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MAHATMA GANDHI AND 22 COMPANIONS FAIL AS VEGANS
by Arnold DeVries

CONCLUSION:
  • Gandhi was unable to live on a vegan diet
  • he finally declared vegan claims fraudulent
  • those who insisted that veganism was possible he defined to be "enemies of India"


    "The late Mahatma Gandhi devoted much of his life to the advocacy of strict vegetarian diet, and for years he experimented on his own body to find a suitable selection of plant foods on which to sustain health.

    But all attempts were failures. In 1929, Gandhi and 22 companions went on a diet consisting of a limited selection of uncooked plant foods. Whereas the diet worked out well for a time and led to marked improvement in consumptive cases, it failed to prove adequate on a long-range sustenance basis. One by one Gandhi's companions were forced to depart from the diet, and Gandhi himself had to add goat milk to his fare in order to regain health.

    "For my companions I have been a blind guide leading the blind," declared Gandhi after the experiment was over. Gandhi still felt, however, that "the hidden possibilities of the innumerable seeds, leaves and fruits" of the earth could be explored and found to provide mankind with adequate nourishment. He never stopped trying to experiment along these lines, but he always had to turn back to goat milk to regain his strength.

    In the end he had to acknowledge the necessity for animal food. In 1946 he declared: "The crores of India today get neither milk nor ghee nor butter, nor even buttermilk. No wonder that mortality figures are on the increase and there is a lack of energy in the people. It would appear as if man is really unable to sustain life without either meat or milk and milk products. Anyone who deceives people in this regard or countenances the fraud is an enemy of India."

    These are strong words from a man who devoted most of his life to the search for a satisfactory vegetarian diet. But Gandhi's experience is not unique in the field of nutrition. Many others have also gone through the experience of believing that man could thrive exclusively upon a limited selection of uncooked plant foods, only to find in the end that animal products were necessary for sustenance. ...."

    excerpt from "Arnold DeVries: The Elixir of Life"
  •  Read more about The Case Against Veganism at http://naturalhygienesociety.org/diet3.html#0
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    MoonMaiden M. (1283)     		Testimonial on May 28, 2005
    Alan,is a sensible person who has a good head on his shoulders. The more I read his posts,the more I see Care2 needs more like him. Thank you Alan for knowing what is right and for standing up fo what you believe in!
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