By mac on 7 August 2010
The best advertisement for being Vegan is not being Vegan. Please give up being Vegan. OK … let me explain a little. Whilst working for an often awarded and world famous wholefood maker and wholesaler, I met a young worker who was very different from the usual archetypal “vegan”. I’d did not pry. I do [...]
Posted in Ethics, Humour, Vegan
By mac on 14 May 2010
I found it quite astonishing to discovered that the first book about animal rights to be published in Japanese only happened in March, 2005. Incredible when you think the likes of BUAV have been active in the far less civilised British Isles for more than 100 years. Dr. Helmut Kaplan’s animal rights classic “Leichenschmaus” (Funeral [...]
Posted in Ethics, Japan, Vegan |
By mac on 26 April 2010
I have spent 25 years religiously chewing brown sushi rice, eating seaweed and drinking twig tea and miso soup. I have spent years of my life saying how wonderful Japan and Japanese people are. I have even spent months of my life attempting to assuage furious Korean nationalists covering the internet with their propaganda, and [...]
Posted in Japan, Vegan, Vegan Philosophy |
By mac on 17 April 2010
I heard from a friend, who is currently studying natural farming in Wakayama, that his fields were trashed by the local louts. In his case, not teenagers from the local housing project as one might expect in the West, but a troop of macaque monkeys coming down from the mountains in search of food. As [...]
Posted in Ethics, Humour, Japan, Vegan |
By mac on 23 March 2010
Interpret this as you wish …
Posted in Humour, Japan, Vegan, Vegan Japan |
By mac on 22 February 2010
From, MY MEME IS BIGGER THAN YOUR MEME. To me, “Not Japanese” appears to be one big excuse, the ultimate NIH (Not Invented Here). It is applied to mean anything from, “… I don’t understand it” or ” … This is new”, to “… I don’t like it” and “… I am going to destroy [...]
Posted in Vegan Japan |
By mac on 21 February 2010
The word “meme” was introduced by the British scientist Richard Dawkins as a way of explaining the spread of ideas and cultures in the ‘Selfish Gene’ published in 1976. Examples of memes included pop songs, catch-phrases, beliefs (notably religious beliefs), fashion, gestures, single issue politics and so on. Memetic theorists believe these spread, like mental [...]
Posted in Japan, Vegan Japan |
By mac on 11 January 2010
What is the ‘cost’ of a vegan? How much does it cost ‘make’ a vegan? How much does it cost to make society ‘more’ vegan? Who is the benefit for; the animals, the environment, the individual … society or the Vegan Society itself? If the purpose is to ‘make’ as many vegans as possible, or [...]
Posted in Ethics, International development, Vegan |
By mac on 10 January 2010
A young vegan friend who is a tailor and a fashion designer wrote to me to asked a honest question about cloth … fabrics … materials. It not only made me look again at my beliefs but it inspired me to research the subject more. According to the Memorandum of Association of the Vegan Society [...]
Posted in Ethics, Vegan, Vegan Philosophy |
By mac on 10 January 2010
One of the great divides in the Vegan World is that between Raw and Cooked. ‘Dead’ or ‘alive’ foods, as the former would call it. More specifically, Vegan Raw Fooders* (Fruitarians) versus Vegan Macrobiotics. An as aside, I will also talk Freegan. The history of macrobiotics and the raw food movement have been much discussed [...]
Posted in Diet, Food, Vegan | Tagged Ann Wigmore, Freegan, Fruitarianism, George Ohsawa, Macrobiotics, Raw Food, Vegan, Viktor Kulvinkas |
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