Vegetarianism is such a cool concept, its roots start in ancient India and ancient Greece. Are you a vegetarian?
I am not, but I am interested to learn more because I understand it is good for the environment!
Oh, yes well vegetarianism is the practice of not eating any meat, it also has some purported health benefits, would you like to hear about that?
Yes, please tell me more about the health benefits.
Well depending on the variation of vegetarianism, you might find various healtier sources of proteins like eggs and maybe fish
Maybe if I became a vegetarian I would actually get all the vitamins in my diet I should be getting!
Vegetarianism
Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, and the flesh of any other animal), and may also include abstention from by-products of animals processed for food.
Vegetarianism may be adopted for various reasons. Many people object to eating meat out of respect for sentient life. Such ethical motivations have been codified under various religious beliefs, as well as animal rights advocacy. Other motivations for vegetarianism are health-related, political, environmental, cultural,
& 24th "tirthankaras" in Jainism respectively revived and advocated ahimsa and Jain vegetarianism in 8th to 6th century BC; the most comprehensive and strictest form of vegetarianism. Vegetarianism was also practiced in ancient Greece and the earliest reliable evidence for vegetarian theory and practice in Greece dates from the 6th century BC. The Orphics, a religious movement spreading in Greece at that time, also practiced and promoted vegetarianism. Greek teacher Pythagoras, who promoted the altruistic doctrine of metempsychosis, may have practiced vegetarianism, but is also recorded as eating meat