CCF gives out annual " Tarnished Halo " awards to so-called " animal-rights zealots, celebrity busybodies, environmental scaremongers, self-appointed " public interest " advocates, trial lawyers, and other food activists ", and its Guest Choice Network affiliate gives out the " Nanny Awards " to " food cops, anti-biotech activists, vegetarian scolds and meddling bureaucrats ".< ref >" Food for Thought "< Center for Consumer Freedom, February 10, 2000, accessed June 16, 2010 ; also see Gardner, Marilyn.

Darnielle went vegetarian in 1996 and stated in a 2007 interview with Vegan Radio that he was vegan.

On 3 January 2007, Ogyen Trinley Dorje mandated a purely vegetarian diet in all his monasteries, nunneries, and centers, and strongly urged vegetarianism among all his students, saying that generally, in his view, it was very important in the Mahayana not to eat meat and that, even in Vajrayana, it is preferable for students and practitioners not to eat meat.

Image: Wheat gluten ( vegetarian mock duck ) 2007. jpg | fried wheat gluten (" vegetarian mock duck ")

Both vegetarian, as well as co-producer of vegan, travel creamer SoyGo, Madison Park produced the video “ Opus One ” regarding the plight of animals raised for food in factory farms in 2007.

In 2007, the station gained a measure of national exposure by heeding a call from condemned inmate Philip Workman to have vegetarian pizza delivered to homeless residents of Nashville, Tennessee.

Black is a vegetarian and she starred in an ad campaign for PETA Asia Pacific in 2007.

However, Daniel was able to convince the King to allow for a vegetarian diet.

He was a lifelong vegetarian and said he would not eat anything that had a mother.

Peel was a vegetarian.

Like Pythagoras, Julian was a vegetarian.

" He was a dedicated vegetarian, and undertook long fasts as means of both self-purification and political mobilization.

However, he could not appreciate the bland vegetarian food offered by his landlady and was frequently hungry until he found one of London's few vegetarian restaurants.

Some of the earliest origins of minestrone soup pre-date the expansion of the Latin tribes of Rome into what became the Roman Republic and later Roman Empire, when the local diet was " vegetarian by necessity " and consisted mostly of vegetables, such as onions, lentils, cabbage, garlic, fava beans, mushrooms, carrots, asparagus, and turnips.

The Bible Christian Church was a Christian vegetarian sect founded by William Cowherd in 1809.

He lived in Athens as a vegetarian bachelor, prosperous and generous to his friends, until the end of his life, except for a voluntary one year exile, which was designed to lessen the pressure put on him by his political-philosophical activity, little appreciated by the Christian rulers ; he spent the exile traveling and being initiated into various mystery cults as befitted his universalist approach to religion, trying to become " a priest of the entire universe ", worshiping all forms of the One God.

Nurmi was a vegetarian from the age of 12.

Twain is a long-time vegetarian and in 2001, was voted PETA's very first Sexiest Vegetarian Alive.

While there are no dietary restrictions in the Bahá ' í Faith, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, the son of the religion's founder, noted that a vegetarian diet consisting of fruits and grains was desirable, except for people with a weak constitution or those that are sick.

However, he personally refrained from eating meat except on the Sabbath and Festivals, and one of his leading disciples, Rabbi David Cohen, known as the " Nazirite " of Jerusalem, was a devout vegetarian.

In May 2009, Ghent, Belgium, was reported to be " the first in the world to go vegetarian at least once a week " for environmental reasons, when local authorities decided to implement a " weekly meatless day ".

A study of 6, 000 pregnant women in 1998 " found that while the national average in Britain is 106 boys born to every 100 girls, for vegetarian mothers the ratio was just 85 boys to 100 girls ".

He was not a strict vegetarian, though he said he preferred that diet and advocated it as a means of self-improvement.

Mendelssohn was treated with China bark, blood lettings on the foot, leeches applied to the ears, enemas, foot baths, lemonade and mainly vegetarian food.

In 2006 he was voted the " world's sexiest vegetarian " in PETA's annual online poll.

He had also made a pact with his brother Vithalbhai to support his entry into politics in the Bombay Presidency, while Patel himself would remain in Ahmedabad and provide for the family. He was a vegetarian.

" What we can safely assume is that he was indeed a Pythagorean and as such, in conformity with the Pythagorean tradition, opposed animal sacrifice, and lived on a frugal, strictly vegetarian diet.

Molotov was reported to be a vegetarian and teetotaler by American journalist John Gunther in 1938.

Feldman is an advocate for animal welfare and animal rights and has adhered to a vegetarian diet since he was about thirteen years old.

" Lisa the Vegetarian " was approved by Mirkin after the story was pitched by Cohen ; Mirkin had just become a vegetarian himself, and so many of Lisa's experiences in the episode were based on his own.

Agar ( agar-agar ) can be used as a laxative, an appetite suppressant, vegetarian gelatin substitute, a thickener for soups, in fruit preserves, ice cream, and other desserts, as a clarifying agent in brewing, and for sizing paper and fabrics.

Teochew cuisine is particularly well known for its seafood and vegetarian dishes and is commonly regarded as being healthy.

Parts of Ancient India and Nepal where Buddhism originated were also for long periods Buddhist, and whether as a result of the Buddhist, Jain or Hindu promotion of the principle of ahimsa ( harmlessness ) many Indians remain vegetarian.

Some of these Buddhist vegetarian chefs are in the many monasteries which serve wu hun and mock-meat ( also known as ' meat analogues ') dishes to the monks and visitors ( including non-Buddhists who often stay for a few hours or days, to Buddhists who are not monks, but staying overnight for anywhere up to weeks or months ).

They may instead be entirely vegetarian, especially among those for whom there are religious proscriptions against eating meat or seafood.

As a consequence of his attitudes about consciousness and empathy, Hofstadter has been a vegetarian for roughly half his life.

In 2002, the McDonald's Corporation agreed to donate $ 10 million to Hindu and other groups to settle lawsuits filed against the chain for mislabeling French fries and hash browns as vegetarian, because their French fries and hash browns were found to contain beef extract added during production.

The city promotes a meat-free day on Thursdays called Donderdag Veggiedag with vegetarian food being promoted in public canteens for civil servants and elected councillors, in all city funded schools, and promotion of vegetarian eating options in town ( through the distribution of " veggie street maps ").

Since the 1960s various Scottish shops and manufacturers have created vegetarian haggis, substituting various pulses, nuts and vegetables for the meat in the dish.

These cards can be used to determine, for example, a given customer's favorite brand of beer, or whether he or she is a vegetarian.

In the words of the Association, " Well-planned vegan and other types of vegetarian diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including during pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence ....

The terminology stems from the Latin lac meaning " milk " ( as in ' lactation '), ovum meaning " egg ", and the English term vegetarian ( see Etymology of vegetarianism for the etymology of " vegetarian "), so as giving the definition of a vegetarian diet containing milk and eggs.

In the airline industry, a lacto-ovo vegetarian meal is known by the acronym VLML ( for Vegetarian, Lacto-ovo MeaL ).

Visitors of any religious or socio-economic background are welcomed, where langar ( food for all ) is always served to people of all origins, the same ( vegetarian ) food, while sitting together on the same level of the floor.

Due to the increased demand for vegetarian food from foreign tourists, many hotels, guesthouses and restaurants that cater to foreign tourists, will now also have vegetarian versions of Thai dishes on their menu.

The GCNC has in addition adapted the USDA's food pyramid for a vegetarian dietary approach.