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15 Luscious fruits, golden grain, wholesome vegetables, beautiful flowers, lovely fragrance, sunshine, birds singing, bees gathering honey, peace, harmony, beauty, life. Everything lovely, beautiful and healthful. Now the law of God, nature, or life, is that. Then if you live on the products of the butcher, (or rather murder) house, can you not see that the result or fruits will be the same? And on the other hand, if you live on the products of the garden, God's appointed store-house, you will have life, health, peace, harmony, happiness and beauty."

"There is a better way, one that must triumph in the end—the Reign of Love, the golden rule: 'Whatsoever ye would that others should do to you, do ye even so to them.' No other law is necessary, and under it no animal can be killed and eaten. . . . It is against the law in this country to eat human beings; so flesh eaters take bodies of any animals that are not protected by law. . . The difference between cannibalism and feeding on any flesh, is only in degree—the crime is the same in both cases. . . . We should be able to do right by the animal kingdom—something which we cannot do so long as flesh is eaten. ... It would not be a slight thing if we should dispense with the slaughter, or murder, every year in the United States of from 60,000,000 to 70,000,000 animals. . . . We could then bring up our children without developing in them the instinct of cruelty."

says: "The habit of eating animals diminishes our natural horror of cannibalism. It is, indeed, civilized cannibalism; we care tenderly for (domesticated) animals, cherish and fatten them (like as the savage cannibal fattens his captive before eating him) only in the end to show our 'love' by slaying and devouring!"

"I don't want to make a graveyard of my stomach. I have not eaten meat for forty years. . . . Would there not be less murder in the land, if less killing of animals? I believe it makes people bloody and savage. Stop killing animals, and you will not kill me. In the company of Christians who kill animals I am afraid, but