Comments on: Eating Your Veggies in Japan http://www.tofugu.com/2013/04/12/eating-your-veggies-in-japan/ A Japanese Language & Culture Blog Sun, 13 Apr 2014 09:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 By: Lava Yuki http://www.tofugu.com/2013/04/12/eating-your-veggies-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-97380 Sun, 19 May 2013 23:18:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=29958#comment-97380 I heard that if u dnt eat fish, its really hard, since lots of stuff is cooked in dashi stock.

]]> By: Lava Yuki http://www.tofugu.com/2013/04/12/eating-your-veggies-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-92608 Mon, 13 May 2013 17:49:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=29958#comment-92608 Thanks! Is it only available in Starbucks? Like other coffee shops and restaurants dont do it?

]]> By: duncan russell http://www.tofugu.com/2013/04/12/eating-your-veggies-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-74053 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:51:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=29958#comment-74053 Thanks for the link George – the last time I visited I just ate fish for a spell, but may try to stay vegan next time. It just takes a little research beforehand!

]]> By: Alfred http://www.tofugu.com/2013/04/12/eating-your-veggies-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-73533 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 01:05:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=29958#comment-73533 I believe I can speak for most, if not all, vegans when I say: your pity is quite misplaced. Nor are we ‘missing out’ on some of the best parts of being alive; rather, we’re ‘opting out’ from one of the worst and most deeply entrenched dogmas of human history – the notion that we’re morally permitted to subjugate, enslave, torture, kill, eat, wear, experiment on, etc. animals. Animals are not things; they’re selves, they’re beings with a subjective experience of the world, a capacity to feel pain and joy. We have no right to treat them as resources. Moreover, by opting out of this dogma, vegans opt for compassion. I know you think that veganism is fundamentally misguided, but your conception of what it’s like to actually be vegan…as though our day-to-day experience is one of self-deprivation and struggle…is just plain wrong. Being vegan feels good; it feels right. Refusing to partake of the full menu of different cultural culinary traditions when traveling… or, closer to home, the decision to avoid cheese, honey, Confectioner’s glaze, wool, silk, leather, etc. isn’t experienced by vegans as some sort of great sacrifice or hardship on our part. Rather, it’s experienced as simply acting in accordance with what one knows, morally, to be right. The knowledge that each day, with each consumptive decision we make, we’re taking a principled stand of conscientious objection against cruelty is, after all, why we’re vegans in the first place. I’d no more lament not being able to partake of the inherent cruelty of non-vegan cuisine than I would not being able to simply steal something I can’t afford to pay for. So again, we don’t need your pity. In fact, since it seems you have pity to spare, perhaps you might redirect some of it to the animals whose suffering and death you’re so blithely complicit in.

]]> By: tes http://www.tofugu.com/2013/04/12/eating-your-veggies-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-73363 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:58:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=29958#comment-73363 If you want to say vegan in Japanese don`t spell ビーガン but 完全菜食主義者(kanzen saishoku shugisha).

otherwise they will think your name is Vegan.

]]> By: FoxiBiri http://www.tofugu.com/2013/04/12/eating-your-veggies-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-72708 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:05:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=29958#comment-72708 Freshness Burgers tofu and beans burgers ^^ mmmmm… I crave them now that I’m home.

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