Three cheers to Jemima Sherpa's 'Conversation piece' (Nepali Pan, #218) for coming out with a wonderfully entertaining article on vegetarianism. I'm sure being a Sherpa, it hasn't been easier for Jemina to be a vegetarian. She seems to have gone through exactly my experience with giving up meat. Having been a vegetarian for five years now, I don't care to remember why I became one, and am thoroughly fed-up with constant pestering questions. What I can confidently say is that I'm in much better shape than I was before and I'm enjoying my food much more. We should all get together and open a Nepal Vegetarian Society to look after the interest of us vegetarians and promote the rights of the minority.

Shalav S Rana,
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