The Vegetarian Me

What a Vegetarian Eats We eat fruits and vegetables, grains and beans, nuts and seeds. Some of us also eat milk and eggs. What a Vegetarian Avoids We don't eat animals. Some of us don't eat animal products either.

Reasons to be Vegetarian

• Better for You

  In countries around the world where people eat a mostly vegetarian diet, they have less heart disease, cancer, obesity, diabetes, and cholesterol. At best, meat is hard to digest and lacks things we need, but meat we buy contains antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, and diseases.

  If your concern is protein, here's information you probably have not seen.
  If your concern is vitamin B12, here's what to do.

• Better for the Environment

  Production of meat uses about ten times the resources (fuel, water, land) of vegetable production and causes about ten times the environmental damage (pollution, global warming, species extinction). Meat production is one of the top users of these resources and one of the top causes of this damage.

• Less Cruelty to Animals

  Does it matter? Consider this.