Category:Vegetarianism and veganism

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Vegetarianism is a life-style choice to forgo the consumption meat. 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 health - some people have conditions that are made worse by the eating of some kinds of meat this is why Hitler became a Vegetarian [1].

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.