{"id":35,"date":"2010-09-18T21:32:44","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T21:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justiceforanimals.co.za\/vabackup\/?p=35"},"modified":"2010-09-18T21:32:44","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T21:32:44","slug":"what-is-veganism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vegananimal.nl\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"What is Veganism ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"contentText\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/ara\/images\/vegan.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>Veganism is the non-consumption of all animal products, and a vegan is an individual who  \t\t\t\trefrains from eating all animal products.<\/div>\n<div id=\"contentText\">\nThis means that vegans do not eat meat, fish, poultry, dairy or eggs.  \t\t\t\tMost vegan societies do not consider honey to be vegan.<br \/>\nMost vegans (particularly those who chose veganism for ethical reasons) do not wear animal products,  \t\t\t\tincluding leather, fur, silk and wool.<br \/>\nVegans are also known as pure vegetarians.<\/p>\n<h3>Vegans and Vegetarians<\/h3>\n<p>Whereas vegans shun all animal products, vegetarians do not.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>Lacto-Ovo-Vegetarians<\/strong> eat eggs and dairy products. This is the most commonly found form of  \t\t\tvegetarianism in the Western World.<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Lacto-Vegetarians<\/strong> are common throughout India in particular. They eat dairy products, but refuse eggs.<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Ovo-Vegetarians<\/strong> accept eggs but refuse dairy products. This is a relatively uncommon form of vegetarian.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other groups include individuals who refuse all red meat but eat  poultry and fish\/seafood, and those who refuse meat and poultry but eat  fish\/seafood. Neither group is vegetarian, and vegan and vegetarian  societies worldwide consider both dietary forms as subsets of the  omnivorous diet.<br \/>\nVegetarianism is the fastest growing dietary form in the Western world  today, and within it veganism is also steadily growing in popularity. It  is estimated that there are over 15 million vegetarians in the United  States, and over 9 million in the United Kingdom. In the United States  in particular veganism is rapidly growing in popularity as the health  benefits of the vegan diet are becoming clearer. In Australia, over one  quarter of teenage girls are vegetarian.<\/p>\n<h3>Why go Vegan?<\/h3>\n<p>People choose the vegan diet for three main reasons: ethics, environmental concern and health benefits.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>Ethics<\/strong> &#8211; Many vegans believe that it is wrong for humans to  unnecessarily kill and consume animals. They rightly point out that, in  Western societies today, the animal product industries are not only  cruel, but wasteful and totally needless. Humans do not need animal  products to survive, and many vegans believe that we have an ethical  responsibility to be caretakers, rather than tyrants, over the rest of  the earth&#8217;s creatures.  Many ethical vegans claim that, as animal lovers, they would be  hypocritical to protect (as a pet, for example) one type of animal, yet  cage, cause suffering to and ultimately kill another species.<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Environmental Concern<\/strong> &#8211; Animal product industries are  an incredibly wasteful use of Earth&#8217;s precious resources. Many vegans  are concerned about the lack of conservation and preservation inherent  in the production of animal foods and goods. They believe that, as  intelligent citizens of the planet, to forego animal products is their  responsibility.<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Health Benefits<\/strong> &#8211; Numerous health benefits are enjoyed  by vegans, including significantly lower incidences of strokes, heart  disease, osteoporosis, most forms of cancer, diabetes, hypoglycemia,  constipation, hemorrhoids, diverticulosis, obesity, and asthma &#8211; all of  which are major illnesses found in affluent societies.For more on vegan ethics click <a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/ara\/VeganEthics.php\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veganism is the non-consumption of all animal products, and a vegan is an individual who refrains from eating all animal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veganism","category-what-is-veganism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vegananimal.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vegananimal.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vegananimal.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vegananimal.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vegananimal.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vegananimal.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vegananimal.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vegananimal.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vegananimal.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}