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    The History of Vegetarianism and Veganism
    The History of Vegetarianism and Veganism
    The History of Vegetarianism and Veganism
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    The History of Vegetarianism and Veganism

    By Daniel Hagen

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    For roughly ten generations, we have been living in an era of industrialisation. An era that keeps going non-stop. Humanity is, so to speak, in overdrive! This does also apply to our diets; meat has become a cheap mass-produced commodity and we eat sun-ripened papayas in the coldest winters. Common shrimps are caught in the Norther Sea, peeled in Morocco and then send back to Northern Germany where they are then sold and eaten as “freshly caught”. Meanwhile, there is more plastic floating around in the deep sea than maritime creatures. In a large part of the world, many humans are still suffering from malnutrition – in other parts of the globe, there has been a rapid increase in obesity, diabetes and the like.

    Considering this, one might think that a vegetarian and, in a wider sense, vegan approach to diets is a young phenomenon, that has sprung mainly from the wealthy, privileged classes of the First World.

    Though that is far from true!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBadPress
    Release dateDec 1, 2019
    ISBN9781071513057
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      The History of Vegetarianism and Veganism - Daniel Hagen

      Preface

      Whoever desires vegans must further vegetarianism.

      This quote by the Austrian Author Helmut F. Kaplan is dead on. We go one step further and claim that even just one vegetarian or vegan meal a day or one single day without meat per week is a good start.

      It is a fact that we as humans, motivated and full of energy as we are, committed a lot of blunders in the last 150 to 200 years. Blunders for which we but especially the generations that follow, are now served the bill. Our climate has gone down the drain. Mother nature is itchy all over from all the kinds of pollution everywhere. Breathing through clogged lungs is getting harder and harder for our planet.

      There is no point in denying it - that's the way things are.

      One of the largest contributing factors to climate change is industrialized and commercialized animal farming. Our relation to the consumption of meat has gone completely out of control. Meat as a foodstuff has, at least in our so-called First World, become a dumping good. Modern meat-production has nothing at all in common with respect towards food and animals.

      However, fortunately, a slow but steady re-thinking is in progress. An increasing number of humans sustain themselves on plants, fruit, nuts, legumes and a vast number of treats that our planet's fauna has to offer. To follow a vegetarian or vegan diet (or at least, to

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