The Compassionate Diet

The Compassionate Diet: How What You Eat Can Change Your Life and Save the Planet by  Arran Stephens with Elliot Jay Rosen.
 

"Sparing life through dietary choice is an act of compassion by and for the individual person, as well as for mammals, birds, fish and other animals used for food; in actuality, it is having compassion for one’s own self!  Many teachers and traditions indicate that the eating of animal foods carries heavy karmic penalties.  It may be every soul’s ultimate urge to reunite with its Source, but according to many great spiritual traditions, meat eating delays the process."

It's kind of a karmic double-whammy because he also writes:

"Vegetarianism is kinder to the earth and offers hope for saving the 60 million people who die of starvation each year – 15 million of them children.  If the grain used to fatten livestock were fed to humans, starvation could be completely averted, not to speak of the folly of growing corn to fuel cars." [my emph.]

Article is at:  http://tinyurl.com/3jqamew