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    Aggression and hypomania[edit]
    From the mid-1980s onward, the media reported "roid rage" as a side effect of AAS.[110]:23
    A 2005 review determined that some, but not all, randomized controlled studies have found that AAS use correlates with hypomania and increased aggressiveness, but pointed out that attempts to determine whether AAS use triggers violent behavior have failed, primarily because of high rates of non-participation.[111] A 2008 study on a nationally representative sample of young adult males in the United States found an association between lifetime and past-year self-reported AAS use and involvement in violent acts. Compared with individuals that did not use steroids, young adult males that used AAS reported greater involvement in violent behaviors even after controlling for the effects of key demographic variables, previous violent behavior, and polydrug use.[112] A 1996 review examining the blind studies available at that time also found that these had demonstrated a link between aggression and steroid use, but pointed out that with estimates of over one million past or current steroid users in the United States at that time, an extremely small percentage of those using steroids appear to have experienced mental disturbance severe enough to result in clinical treatments or medical case reports.[113]
    A 1996 randomized controlled trial, which involved 43 men, did not find an increase in the occurrence of angry behavior during 10 weeks of administration of testosterone enanthate at 600 mg/week, but this study screened out subjects that had previously abused steroids or had any psychiatric antecedents.[114][115] A trial conducted in 2000 using testosterone cypionate at 600 mg/week found that treatment significantly increased manic scores on the YMRS, and aggressive responses on several scales. The drug response was highly variable. However: 84% of subjects exhibited minimal psychiatric effects, 12% became mildly hypomanic, and 4% (2 subjects) became markedly hypomanic. The mechanism of these variable reactions could not be explained by demographic, psychological, laboratory, or physiological measures.[116]
    A 2006 study of two pairs of identical twins, in which one twin used AAS and the other did not, found that in both cases the steroid-using twin exhibited high levels of aggressiveness, hostility, anxiety, and paranoid ideation not found in the "control" twin.[117] A small-scale study of 10 AAS users found that cluster B personality disorders were confounding factors for aggression.[118]
    The relationship between AAS use and depression is inconclusive. There have been anecdotal reports of depression and suicide in teenage steroid users,[119] but little systematic evidence. A 1992 review found that AAS may both relieve and cause depression, and that cessation or diminished use of AAS may also result in depression, but called for additional studies due to disparate data.[120] In the case of suicide, 3.9% of a sample of 77 those classified as AAS users reported attempting suicide during withdrawal (Malone, Dimeff, Lombardo, & Sample, 1995).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabolic_steroid

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    Besides testosterone, other androgens include: Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA)
    is a steroid hormone produced in the adrenal cortex from cholesterol.

    It is the primary precursor of natural estrogens.

    DHEA is also called dehydroisoandrosterone or dehydroandrosterone.
    Synonyms: Androgenic hormone; Testoid
    Biological target: Androgen receptor, mARs ...

    Androgen - Wikipedia

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    What stimulates the release of androgens?
    Androgen synthesis and secretion in men is regulated by the complex interaction between the hypothalamus–pituitary–testicular axis. The hypothalamus secretes gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) which stimulates the pituitary gland into secreting luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH).

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    The adrenal cortex is the outer region and also the largest part of an adrenal gland.
    It is divided into three separate zones: zona glomerulosa, zona fasciculata and zona reticularis. Each zone is responsible for producing specific hormones.

    Adrenal Glands | Johns Hopkins Medicine

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    The adrenal glands (also known as suprarenal glands) are endocrine glands that produce a variety of hormones including adrenaline and the steroids aldosterone and cortisol. They are found above the kidneys. Each gland has an outer cortex which produces steroid hormones and an inner medulla.
    System: Endocrine system

    Well China has synthetic versions I'd guess.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steven VanderMolen View Post
    SOURCE: Fast Food Nation (book)

    FAST FOOD NATION

    The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

    By Eric Schlosser

    Illustrated. 356 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $25.

    Eric Schlosser's compelling new book, ''Fast Food Nation,'' will not only make you think twice before eating your next hamburger, but it will also make you think about the fallout that the fast food industry has had on America's social and cultural landscape: how it has affected everything from ranching and farming to diets and health, from marketing and labor practices to larger economic trends.

