A British court has ruled a "pure plant system" a moral belief protected under anti-discrimination legislation, in connection with a case involving the dismissal of an employee.
"I am convinced that the pure plant system is a philosophical moral belief," said Judge Robin Postel of the Labor Court in Norwich in eastern England.
He added that any insult to the affiliation of the "fusion" diet is harassment similar to "discrimination linked to racial or gender insults."
The purely vegan system, also called "green", is a plant-based dietary pattern that refrains from using animal products, including eggs, dairy products and animal derivatives, and even rejects forms of utilization of animal products such as leather and cosmetics.
A British law issued in 2010 regarding equality considered that a "philosophical belief" is an original belief and not "an opinion or point of view regarding the current situation based on available information."
The judge also considered that the citizen born in Spain and residing in London Jordi Casametiana (55 years) is a follower of this belief, and Casametiana claimed that he was expelled from a charity for animal welfare because of his convictions related to the pure plant system.
Casametiana commented on the ruling, saying that he would encourage many to adopt the diet, because followers of this "belief" are afraid to talk about their ideas, while Cassametiana's lawyer considered that the judgment will help protect the adopters of plant ideas from discrimination.
History of vegetarians
The rise of "plant philosophy" and the vegetarian diet are seen as a new phenomenon, as well as in the minds associated with contemporary progressive ideas and modern lifestyles, but in reality the plant-based diet has deep historical roots, as well as a long relationship with the political left.
Since the time of the French Revolution in 1789 - when radical ideas were sweeping Europe - botanical and moral ideas have grown on the British left, and prominent personalities including playwright George Bernard Shaw have written about him, according to British University of York academic Sky Dothy and a Labor Party activist.
The diet had a great presence in the Roman era in the late eighteenth century, and the English poet Percy Shelley wrote an article in 1813 calling for vegetation entitled "Reviving the Natural Diet", then wrote his poem “poem Queen”, looking forward to “Paradise of Peace”, a case From fellowship among all living beings, where man does not have a "privilege" to take away life from other beings, and lives in harmony with nature, without conflict, as he put it.
A vegan diet has been promoted as a key component of justice ideas, according to a Dorothy article for a website.
Vegetarianism and philosophy
Botanism continued its attachment to the left until the mid-nineteenth century and became an idea associated with "socialist" ideas by the end of the century.
Despite its ethical theories, arguments were developed about its health and environmental benefits, focusing on the environmental burdens of meat production, and trying to confront an increasingly overpowered industrial capitalist society.
The ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician knew Pythagoras for his botanical positions, and in modern times famous names have emerged such as the Russian poet Leo Tolstoy and the Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi, and at the present time botanical ideas are gaining supporters from younger generations against the background of the climate crisis.
Arguing that all forms of persecution are interconnected, vegetarian activists called for "comprehensive human reform" to treat the ethics of society, and many adopted the vegan diet because they considered violence against other animals - and meat eating in particular - an integral part of the "violent exploitative society" surrounding Them.
The vegetarians considered the owners of this view that the society that consumes the animal ends up with behavior and attitudes characterized by predation and exploitation, which undermines the foundations of an ideal peaceful and cooperative society, according to their belief.
The debate revolves around the ethics of plant ideas, their benefits and their harmful effects, as well as a religious debate about their legitimacy in different religions.
Opponents of botanism criticize the idea as an attempt to moralize, and ignore the larger social problems, while others see botanists as people who ignore developing societies and their economic activities related to agriculture and animals.