Questions tagged [vegetarianism]
Vegetarianism encompasses the practice of following plant-based diets (fruits, vegetables, etc.), with or without the inclusion of dairy products or eggs, and with the exclusion of meat (red meat, poultry, and seafood).
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Is a vegetarian (vegan) diet more healthy?
According to Wikipedia,
Vegetarians tend to have lower body mass index, lower levels of cholesterol, lower blood pressure, and less incidence of heart disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, renal ...
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Is being a vegan more environmentally friendly than otherwise?
On their website, PETA claimed the following:
A recent United Nations report concluded that a global shift toward a vegan diet is necessary to combat the worst effects of climate change. And the U....
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Are the mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna vegan?
The mRNA vaccines from both Pfizer and Moderna contain cholesterol.
On the website for the UK National Health System NHS we may read:
The COVID-19 vaccines do not contain egg or animal products.
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Can we grow enough crops to feed all people on Earth?
Vegetarianism is heavily promoted. But let's say all people on Earth stop eating animal products. Can we grow enough crops so all people on the Earth are provided with enough healthy, nutritious food? ...
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Can you get sufficient protein from a vegan diet?
This image claims that you can get protein from non-meat sources, citing Broccoli as an example.
Do you really need meat to get Protein?
Beef 6.4 grams of protein per 100 calories.
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Do long-time vegetarians lose the ability to digest meat?
"In people who have been long-term vegetarians, studies have found that they actually lose the ability to digest meat". Is this true, at a biological level? (As opposed to any possible psychological ...
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Are the vast majority of vegans Vitamin B12 deficient?
WebMD reports:
In the July issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, German researchers tracked 174 apparently healthy people living in Germany and the Netherlands.
They found that 92% of ...
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Does eating vegetarian kill more animals than eating meat?
Read in an Italian magazine:
The University professor who conducted the study, such Mike Archer, showed instead that the production of plants consumed by humans can kill a number of animals 25 ...
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Was Hitler a vegetarian?
It is commonly believed that Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian. Sometimes that is used as some sort of argument-by-association that vegetarianism is a bad idea:
For example, "Vegetarians Are Evil" web-...
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Does broccoli have a nervous system?
It appears there are non-reliable sources on the internet claiming broccoli has a nervous system:
forum at funnyjunk.com:
Broccoli have a very primitive nervous system. Technically, they are able ...
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Is there a connection between sleep patterns and meat-eating?
There are a number of different and sometimes contradictory claims that changing your diet (especially with regard to avoid meat) can have an affect on your sleeping pattern.
Here are a few related ...
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Are vegetarians more intelligent?
In a post titled Why Vegetarians Are More Intelligent than Meat Eaters, evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa claims:
Among the British respondents in the National Child Development Study, ...
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Is mycoprotein (Quorn) safe for human consumption?
There have been severe arguments over the safety of mycoprotein:
Quorn is considered a healthy food in UK and Europe
Some parties in the US have cried havoc
It's quite discussed in Canada
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Do 2/3 of "vegetarians" fail to stick to a vegetarian diet?
In a TEDxTalk, Brian Kateman, the Assistant Program Manager of the Earth Institute Center for Environmental Sustainability claimed that a huge number of those who identified themselves as vegetarians ...
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Does having one fewer child reduce my carbon footprint as much as 71+ people going vegan?
In July 2017, ScienceMag reported on a study:
Eating no meat cuts an individual’s carbon footprint by 820 kilograms of carbon dioxide (CO2) each year [...] by choosing to have one fewer child in ...
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Does going vegan roughly save 600 gallons of water a day?
On average, a vegan, a person who doesn't eat meat or dairy, indirectly consumes nearly 600 gallons of water per day less than a person who eats the average American diet.
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Does the meat industry cause 414 billion dollars in externalized costs?
About 34 minutes into the 2014 Documentary Cowspiracy, there is a statement by David Simon, the author of Meatonomics, about hidden costs of animal food production.
I've added up the costs of ...
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Is a vegan diet nutritionally complete and suitable for babies?
We have a related question of a more general nature, but there has been a lot of talk in Italy on whether to disallow or otherwise restrict vegan diets to people who are below a certain age.
This has ...
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Is it common that North Americans who call themselves 'vegetarian' eat fish?
There's an article titled Vegetarians Who Eat Fish Are Actually Onto Something which says,
I’m out besmirching Malibu’s pristine sands to decide if pescetarianism—a vegetarian diet supplemented ...
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Is it possible for dogs to have a vegetarian diet?
I have seen some people claim that dogs can be kept healthy on a vegetarian diet, while other people emphatically deny this and yet more say "No! Unless you're really careful".
Can dogs be kept ...
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Does the average American eat 7,000 animals during their lives?
USA Today reports that:
The average person will chomp down on 7,000 animals during their lives, according to the Vegetarian Calculator.
It breaks down to 11 cows, 27 pigs, 2,400 chickens, 80 turkeys, ...
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Does animal protein consumption cause inflammation?
This article
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Michael Greger, M.D.
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We’ve known for 14 years that a single meal of meat, dairy, and eggs triggers an inflammatory reaction inside the body within hours of consumption.
I'...
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Do most people have no idea where their food comes from or how it’s made?
Mercy For Animals article
According to U.K.-based paper The Herald [Plymouth], a new study shows most people have no idea where their food comes from or how it’s made.
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How legit is this graph of heart disease and cancer vs unrefined plant foods?
Unrefined Plant Food Consumption vs. The Killer Diseases
I insist that our low consumption of unrefined plant foods is largely responsible for our dismal mortality statistics. Most of us perish ...
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Can domestic cats be healthy as vegetarians?
I used to hear that dogs can be given vegetarian dog food, but that cats need meat.
I'm not sure therefore how to interpret the following PETA claim about cats.
Vegetarian Cats and Dogs
If you have ...
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Does vegetarianism cause any decline in the slaughter of animals in the food industry? [closed]
Vegetarianism has been around for ages. Much of the vegetarian propaganda revolves around the aim of stopping cruelty to animals, it's one of the stated goals of the movement, if not the main one.
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Do vegan diets have lower environmental impact? [duplicate]
The Guardian has a 2018 article, Avoiding meat and dairy is the single biggest way to reduce your impact on earth, which is commonly brought up by my vegan friends:
Avoiding meat and dairy products ...
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How true are the claims about the dairy industry in this poster? [closed]
I came across the following image via social media. It depicts a poster placed in the window of a British cafe. The text of the poster reads:
This Is Why We're Ditching Dairy...
In celebration ...
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Is plant-based food healthier for humans than animal-based food? [duplicate]
The website attached to the film "The Game Changers" says:
The preponderance of scientific evidence suggests that a standard animal-based diet — where foods like meat, eggs and dairy are at the ...
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Does vegetarianism save animals? [duplicate]
A common belief about vegetarians is that they reduce the number of animals that die or at least reduce the demand for meat. But I also heard that less demand for meat will reduce meat prices and ...
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Does dairy milk and meat decrease your overall health and make you live less? [closed]
In this extremely popular and numerously mirrored lecture, Dr. Michael Greger presents "proofs" that humans should not consume dairy milk and meat at all, because it is destructive to health in ...
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Has the lifespan of farmed animals decreased? [closed]
So, one of the common arguments made by vegans (and generally people who oppose factory farming) is that the average lifespan of farmed animals has decreased, and that that's a proof that lives of ...
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