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Founded by Jian Yi, [12] a filmmaker, an activist and the founder of the Good Food Fund, the China Vegan Society set out to provide public goods for the Chinese vegan community, diversify the movement and bring vegan lifestyle to mainstream, train the next generation leaders and serve as a window between Chinese vegan community and vegan ...
China consumes 28% of the world’s meat, and livestock is estimated to account for around 15% of global greenhouse-gas emissions. If more people eat vegetarian on a daily basis, Yin says, “it ...
Sins of the Flesh: A History of Ethical Vegetarian Thought. Vancouver, BC, Canada: University of British Columbia Press, 2008. Chapin, Lisbeth. "Science and Spirit: Shelley's Vegetarian Essays and the Body as Utopian State." A Brighter Morn: The Shelley Circle's Utopian Project. Edited by Darby Lewes. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003.
China's vegetarian culture remained relatively unchanged until the Republican era (1912–1949), when political reformers such as Sun Yat-Sen and Cai Yuanpei promoted vegetarianism as a more hygienic and cost-effective diet to strengthen the nation. However, this secular movement had little impact on traditional eating habits. [74]
In some cities' schools in Finland, the students are offered two options, a vegetarian and a non-vegetarian meal, on four school days a week, and one day a week they have a choice between two vegetarian meals, for grades 1 to 12. In secondary schools and universities, from 10 to 40 percent of the students preferred vegetarian food in 2013.
Others have noted those who are vegetarian and vegan are met with "acceptance, tolerance, or hostility" after they divulge they are vegetarian or vegan. [378] There are a number of vegan stereotypes, including claims they hate meat-eaters, are always hungry, weak, angry, or moralistic. [ 379 ]
According to Charlotte Alston, lecturer at Northumbria University, Tolstoy had planned to established a vegetarian journal in 1893, with the same title, The First Step. [10] In 1900, it was translated to English by the famous Tolstoy translators Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude , [ 11 ] and in 1905 it was translated again by Leo Wiener .
The ebullient audience at the Republican National Convention was ready to be served up some red meat, but Usha Chilukuri Vance, onstage to introduce her husband, vice presidential candidate JD ...