You hear about people being vegetarian, but until you actually hear about the reasons, you might not understand why people would give up meat.
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- Vegetarianism
- Vegans Like Good Food, Too!
- Compugraph Designs products from CafePress ("green" designs)
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- Want to be vegetarian (or just eat more meat free meals)?
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- Amazon products for the vegetarian in you.....
- Enjoy the dry humor of GapingVoid Cartoons
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Vegetarianism
Why would you want to give up your meat?
B"HI've been a vegetarian for 30 years now and I'm often asked why I became vegetarian. I tell them that my mother had rabbit fur slippers and I asked her how she could wear the bodies of murdered rabbits and she said to me "how about the cows and chickens on your plate?"
Well, I hadn't thought about that before, so I decided to give up eating animals.
I discovered over the years that a vegetarian diet was healthier than an omnivorous diet (eating plant and animal matter as food).
But after 12 years of being a vegetarian, I read how much land it takes to grow food for a vegetarian vs. an omnivore (vegetarian took less land) but it took even less land to grow a years worth of vegan food. It was then that I decided to become a vegan.
Vegetarians (often called ovo-lacto or lacto-ovo vegetarians) eat dairy and/or eggs whereas vegans only eat plant matter.
Vegans eat no cholesterol. Vegans also generally eat more vitamins and minerals in their foods and also generally consume more fiber.
Veganism is healthy for the vegans, healthy for the animals and healthy for the planet.
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Vegans Like Good Food, Too!
Vegan Cookbook
"Vegans Like Good Food, Too!" is now available on line. This cookbook, with 30+ recipes, started as a vegan cooking column in a local food co-op newsletter, so it has many hints on starting out. This 3rd edition has 15+ added recipes, many diabetes friendly.
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Compugraph Designs products from CafePress ("green" designs)
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Extra Garbage shows aliens dropping garbage on earth
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Want to be vegetarian (or just eat more meat free meals)?
what do you want to know about vegetarianism/veganism?
B"H
Feel free to ask your own questions about vegetarianism or veganism.
Hey! Cool lens! Check out mine about vegetarianism and the environmental impacts of a heavy meat diet and let me know what you think. Are the things I've researched consistent with what you've seen and experienced?
Posted July 05, 2008
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Amazon products for the vegetarian in you.....
Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery
Dr. Ornish's healthy diet is no just good for reversing heart disease (as the title says) but it's also healthy for people without heart disease.
Amazon Price: $7.99 (as of 10/16/2008)
The New Moosewood Cookbook (Mollie Katzen's Classic Cooking)
Great recipes for the beginning Vegetarian and for the long-time Vegetarian
Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 10/16/2008)
Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America
This book is the companion to the movie "Super Size Me" -- it's a very funny, and very informative book
Amazon Price: $11.90 (as of 10/16/2008)
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Compugraph Designs products at ShopIt
Pink Knitted Outfit Teenage Doll
B"H Pink knitted outfit for teenage doll
$7.50
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Knitted Teenage Doll Dress
B"H Pink on top, multi-colored on the bottom -- hand knitted dress
$10.00
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Pink Velour Knitted Scarf
B"H Hand-knitted pink scarf. various colors mottled within the pink yarn.
$5.00
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Silver Jewish Star Necklace
B"H This is an original design I created. Sterling Silver stylized Jewish star on a silver chain.
$60.00
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Silver Chai Necklace
B"H This is an original design I created. Sterling Silver Chai (Hebrew for Life) on a silver chain.
$60.00
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