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Food from plants. A plant-based diet is a diet consisting mostly or entirely of plant-based foods. [1] [2] It encompasses a wide range of dietary patterns that contain low amounts of animal products and high amounts of fiber-rich [3] plant products such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts, seeds, herbs, and spices.
A variety of vegetarian, and more specifically vegan, foods. Vegetarian nutrition is the set of health-related challenges and advantages of vegetarian diets.. Appropriately planned vegetarian diets are healthful and nutritionally adequate for all stages of the human life cycle, including during pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence. [1]
Writer and animal rights advocate Carol J. Adams argued in her seminal book, The Sexual Politics of Meat that the unnamed creature in the novel was a vegetarian. [233] She argued that the book was "indebted to the vegetarian climate" of its day and that vegetarianism is a major theme in the novel as a whole.
Often vegan or vegetarian characters are portrayed as fringe characters, although other novels cast them as protagonists or encourage people to become vegetarians or vegans. [ 381 ] [ 382 ] Some have argued that there are more vegan cookbooks than "vegan literature" [ 383 ] There are also books that introduce "vegan identity to children" [ 384 ...
However, this only works efficiently if the ratio between omega 3 (mainly in flaxseed, chia seeds) to omega 6 (mainly in sunflower oil) does not exceed 1:5. [97] Major vegan sources of the essential omega-3 fatty acid ALA include walnuts, flaxseeds and flaxseed oil, canola oil, algae oil, hempseeds and hempseed oil, olive oil, and avocado. [1]
All types of meat but especially lamb and beef generate several times more greenhouse gas emissions in their production than plant-based foods. [1]Environmental vegetarianism is the practice of vegetarianism that is motivated by the desire to create a sustainable diet, which avoids the negative environmental impact of meat production.
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Printed on twelve pages, Thirty-nine Reasons Why I Am a Vegetarian is thus considered both a "little book," [2] as well as a pamphlet. [3] Initially selling for 10 cents, [4] it was sold as a paperback with a height of 16 centimetres (6.3 in). [5]