Environmental Impacts
Ethics
Misconceptions
Nutrition and Microbiology
Famous Vegetarians
100
Cows and Sheep are responsible for emitting 37% of this greenhouse gas that is 30 times more potent at trapping heat than CO2
What is Methane?
100
To prevent cannibalism amongst stressed factory-farmed poultry, which part of the body is removed from chicken, turkeys etc.
What is the beak?
100
This microbiological cornerstone is present in all living fawn and flora and does not lack in vegetarians.
What are proteins?
100
Meat, being from a corpse, has far more of these prokaryotic microorganisms than vegetarian foods.
What are bacteria?
100
Facial tattoos, owns a tiger and cameos in a blockbuster trilogy…
Who is Mike Tyson?
200
A fifth of this rainforest - the largest in the world - has been lost to deforestation in the past three decades, 70% of which is attributed to cattle ranching for beef production.
What is the Amazon?
200
Most chickens raised in factory farms live their entire lives in a space the size of this hand-held Apple product
What is an iPad?
200
Vegetarians are not exempt from become overweight thanks to…
What are dairy products?
200
Interactions between two organisms in which one benefits, but the other is not harmed.
What is commensalism.
200
Aldous Snow: "When the world slips you a Jeffrey, stroke the furry wall”
Who is Russell Brand
300
Producing one pound of animal protein takes 12 times more land, 13 times more fossil fuel and 15 times more water than producing one pound of this plant-based protein
What is soy?
300
Calves are often sent to slaughter houses at only 16 weeks old for the production of this specific type of cow meat
What is veal?
300
This set of teeth found in humans is as effective to tear apart flesh as it is to bite into an apple.
What are canines?
300
Athletes who are vegetarian need to be to aware of this important component of food, which tends to be lower in vegetarian diets.
What are calories?
300
i - "noun"
Who is Steve Jobs?
400
Animal manure containing this chemical element (in the forms of urea, uric acid and ammonium) is released into our rivers, lakes and drinking water by the billions of pounds each day.
What is Nitrogen?
400
In the U.S., egg-producing hens may be limited to as little as five minutes of outdoor access yet their cartons can still be stamped with this label as long as they aren't contained in cages.
What is "Free Range"?
400
This part of human anatomy stretches twice as long as omnivore-adapted species and is synonymous with purely herbivore species.
What is the small intestine?
400
Species that are life-long members of the body's normal microbial community, but are not found everywhere in the body.
What are Resident Microbiota?
400
This well-known researcher who is a British ethologist and anthropologist.
Who is Jane Goodall?
500
Sheep, goats and grain-fed cows all require an energy input to protein output of ~50:1 - the latter needing 100,000 litres of water for every kilogram of food. These three species belong to which category of mammals? (based on their diet/digestive system)
What are Ruminants?
500
When factory-farmed, these close descendants of the T-Rex often die when fed growth-promoting drugs causing rapid skeletal growth with which their lungs & hearts cannot keep up.
What are Chickens?
500
The presence of this catabolic enzyme in human saliva suggests that humans are designed primarily for a herbivore’s diet.
What is amylase?
500
Species that unable to remain in the body for extended periods of time due to competition with other bacteria, or physical/chemical changes within the body that discourage growth.
What are Transient Microbiota?
500
Commonly known as the most hated person on the planet.
Who is Adolf Hitler?