For him surely is a strict vegetarian diet whose one end is to lead solely a spiritual life.
But he who has to steer the boat of his life with strenuous labour through the constant life-and-death struggles and the competition of this world must of necessity take meat.
So long as there will be in human society such a thing as the triumph of the strong over the weak, animal food is required, or some other suitable substitute for it has to be discovered;
otherwise, the weak will naturally be crushed under the feet of the strong.
It will not do to quote solitary instances of the good effect of vegetable food on some particular person or persons: compare one nation with another and then draw conclusions.
- Swami Vivekananda,
The East and The West
But he who has to steer the boat of his life with strenuous labour through the constant life-and-death struggles and the competition of this world must of necessity take meat.
So long as there will be in human society such a thing as the triumph of the strong over the weak, animal food is required, or some other suitable substitute for it has to be discovered;
otherwise, the weak will naturally be crushed under the feet of the strong.
It will not do to quote solitary instances of the good effect of vegetable food on some particular person or persons: compare one nation with another and then draw conclusions.
- Swami Vivekananda,
The East and The West
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