Eating less meat is good for your health and the environment. Now a new study suggests genes may play a role in people's ability to stick to a strict vegetarian diet. Lots of people who experiment ...

The values of vegetarians diverge sharply from those of meat-eaters, revealing a profile less about kindness and more about individuality, according to psychologist John B. Nezlek at SWPS University ...

A professor of the “politics and philosophy of food,” named Chad Levin, advocates for vegetarianism in a distinctly political advocacy paper in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Ironically, given ...

Vegans and vegetarians could have a new Public Enemy No. 1. A cardiologist for the UK’s National Health Service claims vegetarianism is partially to blame for the premature death of his mother. Dr.

Being a teenager means experimenting with foolish things like dyeing your hair purple or candy flipping or going door-to-door for a political party. Parents tend to overlook seemingly mild, earnest ...

Vegetarianism is no longer simply a fad in our country. While men and women who refrain from eating meat and fish (ovolacto vegetarians) and those who refrain from eating cheese, milk and eggs (vegans ...

Twenty-six years ago, when registered dietitian Jill Nussinow began teaching vegetarian cooking at Santa Rosa Junior College in California, her classes were so packed that many people couldn’t even ...

This post is part of Protein Angst, a series on the environmental and nutritional complexities of high-protein foods. Our goal is to publish a range of perspectives on these very heated topics. Add ...

In a country where meat has been a mainstay for more than a century, about 5 percent of Americans step outside the box with the choice of being vegetarian or vegan. In a 2002 poll by Time magazine, 32 ...

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