    As the subtitle of his book, ''The Dark Side of the All-American Meal,'' clearly indicates, Mr. Schlosser is not sanguine about the consequences of the fast food business.

    He argues that ''the centralized purchasing decisions of the large restaurant chains and their demand for standardized products have given a handful of corporations an unprecedented degree of power over the nation's food supply,'' and that as ''the basic thinking behind fast food has become the operating system of today's retail economy,'' small businesses have been marginalized and regional differences smoothed over. A deadening homogenization, he writes, has been injected into the country and increasingly the world at large.

    Mr. Schlosser, a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, draws on earlier works like Jim Hightower's ''Eat Your Heart Out,'' Stan Luxenberg's ''Roadside Empires,'' Robert L. Emerson's ''New Economics of Fast Food,'' and ''Big Mac: The Unauthorized Story of McDonald's'' by Max Boas and Steve Chain. He has also done a lot of legwork, interviewing dozens of fast food workers, farmers, ranchers and meatpackers in an effort to trace the snowballing effect that fast-food production methods have had on their work.

    The resulting book, which began as a two-part article in Rolling Stone magazine, is not a dispassionate examination of the subject but a fierce indictment of the fast food industry. Mr. Schlosser contends that ''the profits of the fast food chains have been made possible by losses imposed on the rest of society,'' including a rising obesity rate and an increase in foodborne illnesses (most notably, those caused by the E. coli O157:H7 bacteria, whose spread has been facilitated by the growing centralization of the meat production process).

    He argues that ''since the administration of President Richard Nixon, the fast food industry has worked closely with its allies in Congress and the White House to oppose new worker safety, food safety and minimum wage laws.'' He urges the government to ban advertising aimed at children, to ''create a single food safety agency that has sufficient authority to protect the public health'' and to stop subsidizing the sort of dead-end jobs generated by the fast food business.

    On occasion, Mr. Schlosser undermines the substantive points he wants to make by seeming eager to blame that industry for virtually every contemporary ill. Talking about restaurant robberies, he writes that ''crime and fast food have become so ubiquitous in American society that their frequent combination usually goes unnoticed.'' Talking about teenagers who take jobs after school to buy a car, he complains that ''as more and more kids work to get their own wheels, fewer participate in after-school sports and activities''; ''they stay at their jobs late into the night, neglect their homework and come to school exhausted.''

    Despite such melodramatic lapses, ''Fast Food Nation'' provides the reader with a vivid sense of how fast food has permeated contemporary life and a fascinating (and sometimes grisly) account of the process whereby cattle and potatoes are transformed into the burgers and fries served up by local fast food franchises. It's an account that includes an unnerving description of the dangerous, injury-filled work performed in slaughterhouses, where job assignments have names like ''first legger, knuckle dropper, navel boner'' and an equally absorbing description of how the New Jersey-based ''flavor industry'' tries to make processed frozen food palatable by manipulating taste, aroma and ''mouthfeel.''

    What is perhaps most astonishing about America's fast food business is just how successful it has been: what began in the 1940's as a handful of hot dog and hamburger stands in Southern California has spread, like kudzu, across the land to become a $110 billion industry. According to Mr. Schlosser, Americans now spend more on fast food than they spend on higher education, personal computers, computer software or new cars, or on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos and recorded music combined.

    Mr. Schlosser writes that ''on any given day in the United States about one-quarter of the adult population visits a fast food restaurant'' and that ''the typical American now consumes approximately three hamburgers and four orders of French fries every week.'' ''An estimated one of every eight workers in the United States has at some point been employed by McDonald's,'' he adds, and ''the company annually hires about one million people, more than any other American organization, public or private.''

