vegetarianism

… a country in reverse… snippets of a former… japanese vegetarian history… a country where vegetarianism prevailed

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Shojin Ryori

Mitsuru Kakimoto of the Japanese Vegetarian Society writes: “A survey that I conducted of 80 Westerners, including Americans, Englishmen and Canadians, revealed that approximately half of them believed that vegetarianism originated in India. Some respondents assumed that vegetarianism had its origin in China or Japan. It seems to me that the reason Westerners associate vegetarianism … [Read more…]

Vintage Cookbooks

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by Randy Graham http://valleyvegetarian.blogspot.com/ Some still think vegetarianism is a fad as opposed to a lifestyle. While it is true that it came to national attention in the 1960s here in the United States, its origins are hundreds if not thousands of years older than that. Make no mistake, vegetarianism is a lifestyle and has … [Read more…]