The Ultimate Vegetarian Cooking and Food Guide

By Janice Gladwell

Vegetarian meals are not only delicious but also good for you. There are numerous health benefits when you are a vegetarian or become one. This includes lower rates of cancer,  cardio vascular disease and others.  Vegetarianism is kinder towards non-human animals because vegetarianism does not include the slaughter of animals in some of the most horrific ways known by human beings. All animals deserve to live happy lives like people do. If you are looking to join the vegetarian lifestyle, there are different options from which you can choose.  These different options give you the opportunity to ease your way into the scene without having to jump into the deep end with no life vest.  You no longer must make the decision to swear off meat all together, but do try. To be a vegetarian, you can choose to be one of the four types. If you want to find out more about becoming a vegetarian and enjoy some delicious food, please buy my eBook, 'The Ultimate Vegetarian Cooking and Food Guide', by Janice Gladwell and vital role Doctor Pat Gladwell. Read, Enjoy and in all probability live longer while being kinder to our animals. Help save the planet by becoming a vegetarian.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Janice Gladwell
• Release date: Feb 18, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224789009

Janice Gladwell

Janice Gladwell is an Australian residing in Melbourne. Janice wrote Book of The Virgin Mary in the year 2,000AD. Janice has an Advanced Diploma in the Arts from a regional university in New South Wales, a state within Australia and in the past has enjoyed foundational studies in chemistry and hopes to continue with more studies in this area. Janice's lifelong friend Doctor Pat Gladwell played a pivotal role in this eBook being written

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History of Vegetarianism

To get a good understanding of being a vegetarian, vegetarian food, and cooking it will help to learn about the origins of Vegetarianism.  Vegetarianism can be traced back to ancient Egyptian society where many religious sects abstained from eating meat or wearing clothing that was made from animal skins due to their beliefs in reincarnation.  The practice could also be found in ancient Greece.  Most notably, the famed scholar Pythagoras, known for his contributions in the field of mathematics believed that being a vegetarian was an essential part of being a good human and would help lead to a peaceful existence.  The idea of being a vegetarian was hotly debated by the Greeks throughout their civilization. This was one idea that the Romans did not share with the Greeks.  Romans saw animals as a source of food and entertainment for the masses.

Vegetarianism in Religion

Adhering to a vegetarian diet is central to many religions.  Buddhism shows kindness to all living things and its believers hold many animals to be scared for what they provide to humans whether it is milk or as work animals to help plow fields.  Followers of Christianity had different views when it came to being a vegetarian.  Christians believe that humans reign over all other living things on Earth meaning that they believe that animals are here for their use whether that means as beasts of burden or as a food source.  However, that does not mean that all Christians are carnivores.  Throughout history, different sects of Christians have broken with the mainstream beliefs and preached a vegetarian lifestyle.  Vegetarianism played a key role for

Christians in Eastern Europe; among these groups were the Bogomils that rose up in the 900’s in what is now modern-day Bulgaria. The Bogomils were seen as heretics because they spoke out against what they saw as the excesses of monasteries and the Eastern Orthodox Church; they rejected the physical world and forswore the consumption of eggs, meat, and cheese that led them to lead a vegetarian lifestyle.

Hinduism

While not all Hindu’s practice vegetarianism a substantial portion of the followers of the religion up to 35 percent adhere to a vegetarian lifestyle.  Those that live as vegetarians believe that idea of nonviolence applies to animals and that by avoiding the slaughter of animals, they will not bring bad karma upon their family.  The influence of vegetarianism on the Hindu religion came from its predecessor Brahmanism in which violence against animals was strictly controlled with its scriptures only allowing the slaughter of animals for religious sacrifice. 

In Addition, the Brahmanism views are also expressed in the Hindu law book the Dharmaśāstra, which denounced the slaughter of animals and the consumption of meat unless it was performed in a proper religious sacrifice performed by priests.  Today, the slaughter of animals based on these principles has almost come to an end.

Other Religions

Other major religions throughout the world to include Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have followers that adhere to a vegetarian diet, but the religions do not have a