    As fast food franchises from McDonald's to Pizza Hut to Kentucky Fried Chicken go global, this dynamic has assumed an international flavor. In Brazil, Mr. Schlosser reports, McDonald's has already become the nation's largest private employer. Classes at McDonald's Hamburger University in Oak Park, Ill., are now taught in 20 different languages, and a Chinese anthropologist notes that all the children at a primary school in Beijing recognized an image of Ronald McDonald. For the Chinese, the anthropologist noted, McDonald's represents ''Americana and the promise of modernization.''
    Correction: Feb. 2, 2001
    A book review on Tuesday about ''Fast Food Nation'' gave an incorrect location from the book for Hamburger University, McDonald's management training center. It is in Oak Brook, Ill., not Oak Park.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/30/b...e-lettuce.html

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    Footnotes from the Book Fastfood Nation
    83 The injury rate of teenage workers:Cited in ProtectingYouth at Work, p. 4. about 200,000 are injured on the job: Ibid., p. 68.
    Roughly four or five fast food workers are now murdered… more restaurant workers were murdered on the job: In 1998, the most recent
    year for which figures are available, fifty-two police officers and detectives were murdered on the job — and sixty-nine restaurant
    workers were murdered on the job, mainly during robberies.The vast majority of restaurant robberies occur at fast food restaurants,
    because they are open late, staffed by teenagers, full of cash, and convenient.The homicide figures are cited in Eric F. Sygnatur and Guy
    A.Toscano, “Work-Related Homicides:The Facts,”Compensation and WorkingConditions, Spring 2000.


    more attractive to armed robbers than convenience stores: See Laurie Grossman, “Easy Marks: Fast-Food Industry is Slow to Take Action
    Against GrowingCrime,” Wall Street Journal, September 22, 1994;Kerry Lydon, “Prime Crime Targets; Highly PublicizedRestaurant
    Crimes Have Drawn Both Criminal and Customer Attention to Security Lapses,”Restaurants and Institutions, June 15, 1995; Milford
    Prewitt, Naomi R.Kooker, Alan J. Liddle, andRobin Lee Allen, “Taking Aim atCrime:Barbaric to Bizarre,Crime Robs Operators’ Peace
    of Mind, Profits,” Nation’sRestaurant News, May 22, 2000.


    at 7–Eleven stores the average robbery:Cited in Scot Lins andRosemary J.Erickson, “Stores Learn to Inconvenience Robbers: 7–Eleven
    Shares Many of Its Robbery Deterrence Strategies,” Security Management, November 1998.


    84 about two-thirds of the robberies at fast food restaurants:Cited in Grossman, “Easy Marks”; and Lydon, “Prime Crime Targets.”
    about half of all restaurant workers:Cited in EdRubinstein, “High-Tech Systems Look to Head OffRestaurant Shrinkage,” Nation’s
    Restaurant News, January 11, 1999.
    The typical employee stole about $218:Cited in “NCSReports Employee Theft Doubled in Restaurant/Fast Food Industry,” press release,
    NCS and National Food Service SecurityCouncil, July 9, 1999.

    “It may be common sense”: Interview with Jerald Greenberg.
    OSHA was prompted: See Ralph Vartabedian, “BigBusiness,BigBucks:The Rising Tide ofCorporate Political Donations,” Los Angeles
    Times, September 23, 1997; Joan Oleck, “Who’s Afraid of OSHA?”RestaurantBusiness, February 10, 1995.

    https://books.google.com/books?id=yN...obbery&f=false

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    Quote Originally Posted by bhaktajan View Post
    Oh Sir! Did you know the answer to my query?

    Aho!

    Testosterone is produced by the gonads (by the Leydig cells in testes in men and by the ovaries in women), although small quantities are also produced by the adrenal glands in both sexes. It is an androgen, meaning that it stimulates the development of male characteristics.

    Testosterone is linked to many of the changes seen in boys during puberty (including an increase in height, body and pubic hair growth, enlargement of the penis, testes and prostate gland, and changes in sexual and aggressive behaviour).
    https://www.yourhormones.info/hormones/testosterone/

    You probably guessed it ... BUT how is it commercially sourced?

    Testosterone banks?

    GOOGLE SAYS:
    How is testosterone manufactured?
    The vast majority of prescription testosterone (cream, gel, injectable, patch, subcutaneous, etc.) is derived from plant sources such as soybeans and yams. Soybeans and yams are natural substances that are put through a chemical synthesis in a laboratory setting to derive the end product of testosterone.

