I'm a vegetarian, I choose to not eat meat out of respect for sentient life.
That's really great! I'll bet there are other benefits for being a vegetarian too, aren't there?
That's right, some people are vegetarians because it follows their religious beliefs. It gives them spiritual health.
As a vegetarian, can you consume other animal products, like eggs and dairy?
There's different variates, there's ovo-lacto that inclues dairy products in the foods they do eat among other types.
That's probably the type of vegetarian I would be, I love cheese too much! What's the difference between a vegetarian and a vegan?
Vegans practice abstaining from any use of animal products or byproducts
Oh, I see! How do vegetarians ensure that they are receiving adequate amounts of iron and protein?
Vegetarian nutrition
Vegetarian nutrition is the set of health-related challenges and advantages of vegetarian diets.
If well-planned and fortified to balance possible deficiencies, vegetarian diets can become nutritionally adequate and can be appropriate for all stages of the human life cycle, including during pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence. When fortified, a vegetarian diet can provide adequate protein, iron, zinc, vitamin B, and calcium intake. However, in non-fortified vegetarian diets, or when not enough calories are
. That's the contradiction in my title. Secondly, it satirises the idea that you can always cherry-pick religious traditions. I have a friend who calls herself a 'feminist Muslim'. What does that mean, I asked her? Like a meat-eating vegetarian? Well, she said, of course there are passages that discriminate against women in the Quran that I take issue with, but everyone cherry-picks, and so do I."
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