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Vegetarianism
Related Category: Food and Cooking
theory and practice of eating only fruits and vegetables, thus excluding animal flesh, fish, or fowl and often butter, eggs, and milk. In a strict vegetarian, or vegan, diet (i.e.
Vegetarianism is the practice of a diet that excludes all animal flesh, including poultry, game, fish, shellfish or crustacea, and slaughter by-products.
For most of the meat-eating community, the dazzling array of variations on vegetarianism can get confusing, especially when they are inviting vegetarians to dinner.
Yet Bengal has also a large variety of non-vegetarian foods, as it has a low proportion of vegetarians; even most Bengali brahmins, unlike the brahmins of most other Indian regions, do not adhere to vegetarianism.
advocated vegetarianism and sexual abstinence; the crackers sold in
supermarkets today under his name, which include among their ingredients
sugar, salt, and preservatives, would horrify him.
 See also: Vegetarian, Cooking, Protein, Milk, Fish
  
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