    History[edit]
    See also: Testosterone § History, and Anabolic steroid § History
    Testosterone was first isolated and synthesized in 1935.[94] Shortly thereafter, in 1937, testosterone first became commercially available as a pharmaceutical drug in the form of pellets and then in ester form for intramuscular injection as the relatively short-acting testosterone propionate.[36][34][95] Methyltestosterone, one of the first synthetic AAS and orally active androgens, was introduced in 1935, but was associated with hepatotoxicity and eventually became largely medically obsolete.[95] In the mid-1950s, the longer-acting testosterone esters testosterone enanthate and testosterone cypionate were introduced.[95] They largely superseded testosterone propionate and became the major testosterone esters used medically for over half a century.[95] In the 1970s, testosterone undecanoate was introduced for oral use in Europe,[95] although intramuscular testosterone undecanoate had already been in use in China for several years.[96] Intramuscular testosterone undecanoate was not introduced in Europe and the United States until much later (in the early to mid 2000s and 2014, respectively).[3][97]
    The history of testosterone as a medication has been reviewed.

    So yes, the question arises: How can the world mafiosi profit from this?
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    Quote Originally Posted by bhaktajan View Post
    Footnotes from the Book Fastfood Nation
    83 The injury rate of teenage workers:Cited in ProtectingYouth at Work, p. 4. about 200,000 are injured on the job: Ibid., p. 68.
    Roughly four or five fast food workers are now murdered… more restaurant workers were murdered on the job: In 1998, the most recent
    year for which figures are available, fifty-two police officers and detectives were murdered on the job — and sixty-nine restaurant
    workers were murdered on the job, mainly during robberies.The vast majority of restaurant robberies occur at fast food restaurants,
    because they are open late, staffed by teenagers, full of cash, and convenient.The homicide figures are cited in Eric F. Sygnatur and Guy
    A.Toscano, “Work-Related Homicides:The Facts,”Compensation and WorkingConditions, Spring 2000.


    more attractive to armed robbers than convenience stores: See Laurie Grossman, “Easy Marks: Fast-Food Industry is Slow to Take Action
    Against GrowingCrime,” Wall Street Journal, September 22, 1994;Kerry Lydon, “Prime Crime Targets; Highly PublicizedRestaurant
    Crimes Have Drawn Both Criminal and Customer Attention to Security Lapses,”Restaurants and Institutions, June 15, 1995; Milford
    Prewitt, Naomi R.Kooker, Alan J. Liddle, andRobin Lee Allen, “Taking Aim atCrime:Barbaric to Bizarre,Crime Robs Operators’ Peace
    of Mind, Profits,” Nation’sRestaurant News, May 22, 2000.


    at 7–Eleven stores the average robbery:Cited in Scot Lins andRosemary J.Erickson, “Stores Learn to Inconvenience Robbers: 7–Eleven
    Shares Many of Its Robbery Deterrence Strategies,” Security Management, November 1998.


    84 about two-thirds of the robberies at fast food restaurants:Cited in Grossman, “Easy Marks”; and Lydon, “Prime Crime Targets.”
    about half of all restaurant workers:Cited in EdRubinstein, “High-Tech Systems Look to Head OffRestaurant Shrinkage,” Nation’s
    Restaurant News, January 11, 1999.
    The typical employee stole about $218:Cited in “NCSReports Employee Theft Doubled in Restaurant/Fast Food Industry,” press release,
    NCS and National Food Service SecurityCouncil, July 9, 1999.

    “It may be common sense”: Interview with Jerald Greenberg.
    OSHA was prompted: See Ralph Vartabedian, “BigBusiness,BigBucks:The Rising Tide ofCorporate Political Donations,” Los Angeles
    Times, September 23, 1997; Joan Oleck, “Who’s Afraid of OSHA?”RestaurantBusiness, February 10, 1995.

    https://books.google.com/books?id=yN...obbery&f=false
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steven VanderMolen View Post
    ???????????????????????>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>????????????????????????????????????????>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>??????????????????????
    Maybe the author of the book made a bigger profit when they made a movie of it in 2006?


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    Quote Originally Posted by bhaktajan View Post
    Maybe the author of the book made a bigger profit when they made a movie of it in 2006?

