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I'm vegetarian but keep my own chickens for my eggs as the only animal products I have is that acceptable?
You decide. Please do whatever is healthy to you and Minimize your carbon production as best as you can.
Going vegan is not right for everyone. With any vegan/vegetarian diet it's important to make sure you're eating enough proteins, iron and vitamin C. These are the 3 main components of meat that are not found on most common vegetables.
Please take care of yourself, pay attention to your diet and consult with a nutritionist if you feel indisposed after switching to a new diet.
Huh? Good sources of Vitamin C are pretty much only plants? The reason sailors got scurvy was due to a meat heavy diet
It's not just citrus that has that. It's a wide range of plants from broccoli to kiwi to red pepper to potatoes, etc.
Yes, fruits. But not vegetables overall. Animal skin has vitamin C. So it's possible to acquire it with a meat diet depending on what you eat.
Of course you can fill this gap with citrus fruits. C it's not a big problem nowadays since there are fruits easily available. Historically tribes that lived in ICU areas had to eat the animal skin and organs to have enough vitamins. Maybe that part was too specific and unnecessary
I listed multiple vegetables there? There's plenty more too like brussel sprouts, kale, parsley. Many are actually even higher than citrus like brocoli
In practice, people are only really getting it from plants. Technically possible doesn't mean that's actually what happens
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/5/9/3424