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{{Wikipedia p|Vegetarianism}}
{{Wikipedia p|Veganism}}
Vegetarianism is a life-style choice to forgo the consumption meat.  People may implement this to varying 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 health - some people have conditions that are made worse by the eating of some kinds of meat.
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). [[Vegan]]s eat no animal products.
A vegan is a particular adherent to a stringent vegetarianism, where even animal derived products, including [[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.
==Promoting vegetarianism==
Delicious vegetarian recipes do exist. If people don't believ you get the top-rated vegetarian recipes from web sites (5 star or at least more than 4.5 average, preferably with a very large number of ratings) and share the recipes and perhaps the food itself with your friends.
==External Links==
* [http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0120-20.htm Vegetarian is the New Prius] - on CommonDreams.org, by Kathy Freston, January 20, 2007 the Huffington Post.
* [http://www.animalliberation.org.au/envleaflet.php Vegetarianism and the Environment], Animal Liberation Inc. (South Australia) - includes interesting graphs of the relative impacts of various human activities.
* [http://www.animalliberation.org.au/vegconf.php 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.
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