Vegetarian picturesAdvanced Photoshop Pictures Contest - 11 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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Jackpot: 1st place: $5, 2nd place: $3 , 3rd place: $2
Started: 12/17/2006 6:00:00 AM, Ended: 12/19/2006 6:00:00 AM
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| | Donald Watson is the inventor of word “vegan” and founder of 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. Number of enterprises, which are catering food items and various items for vegans etc is on rise. Set of online-shops, which specialize on vegan products, is available on Internet.
Annually, November 1 is celebrated as “World Vegan Day” under the initiative of “Vegan Society”.
Donald Watson —vegetarian since 14 years and vegan since 30 — he died in 2005 at the age of 95.
Reasons:
Some reasons, due to which people turn vegans, are enlisted below:
* Ethical reasons — reducing the sufferings of animals from modern animal industry;
* Religious beliefs (Hinduism, Jainism, some directions of Christianity, in Orthodoxy — observance of fasting);
* Maintenance and/or improvement of health;
* Ecological reasons — reduction in environmental contaminations and depletion of natural resources; For example, 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 times;
* Allergy to animal products or aversion by their organism;
* Nonavailability of some products of animal origin (encountered only in poor developing countries).
Propagation:
Veganism is spread in western countries. According to study, conducted by Time/CNN and published in magazine “Time” July 7, 2002, 4 % of adult Americans called themselves vegetarians, and 5 % of them recognised themselves as vegans (0.2 % of entire population of USA, i.e — about half million people). According to results of other study, 0.9% of entire adult Americans are vegans.
In Great Britain, according to studies conducted in 2001, 0.4 % of population (around 250000 persons) were vegans.
In West, last decade has witnessed rise in the number of vegetarians and vegans. For example, in Germany in 1983, only 0.3 % of country’s population were vegetarians and by 2001, their number, according to various studies, rose to 7.3%- 8 % of entire population. According to various data, about 200-400 000 are vegans (from 0.25 % to 0.5 % of entire population) amongst them.
Diet & health:
Expert dietitians and vegans repeatedly asserted that only planned and varied vegan diet can be adequate. Frequently, people forget or simply wouldn’t have heard about, what leads to 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 condition:
Vegans, like the vegetarians, frequently encounter unawareness of people, using meat and other animal products in food. Reasons of partial disapproval of veganism by social majority can be of varied nature, in particular:
* Accepted by 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 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;
* Discomforts and restrictions, connected with preparation and buying of food products and clothes;
* Hypothesis, that exclusively vegetable diet does not provide necessary nutrition, required by human body;
* In some cases - inadequate digestion of vitamins, minerals, proteins etc from vegetable diet by the organism [source is not specified 105 days];
* Apprehensions of vegans in following the philosophy, which equalizes animals and people, which, for many people is unacceptable;
* Attempt to lead vegan mode of life with inadequate awareness in dietology of vegan diet can lead to negative consequences on health of a person;
* Availability of publications in print media, in formulation or interpretation of which the vegans or veganism are negatively interpreted.
A Southampton University team found those who were vegetarian by 30 had recorded five IQ points more on average at the age of 10.
Researchers said it could explain why people with higher IQ were healthier as a vegetarian diet was linked to lower heart disease and obesity rates.
The study of 8,179 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 higher IQ in childhood or adolescence is linked with a reduced risk of coronary heart disease in adult life." |
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