You can trace the history of this feature:

You can trace this feature in the history of civilization was based on vegetarianism, agriculture and horticulture, while the families that depend on hunting and herding, do not create civilizations

. The ancient Greeks, Egyptians and Jews considered a major part of the fruit supply. The priests of ancient Egypt never ate meat. Such great Greek philosophers such as Plato, Socrates and Pythagoras actively advocated vegetarianism.

Plutarch writes in his treatise "On meat-eating": "Can you really ask from what motives Pythagoras refrained from eating meat? For my part I ask the question, under what circumstances and in what state of mind the man decided to first try the taste of blood, pulled his lips to the dead body of flesh and decorate your table dead, decomposing bodies, and how he then allowed himself to be called food pieces that shortly before this still moo and bleat, moved and lived ... for the sake of the flesh we steal from them the sun, the light and the life to which they are entitled


birth. " Then Plutarch throws an open challenge to meat-eaters: "If you have left now wish to say that this food is given to you by nature, then kill yourself what you want to eat, and do it so that you have by nature, but not a butcher knife, club or an ax.

What a struggle for existence, or some uncontrollable madness impel you to stain your hands with blood, to eat animal meat? 3achem you are enjoying everything you need and all the amenities of existence, do it? 3achem slandering you on the ground, as if she is unable to meat-free animal feed you? »

Vegetarianism was spread among the greatest civilizations of the Inca Indians.

Taoists of ancient China were also vegetarians. There are also credible reports that the majority of the human race prior to the current time nourished wholly or mainly vegetarian diet.

Tribes who consumed only meat and other animal food, were very rare or do not exist. Even Eskimos eat twenty-four different kinds of moss and plants growing in the Arctic, including cloudberries, barberry, crowberry, reindeer moss and other. At the same time, people are likely to eat more meat than any other time in history.

"When I made an excursion - Higgins writes in" Apocalypse II "(147.) - In the most remote antiquity, I found the clear and certain evidence of the following important points: First, animal food not consumed, and secondly, no animals are not sacrificed. " Christian theologian and philosopher Origen (ok.184 - 253) left a message that "the Egyptians preferred to die than to be accused of such a crime, like eating meat»

. The ancient Greek historian Herodotus (484 BC -.... 425 BC, known description of the customs of different nations, as well as a detailed history of the Greco-Persian wars, was the first major historian of ancient Greece, known as the father of history), wrote that the Egyptians It existed on the fruits and vegetables that are consumed raw.

This is confirmed by Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD, author of Natural History books XXXVII '77 BC.....), "Isis, one of the most popular goddesses of the Egyptians, taught them [they believed] the art of baking bread cereal before rosshey wild. However, in an earlier period of Egyptians live on fruits, roots and plants.

Goddess Isis was worshiped everywhere in Egypt, after it had been built majestic temples. Priests her sworn clean, were obliged to wear linen garments without any admixture of animal fibers, abstain from animal food, and vegetables, are considered unclean, - beans, garlic, onions and ordinary leeks »

. In Iceland, lived tribes do not consume animal food. It now has a nation who abstain from meat for religious reasons. The same is found in China, India, Turkey, ancient Palestine.

The ancient civilizations of the East were designed recovery system, an important part of which was the supply system. It is noteworthy that the ancient oriental medicine, which had much more experience than the West, still unconditionally recommends vegetable nutrition.

Ancient healing system developed in India, is Hatha Yoga, the occurrence of which belong to the II millennium BC. e .; according to some sources, yoga appeared even earlier - in the VI millennium BC. e. Hatha yoga is the most popular of the sanitary system in the world. Central yoga removes the spiritual and physical exercises.

However, it should be recalled that yoga, as a system of moral and physical perfection, does not allow the consumption of meat products. As a motivation prohibition of eating meat yoga argue that with the meat of the animal killed by a man pass the disease and the suffering of the animal.

In addition to yoga in ancient India there were others on the improvement of governance. Indian sacred literature relating to II - I in the top. BC. e, -. contains a book called Ayurveda ( "science of long life"). This is a scientific treatise on the methods of treatment, which also contains detailed instructions on how to eat right.

In ancient India, ethical, occult, hygiene and physiological principles according to which a person is forbidden to kill animals and eat meat have been formulated.

It was thought that carnivorous food makes people stupid and bestial (aggressive, angry, mentally unstable); eating meat can not be a philosopher, a sage; Intelligence clearer, thinner and exacerbated due to plant foods.

Plant foods, according to the teachers of the East, is highly favored by the sublime way of thinking and contemplation of the divine. It gives greater vitality than animal food. Extremely useful fresh fruit, salads and raw vegetables, cheese, nuts, barley, honey, dates, almonds. From raw food improves the quality of blood, and therefore it should be 80% of the food.