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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 3, 1971)
Several schools respond Collegians turn vegetarian By CHARLES HILLINGER (C> 1971, The I,os Angeles Times RIVERSIDE, Calif.—Vegetarianism is suddenly a big thing on campus. A popular student demand this fall is for vegetarian lines in school cafeterias. And a church-owned food company is being besieged with requests for help from colleges and universities across the country. Actress Candice Bergen recently expressed the feelings of many young people eating fruits, nuts and vegetables when she declared: “I wanttobeable to look a cow in the eye.” A vegetarian diet is cheaper. It’s a weight reducer. A one-man drive to get "vegetarian foods” served In the University’s dorms has begun. University student and dorm resident Don Villa said Tuesday he is posting petitions in the dining areas of Hamilton and Carson dorm complexes asking students to support having such food served in the dorms . Vegetarian foods include "brown rice instead of Just white rice” and "vegetables cooked properly,” Villa said. He also said a greater variety of beans would be desirable. Business for the Seventh-day Adventist Loma Linda Foods Co has never been better. “The so-called ‘hippie culture’ and the ever growing interest in vegetarianism by college students is a major factor,” said Pat Maguire, sales manager of the company based here. lxist year’s 7 million dollar gross for the church owned vegetarian food factory was up 34 per cent over sales for 1966 "Vegetarian foods are being offered side-by-side with meat dishes for the first time this year at several colleges and universities including the University of California at Santa Barbara,” said Maguire. “Our salesmen are visiting schools throughout the country on invitation from the colleges and universities in response to student appeal. "Ixist week 14 colleges in New England contacted us for help with vegetarian meals.” lxima Linda Foods has been supplying meat substitutes to vegetarians since its founding in Southern California in 1906. Today tin* company stocks 45 different items on supermarket shelves across the nation including cereals, meat substitutes, vegetables, juices, olives and dates Frankfurters, Chili, steaks, sausages, meat loaf, scallops, beef, chicken and turkey dishes and gravies all made of vegetables to look and taste like tlie meat products they represent are manufactured by the company. Seventh-day Adventists are not required by church law to abstain from meat, according to Uene Gross, a nutritionist at lx>ma Linda Foods. But she said the church “strongly recommends" a vegetarian diet. Adventists believe they live longer and are healthier because of meatless diets. Last week at a one-day conference in San Diego sponsored by the California Nutrition Council, Dr. Richard Walden, Assistant Dean of the School of Public Health at the Adventists’ Loma Linda University, said, a 59-year-old Seventh-day Ad ventist man can expect to live six years longer than nonmembers of the church. Dr. Walden said the conclusion is based on a 10 year study that included 87 per cent of the 57,000 Seventh-day Adventists living in California. Death certificates of members of the Church were com pared to death rates of the general public, he said. The death rate due to coronary heart disease or strokes for Adventists was half that of other Californians, he said. Church members had an 18 per cent lower cholesterol rate than the general population of New York, Dr. Walden reported. He attributed difference in life expectancy, cholesterol rate and heart disease to the fact that Adventists as a rule do not smoke, drink or eat meat. Ms. Grosfc 'estimated that one-third of the world’s population is vegetarian, but only about 4 million Americans exist on fleshless diets. ‘‘The reasons why people are vegetarians vary,” she explained. “Some abstain from meat because they believe a vegetarian diet is a healthier diet. “For others it is a religious practice. For millions of Africans and Asians there simply is no meat available. “In places like India, most people believe animals have souls just as humans. They believe cows, goats, sheep and pigs are reincarnated humans. So the people are vegetarians.” Some vegetarians—known as Vegans—believe in the close kinship between man and beast and have extended their ethical scruples to the point where they reject use of any and all animal products. This includes not wearing leather belts or shoes, wool garments, leather jackets or fur coats and not using soaps or cosmetics containing animal ingredients. The Seventh-day Adventists, an evangelical Protestant denomination founded in 1863 in Battle Creek, Mich., believe God gave Adam and Eve a diet of fruit, seeds, nuts and vegetables. “The Bible tells us man remained a vegetarian until the time of the Great Flood,” said Ms. Gross "When the waters receded there was nothing left to eat except the animals aboard Noah’s Ark.” Many early day Greeks and Romans were vegetarians. Pythagoras, the 6th century B.C. Greek Philosopher, is considered the founder of the vegetarian movement that persists to this day. Plato, Socrates, Diogenes, Plutarch and Cicero were vegetarians. With the fall of ancient cultures, the vegetarian idea virtually disappeared except for a few orders of the Roman Catholic Church, particularly the Trappists, founded in the 11th century, who remain to this day strict vegearians. 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