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Monday, November 25, 2002
SALAAM
Geeta
Citygirl, Artistic Director
invites
you to join our NYC effort to participate in
The
World Meatless and Animal Rights Day
In 1986, it was suggested
to spritual mentor and head of the Sadhu Vaswani Mission in India that
November 25 (Sadhu Vaswani's Birthday) be celebrated as an International
Meatless Day. The campaign has met with considerable success in that, tons
of individuals send their pledges to the Mission to go meatless on this
day. Four state governments in India - Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka
and Andhra Pradesh - have issued instructions for the closure of slaughter-houses
as well as butchers' shops on 25th of November every year, in their respective
states.
What can you do in NYC and
all across the world???
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Create and foster reverence
for ALL Life, in the belief that ALL life must be regarded as sacred. This
is the first step towards World Peace. Sadhu Vaswani said, "If indeed,
life is one, is not the animal too, my brother? And am I not his keeper?
Meat eating will one day be condemned as murder!" Dada J.P Vaswani
said, "Meat eating and world peace appear to be poles apart. Actually
the two are interlinked. So long as animals and birds are slain to provide
food for man, so long we will not see peace on the face of this Earth.
If man kills an animal for food, he will not hesitate in killing a fellow
man whom he considers as his enemy. The root cause of world wars
is irreverence towards life."
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Work towards recognizing and
drafting a charter of Animal Rights. Dada J.P Vaswani said, "Animal
Welfare is not the answer, Animal Rights are needed! The first right
of every animal is to live. For we cannot take away what we cannot give.
And since we cannot give life to a dead creature, we have no right to take
away the life of a living one."
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Create a belief in the Sisterhood/Brotherhood
of all Life. Sadhu Vaswani said, "All killing is a denial of love.
For to kill, or eat what another has killed, is to rejoice in cruelty.
And cruelty hardens our hearts and blinds our vision and we see not that
they whom we kill are our brothers and sisters in the One Brotherhood of
Life. For me not to love bird and beast would be to not love the
Lord. For his children are birds and beasts, no less than human beings."
Celebrate this day by:
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Asking people to sign pledges
to go without meat on November 25th.
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Saving animals from slaughterhouses.
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Requesting Hotels and caterers
to refrain from serving meat on November 25th.
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Marching for Peace across the
world in November 25th.
We appreciate your commitment
to avoid meat, cruelty and help to Stop All Killings!
Peace, Paz, Shanti, Shalom
and SALAAM.
Visit the following for more
info and to sign the pledge.
http://www.sakmeatlessday.com
http://www.meatlessday.com
http://www.sadhuvaswani.org
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Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director
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