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| {{Wikipedia p|Vegetarianism}}
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| {{Wikipedia p|Veganism}}
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| 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.
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| Reasons for vegetarianism include:
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| * moral reasons (animal welfare) - sometimes rejecting all meat-eating, sometimes rejecting the cruelty of modern farming practices.
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| * environmental reasons - the greater resource use required to produce meat in many cases; depletion of fishing stocks.
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| * personal health - some people have conditions that are made worse by the eating of some kinds of meat.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| '''Warning''' Research is crucial when entering into any significant diet change. Some extreme cases have resulted in death. [http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/vegans-sentenced-to-life-for-starving/20070509155909990001?ecid=RSS0001]
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| ==Promoting vegetarianism==
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| Delicious vegetarian recipes do exist. If people don't believe you, get some 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.
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| ==External Links==
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| * [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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| * [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.
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| * [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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| [[Category:Vegetarianism and veganism]]
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