great vegetarian

Love is not only one of mankind, but for all living things ... this is the highest manifestation of this noble attribute of moral development of man - humanity. / A.N.Beketov /

 

Great vegetarian

Buddha

Jesus Christ

Prophet Mohammed

Dalai Lama

Pythagoras

Plato

Socrates

Plutarch

Empedocles

Epicurus

John Chrysostom

Zarathustra

Aristotle

Horace

Ovid

Seneca

Bacon

Albert Einstein

Leonardo da Vinci

Isaac Newton

G.Uels

Charles Darwin

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Voltaire

Adam Smith

Montaigne

Byron

Schiller

George Bernard Shaw

Albert Schweitzer

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lamartine

Ilya Repin

Beketov

Struve

Leo Tolstoy

Benjamin Franklin

Voltaire

Rousseau

Byron

Schopenhauer

Richard Wagner

Mahatma Gandhi

Rabindranath Tagore

Thomas Alva Edison

Franz Kafka

Norbert Wiener

Adolf Hitler

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Alexander Pope

Candice Bern

Horace Greeley

Clement of Alexandria

Dick Gregory

John Wesley

John Milton

Gen. William Bush

Paul Newman

Dr. Dzh.X.Kellog

St. Francis

Clint Walker

Upton Sinclair

James Coburn

Saint-Germain

Vegetarians actors, athletes

Carre Otis

Kim Basinger

Richard Gere

Arnold Schwarzenegger

David Duchovny

Alex Baldwin

Dustin Hoffman

Brad Pitt

Alicia Silverstone

Tom Cruise

Nicole Kidman

Brigitte Bardot

Cathy Lloyd

Drew Barrymore

bodybuilder Bill Pearl

Roy Halligen and Andreas Culling

Martina Navratilova (tennis)

Pamela Anderson

Cindy Crawford

Claudia Schiffer

Uma Thurman

Liv Tyler Christie Brinkley

Gwyneth Paltrow

Nikolai Drozdov

Vegetarians musicians

Sting

Madonna

Bryan Adams

The Beatles - John Lennon and Yoko

Paul McCartney

George Harrison

Ringo Starr

«Seal»

Lenny Kravitz

Sinead O-Connor

Ozzy Osbourne

Prince

Tina Turner

«Blur»

Montserrat Caballe

Billy Idol

comedian Yankovic «Weird» Al

Brian Molko (lead «Placebo»)

Darren Hayes (ex-«Savage Garden»)

Shania Twain Alanis Morissette

Justin Timberlake

Chrissie Hynde («Pretenders»)

Charlie Watts («Rolling Stones»)

Robert Smith («The Cure»)

Melanie C («Spice Girls»)

«Depeche Mode» - Martin Gore and Alan Wilder

«Duran Duran»-all vegetarians

"Moby"

Bob Dylan

Lyudmila Gurchenko

Mikhail Zadornov

Julia Bordovskikh

Oksana Pushkina

George Vitsin

Evgeniy Osin

Schur ("B-2")

Cyril Nemolyaev ("Boni IT")

 

If you look at the history of vegetarianism, you can see that great men whose names adorn it came to vegetarianism in the first place of the philosophical, ethical considerations. Great vegetarian has a more profound insight into the essence of things, a more acute sense of compassion for the pain of others, a strong sense of justice and the ability to transcend traditional tastes and views. Vegetarianism especially fascinated them with his altruism.

Contribution to the history of the great vegetarian ethics starts from Antiquity. Exalted vegetarians Antiquity were philosophers and left a significant philosophical and literary works.

Among the most famous vegetarians of antiquity must be called Pythagoras, Plato and Plutarch.

Pythagoras (VI c. BC) was born on the island of Samos. According to his biographer, "sleep Pythagoras was brief, clean and cheerful soul, the body is hardened in perfect health, and invincibility." Pythagoras glorified himself as a scientist, philosopher, and as the founder of the famous company - the first vegetarian association, including 300 young people from the most influential families of the city. Condition of acceptance in society were common property and strict abstinence. Members of the public were guided in their lives the teachings of Pythagoras, based on the principles of humanity and self-restraint, justice, and moderation. Pythagoras taught his followers to live in harmony, to do good to his enemies. One of the main precepts of Pythagoras was, and is, "Do not kill or harm an innocent animal." Pythagoras respect for nature was so great that he forbade harm fruitful trees and plants. Pythagoras urged his disciples that, content with a purely humanitarian food, they will have health, peace of mind, be of high moral character. Pythagoras himself, according to the biographer, was satisfied with honey, bread, drink wine, its main food was cooked or raw vegetables.

Pythagorean doctrine expounded in verse poet of antiquity - Ovid. In the 15th book, "Metamorphosis," one of the best places to consider a line of poetry devoted to Pythagoras and his school: "He Pythagoras forbade the first dish up meat animals, first opened his mouth to utter the words full of wisdom, which, however, no not heed:

Much upon you, people themselves pollute unauthorized food!

