| Veganism and vegetarianism in Islam&Turkiye The answer to 'How is the current situation of vegetarianism in Turkey? ', or 'How many vegetarians are there in Turkey?' is really very difficult to answer, exactly like in the USA, or any other county in the world. The famous and historical Turkish cuisine is offering a vast opportunity of items particularly for lacto-vegetarians as well as the acceptance of dry beans and rice, chickpeas (or lentils or peas) and bulghur (cracked wheat). Widely known 'yoghurt' is a word which has entered Western languages from Turkish (yogurt) since it is the oldest food of Nomadic Turkish tribes brought from Middle Asian steppes having many derivatives like Ayran (yoghurt drink), Cacik (appetiser), Kurut (dried yoghurt), Süzme (dense yoghurt),etc. Another trend nowadays is preference of white meat or soya products like textured soy protein, tofu and soy milk to red meat.By the way if you are interested in soymilk you can watch my video showing to make a soymilk machine as a hobby at home in youtube.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ2NA2ucPss ..Although you can see a McDonald's, Burger King or Dönner Kebap shop on every corner of Istanbul there are also about 10 restaurants identifying themselves as vegetarian restaurants except 15-20 Far-Eastern restaurants. Nevertheless as mentioned before, in local restaurants you can generally find tasty alternatives for veggies. Once a year Turks sacrifice a ram in memory of Prophet Abraham but Islam advises less consumption of meat saying 'too much meat consumption is a kind of addiction like alcoholic drinks'.The prominent Islam scholar Abdül Kadir Geylani would once a year have a vegan diet for 40 days and if we examine Islam and Prophet Mohammed's sayings we see that he advices us to eat meat at least once in 40 days otherwise our nature wil be harmed and when we examine the contemporary medicine we see that the best source of vitamin B12 and iron is red meat.It is very obvious that our body will have no harm if we eat meat once or twice in 40 days.On the contrary this is exactly the way of nutrition of thousands of centenerians in Turkey,Caucasia,Balcans .Zaro Agha who lived 160 years ..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvCTNQISFfk These people eat meat very rarely as adviced by Islam and their basic protein source is yoghurt just. On the other hand if we examine the life of George Bernard Shaw who is known to be the longest living vegan we can see that he had pernicious anemia in most of his life of 92 years. In Islam "HUMAN" is the most honored creature like in all other religions and all the other things were simply created to serve him . I think that the people of our world hopefully will find the right path to the century's biggest fact of 'Ovo-lacto vegetarians tend to live longer and to suffer less from chronic disabling conditions than their meat eating peers' as stated in the most imporatnt Medicine book of the world (The Merck Manual, 15 th Edition, Pg.9). judsonlaipply ,Evolution of Dance,Dancing, comedy,okgo,ok,go,treadmills,here,it,goes, again,hereitgoesagain,PARISIN JAIL,Larry, King,parody,showbiz,tonight,CNN,access,hollywood,bikini,Legs,feet,butt,boobs,IMVU - www.IMVU.com,guitar,canon,rock,kid,jerryc, funtwo,cannon,solo,lesson,guitar90,prabhu, deva,Kalluri,Vaanil,Pennin,Manathai,Thottu,laughter,revelry,child,Hahaha , Tags: Vegan vegetarian vejeteryan soymilk machine zaro agha longevity immortality film nutrition ufo soccer song music movie advice community dating personals random video blog wisdom |