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mac started the forum topic Help for vegans coming to Japan in the group Vegan Society

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:12:59 +0000

mac started the forum topic Help for vegans coming to Japan in the group Vegan Society: Vegan and coming to Japan? Looking for some hints, help or to meet up with people?

Post here and see if we can help you.

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mac wrote a new blog post: My Meme is Bigger Than Your Meme

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:29:12 +0000

mac wrote a new blog post: My Meme is Bigger Than Your Meme 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 viruses, [...]

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site admin started the forum topic Welcome to Vegan Voices in Japan discussion forum in the group Tokyo Vegans

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:32:06 +0000

site admin started the forum topic Welcome to Vegan Voices in Japan discussion forum in the group Tokyo Vegans: Welcome to Vegan Voices in Japan discussion forum.

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mac wrote a new blog post: An International Approach to Promoting Veganism

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:17:46 +0000

mac wrote a new blog post: An International Approach to Promoting Veganism

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 [...]

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mac wrote a new blog post: Animal Rights versus Animal Welfare

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:01:31 +0000

mac wrote a new blog post: Animal Rights versus Animal Welfare

“There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk than a pound of steak … to say that is it morally acceptable to eat dairy but not meat (or vice versa) is like saying it is OK to eat large pigs but not small pigs“,
Prof. Gary L. Francione – animal rights author, activist [...]

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mac wrote a new blog post: Woolly Bully: Vegan Material

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:23:57 +0000

mac wrote a new blog post: Woolly Bully: Vegan Material

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 [...]

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mac wrote a new blog post: Wanted Vegans: Dead, Alive or Recycled

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:56:29 +0000

mac wrote a new blog post: Wanted Vegans: Dead, Alive or Recycled

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 [...]

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mac wrote a new blog post: The Yasai Zoku versus the Grass-Eating Ladyboys meets the Revenge of the Vegansexuals

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:49:06 +0000

mac wrote a new blog post: The Yasai Zoku versus the Grass-Eating Ladyboys meets the Revenge of the Vegansexuals

Because of the problems of pronouncing Vegan in Japan correctly, I was thinking of another alternative. How about …
The Yasai-Zoku*
We are ‘The Crazy Vegetable Tribe’ … motto: “We are What we Eat”. Everyone has to have a gang tattoo† to [...]

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mac wrote a new blog post: Animal Rights & Darwinism: philosopher Peter Singer meets leading geneticist Richard Dawkins

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:47:03 +0000

mac wrote a new blog post: Animal Rights & Darwinism: philosopher Peter Singer meets leading geneticist Richard Dawkins

“The question is not, “Can they reason?” nor, “Can they talk?” but, “Can they suffer?”
Science, in this case the genius of Darwinism, actually makes we ‘human animals’ ask the question, “what is so different about us than other animals?“. Rather than support animal exploitation, it makes us have to take more seriously other animals’ capacity [...]

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mac wrote a new blog post: Developing an International Approach to Promoting Veganism

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:27:06 +0000

mac wrote a new blog post: Developing an International Approach to Promoting Veganism

Following on from “How many vegans in the world are there?“, I imagine that in 1944, Donald and Dot Watson knew all the vegans in world by name.
Today, vegans and Veganism are spreading all over the world. [...]

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mac wrote a new blog post: Getting in Hot Chocolate, Vegan Style

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:00:52 +0000

mac wrote a new blog post: Getting in Hot Chocolate, Vegan Style

As any good revolutionary knows, never mind mother or marketing man, them with the best cakes will win. “Make Cakes, not War” … and if you don’t have cake, at least make sure you have chocolate.
From time to time the vegan movement [...]

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mac wrote a new blog post: How Many Vegans are There?

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:35:47 +0000

mac wrote a new blog post: How Many Vegans are There?

Various estimates of the numbers of vegan exist. These extend from 0.2% to 1.4% of various populations. If the world population is around 6.8 billion that would mean there could be approximately 13,000,000 to 95,000,000 vegans in the world according to my arithmetic.
Personally, I think those [...]

