How to Go Vegetarian or Vegan
Here are informative web sites that can get you started and keep you going as a healthy and happy herbivore!
Note: These links are provided for informational purposes only. BVS does not endorse, and has no control over or responsibility for the linked sites or their contents. These websites are not intended as medical advice, and they do not take the place of individualized medical care or advice. People should make dietary changes in consultation with their health professionals.
Contents:
- Veg starter kits and beginners’ guides
- Additional nutrition information—suggested reading
- The Impact of food choices on animals and the environment
- What about fish?
- Recipe sites providing hundreds of recipes by category
Vegetarian Starter Kits and Beginners' Guides
- Vegetarian Starter Kit from Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)
- “The Whys & Hows of Vegetarian Eating” by Compassion Over Killing
- Vegan Starter Guide from Vegan Outreach
- Guide to Vegetarian Eating from Humane Society of the U.S.
Additional Nutrition Pages
- Vegan Outreach on Staying Healthy on Plant-Based Diets
- Vegetarian Diets: A Dietitian's Guide
Dr. Greger’s Optimum Nutrition Recommendations
- Vegetarian Resource Group on Nutrition
- American Dietetic Association's Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group
- American Dietetic Association’s Position Paper on Vegetarian Diets
- Veg Kitchen's Healthy Eating Tips
- The China Study
- Vegan Food Guide: Daily Plan for Healthy Eating by Davis & Melina
- Vegan Nutrition—Ask the Dietitian
- PCRM on Preventive Medicine and Nutrition Topics
- NutritionMD
Choices on Animals and the Environment
Effect on Animals
- Farm Sanctuary on Factory Farming
- Farm Sanctuary’s Photo Gallery
- Compassion Over Killing’s (COK’s) Photo Gallery
- COK's Online Videos of Modern Factory Farming Practices
- Humane Farming Association’s Photo and Video Gallery
- Animals as Food Picture Index
- Meet Your Meat—Alec Baldwin narrates a video introduction to meat production
- PETA's Vegetarian Video Gallery
- Humane Society of the United States
- Slaughterhouse Abuse
- Slaughterhouses—Overview
- Cruel Slaughter Practices
Effects on the Environment
- Worldwatch Institute: Livestock Emissions and Climate Change
- Worldwatch Institute: Global Meat Consumption Has Far-Ranging Environmental Impacts
- Worldwatch Institute: Addressing the Effects of Factory Farming on the Environment, Human Health, and Communities
- Worldwatch Institute: New Meat Byproducts: Avian Flu and Global Climate Change
- New York Times: Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler
- NIH's Environmental Health Perspectives: Global Farm Animal Production and Global Warming - Impacting and Mitigating Climate Change
- Waste of the West: Public Lands Ranching
- Natural Resources Defense Council: Environmental and Health Consequences of Pollution from Livestock Waste
- E/The Environmental Magazine: The Case Against Meat
- E/The Environmental Magazine: Another Inconvenient Truth: Meat is a Global Warming Issue
- E/The Environmental Magazine: The Meat of the Matter
- Christian Science Monitor: American Meat Eating & Global Warming
- Univ. of Chicago Study: Vegan Diets Healthier for Planet, People Than Meat Diet
- Environmental Protection Agency: Animal Waste Management
- Confined Animal Feeding Operations Photo Gallery
- Sierra Club: Groundwater Pollution from Factory Farms
- Sierra Club: Factory Farming Environmental Reports
- Environmental Destruction
- ABC News: Meat-Eaters Aiding Global Warming?
- United Nations Report: Rearing Cattle Produces More Greenhouse Gases Than
Driving Cars
- Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture
- Beyond Beef Fact Sheets
- Photo Gallery of Environmental Impact of Livestock Grazing
What About Fish?
- PCRM: Is Fish Recommended to Eat?
- Fish and Shellfish: Contamination Problems Preclude Inclusion in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans
- U.K. Guardian: Fish: the forgotten victims on our plate - by Peter Singer
- Sealife to Seafood
- Why Public Health Strategy Should Promote Plant Oils in Preference to Fish Oils
- Fishing for Facts Report
- Fish Intelligence & Sentience, Commercial Fishing, Lobsters & Crabs, Aquafarming
- L.A. Times (Page 1, col. 1): Fish Farms Become Feedlots of the Sea
- Aquaculture, Fish and Pain Perception, Farmed Fish at Slaughter
- Commercial Fisheries and Marine Mammals
- Fisheries Factsheet
- The Aquatic Animals
- Does Eating Fish Harm the Planet?
Veg Recipe Sites
The veg starter kits and guides listed above have excellent recipe sections. Here are some additional veg recipe sites that will provide a vast array of choices. Bon appétit!
- Global Vegan Kitchen
- ChooseVeg Recipes
- Our Favorite Recipes from HSUS
- Vegetarian Living Recipes
- VegWeb Recipe Directory
- Vegetarian Resource Group Recipes
- International Vegetarian Union Recipes Around the World
- All Creatures Recipe Pages
- VegCooking
- Fatfree Vegan Recipes
- The Vegan Chef
- In a Vegetarian Kitchen's Recipes