My mom took to a vegetarian diet for religious reasons and since she is the homemaker, so did the rest of my family. Now that I am living on my own I have the option, like many other vegetarians, to take up meat, but I haven 't. Not for religious reasons, but because I don 't feel the need to. The diner has several options that cater to vegetarians, even an entirely different counter for vegans. Recently, there has been a significant increase in universities and college campuses incorporating vegan dietary options in their meal plans, as an increasing percentage of the youth today are starting to identify themselves as being vegans, especially while they are in college.
Our campus itself, University of Maryland, College Park, has incorporated …show more content…
Health vegans are those who take up the plant-based diet to lose weight or improve their physique and are not particularly concerned with the animal rights movement. (Greenebaum 130) Its benefits include lower cholesterol and blood pressure, as well as reduced risk of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. A vegan diet may lower the risk of certain cancers such as colon stomach, female, and prostate cancers, while the risk of diverticular disease for vegans is only a quarter of that of omnivores and risk for hypothyroidism is 10% lower than omnivore risk. In the Adventist Health Study 2, the largest study of the health effects of vegetarian and vegan diets, the overall death rate for vegans was reduced 15% (Radnitz, Beezhold and DiMatteo 31). But everybody’s body requirements are different. So does the diet affect different people differently? Does it cause adverse effects genetically transmitted diseases? These are all questions that researchers are currently working …show more content…
(Cherry 64) Social support, from friends, family, and the punk subculture, provide some of the necessary tools to maintain veganism, but Informational networks in the lifestyle movement go a long way (66). They provide participants with cultural tools that inform them of vegan practices and shape their vegan identities. These cultural tools include things like learning and sharing cooking skills. They also engage in ‘prosumption ', the active production and informed consumption of vegan subcultural items and practices. This includes listening to music, reading liner notes, playing in punk vegan bands and writing vegan zines. These social networks and shared cultural tools provide a "virtuous circle" that further help retention in veganism as lifestyle activism (67). This recruitment through social networks seem ideal to the youth, who are becoming less interested in formal politics and are more interested in living in accordance with their ideals (57). But do people become so dependent on this online community, that it affects their everyday life adversely? Do they end up isolating themselves from all other social groups? Questions on how these communities affect a person’s sense of belonging to a social setting still remain to be answered. But in context with our University and the dining options available to us, a trend has been seen. Vegans
Our campus itself, University of Maryland, College Park, has incorporated …show more content…
Health vegans are those who take up the plant-based diet to lose weight or improve their physique and are not particularly concerned with the animal rights movement. (Greenebaum 130) Its benefits include lower cholesterol and blood pressure, as well as reduced risk of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. A vegan diet may lower the risk of certain cancers such as colon stomach, female, and prostate cancers, while the risk of diverticular disease for vegans is only a quarter of that of omnivores and risk for hypothyroidism is 10% lower than omnivore risk. In the Adventist Health Study 2, the largest study of the health effects of vegetarian and vegan diets, the overall death rate for vegans was reduced 15% (Radnitz, Beezhold and DiMatteo 31). But everybody’s body requirements are different. So does the diet affect different people differently? Does it cause adverse effects genetically transmitted diseases? These are all questions that researchers are currently working …show more content…
(Cherry 64) Social support, from friends, family, and the punk subculture, provide some of the necessary tools to maintain veganism, but Informational networks in the lifestyle movement go a long way (66). They provide participants with cultural tools that inform them of vegan practices and shape their vegan identities. These cultural tools include things like learning and sharing cooking skills. They also engage in ‘prosumption ', the active production and informed consumption of vegan subcultural items and practices. This includes listening to music, reading liner notes, playing in punk vegan bands and writing vegan zines. These social networks and shared cultural tools provide a "virtuous circle" that further help retention in veganism as lifestyle activism (67). This recruitment through social networks seem ideal to the youth, who are becoming less interested in formal politics and are more interested in living in accordance with their ideals (57). But do people become so dependent on this online community, that it affects their everyday life adversely? Do they end up isolating themselves from all other social groups? Questions on how these communities affect a person’s sense of belonging to a social setting still remain to be answered. But in context with our University and the dining options available to us, a trend has been seen. Vegans