Creating a Compassionate and Vegetarian Global Village

Korea

Enlightening Children about
Loving Foods

By Seoul News Group (Originally in Korean)

On December 20, Golden year 3 (2006), the initiates held a special lecture about the vegetarian diet for a class of 3rd grade students in Kwang Myung Dong Elementary School of Gwangmyeong City, Gyeonggi-do.

During the lecture, the students were shown a Korean TV program about a boy who recovered from high cholesterol by changing to the vegetarian diet. Since the story was about a child of similar age to the students, they paid great attention to the video. Later, they were explained the difference in character between ferocious carnivores such as tigers and herbivorous animals such as giraffes.

In the end, the initiates invited everyone to taste vegetarian meat substitutes. To everyone's surprise, the children refused to eat because they thought the food was made of real meat. After reassuring them that the ingredients were pure vegetarian, they happily tried the delicious soy-meat and declared that the “vegetarian meat is 100 times, 1000 times and 100 millions times more delicious than real meat!”

The school principle, who also attended, praised the lecture to be very beneficial and educational. He requested us to give another lecture for the teachers in the coming semester. We thank Master for this opportunity to share Her love and grace, and sincerely hope that the positive ripple effect will soon spread to the whole school!