Firdowsi, the immortal bard of Iran wrote in his epic the Shahnameh: "During the reign of Shah Jamshed both father and son looked alike, were healthy and lived long lives. Man’s diet was vegetarian. Ahriman, the devil, tempted Zohaak to eat flesh and he became evil.”
Ervad (Dr) Peshotan Peer wrote a series of 24 articles in Gujarati in Jam-e-Jamshed on "Vegetarianism from the Zoroastrian religious point of view.” These were later translated into English by me and published in the form of a book by his son Ervad (Dr) Rooyintan Peer. Peshotan wrote in his articles that Cyrus the Great......