date:Jun 02, 2016
, requires monks and nuns to abstain from meat, while lay Buddhists are required to follow a vegetarian diet when visiting temples or on special dates, such as the Buddhists feast day. Pew Forum estimates that in 2010 about 18.2% of Chinas population, or 244 million people, were Buddhist, accounting for about half of the Buddhists in the world, and presenting a significant cohort of part-time vegetarians or flexitarians in China.
New meat alternative products have recently been launched that ca