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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
I've been reading a lot of Gandhi's writings lately and he was astounded at the eating habits of South Africans in the 1890's. As he observed it, the Europeans that dominated there were meat and potato eaters who were mostly there seeking their fortunes in gold. But, as an outsider, he could only see vast opportunities for farming in a region rich with resources. He felt that if people would adopt a somewhat simpler lifestyle, including a vegetarian diet, many of the ills of that society would have been relieved including, perhaps, even the "colour prejudice" which consumed the bulk of his energies there for a couple of decades. As a reader, it's easy for me to see analogies with the present and I wonder if certain societal excesses would perhaps be eased if more people became less indulgent in, for example, their dietary habits.
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On the other hand, dieters are always so cranky....