The vegetarian diet has been around for a long time. Back in days of old, meat was considered a luxury and you were lucky if you got your hands on a couple of chunks of bone-dry mutton once every couple of weeks. Financial restraint ensured that diets mostly consisted of vegetables, usually thrown together in a pan and watered down to make a long lasting broth which was so thin that you could read your newspaper through it.
Yet, if we are going back that far there wouldn't have been much in terms of mass media and, as lowly peasantry, our reading abilities would have been pretty much non-existent, but I've made the analogy now and I'm sticking with it.
