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[Grainne86]

Phew, this thread is giving me a bit of hope - I thought I was going to starve as a veggie over there!

Are there any good fresh fruit/veg markets around Seoul?

[coffeeman]

[myenglishisno]

I hate hippies for basically ruining the image of environmentalists, vegetarians and several other things. PETA does more harm than good, especially for the image of vegetarians.

I'm actually further from being a hippie than most of the omnivores I know and the second I say I'm a vegetarian they think I'm some kind of treehugging, beatnik, flower power, douche-face.

[NSMatt]

[West Coast Tatterdemalion]

Last I looked, a fish is not a vegetable. So, apply some logic here. You eat fish, you aren't a vegetarian. Period. As far as meat in the Korean diet, there is an element of it in nearly every Korean dish. Fish stock alone accounts for a high percentage. You are patently wrong on that one.

The bottom line is that eating meat is not good for your health. You can post all the inane "studies" about it supposedly being beneficial, but those "studies" have probably been bought and paid for by that lovely, murderous meat industry. Try to think outside your Big Mac or Whopper.

[coffeeman]

Thanks for the article NSMatt. You learn something new everyday.
That said, I will personally do some more research on fair trade coffee. I don't agree with the very last part of the article that says that some fair trade coffee has to be sold as regular coffee to keep fair trade prices up.

Obviously this claim is based on old info because this year coffee bean prices have gone up 30 - 40%. There's a huge demand on coffee period. Maybe this article was researched last year , but published this month.

[NSMatt]

[West Coast Tatterdemalion]

Yes, because if NSMatt read it somewhere, it must be true. Sure, Matt, I believe everything you say.

[NSMatt]

[weebil]

[coffeeman]

[West Coast Tatterdemalion]

Thanks, Coffeeman. I love how these random posters expect me to post a dissertation just so some stranger can feel their point is valid. Not gonna happen, Matt. This forum just isn't that important to me. But you go ahead and post all your "facts" and "studies." It obviously means more to you.

[coffeeman]

On Green & Vegetarian issues in Korea, I was just thinking about the "Wellbeing" restaurants there.

That's a nice trend and a good way to market healthy food. Instead of focusing on what you can't eat (which is the way many people wrongly look at vegetarianism), they focus on what you can eat for good health. It's very clever.

I wonder if this trend is in any way partly due to the fact that generally when people speak about Japanese food, they say how healthy the cuisine is. The same high praise is generally not given to Chinese food because it tends to be oily.

In North America, I believe that Korean food has only really become popular in the last 15 years. Still, if you asked many North Americans today whether Korean food was healthy, I think not many would be able to answer the question.

So, I'm suggesting that maybe one of the motivations behind the wellbeing restaurants is a repositioning of Korean food as healthy. Excluding samgyepsal, dok po gi, kalbi, and maybe a couple of others, I would say Korean food is healthy.

[Menino80]

[Menino80]