The idea that avoiding meat is bad for our brains makes some intuitive sense anthropologists have been arguing about what our ancestors ate for decades, but many scientists think that there was a lot of bone-crunching and brain-slurping on the road to evolving these remarkable 1.4kg (3lb) organs. More stories on The Vegan Factor from BBC Good Food But his picnic companion was a shady character with an unusual obsession – the idea that meat held the key to being physically and mentally strong. No, for the first time in his life, he was going to eat meat.Īs he later wrote in his biography, Gandhi was raised as a strict Vaishnava Hindu, so he had never even seen meat before this fateful day. And on this occasion, India’s future national hero – and one of the most famous vegetarians in history – wasn’t planning to dine on cucumber sandwiches. Mahatma Gandhi, who was just a teenager at the time, hadn’t told his parents where he was going if they had found out, they would have been shocked to death.Īs it happens, Gandhi was having a picnic. The meeting was to take place on the banks of the local river – and discretion was essential. It was the late 1880s in the city of Rajkot, India.

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