Essays about: "Vegetarian Alternative"

Showing result 6 - 8 of 8 essays containing the words Vegetarian Alternative.

  1. 6. Food consumption in Rosendal : the environmental support to diets in a “green” urban district

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Jacinda Maassen; [2017]
    Keywords : food consumption; emergy; environmental support; urban; green district; sustainability;

    Abstract : Food is a vital component to the survival of all life forms. Development of a global food system has increased food security yet produced greater environmental impacts, amplified by various threats to the global food system as well as a major use of natural resources. READ MORE

  2. 7. Restricted meat consumption : A study on environmental benefits of the vegetarian day in municipal primary schools of Östersund.

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Avdelningen för ekoteknik och hållbart byggande

    Author : Tobias Johansson; [2015]
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    Abstract : The implementation of the vegetarian day in the municipal primary schools of Östersund initially met resistance. Today, the resistance heard out loud has decreased. READ MORE

  3. 8. Negotiating Bodies at the Borderlands of Eating Communities : An Ethnographic Study of Oat Milk Consumers’ Relations to Health, Identity and Social Life

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Meghan Cridland; [2012]
    Keywords : eating community; alternative food; food allergy; food intolerance; lifestyle; oat milk; non dairy; Celiac; food culture; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis conducts a cultural analysis of the social implications of food allergies and intolerances and analyzes the interaction of individual experience and social structures by asking what it means when one chooses not to follow the normative food culture, such as with vegetarian and vegan diets, or when one physically cannot, such as in the case of food allergies and intolerances, specifically Celiac. By focusing on lifestyle and dietary eaters, that is, consumers adhering to ʻalternativeʼ diets, such as veganism or vegetarianism, and individuals diagnosed with (or affected by) food allergies and intolerance, this research analyzes how (non)participation in the mainstream eating community is both a challenge and source of how people removed from the eating community understand themselves via social interaction. READ MORE