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Article: Centrefold: Sprouting dogma: Prepare yourselves for the trance of a lifetime
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 26, 1994
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"Healthy, wealthy and wise?", sang the headline in 24 June's
Today, "You must be a veggie". The reason? Dr Margaret Thorogood,
from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, had
announced: "We can confirm that those who have chosen {a vegetarian
diet} might expect reductions in premature death due to cancer and
heart disease". All of which must have been a blessing in ink for
Nigerian prince, lay Buddhist monk, dance musician and general
peddlar of peace Keni St George. Not only does he get to live
longer, he receives scientific approbation for his Anti-Meat and
Fish Peace Vigil, an all-day event which takes over Trafalgar
Square on 4 September.
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