If he wants to be a vegetarian… Jainas and Buddhists have been vegetarians for twenty-five centuries. No Jaina has ever thought that he could be anything other than vegetarian, but now questions arise. Not a single vegetarian has been able to receive a Nobel Prize – strange. You have the purest minds; those meat-eaters have thick skulls. You are pure vegetables, cabbages, cauliflowers, beautiful things – but not a single Nobel Prize. Strange. But the meat-eaters…
Hindus don’t eat the meat of the cows; Jews do, and Jews receive forty percent of the Nobel Prizes. It is simply inconceivable, out of all proportion to their population. And they are eating cow meat! Questions arise. And it has been found that vegetarians will never receive the Nobel Prize because no vegetable can give them certain proteins which only meat can give them.
I have found an alternative. In my commune… It was a vegetarian commune, but I was giving all commune members unfertilized eggs. They are vegetable, because they don’t have any life – but they have all the proteins that are necessary for intelligence to grow.
Now the vegetarians are very much against me. They would like to kill me – although they are vegetarians. They don’t want to kill anybody, but as far as I am concerned, they are ready to kill me: “This man is going to teach people to eat eggs.” They don’t see a simple point: that an unfertilized egg is not alive; it is pure protein. It makes the vegetarian food complete and competitive; in fact it gives more protein than meat, especially for intelligence.
- The Osho Upanishad, #18