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World Peace Diet Day: I deeply admire the work of author, musician, PhD and vegan activist Will Tuttle. So I’m posting a message about a project to get his book The World Peace Diet into more hands. Here’s the message from Will and his wife, artist Madeleine Tuttle: “We are coordinating a special offer today for The World Peace Diet called “The March 12 World Peace Diet Compassion and Health Campaign.” This special campaign aims to boost The World Peace Diet to the top of the bestseller lists, thereby creating more opportunities for media conversations about the ramifications of our culture’s ongoing violence toward billions of animals for food.

So! We are encouraging you to get a copy of The World Peace Diet today — to help spread the message in a big way - and - This is the really good news:
Many generous and caring sponsors have donated a whole lot of excellent bonus gifts and prizes to anyone who buys The World Peace Diet (today only) through Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

There are downloadable audio books, recipes, music, e-books, discount coupons and the chance to enter drawings for some terrific prizes! There are over 50 gifts and prizes, all told, and anyone who buys the book today is eligible to receive them. Here’s the link to this special campaign: http://worldpeacediet.org

You can help strengthen the forces of health, truth, transparency, sustainability, and peace by buying a copy of The World Peace Diet today (for yourself or to give to a library or friend). It’s a great way to help animals, the Earth, hungry people, and all of us, and spread the message we believe in. Thanks for helping with this.
This is the page to go to - http://worldpeacediet.org - everything is explained there. This is a one-day only campaign.

Peace and all best wishes,
Will & Madeleine

Thursday’s Working for Change: Discovering the reasons why people decide to stop eating animal products fascinates me. In particular, I’m amazed by the religious reasons behind different dietary choices. I dwell upon my memories when as a journalist on assignment I watched a man pray and then cut the throat of a bull for an Islamic holy feast, and upon the ideas in an article I read by a priest who believes that in the tradition of St. Francis the Catholic church should advocate for vegetarianism (or at the very least more humane treatment for animals on factory farms). I read the weekly updates compiled by the Christian Vegetarian Association, where Christians consider what their faith means to their food choices.

Religious reasons for eating animal products or not are divergent at best. I always assumed that all Hindus were vegetarian due to the reincarnation issue until I read a cookbook about Indian cooking and discovered that isn’t the case at all in areas where Hindu and Muslim daily culture is intertwined, even if religion is not.

One thing most religions can agree upon, however, is the idea of world peace. The end result of most religious traditions is peace, both in the individual heart and collective lives of believers. So the vegan diet-promoting book by Will Tuttle, Ph.D. entitled The World Peace Diet greatly intrigued me. After two read-throughs, I’m still digesting Tuttle’s ideas, but I think he’s really hit on a seriously strong argument for the vegan diet: Nothing less than world peace.

Tuttle traces the evolution of the human diet, the evolution of conflict and the metaphysics of food and the human body, mind and spirit in such a way that it becomes clear that they are interconnected in a very real way. Like the computer programming maxim “Garbage In, Garbage Out,” one could say, “Violence In (through meat), Violence Out (through us to others).”

“The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork,” Gandhi is quoted as saying in The World Peace Diet. This, I believe.