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Getting started with vegetarianism
I want to try to move over to a vegetarian diet, mostly for health reasons. I don’t have much free time (work and kids) to prepare meals. What resources exist to help someone get started on a vegetarian diet quickly easily and cheaply?
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How to cook or purchase vegan lab meat for cats
I would like to know, what is the best way to prepare a cultured lab meat cell complex, so that you may prepare it for your cat, and, then, your cat may eat it (using only lab meat and vegan ingredients).
The reason I ask is that I would like my cat…
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Option for Vegetarian Meat Substitutes
I have recently changed to a plant based diet primarily for health reasons.
I have coronary artery disease and I am not convinced that statin drugs alone are enough.
I am wondering what are the best meat substitutes out there?
I recently tried Ozo…
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Is there convincing RCT research showing a plant-based diet can reverse or reduce the risk of serious diseases when compared to a "healthy" omni diet?
If you want you can skip the explanation and skip straight to the bottom, where I say exactly what I am looking for.
I was talking to my step-dad today and mentioned the recent Oxford study that shows people who do not eat meat have a 14% lower…
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Do vegans need to eat more? Plant-based diets, digestion speed, & nutritional density
Does vegan food have a lower nutritional density? In other words: Do vegans need to eat more to get adequate levels of nutrition than they would on an omnivorous diet?
Meat tends to sit in the intestines for a long time. Is this because meat has a…
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Are Crownfield cereal boxes with plant-based ingredients vegan?
As an example, Crownfield -Special- Flakes Red Fruit is a cereal sold by Lidl. The ingredients listed appear to be vegan and the box has a "vegetarian" label. Here's the simplified list:
Wholegrain wheat, ground rice, sugar, freeze dried…
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About possibility of changing the human diet to vegetarianism
In one online community I'm part of, there is someone who is saying that changing the human diet to vegetarianism is not possible and that it would take around 200 years of work for the world learn to become vegetarian.
It's clear that there is a…
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Vegetarianism, ocean ecology and the environment
How does vegetarianism, in the context of not eating fish and other ocean-life, help preserve ocean ecology? What are the impacts of fishing on the ocean plants and trees (fauna)? How does this, in turn, impact the environment?
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Do cows sometime hide their calves because of fear they'll be taken away?
There are many posts and videos reporting that a cow hid her calves because she knew farmers would take her away.
But according to this site,
Most cows will hide their newborn for the first couple of days away
from the remainder of the herd until…
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What sauce can I use for veggie dumplings?
I have been eating veggie dumplings recently so I am asking for suggestions for what sauce to serve with them (especially with sesame oil). I am in New Zealand.
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Does personification of animals in fictional media like Peppa Pig and Donald Duck promote cultural reconsideration of those animals as delicacies?
I wondered whether Peppa was a pig to promote the idea of pigs as lovable pets rather than delicacies. It turns out that it wasn't the case.
However, that led me wondering if there is any evidence that such personification of animals in fictional…
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Potato: how can I make it easier to digest and more enjoyable?
In our culture (Szeklerland) potato is used for meat garnish, and normally I will not eat potato as a vegetarian. But I have 1 kg now and want to process them in an effective way to prevent significant change in the number of nutrients and to…
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Is this aloe vera gel vegan?
I use Fruit of the Wokali aloe vera gel, but I'm not sure whether it's vegan or not. Is Fruit of the Wokali aloe vera gel vegan?
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How to deal with narcissistic manipulation from anti vegans?
It is common practice from narcissistic individuals to accuse vegans of being part of a brain washed society or religion. This means one has two options:
Defend veganism and by doing so proving in the mind of the accuser that vegans are brainwashed…
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Ethicality of cooking lobster
I have seen that, beforre boiling live lobsters, chefs usually sit it down and stroke the back of its neck. I have heard that this puts the lobster in a trance but my friend says it just paralyses it. It would be an unkind thing to do if it can fell…
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