect and save lives. But tell me, who
Scientifically speaking, spiritually speaking, we have
will be wise enough to listen? And who will be strong enough to carry this out? That’s the
point. Perhaps everybody knows this, one way or another. But need a strong will to carry been warned.
out. Not just knowing. Practicing. Practicing is very important.
So, all the disasters that have happened around the world, of course, are connected with
We have to respect all lives, including that of our so-called enemies even. Directly or the human unkindness to the co-inhabitants.That was the price we have to pay for what
indirectly, we have to stop the killing. We have to be all vegetarian and abstain from all we have done to the innocents, who have done us no harm, who are also the children of
animal products. And that’s how the killings will stop. God, who have been sent to Earth to help us and to cheer our days.

13. Q: Hallo. Master, if the world were to go 100% vegetarian right now, what kind of Understanding Meat-eating, Killing and Karma.
Earth would we live in and what effect would this have on the world economy and Karma means “As you sow, so shall you reap.” If you kill, you will get killed, that is the meaning
also how great the changes would be and how long would it take to see the effects of karma. If we hit someone, later we will get beaten.That is called karma.
of these changes on our environment? .....
Meat is the cause of all wars and suffering in this world, as well as in your personal self.To
Supreme Master Ching Hai: refrain from meat is to contribute peace to this planet. If we terminate the cause of killing, we
will not reap the result of being killed or being wounded.
If the world were to go 100% vegetarian right now, the .....
good effect of it would be seen within more or less 60 We respect all lives in the creative Plan of God. We can see by ourselves that all lives resist
days. suffering and resist death.Therefore, when we kill or see animals being killed, they are suffering
and they try to run away.That means God empowered them with the instinct of wanting life.
In 8 weeks, we could see immediate effect. Of course, you also see immediately, it’s If we interfere and force their lives away, we interfere with God’s will. We should treat every
almost immediately, but to see the whole big picture, you can realize it within 8 weeks. being in the same way as we ourselves like to be treated.Then our lives will be blessed with
grace, with longevity and with wisdom. “As you sow, so shall you reap.” Then we will never
8 short weeks, yes. And what kind of Earth would we live in? It would be Eden again. blame God for any misfortune.
Yes. And we will have sudden peace, and sudden realization of sameness between all .....
nations, between all humans and between humans and animals. Refraining oneself from killing also means not eating animal flesh because although we do not
kill it ourselves, others have to kill so we can eat it.This is indirect killing. Whenever we eat
Things would be more lushful, abundant. People will feel happier, even without reasons. meat, it is unavoidable that some of the hatred, anger and frustration in the animal’s heart
They will not know why they feel happy. And food will be enough everywhere. Rivers will caused when it departed, will be imprinted upon our consciousness, and then we will feel
run, plentiful again. Disasters will cease. Heaven will smile on humans and good wishes uneasy inside.Therefore, when we sleep at night we have nightmares, when animals see us they
are frightened of us and run away. And when we are sick, it is difficult to heal ourselves because
will be fulfilled.That is a kind of Eden, yes. If we are to be vegetarian, all of the humans
of all this hatred, this angry atmosphere which hangs around the meat that we eat.
on the planet, yes? That would be the effect.Yes, that’s what we wish to have, hey?
www.SupremeMasterTV.com Animal slaughterings have increased fivefold in the past fifty years. Supreme Master Ching Hai
VIDEO RECOMMENSATION: VIEWERS’ COMMENTS:
Earthlings. “ I am in utter disbelief, and I am saddened that “ What we do to animals is wrong, most of us
I wasn’t educated earlier. Upon watching this just wont say it out loud. ”
A powerful, informative and movie, I instantly became a vegan.
thought-provoking documentary For me, there was no other option. ” “ To every human in the modern world
narrated by Academy Award this documentary should be watched.
nominee Joaquin Phoenix. Using “ For those of you who are too afraid So rare do we get the chance to look
hidden cameras and never-before- to see this because of the graphic in directions others would rather us
seen footage, it chronicles the animal abuse, just remember that not see to protect their own ends. ”
practices at some of the largest they have to live through this violence
industries in the world, which rely each and every day, every minute and “ The truth is not pretty, make yourself
on animals for profit. www.Earthlings.com every second.We owe it to them to see it. ” aware and decide your own opinion. ”

