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Vegetarian Nutrition - A Way To Save Energy In A Warming WorldVegetarian nutrition is a way to eat yourself towards a sustainable world. A tasty vegetarian diet allows you to make this a pleasurable contribution towards reducing global warming. Enjoy! How to become a vegetarian? Learn some reasons why you would want to! Much energy goes into feeding livestock for us to then eat them. Eating meat may pass your taste test but does certainly not pass the waste test - in more ways than one! There are many reasons for using vegetarian nutrition. It's easy. And healthier. You're not alone! Look at which famous people are vegetarians... You might loose some weight too! But for now just consider these few hard facts...
Producing 1 calorie of beef protein requires 78 calories of fossil fuel, 1 calorie of pork takes 35 calories of fossil fuel and 22 calories for 1 calorie of poultry. By contrast it takes only one calorie of fossil fuel to produce one calorie of soy beans.
Much precious topsoil has been lost from grazing livestock. Using good agricultural practices, this is not the case when growing plant crops. More artificial –fossil fuel derived – fertilisers are needed on eroded soils. Tropical rain forest, such as the Amazon, are reduced daily to make room for meat-producing livestock. And forest mitigate global warming.
Clearly this is an unsustainable state of affairs, considering a growing human population and shrinking areas of arable land due to urbanisation, salinity and so on. Climate changeAnd just consider these figures on the impact of global livestock on climate change:
There are also many personal health reasons for eating vegetarian, including losing weight. And healthier people save on many resources. A vegetarian diet costs less money than a meat diet. So, what does it mean to eat vegetarian?Vegetarian nutrition does not include meat, fish and poultry. In addition, Vegans do not eat or use any animal products, such as eggs, cheese, wool and leather. Sounds too difficult? Too much like rabbit food dinners? Vegetarian nutrition can actually be very tasty and rewarding. As a vegetarian, if you are going to the Amazon, you'll need to learn some Spanish vegetable names. Go here to learn more. Watch this video:
I’ve been a vegetarian for decades and I certainly am very much alive and well! Though I do not recommend you do it this way, I virtually gave up on eating meat and fish overnight – even though I enjoyed eating meat – and haven’t looked back. Even though my children will never get tired of pointing out that I'm not a real vegetarian because I ate some fish once many years ago! 
In any case a gradual approach to turning vegetarian may be wiser. You never know what going "cold turkey" or "cold cow" – as the case may be - will do to you now, do you? Here are "three easy steps" to do it. Vegetarian nutrition – is it easy to find?Oh yes. Just buy vegetables, fruit, nuts and any range of processed soy products anywhere - maybe just around the corner. Or... If you want to cook with something special and exotic, consider buying a bottle of high-quality Karkari olive oil, straight from "clean and green" New Zealand, just from down under "Down Under." Generally, finding ingredients for a vegetarian diet is easy. Putting them together to give yourself and others a taste sensation is the next step. You’ll need a good vegetarian cook book for that. There are many of them. You can see then that becoming a vegetarian is a way to make a real contribution to a sustainable world? Vegetarian nutrition makes a lot of sense! Yes, I thought so. OK, now you deserve to veg out, grab that celery stick and chew it while watching a Great Green Movie. Select yours here ...
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Producing animal protein takes up to 15 times more water compared to producing plant protein.
