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The Seventh-Day Adventist Church, encourages members to practice vegetarianism.

A prominent adherent was John Harvey Kellogg. Kellogg, overweight, but dapper in his all-white suit, was an early advocate of a vegan diet. He was behind the famous Battle Creek Sanitarium that paved the way for many contemporary ideas of holistic health and wellness.

The Battle Creek Sanitarium

The whole business of vegetarian diets, and fake meat becoming really popular didn't come out of nowhere. 19th-and-20th-century adherents of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church have been very active in developing businesses selling cereals, baking goods, meat substitutes, and promoting soy-milk and the use of tofu.

Many business enterprises were established in addition to the Kellogg brand. (Worthington, Sanitarium, Loma Linda Foods, Dunkin Donuts, over 100 I'm told.)

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