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    Quote Originally Posted by bhaktajan View Post
    Footnotes from the Book Fastfood Nation
    83 The injury rate of teenage workers:Cited in ProtectingYouth at Work, p. 4. about 200,000 are injured on the job: Ibid., p. 68.
    Roughly four or five fast food workers are now murdered… more restaurant workers were murdered on the job: In 1998, the most recent
    year for which figures are available, fifty-two police officers and detectives were murdered on the job — and sixty-nine restaurant
    workers were murdered on the job, mainly during robberies.The vast majority of restaurant robberies occur at fast food restaurants,
    because they are open late, staffed by teenagers, full of cash, and convenient.The homicide figures are cited in Eric F. Sygnatur and Guy
    A.Toscano, “Work-Related Homicides:The Facts,”Compensation and WorkingConditions, Spring 2000.


    more attractive to armed robbers than convenience stores: See Laurie Grossman, “Easy Marks: Fast-Food Industry is Slow to Take Action
    Against GrowingCrime,” Wall Street Journal, September 22, 1994;Kerry Lydon, “Prime Crime Targets; Highly PublicizedRestaurant
    Crimes Have Drawn Both Criminal and Customer Attention to Security Lapses,”Restaurants and Institutions, June 15, 1995; Milford
    Prewitt, Naomi R.Kooker, Alan J. Liddle, andRobin Lee Allen, “Taking Aim atCrime:Barbaric to Bizarre,Crime Robs Operators’ Peace
    of Mind, Profits,” Nation’sRestaurant News, May 22, 2000.


    at 7–Eleven stores the average robbery:Cited in Scot Lins andRosemary J.Erickson, “Stores Learn to Inconvenience Robbers: 7–Eleven
    Shares Many of Its Robbery Deterrence Strategies,” Security Management, November 1998.


    84 about two-thirds of the robberies at fast food restaurants:Cited in Grossman, “Easy Marks”; and Lydon, “Prime Crime Targets.”
    about half of all restaurant workers:Cited in EdRubinstein, “High-Tech Systems Look to Head OffRestaurant Shrinkage,” Nation’s
    Restaurant News, January 11, 1999.
    The typical employee stole about $218:Cited in “NCSReports Employee Theft Doubled in Restaurant/Fast Food Industry,” press release,
    NCS and National Food Service SecurityCouncil, July 9, 1999.

    “It may be common sense”: Interview with Jerald Greenberg.
    OSHA was prompted: See Ralph Vartabedian, “BigBusiness,BigBucks:The Rising Tide ofCorporate Political Donations,” Los Angeles
    Times, September 23, 1997; Joan Oleck, “Who’s Afraid of OSHA?”RestaurantBusiness, February 10, 1995.

    https://books.google.com/books?id=yN...obbery&f=false
    To say NOTHING of the asparagus!

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    Quote Originally Posted by bhaktajan View Post
    "Karma is Transmitted by Bodily Fluids".
    This is not simply an effort at wit ---it is a Truth and it also is the Plain Logic of how 'Karma' is transmitted via consumption.

    Do You Agree: "Karma is Transmitted by Bodily Fluids"?

    Being an 'accessory to a crime' is usually pointed out by the prosecuting team ---it is usually ignored by the perpetrators themselves.
    Case study example:
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    Why Eating Meat Was Banned in Japan for Centuries
    BY KRISTI ALLEN
    MARCH 26, 2019

    ON FEBRUARY 18, 1872, A group of Japanese Buddhist monks broke into the Imperial Palace to seek an audience with the emperor. In the ensuing fight with the guards, half of them were killed. At issue was something the monks considered an existential spiritual crisis for their country. A few weeks earlier, the emperor had eaten beef, effectively repealing a 1,200-year-old ban on consuming animals. The monks believed the new trend of eating meat was “destroying the soul of the Japanese people.”

    For both religious and practical reasons, the Japanese mostly avoided eating meat for more than 12 centuries. Beef was especially taboo, with certain shrines demanding more than 100 days of fasting as penance for consuming it. The story of Japan’s shift away from meat began with the arrival of Buddhism from Korea in the 6th century. At that time, the Japanese were meat eaters. Venison and wild boar (which was sometimes called yama kujira, or “mountain whale”) were particularly popular. Aristocrats enjoyed hunting and feasting on deer entrails and wild fowl.

    Yet Buddhism teaches that humans can be reincarnated into other living beings, including animals. Meat eaters run the risk of consuming their own reincarnated ancestors: not a very palatable thought. Buddhist principles of respect for life and avoidance of waste, especially in the case of food, slowly began to shape Japanese culture and seep into native Shinto beliefs.

