Non-Violent Life (NoVio Life)

Nonviolent food, nonviolent clothing, nonviolent lifestyle

By: Michael Izady

Manifesto:

This philosophy is for those humans who abhor violence against self or other sentient
beings.

All food must be acquired nonviolently. Nature should not be violated, humans should not
be exploited or harmed, nor any animal should ever be violated or killed in order to have
the food and clothing for people. All cultured products, animal or plant, are approved as
long as they pose no health danger to mankind or harm nature. Natural eggs, dairy products
are approved for a NoVio life style as long as the process by which they are obtained from
animals are non-abusive, painless, and nonviolent. All processing ought to be in conformity
to NoVio’s aims and ideals of culturing animal products, plants, factories, places of work
and farms. Ethics should lead the life of a NoVion, including richness of soul and pocket,
to free her/him of want and sustenance forever.

Joys of food—including meats and the like, should not be denied to consumers. All items
previously obtained from harming animals or nature should now be cultured and mass
produced non-violently, from plants or from the deposits of organic material (e.g.,
hydrocarbons).

The non-violence against oneself includes proper and healthy foods and habits. When other
living beings threaten to harm a person, we should defend our own lives with minimum
necessary violence—by taking antibiotics against microbial life forms or weapons against
threatening large animals. To avoid this unavoidable violence, one should refrain from
venturing into other animals’ natural habitats.

Clothing that is made from animal products should also have nonviolent source. They
should be produced from plant and synthetic fibers and sources, or even from cultured
sheets of hair/wool/fur obtained by the mass growth of a few samples of skin and hair
follicles. The sources for the latter method should be cells painlessly removed from the
desired animals as the source of culturing. Wool may also be obtained through processes

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in conformity with NoVio ideals to be nonviolent in nature and aim. In addition to the
plant-based, synthesized or NoVio leather, the use of non-violent animal-sourced leather is
also approved as long as it is obtained from farm animals, kept for milk, eggs or wool, that
die of natural causes.

Condition of living for farm animals must be continuously in conformity with the Non
Violent principles, making sure they are not prisoners nor abused when offering milk, eggs
or wool. Feathers/downs can now be synthetically replicated from plants and/or synthetic
material. But if need be for a specific reason, they may be obtained from the egg-producing
birds that die of truly natural causes.

No zoo/aquarium/aviary should be patronized or visited as NoVio, unless it is truly an

animal refuge against extinction. Nor any entertainment involving “trained” animals should
be ever patronized or allowed to remain legal. All these require mistreatment of the subject
sentient beings, entailing overt or subtle punishment and trauma to induce “entertaining”
behavior. Hunting in all its forms is violent and therefore, rejected by a NoVion.

Need for Research & Development:

Research and development of cultured animal products, hydroponics and eventually,

cultured food from hydrocarbons and other mined organic materials, should be an aim of
every NoVion person. These methods will relieve most of the planet from a needless
violence that is required for the current and pervasive farming practices. It will eliminate
the need for pesticides, poisons, but also the need for most GMOs that are intended for
intensive open-air farming. This endeavor should also aim to provide enough quality food
of every type for mankind, sufficient material for clothing of every type, and the raw
material traditionally derived from plants and animal sources.

The focal point of this R & D should therefore be to provide mankind with plenty of
every common and luxury natural items, from meats to fur, eggs to honey, sugar to
wood--without violating any animal, any forest, any ocean or any humans.

Meat consumption per person, pound per given year:

1960 1980 2002 2009 2015

USA 198 240 277 2671 198.5

Argentina -- -- 216 218 191
Brazil -- -- 183 189.5 172
UK 155 158 177 187 170
China 8.5 32 116 130 110
Kenya 41 39 32 37 --
India 8.2 8.2 11.5 9.8 7.2
Nigeria -- -- 19.1 19.6 14.4

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The desire for animal products, particularly those obtained by violence, is increasing
exponentially around the world. And yet, such an avenue for obtaining goods is finite,
unsustainable and have in fact already collapsed; while in many other locales of production,
such as the oceans, are collapsing. Nonetheless, a few have indeed undertaken to have
their proverbial cake and eat it too: namely, product substitution and replication,
such as the major drop in meat consumption in the most advanced societies on earth,
with virtually NoVion substitutes.

Therefore, the aim of this movement should be replacement of all such goods with non-
violent products of the same good, and not eliminating them. Investment in naturally
cultured products of every type—from animal to forest products--and on to the products of
the seas, should be vigorously pursued and their use intensively encouraged. The following
table of select sample of meat consumptions around world is an example of the economic
and ethical potentials of NoVio products of all types.

There are 19 billion chickens, 1.5 billion cows, 1 billion pigs and 1 billion sheep on the
planet at any given time—more than three times the number of people. Meanwhile,
annually, for example, 52 billion chickens are slaughtered for human consumption. These
numbers are set to rise as the human population grows and more people shift toward a
meat-based diet. The number of cattle, sheep, goats and buffalo — animals that require
enormous expanses of land for feed production and grazing — alone is increasing by 25
million annually. Overall, global meat consumption is projected to increase more than 4
percent per person over the next 10 years. These figures do not include the aquatic creatures
of all types that are hunted by tens of millions of tons per year.

