Vegetarianism is the practice of following a diet based on plant-based foods including fruits, vegetables, cereal grains, nuts, and seeds, with or without dairy products and eggs.[1] Vegetarians do not eat meat, game, poultry, fish, crustacea, shellfish, or products of animal slaughter such as animal-derived gelatin and rennet.[1][2][3] Variants of the diet exclude eggs and/or products produced from animal labour such as dairy products and honey. A vegan diet is a form of vegetarian diet which excludes all animal products, including dairy products, eggs, and honey. Most vegetarians consume dairy products, and many eat eggs. A lacto-vegetarian diet includes dairy products but excludes eggs, an ovo-vegetarian diet includes eggs but not dairy, and a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet includes both eggs and dairy products.
A semi-vegetarian diet consists largely of vegetarian foods, but may include fish and sometimes poultry, as well as dairy products and eggs. A pescetarian diet, for example, includes fish but no meat.[4] The association of semi-vegetarianism with vegetarianism in common use[5] has led vegetarian groups such as the Vegetarian Society to note these diets are not vegetarian.[6]
Vegetarianism may be adopted for ethical, health, environmental, religious, political, cultural, aesthetic, economic, or other reasons.
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I'm don't live as healthily as I could, but I am trying (I'm sure you can relate), which leads me to this topic: Vegetarianism . Recently, I've been trying ...
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I could not probably adopt the conventional Indian tradition of vegetarianism because I enjoy devouring yummy juicy steaks and I m loving McDonald s Big Mac burger But it doesn t mean that I
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Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:48:27 GM
When Hadley Freeman wrote last week about how awful it was for her to be a . vegetarian. , I was puzzled. If it's so awful for her, then the only thing keeping her from eating meat is that she finds it revolting. OK, I can sympathise with ...
