> As for Gandhi, he eventually abandoned his illicit relationship with meat, and went back to vegetarianism. That was a commitment he took for his mother when

> As for Gandhi, he eventually abandoned his illicit relationship with meat, and went back to vegetarianism. That was a commitment he took for his mother when he went to study law in England. While today the UK is a hotbed of veg*nism, back then Gandhi had trouble eating well while being veg in London, and started seeking out other vegetarians. He eventually found a vegetarian society, and it is through that society that he became exposed to Henry David Thoreau and his Civil Disobedience. The rest, as they say, is world history.