Meanwhile, the livestock sector is responsible for approximately 15% of all human
greenhouse gas emissions. This is the equivalent to all the direct greenhouse emissions
from transportation—public and private, everywhere!

All things considered, the magnitude of animal suffering and the damage to the natural
environment is staggering. And none of this is sustainable for long given the limits of our
fragile natural environment. Alternatives must be found for the good of mankind, the
reduction or elimination violence against people, against animals and against our
habitat/environment. This shall be the aim of the NoVio movement by encouraging factory
produced cultured products—the only sustainable and ethical course forward--
environmentally, economically and realistically.

Joining and upholding the principle of a NoVion!

Every NoVion (person) will undertake to encourage nonviolent production of all traditional
products instead of avoiding them or compromising his/her principles. All attempts must
be made to improve the lives of fellow humans by improving their economic condition and
introduction of inherently sustainable NoVio products and life style. A NoVion will aim
towards an eventual elimination of poverty, cruelty and violence against all sentient
beings and our own sole habitat: the Earth.

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Non-Violent Products (NoVion Products)

1. Non-Violent Food (NoVio foods)

2. Non-Violent clothing (NoVio wear)
3. Non-Violent goods (NoVio, wood, cosmetics, lubricants, etc)
4. Non-Violent conduct (NoVio life)

1. NoVio Foods: At the start and until cultured NoVion substitutes are provided, these
shall use plant material but also animal products that have been obtained non-
violently from the humanly treated and cared for animals. These products include
eggs, dairy, honey, wool, leather (from animals who die of natural causes at stations
that produce dairy or wool), etc.

The ideal and ultimate goal, however, is and should be to produce all such
products through culturing and not directly from the animals or
environmentally harmful logging or plantations that violate the habitats of
mankind, animals or plants.

• All animal products that have not yet been substituted by NoVion cultured
products, must meet NoVio’s ideals of non-violence in order to use NoVio’s
logo and credentials.

• NoVio foods shall be good for the health of the soul and health of the body.
For the soul, because one does not need to inflict pain and grief on another
sentient being in order to eat. It will bring to that person peace and
satisfaction of not being a violent being. But it also cleanses the body of
toxins that one ingests, and replaces them with fresh and healthy nutrients
to flourish.

• NoVio foods are and must be flavorful and delicious as any violent food
product, if not more. NoVio food that does not taste good turns people off,
misleading them to believe one has to sacrifice flavor and fun in order not
to committee violence! Violence does not make food delicious; skill and
knowledge do. NoVio food should be at least as delicious, various and
presentable as the violent kind. In fact, they should be more so to prove the
point.

• Products such as lab-produced cultured meat and meat-tasting plant

products are the welcomed NoVio foods that convince those who love meat
to have the flavor or the actual product without harming any animal. They
can be labeled as “NoVion meat,” or “NoVio meat.”

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 • All vegetables should be ultimately produced via hydroponic methods.
Common grains may be farmed until NoVion related R&D advances could
find ways to produce the product. Current production methods plow under
the greatest portions of the planet’s land surface and violate the natural
environment for grains plantation. The methane and CO2 emissions of the
world’s rice and cornfields dwarf all the greenhouse emissions by the rest
of non- agricultural human civilization combined!

• NoVio foods should ideally and ultimately be replicated from non-living

organic substances such as the hydrocarbons that are presently burned for
fuel. Hydrocarbons can produce carbohydrates. In that manner, no living
being, animal or plant, will need to be harmed to produce suitable and
flavorful food for humans.

2. NoVio wear: Plant material—cotton, linen and the like, or synthetic fibers should
be given priority for human wear. But, at the start and until cultured NoVion
substitutes are provided, NoVion animal products such as wool, feathers, or even
leather can be used if no violence is perpetrated in their production. Wool from
animals that are kept under humane condition and sheered in a painless manner
(similar to a human haircut), are NoVion, as are feathers from birds that are kept
similarly for eggs that die naturally at the end of their days. Leather from the dairy
cows who ultimately die of old age can be used for leather goods since they generate
no violence against the animal. Not using these products is in fact an act of
violence against nature, as they will go to waste, forcing man to reach out for
alternative forms that would inevitably tax the natural resources and require
burdening the natural resources or nature for their production.

But the ultimate goal of a NoVion should be to culture in lab-factories, in

commercial quantities and quality, all of the clothing products we need – with no
animal products admitted for use by mankind--clothing items as much as food
items.

3. NoVio goods: No sentient being, humans or animals, or nature herself, shall be

violated in production of any NoVion goods. Exploitation of man through abusive
conditions and the denial of living wages, is as violent in nature as the abuse
against any living being. They should not be encouraged via purchase of the
resultant products.

4. Non-Violent conduct: NoVions do not initiate nor promote violence against other
humans, animals, or nature. They discourage in every non-violent way, perpetration or
use of violence. Exploitation of the fellow humans via underpayment, maltreatment or
disrespect in any position or job, is not NoVion conduct.