14. Cows are intelligent, loyal
animals who enjoy solving
problems. A cow was known
to have walked 7 miles to be
reunited with her calf after
being sold.
Cows are stunned, have their
throats cut and then skinned.
Some remain fully conscious
throughout the entire process.
Chickens are inquisitive and
interesting animals with
We have ceased to know what we eat,
individual personalities.They or what has been injected into factory-bred animals,
are as intelligent as cats, dogs or what toxins are released by those terrified animals as
Pigs are curious and insightful
animals considered smarter
than 3-year-old human
Do you and even some primates.
Chickens suffer from broken
they die in a mechanical steel box. All we know of the dead flesh
is that it comes in clean plastic packs, nicely, and for us, emotionally
know?
wings and legs by the time sterilized with a guarantee that we have no responsibility whatsoever
children. A pig once saved a
they are packed to the
boy from drowning. for taking that animal’s life. We have lost touch with our reality. This
slaughterhouse.They are then
Many pigs are still alive after hung by their feet and dragged is the world in which we live and our style of life.
their throats are cut. And they 55 billion animals painfully into electrically In the last hundred years, man have exterminated over hundred and
are thrown into the hair- are slaughtered every charged water bath. twenty million of our fellow human beings. Can this be considered
removal tanks to be scalded to
death in boiling water. year for food. www.goveg.com
as sufficient evidence that our species have taken a wrong turn?
‘Unknown Man’ by Yatri
Fish are smart, sensitive
animals.They have excellent
memories and recognize their
mates. Fish have a nervous Slaughterhouse Planet
system and pain receptors like
all other animals.
“ As long as there are slaughterhouses,
Removing a fish from water
causes pressure to rupture its
bladder, pushes its stomach and there will be battlefields.” Leo Tolstoy
eyes out, before it dies in pain.

15. Human Rights Woman Rights Animal Rights Earth Rights
“ Nothing is as
(1860s) (1920s) (1980s) (2008)
Declaration that slavery Equality under the Become accepted that More people are going veg
was wrong. All human law, women had the animals suffer and feel in this world crisis now,
beings should be free.
And no man should
rights to vote. Women
also had better access
pain too. While ‘controls
to ensure they do not
believing that not just the
animals, and not just our powerful as an
idea whose time
suffer under other to education and suffer unnecessarily’ , children, but all lives on earth
human being. employment. animals still die. In pain. have the rights to live.
has come.”
Victor Hugo
(1802-1885) French writer
What we take for granded today were taboos yesterday.
History has shown when we expand our love and
understanding to include all beings, it would ignite and
catch the imagination of our societies at large.
“ Nothing will benefit human health and on Earth as much as the evolution to a
increase chances for survival of life vegetarian diet.” The most well-known scientistAlbert century. He had (1879-1955)
of the 20th
Einstein
shown us the
power within the atom and changed the way we understand the universe.
1750 to 1950
Beginning of the industrial age.
the materialistic view it had instituted.The
universe was known to be not materialistic
“ The root of our problem
is that we have been unkind “ Love your neighbors; love
The more we mapped and named the at all, but an interwoven pattern of energy to our co-inhabitants: the everyone else; love the animals.
systems where time could speed up and slow
physical phenomena in the universe, the more
down, where the same elementary particle
living, feeling, walking, acting, When we love, we don’t harm.
we could feel the world in which we lived was loving beings, like animals of
explained, predictable, secure, even ordinary can appear in two places at the same time, When we love, we don’t kill. The
and where space is curved and finite but still all sizes and shapes. And we
and mundane. But in order to sustain this only religion is Love. One simple
illusion we had to constantly screen and unending and maybe multidimensional... have also been unkind to our
psychologically repress any that reminded us environment. We have been solution is Love, that’s it. We
... other sciences began to rock our worldview,
of the mystery of life.The agreement to avoid
religious phenomena grew into an
revealing the environmental damage resulting
from the exploitation of the earth’s resources.
massacring our co-inhabitant
animals, and we have been
have to follow our heart.
Supreme Master Ching Hai
”
destroying our environment,
outright taboo... Pollution was steadily poisoning our biological
life support systems. Clearly we were
Be Veg Go Green
like deforesting and
1950 to now destroying the water and
Waking up to the mystery. destroying the very world we hoped destroying the air.”
to improve with our progress...
The science of physics itself began to revise
James Redfield & Carol Adrienne
Supreme Master Ching Hai Save Our Planet

