There are many different levels of vegetarianism. Below is a small list I’ve complied with a brief description of each category explaining the lifestyle.
- Vegetarians: Follows a plant base diet.
- Raw Veganisum: Includes only fresh and uncooked fruit, nuts, seeds, and vegetables. Vegetables can only be cooked up to a certain temperature.
- Vegans: excludes all animal flesh and animal products, including milk, honey, and eggs, and may also exclude any products tested on animals, or any clothing from animals.
- Raw Vegans: Nothing cooked, only foods grown the way nature intended.
- Macrobiotic Diets: Consists mostly of whole grains and beans.
- Pescitarians: Fish but no meat
- Ovo-lacto Vegetarianism: (or lacto-ovo vegetarianism) includes animal/dairy products such as eggs, milk, and honey.
- Ovo Vegetarianism: Includes eggs but not dairy products.
- Lacto Vegetarianism: Includes dairy products but not eggs.
- Jain Vegetarianism: Includes dairy but excludes eggs and honey, as well as root vegetables.
- Fruitarianism: Permits only fruit, nuts, seeds, and other plant matter that can be gathered without harming the plant.
- Buddhist Vegetarianism: (Also known as su vegetarianism) excludes all animal products as well as vegetables in the allium family (which have the Characteristic aroma of onion and garlic): onion, garlic, scallions, leeks, or shallots.
There is also Semi-Vegetarians, which will eat fish and some poultry.
There are many different reasons why people adapt to this life style. Some of the reasons start at but are not limited to:
- Killing animals are wrong,
- Animal rights,
- Health reasons,
- Trendy,
- The respect for science life,
- Political,
- Economical,
- Environmental,
- Cultural,
- Aesthetic,
Now that you have a better understanding about Vegetarianism tomorrow I will discuss the benefits of this lifestyle.