REASONS WHY PEOPLE TURN TO VEGETARIAN DIET
Keywords:
vegetarian diet, food producers, health, alimentationAbstract
The study is trying to identify the reasons why people turn to vegetarian diet. In order to research this topic, it is done an international literature review on the topic of vegetarianism, considering both pros and cons attitudes and beliefs. Even there are lot of pro vegetarian diet, however, there are studies showing that strict vegetarianism implies health risks and economical inefficiency.
The research indicates that vegetarians have varied motivations including health, ethical, economic, environmental, religious, cultural and social concerns. This conclusion has implication for educating consumers to eat healthier, and for food producers and sellers to adapt their strategies to the new tendencies in food consumption.
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2. Bolger, D. – Meat, Meat eating and Vegetarianism: A Review of the Facts,
3. http://www.maf.govt.nz/mafnet/rural-nz/profitability-and-economics/trends, Accessed date June 2007.
4. Brassil, Martha – The best thing to do is to really listen to your body and pay attention to the messages that it is sending you, http://danmahony.com/Vegetarian1.htm, Accessed date June, 2007.
5. Dwyer, J.T., Mayer, L.D.V.H., Dowd, K., Kandel, R.F. and Meyer, J., 1974 – The new vegetarians: the natural high? Journal of the American Dietetic Association 65:529-536.
6. Fraser, G.E., 1994 – Diet and coronary heart disease: beyond dietary fats and low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 59 (Supplement): 1117S-1123S.
7. Goodland, R. , 1997 – Environmental sustainability in agriculture: diet matters. Ecological Economics. 23.
8. Grover, B. – The naïve vegetarian, Second options, Online nutritional information and nutritional facts, http://www.second-opinions.co.uk, Accessed date June 2007.
9. Hillman, H. – A vegetarian conscience, http://www.hedweb.com/hillman, Accessed date June 2007.
10. Onciu, Camelia, Should I become a vegetarian when I grow up?, Journal Monitorul de Cluj, 07/05/2007.
11. Penning de Vries, F.W.T., Van Keulen, H. and Rabbinge, R., 1995 – Natural resources and limits of food production in 2040. Eco-Regional Approaches for Sustainable Land Use and Food Production. Kluwer Academic Publishing. Dordrecht. 65-87.
12. ***, Why vegetarian?, Romanian Society of Vegetarians, www.svr.ro, Accessed date June, 2007.
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Published
2007-12-31
How to Cite
Raluca Andreea, I. (2007). REASONS WHY PEOPLE TURN TO VEGETARIAN DIET. Ekonomika Poljoprivrede, 54(3), 353–358. Retrieved from https://ea.bg.ac.rs/index.php/EA/article/view/1282
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