Did God create us to be vegetarians? This is a debate that swept up some of the Victorian era’s most famous writers and inventors—and one at the center of a number of religions.
, professor of anthropology at UNC-Charlotte, told me that “if God meant us to be vegetarians, he would have given us procumbent incisors.”
Among Christians, the principles of vegetarianism flourished among those, like monks, who avoid luxury and gastronomic indulgence of all kinds. As a subspecies of asceticism, the avoidance of meat—luxury goods for the wealthy—was a form of self-denial. In the Christian West the “Pythagorian Diet” influenced several monastic orders including the Carthusians.
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