History 2185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Corn Flakes, Fore People, Hot Chocolate
20 Apr 2016
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A diet that excludes the flesh of animals in their diet. There are 8 categories of vegetarianism: semi, pollo, pesco, ovo-lacto, lacto, ovo, vegans. Eat nuts (sometimes only nuts that fall out from a tree) Some vegetarians are vegetarians for other reasons (political reasons or religious reasons) Believed the human soul could migrate through animals, therefore, didn"t eat meat because an animal could contain a human soul. In this time, those who didn"t eat meat were often called a pythagoria". Christian and jewish groups also followed the vegetarian lifestyle. Some believed that meat was a sexual stimulant: monks, for example, cannot be sexual so they don"t eat meat. Believed that meat decomposed in your body. Jeremy bentham: his wife continued to eat meat despite jeremy being a vegetarian, everything in society should be based on the greatest good , saying that you should kill animals in a humane way. Convinced that masturbation was the worst sin ever.
