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| 40 AD–120 AD || Vegetarianism || Advocacy || Greek philosopher {{w|Plutarch}} lives. His essay on flesh eating contains ethical arguments for vegetarianism.<ref name="5th CENTURY A.D"/>
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| 160AD–230AD 520 || Vegetarianism || Advocacy || "TERTULLIAN (160-230 A.D.) of the Early Christian Fathers." ""It is in the cooking-pots that your love is inflamed - it is in the kitchen that your faith grows fervid - it is in the flesh dishes that all your hope lies hid... who is held in so much esteem with you as the frequent giver of dinners, as the sumtuous entertainer, as the practised toaster of healths?"<ref name="5th CENTURY A.D"/> Buddhist monk {{w|Boddhidharma}} introduces {{w||-| 233AD–304AD || || || "PORPHYRY (233-304 A.D.) a great Greek Philosopher: "It is not from those who hare lived on innocent foods that murderers, tyrants, robbers, and sycophants have come, but from eaters of flesh. The necessaries of life are few and easily procured, without violation of justice, liberty, or peace of mind ; whereas luxury obliges these ordinary souls who take delight in it to covet riches, to give up their liberty, to sell justice, to misspend their time, to ruin their health, and to renounce the satisfaction of an upright conscience."<ref name="5th CENTURY A.D"/> |||- | 329AD–379AD || || || SAINT BASILE THE GREAT, (320-79 A.D.) Bishop of Cesarea, adjures : "If one lives soberly. "The animals will be secure; they will never pour forth their blood; men will never cause beasts to die; the knives of cooks will be useless; and the table will be loaded with the fruits given us by nature, and we will be content.""There never was wine Zen}} in the Terrestrial Paradise ; they never sacrificed animals ; they never ate meat ; wine was only invented after the Deluge,"<ref name="5th CENTURY A.D"/> |||-| 340AD–420AD || {{w|| || "SAINT JEROME (340-420 A.D.) Author of the Vulgate. "The use of the flesh of animals was unknown up to the Deluge; but after the Deluge, men put between their teeth the sinews and stinking juices of flesh. Jesus Christ.. . today does not permit us to eat flesh according to the Apostle (Rom XIV. 21). It is good never to drink wine, and never to eat flesh, for the use of wine has commenced with that of flesh after the Deluge." - Letter from St. Jerome to Eustoquie."<ref name="5th CENTURY A.D"/> |||-| 347–407 || || || "CHRYSOSTUM (347-407 A.D.) Archbishop of Constantinople; whose attacks on sin in high places made him enemies at court and among the wealthy classes. Scourging the customs of his time, he said : "No streams of blood are among them (the ascetics); no butchering and cutting up of flesh; no dainty cookery; no heaviness of head. Nor are there the horrible smells of flesh meats atmong them, or disagreeable fumes from the kitchen. No tumult and disturbance and wearisome clamours, but bread and water - the latter from a pure fountain, the former from honest labour. If at any time, however, they wish to feast more sumptuously, the sumptuousness consists in fruits, and their pleasure in these is greater than at royal tables. No master and servant are there. All are servants - all are free men."<ref name="5th CENTURY A.D"/> |||-| 354–430 || || || "ST. AUGUSTIN, (354-430 A. D.), Bishop of Hippo in Africa, calls attention to the abstinence of the Anchorites who "not only abstain from flesh and wine, but also from other viands. ..which flatter taste," He also quotes from St. Paul in I Corinthians VIII. 8 and also Rom. XIV 21 "that it is good never to eat meat and drink wine when by so doing we scandalize our brothers.""<ref name="5th CENTURY A.D"/> |||-| 520 || || || "In 520, Boddhidharma, the 28th Master after Buddha, came from India and gave back The Way of Prophet. He taught Chan (or Zen in Japanese). Zen is the Real Teaching of Buddha, the Lost Teaching of TaoChina}}. Boddhidharma not only taught teaches vegetarianism but also taught Zen monks the martial arts in Shao Lin temple for defense."<ref name="China & Vegetarianism">{{cite web |title=China & Vegetarianism |url=https://ivu.org/history/east/china.html |website=ivu.org |accessdate=7 October 2019}}</ref> || {{w|India}}
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| 973–1057 || Veganism || || Arab poet {{w|al-Maʿarri}} is recognized as one of the earliest known vegans.<ref>D. S. Margoliouth, "Abu‘l-'Alā al-Ma‘arrī's Correspondence on Vegetarianism", ''The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland'', 34(02), 1902 (289–332), 290. {{doi|10.1017/s0035869x0002921x}} {{jstor|25208409}}</ref> ||
