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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.
[[Category:Food choices]]
 
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). [[Vegan]]s 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==
* [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.
 
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