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What are the key differences between lacto-ovo and pesco vegetarians?

Lacto-ovo vegetarians eat plants, dairy, and eggs, but not meat. This is a commonly seen as the "default" form of vegetarianism. A pesco vegetarian is somebody who eats seafood (or in some cases ...
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Can pescetarians eat butter?

Both vegetarians and pescetarians eat dairy and eggs, it is just that pescetarians eat also fish and seafood.
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Can pescetarians eat gelatin?

Gelatin is not vegan, vegetarian nor pescetarian. Gelatin is made of animal collagen. Collagen is extracted from animals' (pigs' or cows') hides and bones through a chemical process. I would not ...
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How long would it take for oceans to recover if vegetarianism was the norm?

That's an interesting question. According to this article fisheries can recover even in ten years, so much faster than "a few human generations": The team ran computer simulations on a massive ...
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Do I really help by eating no meat but still eating fish ? How much is my environmental footprint reduced?

There are many ways to assess whether human activities are "good for the environment" but when it comes to eating fish, the major concern is about rapidly declining fish populations in all oceans ...
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How long would it take for oceans to recover if vegetarianism was the norm?

There is a lot of uncertainty around marine ecosystem recovery. In some areas, there are concerns that even if all fishing stopped, the ecosystem would never return to it's former state. Part of the ...
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Can pescetarians eat gelatin?

It's up to you what you allow yourself to do and how you set your taboos. By definition, gelatin is not vegetarian, as it's made of a slaughtered animal. However, it's only a byproduct and not what ...
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What are the key differences between lacto-ovo and pesco vegetarians?

To understand this we have to first get "context" and "viewpoint" of the "terms", "labels" & "definitions" & cultural background/ history. Given that the population of vegetarians in India ...
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