Do you have cereals, under the weight of the burden rich

Juicy, rosy fruit tree branches bow;

Bunches on the vines hang liquid, spices and herbs

Delicate, delicious ripen in the fields, and others,

Those that are rougher, fire softens and makes the sweeter;

Net moisture milk and fragrant cell

Sweet honey that smells like fluffy grass - timianom,

To stop you. Wasteful generously all good

Offers you the land, and without brutal murders without kroviVkusnye dishes you cook it.

Only wild animals

Hunger quench their meat alive ...

And ... what kind of criminal practice,

What a horrible abomination: guts - guts pogloshene!

Eh can fatten flesh and blood beings like us

Greedy his body and killing other creatures -

The death of another man - to support life? "

Largest ancient philosopher and writer Plato (V-IV centuries BC.) Can be considered a follower of Pythagoras. Plato founded near Athens "Academy", which gave his lectures. In the famous book "Dialogues", in the part called "The Republic," Plato presents his ideas of an ideal society, whose life is built on the principles of temperance and prudence. The author dwells on what kind of food will have members of the community: it is made of flour, vegetables, fruit, cheese. Plato believes that the power of the meat will cause diseases to livestock need a special class of people, whom he calls "swineherds" be a need for new pastures for livestock, and this, in turn, will lead to strife and war. City, if its inhabitants will eat meat, will cease to be a healthy city, and life will cease to be a simple and fair. Plato indignantly exclaims: "And do not you ashamed of, if medical care is required not from accidental injuries or diseases peculiar to the season, and because of our dissolute life ..." Plato distinguished high abstention, in particular, and in the food. No chance for the simple food they call him "lover of FIG."

Writer and historian of antiquity Plutarch also strongly supported vegetarianism, believing that the custom to eat animals is cruel and unnatural, "You ask me, on what grounds Pythagoras abstained from eating meat of animals? For my part I do not understand what kind of feelings, thoughts or cause led the man who first dared to desecrate her mouth with blood and allowed his lips to touch the meat being killed ... Nothing leads us into confusion, neither the remarkable beauty of helpless animals we kill for food or pathetic gentle sounds of their voices nor their brains. piece is unique because of their flesh we deprive them of the radiant light of life, for which they were born. "

Talking about great vegetarians, not to mention the name of the founder of the Buddhist religion of Siddhartha Gautama, known as Buddha (623-544 years. BC). As a young man, after four memorable meetings that took place in his home city of Kapilavastu, he abruptly changed the idea of ​​the real world. This is how it is described in the literature of Buddhism. Crown Prince Siddhartha small kingdom, passing through the streets, he saw a beggar, begging, and, surprised, asked: "Why is he so unhappy?" First learn that there are poverty and hunger, he seriously thought about it.

The second encounter was with a sick person, while living in the palace, Siddhartha had never seen the sick and suffering. During the next trip prince saw a decrepit old man, the fourth time he met a funeral procession, brought up among the palatial luxury and pleasures, Siddhartha was shaken by the suffering of the world. King, the father of the young men, the sages predicted that his son would be a great spiritual preacher, but he, desiring to transfer the kingdom to his son, deliberately shielded him from everything that could bring his other thoughts. Same fate decreed otherwise. After these four meetings Siddhartha decided to devote his life to finding ways of saving mankind from suffering. One night, after leaving the palace, he fled to the jungle to the hermit ascetic find instruction in wisdom. Getting off the horse, he exchanged his clothes rags counter man, cut off his long locks with a sword and said goodbye to a faithful servant and a horse. Legend has it that a horse, seeing that the owner leaves it there and then died of grief.

Escape from the palace was called in Buddhism the "Great Care". In the jungle, Siddhartha became a disciple of the hermits, with harsh ascetic life. Scientists continue for seven years. One girl from the pastoral families returning home from the pasture, they saw a young man lying emaciated by hunger. They drink it with milk, and thus were able to return to life. So Siddhartha realized that austerity alone does not lead to the truth. After leaving his teachers, he began to think in deep concentration, and after much effort has come to understand the meaning and the "essence of the world." Once Siddhartha sat under a tree, leaning against the trunk, and told myself that I would go, until you come upon the truth. And Nirvana as the highest cosmic consciousness and liberation from the chain of reincarnations on earth, illuminating it. He saw an amazing picture of the movement of countless systems of worlds of the universe together with the Masters of Light, moving from star to star, and emitting untold radiance of life, the great cycles of endless time. He felt a powerful influx of spiritual strength and wisdom and realized the truth. Full of love for humanity, now called the Buddha, or "enlightened," he began to preach the path of liberation from suffering. Along with his followers, he created monastic community where monks had no property, no home, no family. In a poor clothing they roamed the country with a begging bowl in which housewives have never refused to pour at least a handful of rice. Buddha's disciples set an example nestyazhatelstvo, temperance in all things, peace of mind and tranquility, love for people and all living things. Everywhere they preached the teachings of the Buddha, who was called "the Lion of the Law" for intransigence in pursuing the idea and her fearless preaching, for courage, for he was afraid to go up against the mighty Brahman, did not recognize its values ​​and practices, rebuked the priests of pride, arrogance, extravagance and greed. Visiting one of Kapilavastu, the Buddha turned to Buddhism and his family.