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mac wrote a new blog post: Vegan Metaphysics: is Veganism a Religion?

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:48:41 +0000

mac wrote a new blog post: Vegan Metaphysics: is Veganism a Religion?

Donald Watson, the founder with his wife Dorothy of the Vegan Movement, called himself an atheist. An atheist but also a pacifist and an anti-war, conscientious objector. Is the movement he left behind him, Veganism, a religion?
The simple answer is … no.
There is no “God of [...]

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Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:24:06 +0000

kumiko wrote a new blog post: 神との対話に生き抜く

迎春
元旦は工場などが休止しており、空気がとても美しい。
目が覚めてから、呼吸することが快楽で、やめられません。（笑）
ただただ神とともにいること。
この陶酔するような呼吸もそうです。
体中の細胞が、このたった100年くらいここに顕在している肉体を構成する細胞が沸き立つような呼吸。
いつかはエネルギーが去るこの体を私たちは今扱う仕事をしています。
神とともに。
私は宗教には入っていませんので、グレイトスピリットという言葉が適切かもしれません。
大きな仕組みの中で、「快」を追求する幸福は、ヴィーガンでありエコであり、愛という言葉でも表現できるのでしょう。
今日は雪鍋をいただきました。
たっぷりの大根おろしにくつくつと火が通ったら、一つまみのお塩と上等の豆腐を入れてさっと熱を循環させるだけが基本です。
その美しく、香りに含まれる情報の豊かさ。
今日はきのこも加えました。
頂き物の岩海苔をちらすと千葉の潮の香りがします。
貴重な炭を熾して暖を取りながら、くつくつと上等の恵みある大根に火が通る瞬間は、とても聖なる時であり、深い呼吸につながります。
こうして、ただ日常は神とともに過ぎていきます。

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mac wrote a new blog post: Japan: Meat Up or Back to the Edo Diet?

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:02:39 +0000

mac wrote a new blog post: Japan: Meat Up or Back to the Edo Diet? According to the World Research Institute , the annual consumption of meat in Japan has risen from 17.8 kilos per person to 43.9 kilos over the last 40 year. More than double but still, thankfully, only a third of America's consumption rate. By comparison, Indians, from a country with a similar population density to Japan, eat only around [...]

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mac wrote a new blog post: You Can Choose Your Friends but ...

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:08:39 +0000

mac wrote a new blog post: You Can Choose Your Friends but ...

There is a saying in English, “you can choose your friends but you cannot choose your family“.
When you become a vegan, that changes to,
“You can choose your friends but …you cannot choose your vegans“
Why are there so many angry or aggressive vegans? [...]

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mac commented on the blog post Itadakimasu ... ããã ãã¾ã

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:32:39 +0000

mac commented on the blog post Itadakimasu ... いただきます

There is a more profound interpretation of “Itadakimasu” which is, hands held together as in prayer called ‘gassho’, “With thankfulness, I accept this meal by reflecting on my own work, to see whether I deserve it.”
After meals, one supposed to say, “Gochisosama” which means, “May this offering be well received to keep my body [...]

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site admin started the forum topic Welcome to Vegan Voices in Japan discussion forum in the group Tokyo Vegans

mac wrote a new blog post: An International Approach to Promoting Veganism

mac wrote a new blog post: Animal Rights versus Animal Welfare

mac wrote a new blog post: Woolly Bully: Vegan Material

mac wrote a new blog post: Wanted Vegans: Dead, Alive or Recycled

mac wrote a new blog post: The Yasai Zoku versus the Grass-Eating Ladyboys meets the Revenge of the Vegansexuals

mac wrote a new blog post: Animal Rights & Darwinism: philosopher Peter Singer meets leading geneticist Richard Dawkins

mac wrote a new blog post: Developing an International Approach to Promoting Veganism

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