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Vegetarian Pictures GalleryAdvanced Photoshop Pictures Gallery - 10 image entries
Contest Directions: 
According to the latest study, vegetarians have higher IQs. At the same time scientists tell us "you are what you eat". In other words, if you are a vegetarian, you must be a couch potato with IQ of 500.
In this contest you are asked to photoshop people as fruits and vegetables and somehow show that they have higher IQs (give them some nerdy features like thick glasses, etc, or show them doing intelligent (or nerdy) things - studying, reading books, solving crosswords, playing chess, working at computer.)
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| | Donald Watson is the inventor of the word “vegan” and founder of the first-ever “Vegan society” in the world.
Vegan cafes etc exist and new vegan cafes, restaurants and other public catering establishments, bakers etc are regularly opened in many large cities such as New York and London. The number of enterprises, which are catering food items and various items for vegans etc, is on the rise. Sets of online-shops, which specialize in vegan products, are available on Internet.
Annually, November 1 is celebrated as “World Vegan Day” under the initiative of the “Vegan Society”.
Donald Watson was a vegetarian since 14 years of age and a vegan since the age of 30 and he died in 2005 at the age of 95.
Reasons for becoming a vegan:
Some reasons, due to which people turn vegans, are enlisted below:
* Ethical reasons — reducing the sufferings of animals from the modern animal industry;
* Religious beliefs (Hinduism, Jainism, some directions of Christianity, in Orthodoxy — observance of fasting);
* Maintenance and/or improvement of health;
* Ecological reasons — the reduction in environmental contaminations and depletion of natural resources; For example, the quantity of grains, beans, potatoes, vegetables, etc, which can be cultivated on a piece of land, surpasses the quantity of meat obtained while using the same land for animal husbandry by tens and even by hundred of times;
* Allergies to animal products or an aversion by their organism;
* The non-availability of some products of animal origin (encountered only in poor developing countries).
Propagation:
Veganism is spread in western countries. According to a study conducted by Time/CNN and published in the magazine “Time” July 7, 2002, 4% of adult Americans called themselves vegetarians, and 5% of them recognized themselves as vegans (0.2% of the entire population of the USA, i.e.- about half a million people). According to the results of another study, 0.9% of all adult Americans are vegans.
In Great Britain, according to studies conducted in 2001, 0.4% of the population (around 250000 people) were vegans.
In the West, the last decade has witnessed a rise in the number of vegetarians and vegans. For example, in Germany in 1983, only 0.3% of the country’s population were vegetarians and by 2001, their number, according to various studies, rose to 7.3%- 8% of the entire population. According to various data, about 200-400 000 are vegans (from 0.25% to 0.5% of the entire population).
Diet and health:
Expert dietitians and vegans repeatedly asserted that only a planned and varied vegan diet can be adequate. Frequently, people forget or simply wouldn’t have heard about what leads to the occurrence of various diseases.
Vegan kitchen:
Vegetarian cuisine as a whole and vegan in particular, combines both original traditional dishes of various nations of the world and their adapted so-called “Veganized” variants. Recipes can be “Veganized” by replacing the animal products with vegetables.
Sociological conditions:
Vegans, like the vegetarians, frequently encounter unawareness of people, using meat and other animal products in food. The reasons of partial disapproval of veganism by the social majority can be of a varied nature, in particular:
* Accepted by the majority, partly conservative and historically developed, concepts about norms, habits, beliefs and biases;
* Ignorance or conservatism in relation to dietological sides of veganism;
* Indifference to the sufferings and killing of animals.
Criticism:
Some non-vegans criticize veganism for various reasons. Some of them are:
* Extreme aggression in statements addressing non-vegans;
* Discomfort and restrictions, connected with the preparation and buying of food products and clothes;
* Hypothesis, that an exclusively vegetable diet does not provide the necessary nutrition required by human body;
* In some cases - inadequate digestion of vitamins, minerals, proteins etc from the vegetable diet by the organism;
* Apprehensions of vegans in following the philosophy, which equalizes animals and people, which, for many people is unacceptable;
* Attempt to lead a vegan mode of life with inadequate awareness in the dietology of a vegan diet can lead to negative consequences on the health of a person;
* Availability of publications in print media, in the formulation or interpretation of which the vegans or veganism are negatively interpreted.
A Southampton University team found those who were vegetarian by the age of 30 had recorded five IQ points more on average at the age of 10.
Researchers said it could explain why people with a higher IQ were healthier as a vegetarian diet was linked to lower heart disease and obesity rates.
The study of 8,179 people was reported in the British Medical Journal.
Twenty years after the IQ tests were carried out in 1970, 366 of the participants said they were vegetarian - although more than 100 reported eating either fish or chicken.
Men who were vegetarian had an IQ score of 106, compared with 101 for non-vegetarians; while female vegetarians averaged 104, compared with 99 for non-vegetarians.
There was no difference in IQ score between strict vegetarians and those who said they were vegetarian but who reported eating fish or chicken.
Researchers said the findings were partly related to better education and higher occupational social class, but it remained statistically significant after adjusting for these factors.
Vegetarians were more likely to be female, to be of higher occupational social class and to have higher academic or vocational qualifications than non-vegetarians.
However, these differences were not reflected in their annual income, which was similar to that of non-vegetarians.
Lead researcher Catharine Gale said: "The finding that children with greater intelligence are more likely to report being vegetarian as adults, together with the evidence on the potential benefits of a vegetarian diet on heart health, may help to explain why a higher IQ in childhood or adolescence is linked with a reduced risk of coronary heart disease in adult life."
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