The Vegan Veteran Retreat

  Pythagorus Pythagorus was an ancient Greek philosopher. Little do people know that he was the first prominent modern vegetarian! He was a strong supporter for animal rights. And this was over 2000 years ago, during ancient Greek times!!! Pythagorus influenced both Plato and Aristotle. He believed all living beings had souls. His lifestyle entailed that belief. He lived a veg lifestyle for many reasons, primarily for religious and moral reasons. Also, he lived an ascetic lifestyle, that of a hermit, which is understood for those times.  Pythagorus believed every soul is immortal. His belief that was when you die, you enter into a new body. And it can be non human as well. That was one reason he did not eat meat. He envisioned the mentality that if you were eating meat, that pig or cow could be your great-uncle that passed! His way of thought was strong in metaphysics and vegetarianism. He lived during the 500 BC era. Until the 1800s, if you were a vegetarian, you were coined ...

  Porphyry Being vegan for the animals is more important than ever! Few people know about the ancient philosphers who advocated for our fellow creature's rights. One of the earliest philosophers who was an advocate for the animals was Pophyry. Back in the ancient Greek and Roman days, he was an advocate for 'vegetarianism' based on spiritual and ethical grounds. Back in ancient days, this was unheard of! This little known philosopher wrote a treatise called On Abstinence from Animal Food , advocating against the consumption of animals. Coming from the era of Ancient Philosophy, Pophyry came from the school of Neoplatonism. He lived in the Roman Empire. Pophyry was a student of Plotinus. His strong stance on veganism and animal rights is demonstrated in this quote from his treatise On Abstinence from Animal Food : "To deliver animals to be slaughtered and cooked, and thus be filled with murder, not for the sake of nutriment and satisfying the wants of nature, but making...