    In 675 A.D., Emperor Tenmu issued the first official decree banning consumption of beef, horse, dog, chicken, and monkey during the height of farming season from April to September. As time went on, the practice would be solidified and expanded into a year-round taboo against all meat eating.

    But the meat ban also had secular roots. Even before Buddhism, meat wasn’t an essential part of the Japanese diet. As a nation of islands, Japan has always relied on fish and seafood as staples. Additionally, writes historian Naomishi Ishige, “protein was ingested from rice rather than from meat or milk.” Raising animals is resource-intensive, so Japanese farmers working with limited space in their mountainous island nation largely avoided it. It was also in the best interest of the country to discourage the eating of useful farm animals, since there were relatively few of them in Japan.

    While all meat was considered corrupt and unclean, eating wild animals wasn’t completely unheard of. Plus, the Japanese aristocracy never completely gave up the practice. There are records of taxes paid and gifts sent to emperors in the form of pork, beef, and even milk. Meat was still taboo among the upper classes, but it was often treated as a special food with medicinal properties. (Even Buddhist monks could occasionally consume meat on doctor’s orders.) In the 18th century, the Hikone Clan sent their annual gift of beef pickled in sake to the shogun in packages labeled as medicine. Birds were more acceptable as foodstuff than mammals, and dolphin and whale was frequently eaten, as they were considered fish.

    Some mammals were more forbidden than others. According to Ishige, “the Buddhist concept of the transmigration of souls and the taboo on mammal meat became linked, and the belief spread that a person who ate the flesh of a four-legged animal would after death be reincarnated as a four-legged animal.” One government decree stated that anyone who’d eaten wild goat, wolf, rabbit, or raccoon dog (tanuki) was required to repent for five days before visiting a shrine. Those who’d eaten pork or venison, however, were required to repent for 60 days. For eaters of beef and horse meat, it was 150 days. On the rare occasions that they did eat meat, Japanese people cooked it on fires outside the home and avoided looking directly at their altars afterwards so as not to contaminate them.

    When Portuguese missionaries arrived in Japan in the early 16th century, they had been counseled that the locals considered drinking milk to be like drinking blood and that eating beef was unthinkable. Even the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi supposedly questioned Portuguese missionaries on their practice of eating beef, as cows were so useful as farm animals. Nevertheless, the Portuguese were able to spread some of their cuisine to the locals, including sweets, tempura, and beef, which Kyotoites called waka, from the Portuguese vaca.

    Dietary customs began to change faster in the late 19th century. After Emperor Meiji assumed power in 1868, the Japanese government moved to end their two centuries of isolation and adopt Western practices and technology as quickly as possible. Plus, many believed “that one reason why the Japanese had poor physiques compared to Westerners was that they did not eat meat or dairy products,” writes Ishige.

    The Meiji government began to chip away at the ancient dietary taboos. They set up companies to produce meat and dairy products. When the emperor himself ate meat to ring in the New Year in 1872, it went a long way toward convincing the Japanese to abandon their meatless customs. It wasn’t an easy transition. Devout Buddhists, such as the monks who attempted to break into the Imperial Palace and rural peasants who relied on their animals for farm work, had long accepted the idea that eating meat was a sin. One prefectural decree from 1872 reads “Although beef is a wonderfully nutritious food, there are still a great number of people barring our attempt at westernization by clinging to conventional customs,” adding, “Such action is contrary to the wishes of the Emperor.”

    In the end, the wishes of the Emperor prevailed. As Japan opened up to the world, it began to absorb meat-based dishes from Korea, China, and the West. Soon, expensive Western-style restaurants serving meat popped up in cities, followed by affordable Japanese restaurants serving a medicinal beef stew, which would evolve into the dish sukiyaki. Today, the Japanese eat almost as much meat as they do seafood. While it took a few decades, meat is now as much a part of Japanese cuisine as sushi.

    https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/japan-meat-ban

    1852 Adm Perry forces Japan to do Trade with USA. 1941 Japan attacks Hawaii.

    FYI Japan had already took over Korea & China ---but they had a high sought more.

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