Group 2
Marium Nasir 2016280092
Liu Yinglun 2016213044
Xu Jia 2016213050
Vegetarianism, the deliberate diet for human beings that requires abstention from meat and sometimes even the by-products of animal slaughter, is a concept that China is just waking up to despite its popularity in some other parts of the world. And Tsinghua University still seems to be deep in its slumber—not a single cafeteria serves vegetarians specifically, and not a single counter in the cafeterias serves vegetarian food. The vegetarian community at Tsinghua, with an estimated population of about 1,000, is unrepresented in the campus catering system. Every individual in the community has their own reason of going veggie—religion, aversion to animal cruelty, health, personal taste, to name just a few.
Veggie Tales
Vegetarianism in 100 seconds
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Unable to dine at any cafeteria on campus without compromising their diet, Tsinghua’s vegetarians are forced into cooking for themselves. For international students, the task is to manage all the rinsing, chopping, boiling and stir-frying in the 2 square meter kitchen shared by two. And for the Chinese students who are given, instead of a kitchen, a 1000-voltage cap on any home appliances, the eye-opening diversity of vegetarian cooking is reduced to steaming and salad making.
“I skip meals all the time,” said Zhang Xuan, a second-year graduate student of Social Science. “There is never enough time to cook.”