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The “Live and let live” is the concept logy being effective for vegetarians worldwide.  Vegetarians rely on plant derived products for consumption including grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, plant derived oils, etc and exclude the animal derived entities for food including meat, chicken, pork, fish, crustaceans. Vegetarians have to be extremely careful in choosing the eatables like cakes, chocolates, chips, marshmallows, gums which might include animal products gelatine and rennet. There should be a practise to keep an eye on the ingredients list of the products being bought. In present times, as people have started knowing the importance of consuming healthy food and thus more people are shifting to vegetarian diet. They have become aware of what is good for their health and thus rendering self to become health-conscious. The percentage of vegetarian people has increased tremendously in past decades as compared to the past times scenarios around the globe. The life span of vegetarians is more as compared to non-vegetarians because of the consumption of healthy & nutritious food. The consumption of vegetables & food stuffs like that make body more strong. Many vegetarians choose to be so mainly just because of the cost that now a day’s meat has become expensive. Other reasons are religious beliefs, health issues etc. Many people choose to be vegetarian taking into account the animal concern and the environment.

Vegetarianism has been categorized in ovo vegetarians (consuming eggs and poultry products), lacto vegetarians (consuming milk & dairy products), ovo lacto vegetarians (consuming both poultry and dairy veg diets), raw, fruitarianism and micro biotic diets.