Buddha proclaimed the four noble truths. First that life is full of suffering, the second - the cause of suffering, and the third - the cessation of suffering and the fourth - the path to liberation. Dying, the Buddha admonished his disciples as "Yes, I'm leaving, but I leave you to the laws." One of these laws was the prohibition of slain animals.

Humanistic philosophy of Buddhism has had a positive impact on people in different countries. Did not escape its influence, and England, which has always been ahead of other countries in the vegetarian movement activity.

Prominent representatives of Christianity also held vegetarianism. There is evidence of early Christianity authoritative authors who claim that the apostles eat only plant foods. This is the testimony of the famous Clement of Alexandria, who described St. Peter as a vegan, pita bread, olives, green stuff. The same information reached us about the apostles Matthew and Jacob. John Chrysostom, an outstanding preacher of Christianity, left a written documents testifying to his belief in the need to eat plant foods: "We are like wolves and tigers We even worse than these animals - he wrote. - Nature created them so that they should eat meat, while God has given us a reasonable speech and sense of justice. "

Among the great vegetarian significant place belongs to Leonardo da Vinci, a prominent scientist and artist of the Renaissance, which opposed itself to his vegetarianism era, the basic law which was the rejection of self-restraint. "There will come a time - wrote Leonardo da Vinci - when people will look at the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of man."

In Europe at the time, there were many well-known artists, medicine who were vegetarians. Thus, the enemy of meat eating was a famous French philosopher Gassendi. Gassendi became famous not only philosophical work, he also studied mathematics and was a professor of mathematics at the University of Paris, he studied anatomy and astronomy. Wrote literary works, he attributed the revolution in physics and natural philosophy. Regarding vegetarianism Gassendi wrote: "The unit of human nature indicates that our teeth are not designed for chewing meat and fruit. As for meat, it is true that a person eats them, but tell the truth, unless a person does not every day and every minute that quite contrary to his nature? " In support of his thoughts Gassendi Plutarch gives it the power of unnatural flesh: "You say that the meat is good for man, but if he is convinced that it is a natural food, why he does not use it in the form in which it is offered to him by nature No, he disgustedly refuses any attempt is not only living animals, but even their raw meat and finds it necessary to resort to the action of fire to modify the natural characteristics of production. " The assertion that the meat diet gives strength, Gassendi and strongly refutes evidence indicates the strength of horses, bulls and other animals, not eating meat, and grass.

The same idea is in the works cited Dzh.Rey, English biologist, founder of botany and zoology. Recommending vegetarian food as the most useful, he writes: "Man is by nature not belongs to the carnivorous animals, as evidenced by is the fact that it is not adapted to life even a predator and has no jagged and sharp teeth, no matter how sharpened claws , he appeared to separate production. Instead, it gives gentle hands to gather fruit and vegetables, and such teeth, that can only chew, not tear food. "

The seventeenth century gave the world-renowned physicians vegetarians. It is a French reformer in the field of medicine and Eke Chine English physician, who claimed that the meat never "intended for human food." Eke, for example, wrote that the fruit, bread, and vegetables constitute the most natural food for man, the flesh of is neither natural nor necessary for his food. While Eke properly install dependencies between the need for wine and meat diet, as both a stimulant effect on the body.

Insisting on reform food Chine not only criticized the meat food with hygienic hand, but also considered the ethical aspect of its use: "You have a heart of stone, and a large dose of violence to look at the convulsions, the agony and suffering of the poor animal, dying for our pleasure and luxury excitement of our deadened bodies. From the point of view of logic and justice, I do not see much difference between diet and nutrition on human flesh meat dumb animals. "

Very interesting thoughts about food meat prominent English writer hygienist Tryon. In his writings on reform food he serves as a reformer in the area of ​​morality. His book, "The way to health" has made such a strong impression on Benjamin Franklin, that the scientist became a vegetarian. Tryon correctly concludes that a sophisticated and abundant food leads to disease. The main disadvantages of eating meat, in his opinion, are as follows. "The people of our time are badly mistaken, saying or suggesting that the meat does not only more, but better food than grass, cereals, etc. The fact is that it is more exciting, but the excitement is not so strong, not so well as other food delivered, because meat contains more substances subject to rapid deterioration and decay ... It's hot body and makes you thirsty ... It develops a large number of harmful liquids ... We must take into account the fact that cattle and other beings subject to disease and other misfortunes, and pollution, over-feeding, hard labor, abuse of butchers, etc., making their meat is even more unhealthy. "

Tryon proves very unnatural killing animals, "What a nasty, unpleasant sight are dead carcasses and bloody chunks of raw meat! .. Imagine that a person brought up in a place. Where there is no custom of killing animals and eating meat, he suddenly gets on