Albert Einstein and Da Vinci, among the most famous vegetarians

Today we wanted to offer a different content with a plus of history and culture. So we are going to take a tour through the history of mankind and we are going to name the most famous characters who were vegetarians or vegans. Some will surprise us and others are known vegetarians.

Far from believing that being vegan is negative for your health or that it is just a passing fad, there are documents that show that many people were so many decades ago. Being vegan is a philosophy of life where everyone is treated equally and it is understood that it is not necessary to create animal sacrifices to feed ourselves. However, vegetarianism has different phases and styles, depending on the foods that are consumed. Neither one is better nor the other is worse, that is based on the principles of each person and their desires and culinary skills.

Those who decided to opt for one of the two options several centuries ago, did so with a clear premise, and that is that they realized, or they understood it that way, that it was not necessary to eat animals to live and some, like Pythagoras, left a message for posterity “A vegetarian diet provides us with peaceful and loving energy and not only our body but especially our spirit.”

Thomas alva edison

It may sound more or less familiar to us, but in short, he discovered the Edison effect and it was to pass electricity from a filament to a metal plate. It is estimated that there are 1,100 patents in his name in the United States alone, and others distributed between the UK, France and Germany.

Edison was the forerunner of many devices that we use today, especially in telecommunications, cinematography, sound recording and of course electric light. Likewise, and for what he is most remembered, it is for the invention of the light bulb, although it is not entirely true. What he did in 1880 was to buy the patent of Henry Woodward and Matthew Evans dating from the year 1875, and which in turn was the idea of Humphry Davy and his carbon filament between two poles and that is considered the origin of the light bulb in 1809.

Edison was a defender of vegetarianism and vegetarians, and he recorded several phrases of which we want to highlight one: “Until we stop harming other living beings, we will still be wild.”

Nikola Tesla, faithful defender of vegetarians

He is considered the father of electromagnetism and there has always been a certain rivalry when it comes to defending Edison or Tesla when it comes to electricity as we know it today. Nikola’s inventions in the field of electromagnetism, as well as his theories and his work, helped to lay the foundations of the modern system for the use of alternating current electricity.

Tesla invented a multitude of objects and methods that in a certain way have shaped our current life and we are talking about that Nikola came to the world in 1856 and died in 1943. He was a faithful defender of vegetarianism and one of his most famous phrases is “It is certainly preferable raising vegetables, that’s why I think vegetarianism is recommended to stop barbaric habits. “

Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire. He was a writer, historian, philosopher and lawyer born in France, we know that he played almost all the suits. He is considered one of the main representatives of the illustration, which for those who do not remember it, is a stage in the history of humanity in which the power of science and human reason was emphasized to the detriment of religion.

He was staunch to vegetarianism and recorded it in several works, so much so, that he had a special sensitivity when talking about the subject and said that people who eat meat and drink strong drinks (such as alcohol), had dry and dry blood , and that it drove them crazy in a thousand different ways.

Leonardo Da Vinci, genius and vegetarian

Who does not know this genius of humanity? Very little is known about his personal life, but quite a bit about his work. Da Vinci is the spitting image of the Italian Renaissance. Based in Florence, Da Vinci gave free rein to all his talent and was a painter, anatomist, architect, paleontologist, botanist, sculptor, writer, poet, urban planner, philosopher, engineer, inventor, musician, etc.

Leonardo invented the helicopter, the submarine, the tanks, made discoveries in the field of optics and anatomy. Da Vinci is recognized for being the author of 2 of the most famous paintings in the world, and at the same time with more unknowns, it is the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.

Da Vinci was part of the vegetarians since he was little, so he always had a certain sensitivity to the subject. So much so that he did not understand the brutality with which men acted and called them “king of beasts.”

Pythagoras

He was a renowned Greek philosopher and mathematician who died in 475 BC He is considered the first pure mathematician and his influence has been very useful for the advancement of mathematics, geometry and arithmetic. He also has a certain influence on music and is that he was the pioneer of concepts I, IV and V that were fundamental in Greek harmonization and are used today.

He founded the Pythagorean school and those thoughts influenced Plato and Aristotle. No writings of him have been found, but of his followers. What is attributed to him is the Pythagorean theorem for right triangles.

He was one of many convinced vegetarians and there are many phrases that have transcended and attributed to him: “Whoever sows the seeds of murder and pain, cannot reap either joy or love.”

Gandhi, one of the most famous vegetarians

We all remember or have seen videos and images, as well as speeches by Gandhi. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a staunch defender of non-violence and wrote a lot about it and also about vegetarianism and how our diet should change to stop hurting innocent creatures.

Mahatma Gandhi was one of the most prominent leaders or leaders of the independence movement in India. During his fight he practiced nonviolent civil disobedience. Gandhi was a pacifist until the end of his days, a politician, a thinker and a lawyer. He was a forerunner of the hunger strike and always rejected armed struggle, and all to resist British rule.

Finally the independence of India was achieved and Gandhi instituted reforms in the society. He rejected all kinds of mistreatment towards living beings. Gandhi was assassinated by a radicalist on his way to pray. The murderer and the accomplice were sentenced to death.

Albert Einstein

If there is a familiar face in the world of science, it is Einstein. He is a physicist who created the theory of relativity and the famous formula of the mass-energy equivalence E = mc2. Albert completely reformulated the concept of gravity and all this was the result of a scientific study on the origin and evolution of the Universe.

In 1919, while observing a solar eclipse, British scientists noticed the curvature of light and began to praise Einstein. For his explanations and numerous contributions to theoretical physics in the 20th century, Albert received a Nobel Prize in physics in 1921.

Aside from his myriad accomplishments, Einstein also took the plunge and joined the millions of vegetarians in the world. This genius of the modern world said that human survival depended on a vegetarian diet. He became a vegetarian in adulthood, previously he was a normal omnivore, but as he once stated, he ate meat with a guilty conscience.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

One of the best writers of humanity, Spanish and Madrid. He was born on September 29, 1547 in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) and died on April 22, 1616. Cervantes was a poet, novelist, playwright and also a soldier. He is considered the greatest figure in Spanish and universal literature, being the author of a work that has been translated into more than 140 languages and has become the best-selling book in history with more than 500 million copies sold. We refer to the book The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha , better known as Don Quixote.

Miguel de Cervantes was one of those vegetarians who always defended this diet, writing many of his thoughts about it, for example “The diet of a superior man must be of edible fruits and roots.”