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<\/p>\nBecause vegetarianism is not enough. Billions of animals die for milk, eggs, wool, silk or honey. The only way not to contribute to these deaths is to boycott all animal products – veganism.
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Many famous scientists and personalities from the past years have spoken about vegetarianism. However, modern understanding of vegetarianism was defined in 1847 and enforced over the past few decades as a common understanding and definition. This happens with the emergence of the Internet and generally available information.<\/p>\n
However, let’s see, what is written in Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, which is published almost at the time as the vegetarian movement. The authoritative encyclopedia, defines the supporters of the back then new and modern philosophy as “followers of a philosophical movement that recognize man’s natural food as plant products”. And that’s all. End.<\/p>\n
So when we talk about vegetarians from the past, we should be aware that they are actually VEGANs, not vegetarians.<\/p>\n
Short history\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n The edition of \u201cThe Healthian\u201d from April 1842 contains the earliest known use of the word “vegetarian”, and over the next five years, all known uses of the word are from people who were associated or had close connection with \u201cAlcott House\u201d.<\/p>\n William Horsel publishes the newspaper \u2013 \u201cThe Truth Tester\u201d (since 1846 joined with \u201cThe Healthian\u201d) that Vegetarianism is “the next moral entity likely to cause virtuous energy from society.” In April 1847, a letter, published in the newspaper, sent by a reader in Hampshire proposed creation of a vegetarian society.<\/p>\n The Initiative for the creation of Vegetarian Society came from a very different group based around the Alcott House Academy, at Ham Common, near Richmond, Surrey.<\/p>\n Alcott House’s business manager, William Oldham, responded to the letter by organizing conference in the school on Thursday, July 8, 1847, to gather those who might be interested in forming society.<\/p>\n The second meeting was held on 30 September 1847 in the Northwood Villa, home of the Hydropathic Institute in Ramsgate. Joseph Brotherton, a Salford Member of Parliament, was invited to chair the historic meeting and Vegetarian Society was born after a unanimously adopted resolution. Soon, 150 members were enrolled.<\/p>\n \u2026end of story<\/strong> Why is the plant-based diet not enough?<\/p>\n Because when we’re on a diet, we do not save the animals killed for their leather or fur. We do not save tortured and killed animals in laboratories for drug tests, vaccines, cosmetics. We do not save the silkworms that are boiling alive. We do not save the animals raised for wool and died from infection as a result of the shearing. We do not save animals in the circuses, zoos, dolphinariums and other places where people on a plant-based diet do not bother paying a ticket and stimulating the exploitation and slavery of animals. Because people on a plant-based diet do not bother riding animals and deforming their spine. Because diet does not solve the problem with all exploitation and slavery of animals.<\/p>\n Types of Vegetarian Diets<\/p>\n Ovo-lacto vegetarianism:<\/strong><\/p>\n Diet in which no meat products are consumed (eg. Aquatic inhabitants, gelatine, chymosin of animal origin, liver or other products from a slaughtered animal), but dairy products, egg products (including caviar) and bee products (propolis, bee jelly, honey) are consumed. This is probably the most common form of vegetarianism, and usually people who describe themselves as vegetarians follow this diet.<\/p>\n Ovo Vegetarianism:<\/strong><\/p>\n Diet, which does not consume meat products (including aquatic inhabitants, gelatine, chymosin of animal origin, liver or other products from a slaughtered animal), dairy product, but egg products (including caviar) and bee products (propolis, royal jelly, honey) are consumed.<\/p>\n Lacto Vegetarianism:<\/strong><\/p>\n Diet in which no meat products (including aquatic animals, gelatine, chymosin of animal origin, liver or other products of a slaughtered animal)or egg products (including caviar) are consumed, but Dairy products and bee products (propolis, royal jelly, honey) are consumed.<\/p>\n Plant-Based Diet:<\/strong><\/p>\n No animal products are consumed, but unlike veganism, the exploitation of animals is not excluded for purposes other than nutrition. For example, clothing, transport, tourism, animal tests, agriculture, etc. People on a plant-based diet use wool, silk, leather clothes, products tested on animals (most often cigarettes and cosmetics).<\/p>\n Vegetarianism is defined by a vegetarian society (Vegetarian Society, a British organization that created and holds the rights to the definition of vegetarianism) only as a diet<\/strong> and nothing more. This means that anyone who follows a vegetarian diet can be a vegetarian, no matter if the individual helps to kill animals by using cosmetics or other products tested on animals, by wearing silk, leather, ivory, and other products an animal should die for, outside of the diet. Let’s face it straight away – vegetarianism is just a diet. While veganism, on the contrary, is a way of life that boycotts every exploitation of animals. And what is more, most vegetarians are on an ovo-lacto, ovo or lacto-vegetarian diet, which means that even with food they help many birds to live in slavery, the little male chicks to be grinded on the first day after hatching and cows getting sick and die of infections because of continuous milking machines attached to their udders and sent to the slaughterhouse as soon as they become unable to give enough milk. 99% of the animal products in the store come from the industry, the same that grinds male chicks and divides mothers from their babies. On the 5th day, calves are separated from their mothers so they do not drink milk – they have to go for sale and if they are male, they travel directly to the slaughterhouse.<\/p>\n Almost all vegetarians consume bee products. And you know how honey is made – hives are smoked. No matter if it is industry environment or amateur beekeeping, everyone smokes hives to get the honey. However, smoke does not remove all bees, and dozens bees get smashed when taking the honey out of the hive. Vegetarians, when paying for their honey, also pay for the killings associated with how it was extracted from the hive.<\/strong> In the beekeeping industry, bees are inseminated in artificial way and during the process male bees are decapitated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Because vegetarianism is not enough. Billions of animals die for milk, eggs, wool, silk or honey. The only way not to contribute to these deaths is to boycott all animal products – veganism. Many famous scientists and personalities from the past years have spoken about vegetarianism. However, modern understanding of vegetarianism was defined in 1847 and enforced over the past few decades as a common understanding and definition. This happens with the emergence of the Internet and generally available information. However, let’s see, what is written in Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, which is published almost at the time as the vegetarian movement. The authoritative encyclopedia, defines the supporters of the back then new and modern philosophy as “followers of a philosophical movement that recognize man’s natural food as plant products”. And that’s all. End. So when we talk about vegetarians from the past, we should be aware that they are actually VEGANs, not vegetarians. Short history\u2026 The edition of \u201cThe Healthian\u201d from April 1842 contains the earliest known use of the word “vegetarian”, and over the next five years, all known uses of the word are from people who were associated or had close connection with \u201cAlcott House\u201d. 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