Question:What is a vegetarian?
Answer: A vegetarian is someone who doesn't consume red meat,chicken,pork,fish or seafood.

Question:What are the different types?
Answer:
__Lacto-ovo-vegetarian-excludes meat, poultry, and fish. Includes eggs, dairy products, milk and plant foods. Most American vegetarians fall into this category.
__Lacto-vegetarian-includes all dairy products as a source of protein and plant foods. Excludes eggs, meat, poultry and fish.
__Ovo-vegetarian-includes eggs but excludes meat,poultry,fish,and dairy products.

Question:Is being a vegetarian healthy?
Answer:The truth is flesh foods are not required in the human diet,nor are they essental for proper nutrition. Not only can we "get along" without meat eating,but we can also as vegans/vegetarians Improve our health,save money,put less strain on our planet's resources,and sit down to eat knowing that we minimized our praticipation in the needless suffering of our fellow creatures.

Question:Where do vegans get vitamin B-12?
Answer:Breakfast cereals, soy milk and vegetarian burger patties that are fortified with vitamin B12. Also they could take a B-12 vitamin.

Question:What about protein?
Answer:Vegetarians can get protein from cheese,milk etc. Vegans can get protein from soy milk,soy burgers, soy cheese,nuts etc. The "average" american diet has way to much protein in it. Too much protein is not a good thing.

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