Nutrition
"But how do you get enough protein?"
How important a question this is for many potential vegetarians! Our culture seems to be obsessed with obtaining enough protein. And yet protein is one of the easiest nutrients to get. By an inappropriate choice of foods, a person might be deficient in vitamins A or C; but it is almost impossible to be protein-deficient on a calorically adequate diet. To see why this is so, we need to look at protein requirements as a percentage of calories.
A chicken is NOT a vegetable
One of the most common misconceptions about vegetarianism is that vegetarians eat chicken. Chicken has a reputation as a "health food" due to its low-fat content. So why shouldn't we eat chicken? To begin with, vegetarians never eat chicken. A vegetarian is one who does not eat any animal flesh, and chicken is just as much an animal as a cow or a pig. But definitions aside, it is unwise for those who care about health, the environment, or animals, to eat chicken.