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Semi-protected edit request for Humans subsection of History
I request adding an additional section, “Philosophical Influence” in the “History” section, after the “Humans” subsection. A further expansion of this section will help connect the past to the present.

Philosophical Influence
The history of plant-based eating goes back thousands of years. One significant rise in plant based diets occurred during the classical period with the Pythagoreans, namesake of the Greek philosopher Pythagoras. Roughly 100 years after Pythagora's death, Greek philosopher Porphyry wrote a book titled On Abstinence from the Flesh of Animals, which included some of the very same arguments modern-day vegetarians use when selecting the plant-based diet. His book spawned the first vegetarian society in England, which in turn inspired the first vegetarian society in America. As momentum grew for plant-based diets, the influence of Porphyry’s writing spread into the literature of America. In 1906, the creation of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the US Food and Drug Administration was an unintentional result of Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle.

Gwnytheve (talk) 01:20, 24 April 2020 (UTC)