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The Fellowship of Life |
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Fellowship and future Vegetarianism and a compassionate way of living is one of life's
basic rules which an enquiring and righteous mind should be led to
unaided. As pious and deep thinking as most church members may be, I can
only think that the formation of the Society of "Fellowship of Life" (as
written about in the November Vegetarian letters by Margaret E. Lawson)
will help awaken them to their contradictory ways of living. The
Fellowship of Life would have closer ties and be more sympathetically
listened to by religious bodies than the Vegetarian Society, whose views
on religion and vegetarianism may be thought too biased. A flourishing example of such a religious linked society is the
Jewish Vegetarian and Natural Health Society. They have been extremely
active and lost no opportunity to bring an interest in vegetarianism to
the leaders of their religion, countless Rabbis, and even to the Israeli
government. The JVS has many converts and branches throughout the world
and also draws the admiration of many non-Jewish members. The JVS president, Philip L. Pick, led the working group at the 1973
IVU congress in Sweden, which discussed many aspects of vegetarianism
and religion - among other things the relevent references in the Bible
and Old Testament, the closest and most sympathetic religions and
societies to the vegetarian cause, and the most effective ways of
approaching them. A report was read at the congress, but a nucleus of
this group is still searching deeper into the project and is still
keeping in touch, with the intention of collating all relevant
information into a report which will be made available for easy
reference at vegetarian societies. I hope the Fellowship of Life will be just as successful and that in
the future the anniversary of the birth of Christ will not be celebrated
by the eating and the killing of millions of creatures. This is surely
illogical to the true Christian. Peter Frank Return to Letters |
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