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Swami Dayananda saraswati, whom I revere as an enlightened master, vociferously advocates Vegetarian food, and stresses the need for people to be vegetarians at every given opportunity.
Oshadibhyah annam – says Taittiriya Upanishad. Food means plants. Every biologist will agree that the food chain invariably starts with plants. The reason why the Upanishad says food means plants, is because only they have the ability to manufacture/convert sunlight, water, minerals into edible food. All animals either eat plants, or eat those animals that eat plants; they have the ability to only digest food and not manufacture food. Therefore, food means plants only.
Swamiji is very fierce in his criticism of non-vegetarians. I have heard him in several lectures calling the stomachs of non-vegetarians as a graveyard, since that is the place fit for dead animals. Swamiji fervently appeals to everyone to become exclusively vegetarians.
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