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Currently Playing: Thailand's Jay Festival and the 3000-Year Holy War Over Eating Meat

Once a year, Thailand hosts the world’s largest vegan event. It’s called the Jay Festival, and for nine days and nine nights, the streets of the Kingdom are covered with vendors hawking meatless delicacies. The story of Jay Festival is well known, yet the more we read about it, the less it made sense. Why does veganism only apply for nine days a year? Why does the Thai Buddhist establishment permit even monks to eat meat? And why does this Buddhist holiday honor non-Buddhist Gods? To find our answers, we ended up falling into a rabbit hole that took us all the way back to the very beginning- the first society ever to swear off meat, and the religious chaos that would accidentally trigger. - Please consider supporting OTR on Patreon and thanks so much to anyone who does; your support truly keeps us going. http://www.patreon.com/OTRontheroad Website: http://www.OTRontheroad.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/otr.offtherails/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D FB: https://www.facebook.com/OTR-106170292218693 - 0:00 - Introduction 1:18 - "Vegan" 3:22 - The Vegetarian Society of Bangkok 5:19 - Two Sides 6:38 - Ancient India 8:40 - Jain Food 11:59 - The Rise and Split of Buddhism 14:02 - Tofu, Tempeh, and Tea 16:47 - Today's Fried Chicken 19:32 - Jay 21:45 - The Nine Emperor Gods 24:07 - Yaowarat During Jay 25:53 - Food, Morals, and Hypocrisy - Video Credits: https://youtu.be/JkyepC6efig https://youtu.be/ZEPtuye4AgY https://youtu.be/SyYSBBE1DFw https://youtu.be/IuGy52HpgA8 https://youtu.be/HFowTxEyZc8 https://youtu.be/TVttjzkuOMs https://youtu.be/5KAcdKrQtWw https://youtu.be/3YrJxz6xsAk https://youtu.be/QN41DJLQmPk https://youtu.be/GGACb8bgByc https://youtu.be/jqExyhLTFaA https://youtu.be/-JUpECDOlb0 https://youtu.be/V_KSKlUEpzY https://youtu.be/79OgMI_j-JI https://youtu.be/SMvQtRtT4-I https://youtu.be/SuMWqcZMWN4 https://youtu.be/Ki0BUon0zIE https://youtu.be/MKbRu3_Ynpk https://youtu.be/UC_n0CqJR3g https://youtu.be/SANR9pm-Ppo https://youtu.be/dYm_ySyc6u4 https://youtu.be/TI949vGM4JM https://youtu.be/h0vk9JzDSxs https://youtu.be/OxG_S0Q-bAg https://youtu.be/8InLEiFGSsw https://youtu.be/j3tA3fFCP34 https://youtu.be/Zt_MmVBUv84 https://youtu.be/DXDVAoF_YFA