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Vegetarian Food in Japan  菜食主義 ﾍﾞｼﾞﾀﾘｱﾝ  Today is World
Vegetarian Day, so if you are not one for biting on burgers,
chewing on a kebab or stuffing down the sushi, what are the
options for vegetarians in Japan?  Fancy a kebab - not if you're
veggieWell, the picture is mixed, but overall with the boom in
health food stores and organic food over the last few years,
things have improved considerably for the dedicated herbivore.
First of all let"s define our terms, there are all sorts of
"vegetarians", just as there are all sorts of "meat-eaters".
Food fads are changing all the time. I knew a guy in London who
changed from strict vegetarianism to eating only offal, you know
the stuff: the hearts, kidneys, eyes, brains, testicles and
livers of a variety of dead animals. He claimed he'd never felt
better. Another "meat-eater" of my acquaintance won't touch beef
(BSE mad cow risk) or lamb (scrapi