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Vegetarianism is a life-style choice to forgo the consumption of food from the flesh of animals. People may implement this to varrying degrees. Some vegetarians are more 'strict' than others.

Reasons for vegetarianism include:

• moral reasons (animal welfare) - sometimes rejecting all meat-eating, sometimes rejecting the cruelty of modern farming practices.
• environmental reasons - the greater resource use required to produce meat in many cases; depletion of fishing stocks.
• personal preference
• health

Many vegetarians will still eat eggs and/or dairy, sometimes restricting these to free-range or organic products. (Organic certification often includes a greater emphasis on animal welfare than conventional factory farming). Vegans eat no animal products.

A vegan is a particular adherent to a stringent vegetarianism, where even animal derived products, inclusing dairy and eggs are not consumed. Some even go so far as to avoid all animal products, not just food: leathers, furs, feathers, bone, etc.

External Links

• Vegetarian is the New Prius - on CommonDreams.org, by Kathy Freston, January 20, 2007 the Huffington Post.
• Vegetarianism and the Environment, Animal Liberation Inc. (South Australia) - includes interesting graphs of the relative impacts of various human activities.
• Environmental aspects of Animal Liberation: Real conservationists don't eat meat, Animal Liberation Inc. (South Australia) - a talk by by Geoff Russell, prepared for a vegetarian conference, Adelaide, March 1997.