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Health, environment, ethics help to explain peoples' interest in vegetarianism.(Brief article)
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Vegetarian Journal
- Article date:
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April 1, 2008
- Author:
- Mangels, Reed
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People give many reasons for choosing to be vegetarian, including health benefits, ethical concerns about animals, and consideration for the environment. To learn more about these motivations, researchers from the UK used a message board within an online vegetarian forum to conduct a small survey of 33 vegetarians, mainly from the United States and Canada. The most commonly mentioned motivations for first becoming vegetarian were health considerations (feeling better when they became vegetarian) and compassion for animals. The researchers differentiated between these two groups, saying that the focus of those primarily interested in health was internal whereas those primarily ...