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While not taking life is the first Buddhist precept, it is not essential to be vegetarian to be a Buddhist. The Dalai Lama himself sometimes eats meat while ...
Karisik Meze Tabagi at Village Kebab in Brighton Beach
​The karisik meze tabagi is a wild farrago of short dishes and bread dips, ...
Travis' Fran Healy goes vegetarian for Paul McCartney
"Nora [Healy's wife] and I were sitting and thinking of a thank-you present and I suggested going vegetarian. Our son is already one, so it would mean we ...
Richard Gere campaigns to turn Bodh Gaya into vegetarian zone
“I am strongly in favour of turning Bodh Gaya into a vegetarian zone,” Richard Gere told mediapersons at Bodh Gaya Thursday before going to participate in a ...
  
Vegetarian Dietitian Fights Obesity Through Self-help Manual

Her areas of expertise include adolescent and adult weight management, diabetes management, vegetarian nutrient balance, cancer therapy, and nutrition ...
Vegan Cooking With Chef Tal Ronnen

After last year's foodie focus on serving and eating the whole hog, it would be nice if appetites turned to vegetarian and vegan fare this year. ...
Not for everyone?

Q. I am curious about the ADA's recently updated position paper on the vegetarian and vegan diets, which the vegan community has seen as a real victory. ...
Wilmington, NC

This month, Liz Biro offers ideas on how to go vegetarian without substandard substitutions. Ragu wasn't my only worry. I also wondered how I would coax ...
Can a vegetarian chef help solve the Mideast conflict?

Could vegetarianism help solve the Middle East conflict? U.S. celebrity chef Christina Pirello, who is currently in Israel teaching about macrobiotic cooking, doesn't suggest peace would break out the moment Israelis and Palestinians stopped eating schnitzel and shawarma. She believes, however, that meat causes people to lose their ability to accept somebody else's point of view and that most conflicts in the world could be solved if people ate less meat. "Meat tends to make people opinionated and inflexible in many ways, physically as well as psychologically," the 54-year-old told Anglo File this week. "One thing I've noticed in my many years of keeping a plant-based diet is that...
Teens turn vegetarian for health

Some people may argue that a vegetarian diet lacks proper nutrition, but according to the American Dietetic Association, "vegetarianism is the way to live a ...