To Promote Vegetarianism

In 1972, Samnak Poo Sawan under supervision of Dr. Suchart Kosolkitiwong set up a demonstration-workshop named “Kin Pua Yu (Eat for Living)” to promote vegetarian foods. It is Dr. Suchart Kosolkitiwong’s opinion that Thailand accepts Buddhism as her national religion with five precepts for Buddhists. The first precept is to abstrain from killing, but flesh consumption encourages the killing of animals. So a vegetarian restaurant was set up there. Dr. Suchart instructed members of Samnak Poo Sawan and encouraged the public to see bad effects and dangers of consuming flesh and to see benefit of vegetarianism. Later on, another demonstration-workshop “Kin Pua Yu” was set up at the Religious Land Hooppha Sawan for the purpose of persuading tourists who visited that place to taste, know and like to consume vegetarian foods more and more. This was also the beginning of the Vegetarian Centre of Thailand in 1972. Later the Vegetarian Centre of Thailand was formal-ly organized in 1977.
At present, the Vegetarian Centre of Thailand is an associated member of the Inter-national Vegetarian Union and Dr. Suchart Kosolkitiwong was the Founder President of the Centre. Associate Professor Dr. Phichai Tovivich is the Honorary President, Acharn Kelong Panich is the Acting President of the Centre.