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  • I, too, am sometimes uncomfortable with my omnivorism, or more correctly, with the way our society currently grows and raises the foods we omnivores eat.

    Ambivarianism aka TBTAM 2007

  • I haven't found rhetoric such as yours effective in moving UUs from omnivorism into vegetarianism.

    Philocrites: This week at uuworld.org: Heroes' dilemma. 2006

  • The economics of omnivorism aside (I accept the claim that it is cheaper and more ecologically sound to be herbivorous) a claim frequently heard (herd?) of vegetarianism is that it's just plain wrong to eat the flesh of other creatures.

    Necessary Suffering? Raynor, Michael E. 1992

  • Having shown that the non-flesh diet is the more natural, and the more advantageous from the point of view of health, let us now consider which of the two -- vegetarianism or omnivorism -- is superior from the ethical point of view.

    No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes Rupert H. Wheldon

  • With regard to man's original non-carnivorous nature and omnivorism, it is sometimes said that though man's system may not thrive on a raw flesh diet, yet he can assimilate cooked flesh and his system is well adapted to digest it.

    No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes Rupert H. Wheldon

  • While there are three types of raw foodists (and subsets within those three categories), I would be attempting raw veganism, as opposed to raw vegetarianism where raw dairy is allowed, and raw omnivorism, which allows raw meat.

    AltWeeklies.com Site Feed 2010

  • While there are three types of raw foodists (and subsets within those three categories), I would be attempting raw veganism, as opposed to raw vegetarianism where raw dairy is allowed, and raw omnivorism, which allows raw meat.

    AltWeeklies.com Site Feed 2010

  • While there are three types of raw foodists (and subsets within those three categories), I would be attempting raw veganism, as opposed to raw vegetarianism where raw dairy is allowed, and raw omnivorism, which allows raw meat.

    AltWeeklies.com Site Feed 2010

  • While there are three types of raw foodists (and subsets within those three categories), I would be attempting raw veganism, as opposed to raw vegetarianism where raw dairy is allowed, and raw omnivorism, which allows raw meat.

    AltWeeklies.com Site Feed 2010

  • While there are three types of raw foodists (and subsets within those three categories), I would be attempting raw veganism, as opposed to raw vegetarianism where raw dairy is allowed, and raw omnivorism, which allows raw meat.

    AltWeeklies.com Site Feed 2010

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