Hare Kṛṣṇa Food for Life

The International Society for Krishna Consciousness is doing a superb job of letting people know that vegetarian food is healthful, delicious, and pleasing to the eye. Over the past fifteen years the Hare Krishna people have distributed more than 150 million plates of prasadam, vegetarian foods prepared and offered to God with love and devotion. They are master cooks, their food is stunningly delicious, and they cannot be praised enough for their success in promoting the cause of vegetarianism worldwide.

The careful preparation and profuse public distribution of prasadam (vegetarian foods offered to Lord Krsna) has always been an essential element of the Vedic culture. Since 1966, devotees of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) have followed this tradition by serving out over 150 million nourishing free multicourse dinners, opening over thirty vegetarian restaurants, founding over thirty vegetarian farm communities, providing vegetarian food relief to the hungry in Asia, Africa, and the West, and widely publicizing the value of a spiritual vegetarian diet through books, magazines, and films. Also, many followers of the Krsna religion have begun various prasadam businesses, producing a wide variety of healthy, nutritious, natural foods. All this makes the International Society for Krishna Consciousness-unique in its spiritual approach to diet-the strongest and most well-organized force for vegetarianism in the world today.