16. Be Veg. Go Green. Save Our Planet.
Recipe for Life
Save ocean
Save species’ lives
human’s • Pollution from animal
lives farms is destroying the
Save our own
Save wild world’s oceans. Nitrogen
• 20% of theor 1.4
world’s Save farm lives
animals’ lives Save rain- from animal feces and
population, fertilizer causes massive
animals’ Meat-eating causes: Save our forests
billion people, could
lives •Cancer
children’s
• The disappearance of increase in algae, leaving
be fed with the grain
•Heart Disease 65 amphibian species in species’ little oxygen for other
and soybeans fed to
• In the United •Strokes lives Central and South America lives sea lives. In many areas,
U.S. cattle alone. States, ten billion •Alzheimer’s & Brain
• “We hold the
has a direct correlation to
• Livestock to virtually all the sea
• Millions of people animals are Health future in our hands.
global warming.
grazing leads
animals and plants
across the globe are slaughtered every •Kidney disease Together, we must • Animal species like the destruction of
have died.
faced with hurricanes, year. •Diabetes ensure that our antelopes, tortoises and rainforests. And with • Fish farms massive
heat waves, droughts,
• In the European •Gallstones grandchildren will birds found only on the it, the extinction amounts of feces, fish
floods, wildfires and Union, the annual •Obesity not have to ask southern tip of Africa of over half of the carcasses and antibiotic
water shortages. figure is 300 million •Animalborne Diseases: why we failed to cannot move farther south world’s animal and is causing the ocean floor
• Scientists predict cattle, sheep, and Bird Flu, Mad Cow
Disease, Crohn’s
do the right when warming becomes
unbearable.
plant species. to rot and toxic.
that global warming pigs, and four thing, and
• Pollution and over-
would displace 150 billion chickens.
•
Disease and SARS.
Osteoporosis
left them • Over two-thirds of bird fishing causes diminished
million people over
the next 50 years.
• In Canada, 650
•Hypertension
to suffer the
consequences.”
species in Australia and
more than one-third of
food supply for sea
million are killed animals. Whales
annually. •Arthritis, Gout & UN chief Ban Ki-moon those in Europe could are losing
Rheumatism simply be wiped off the weight.
•Neuritis and Sciatica face of the Earth.
Global warming is causing catastrophic disasters with heavy lost of human lives. And the rising temperatures could send more than a million of plants and animals to extinction.

17. Concentrated
Leading health experts agree that
multi-vitamins going vegetarian is the single best
tablets are thing that we can do for ourselves
go
also a good and our families.
V
source vitamins,
minerals and Vegetarian foods provide us with
anti-oxidants. all the nutrients that we need, minus
the saturated fat, cholesterol, and
egetarian contaminants found in meat and
dairy products.
and start your Leading medical organizations
agree that balanced plant-based
lifetime of good
lifetime of good diets provide the best protection
against the three biggest killers: heart
health.
health. disease, cancer and strokes.
The American Dietetic Association
states that vegetarians have “lower
rates of death from heart disease;
lower blood cholesterol levels,
lower blood pressure,
lower rates of_
Fruits and
vegetables
are full of
vitamins, minerals
and anti-oxidants.
Meat substitutes They also contain
made from wheat gluten quality fiber for good
and soya are high in protein. health and long life.
They taste good without killing. hypertension,
type 2 diabetes, prostate
and colon cancer”.
A meat-free diet rich in complex
carbohydrates, protein, fiber, omega
3 fatty acids, vitamins, and minerals
provides optimal nutrition for both
children and adults.
Beans, nuts and seeds contain high percentage of protein. www.goveg.com

18. Asparagus wrap p2 Creamy corn soup p4 Pasta with mariana sauce p6
About Protein.
Almost everything contains Source (Percentage of protein per kg)
protein. It’s almost impossible to
Tofu (from Soya) . . . . . . . . . 16 %
eat as many calories as you need Potato salad p8 Kailan soy meat p12 Veggie stew p14
for good health without getting Gluten (from Flour) . . . . . . . 70 %
enough protein; unless you eat Corn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 %
A
nothing but junk food. Rice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.6 %
Healthy sources include whole- Soya beans,
wheat bread, oatmeal, beans, Kidney beans,
peanuts, peas, nuts, mushrooms, Chick peas,
and broccoli.Vegetarians do not
need to combine foods at each
meal to get “complete protein.” All
Lentils, etc. . . . . . . . . . . 10 - 35 %
Almonds,
recipes f or lif e
lternative Living
grains, legumes, vegetables, nuts, Walnuts,
and seeds provide all the essential Cashews,
amino acids. Hazel nuts,
By contrast, too much protein, Pine nuts, etc. . . . . . . . . 14 - 30 %
especially animal protein, can Pumpkins seeds,
cause people to excrete calcium
Sesame seeds,
through their urine and increase
their risk of osteoporosis. Too Sunflower seeds, etc. . . 18 - 24%
much protein can also strain the
kidneys, leading to kidney disease.
Chive tofu p16 Basil eggplant p18 Lemongrass soy meat p20
www.vegcooking.com
Fried salted tofu p22 Stuffed tomato p24 Sweet & sour soy meat p26

19. CONTENTS
Western Vegetarian Recipes
1) Asparagus wrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2) Creamy corn soup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3) Pasta with mariana sauce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4) Potato salad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Asian Vegetarian Recipes
1) Kailan with soy meat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
WESTERN
2) Veggie stew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3) Chive tofu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
VEGETARIAN
4) Basil eggplant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 RECIPES
5) Lemongrass soy meat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6) Fried salted tofu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
7) Stuffed tomato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
8) Sweet & sour soy meat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Internet Vegetarian Cook Shows
1) Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30