Non-Violent Life (NoVio Life)

Nonviolent food, Nonviolent clothing, Nonviolent lifestyle

Manifesto:

Human Beings control our evolution through the power of our thoughts and paradigms.

Abstract thinking largely enables us to control our environment, rather than our environment
controlling us.

Abstract thinking is what first led to agriculture and civilization. It is what led to our understanding
of sciences, application of technologies, and increased output from our fixed amount of resources.

It is what has led to our medical breakthroughs and scientific discoveries.

It is also what has led to our great wars, destruction, and tragedies.

Our story as a people is our own to write. Pending a supernova doesn’t blast earth with gamma rays,
the outcome of our species is most likely going to derive from the decisions we make as individuals,
and as a collective.

Resources on this planet are fixed. The earth is a closed circuit. The resources that were here to
support us when our population was 1million, are the same resources that are here now that our
population is 7billion.

It’s not a matter of the resources available, but rather our utilization of them.

We have come to a time in our history where our utilization of resources has pushed nature and life
(our own and other species) to the brink of irreversible imbalance.

Given this state of imbalance, I welcome you, fellow NoVion, to think abstractly for a moment:

You’re given a glove with powers to do anything. Knowing we are in a state of imbalance,
destroying resources, nature, and leading towards a place of potential catastrophe, you can make a
choice…

1. You can either snap your fingers to kill half of life and return our society back to a state of
equilibrium.

2. Or you can snap your fingers to exponentially multiply the output from the resources that you
have, with a mere fraction of the footprint on nature, life, and yourself.
10 times out of 10 any rational person would answer choice 2, but right now as a society we’re
blindly living out the first option –

Two generations of humans have killed off more than half the world’s wildlife populations, report
finds

We have now all of the technology and production capacity where we no longer need to kill to
survive, pollute to flourish, or destroy to monetize.

It is in our tangible capabilities to have everything we desire, no sacrifices necessary, and at the same
time live more congruently with nature, other animals, and our own health.

The problem has nothing to do with decreasing our consumption. Consumption produces wealth and
jobs that alleviates poverty, increases education, and makes life on earth worth living.

The problem has everything to do with the production behind our consumption, along with the
disposal thereafter. As consumers, it is in our responsibility to consume in accordance with our
philosophy.

The NoVion Philosophy

The NoVion philosophy is for those humans who abhor violence against self, nature, or other
sentient beings.

We are not pacifists. If someone attacks you do not give them a hug. You can use minimum violence
to stop violence.

But outside of that, we abhor unnecessary violence everywhere and anywhere. Violence behind the
food that you consume, clothes that you wear, and products that you use.

Violence is at the root of destruction and unfortunately today there’s so much of it that it’s becoming
unsustainable. At the same time, we’ve never been in a better position, had more technology, and
had better brain power to stop it. And that decision is up to us.

NoVion Consumption

All products offered on NoVio Life are 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 and dairy products are
approved for a NoVio lifestyle as long as the process by which they are obtained from animals are
non-abusive, painless, and nonviolent. Ethics should lead the life of a NoVion.

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 food and habits. When other living
beings threaten to harm a person, one should defend one’s own life 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 are made from animal products should also have nonviolent sources. They should be
produced from plants and synthetic fibers, or even from cultured sheets of hair, wool, or 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 approved by NoVio as nonviolent. 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 in a way they are not prisoners nor abused when
offering milk, eggs or wool. Feathers/downs can only be obtained from plants or synthetic material,
or from the egg-producing birds that die of natural causes.

No zoos should be patronized unless it is certified as an animal refuge against extinction. Nor any
entertainment involving “trained” animals should be 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.

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 and poisons, along
with most of the GMOs that are intended for intensive open-air farming. This endeavor should also
aim to provide sufficient 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

The desire for animal products, particularly those obtained by violence, is increasing exponentially
around the world. The aim of this movement should be replacement of all such products with
non-violent products of the same nature, 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.

State of Consumption:

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 of
violence against people, against animals and against our habitat and 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 NoVio

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 the fellow humans by improving their economic condition and introduction of inherently
sustainable NoVio products and lifestyle. ​A NoVion will aim towards an eventual elimination of
poverty, cruelty and violence against all sentient beings and our own sole habitat: the Earth.

Non-Violent Products (NoVion Products)

1. Non-Violent Food (NoVio Foods)
2. Non-Violent Clothing (NoVio, Clothes)
3. Non-Violent Goods (NoVio Woods, 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 humanely
treated and cared for animals, such as 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.

· NoVio foods shall be good for the health of the soul and health of the body. For the soul
because one does not inflict pain and grief on another sentient being in order to eat. It will bring to
the 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.
A 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.”

· ​All vegetables should all be hydroponically produced​​, and the common grains farmed until
NoVio R&D could also find ways to produce the product without plowing under the greatest
portions of the planet surface and natural environment for the little grain that is harvested. The
methane and CO2 emissions of the world rice and cornfields dwarf all the greenhouse emissions by
the rest of non-agricultural human civilization combined!

2. NoVio Clothes:​​ 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 a wool, feathers, or even leather can be used if no violence is perpetrated in
their production. Wool from animals that are kept on certified humane farms 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 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 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 nature
for their production.

But the ultimate goal of a NoVion should be to culture in lab-factories and in commercial quantities
and quality, and no animal products should be admitted for use by mankind--clothing items as much
as the food items.
3. NoVio Goods:​​ No sentient being, humans or animals, or nature herself, shall be violated in
production of any NoVio goods. Exploitation of man through abusive conditions and non-living
wages, is as violent in nature as the abuse against any sentient 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 by underpaying, under- respecting, and maltreating them in any
position or job is also considered violent and vehemently opposed as a NoVion.