• TWeaK@lemmy.today
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    9 hours ago

    It’s incredibly hard to be a vegan in korea, but it’s very easy to be a vegetarian.

    A lot of traditional foods have hidden animal products in it like shrimp paste for seasoning.

    Sounds like it’s easy to be a pescatarian, but not actually a vegetarian.

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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      22 minutes ago

      Again, it’s kinda weird. I would say it’s fairly easy to be vegetarian since there’s a cultural understanding of vegetarians due to the cultural/religious practices of Buddhist monks.

      For one, they typically have more bland foods, and typically live in the mountainous regions where there’s less access to sea food. And again, what a lot of east Asian people consider meat varies from the western nomenclature.

      Where instead of basing the ethical delineation on a scientific taxonomy, it’s based more on whether something possesses a soul/conscious. If we examine the issue through that lens it can make sense that an invertebrate like a krill or even coral are closer to plants than mammals.