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TO BE,
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What is the difference between vegans and vegetarians?
The philosophy of vegetarians and vegans not just a diet,
but an outlook on life!
Becoming a vegetarian is easy, staying one is much harder
How to correctly eat vegan and vegetarian
When the aoul argues with the body: what do omnivores
and vegetarians say?
Specific diets: who is who and what is what
Vegans, watch out for a vitamin B12 deficiency
Plant-based diets can help with civilizational diseases
How to replace meat?
Legumes a source of protein and joy
Miso the way to health
Pumpkin a pleasant surprise of a vegetable
Your child wants to become a vegan, what on earth should you do?
Raising a vegan?
Replacing meat: what is what?
Cereals the fundamentals of vegan and vegetarian cuisine
Eggs are a traditional food, but they can be replaced. Four tips
on replacing eggs
Tofu the pillar of vegan cuisine
What to eat if you want a plant-based diet?
Why meat isn’t as healthy as we thought
15 delicious recipes
VEGETARIAN
RECIPES
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What Is the Difference
Between Vegans and
Vegetarians?
As the names already imply, both vegans and
vegetarians focus on plant-based diets. The reasons
for choosing these eating habits can stem from
similar concerns – health, ethics, religion, or trying
to treat the environment better. Nonetheless, there
are indeed several differences between the groups.
What are they?
People often aren’t aware of the difference between vegans and vegetarians.
So, what exactly is it?
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In short, one can say that vegans are more consistent
and stricter with themselves and their diet.
Vegetarians primarily avoid meat and meat products,
but tend not to have an issue with milk, eggs and
honey. Certain types of vegetarians will sometimes
eat fish (pescetarians), chicken (pollotarians), or will
even have meat every once in a while (flexitarians).
Vegetarianism is chiefly a way of eating and is more
benevolent than veganism.
Vegan diets are strictly plant-based and a vegan avoids
all meat, milk, eggs and honey – basically everything
whose production is linked to animals, their use
and abuse for human needs. Another aspect of this
lifestyle is refusing any kinds of animal products –
they won’t wear anything made of leather, fur, feather,
wool or silk and also avoid using cosmetics tested on
animals or made from their bodies. That is why these
days, you will find vegan products even in drug stores,
which may seem illogical to the conventional user or
consumer. Veganism is more of a personal philosophy,
since it has a more complex view of humans and
humanity as a whole.
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The Philosophy of
Vegetarians and Vegans
Not Just a Diet, but an
Outlook on Life!
When somebody becomes a vegan, they surely
have serious personal reasons for that, as it is
a rather huge lifestyle change. That is because
it’s not just about food; if you are vegan, you also
have to quit a variety of things others consider
completely normal and of daily use – you avoid
leather clothes and footwear, you take great
care not to use shampoos or other products
tested on animals, and you have to be quite picky
when it comes to food as well – even an innocent
marmalade can be non-vegan if animals were used
to produce its coloring.
Veganism isn’t just a diet; it is a state of the soul,
a philosophy, a way of seeing the world.
Most world religions endorse at least vegetarianism,
rather than meat-eating.
Animals are feeling beings just like humans.
We should protect them, not hurt them, vegetarians claim.
A veg-based diet is definitely healthier and can decrease
the occurrence of civilizational diseases.
The meat and dairy industries destroy the environment,
and the spread of vegetarianism could eliminate their negative effects.
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BAKED ASPARAGUS IN PUFF
PASTRY WITH CASHEW CREAM
8 servings, prep time 30 min
Ingredients:
• 8 green asparagus spears
• 200 g / 7 oz. cashew nuts
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• Salt
• Pepper
• 2 Tbsp. leaven
• Puff pastry
• Cumin
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 180 °C / 356 °F
2. In a pot, bring salted water to boil. Put
asparagus spears into the boiling water for
several seconds until they start to bend
slightly. Then take them out and put them
in a jar of icy cold water.
3. Blend cashews in a blender with water,
lemon juice, salt, and pepper. Blend for a
longer time, so that you get a nice smooth
cream.
4. Roll out the puff pastry thinly and cut it
into roughly 8 square shaped pieces.
5. Place an asparagus spear diagonally into every
square of pastry and 2 spoons of cashew
cream in the middle of each. Add leaven to
the cream. Then roll the pastry. Wet each
roll with water and sprinkle cumin on top.
6. Bake for 20 minutes at 180 °C / 356 °F
until golden brown.
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