Vegetarians Get Younger

At least 1 in 200 children are choosing not to eat meat, according to a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study. However, the motivation for the vegetarian lifestyle for these 367,000 kids still remains unclear. Whether it's the proliferation of shocking YouTube animal slaughter videos, general ecological concerns, family food choices or other drivers, they are taking a stand. (Sadly, vegetarian adolescents aren't as interested in boycotting fat-laden fast foods, such as doughnuts and French fries.) Even adult meat eaters are trying part-time vegetarianism, in part due to a national campaign by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health called Meatless Monday, which maintains that eating like a vegetarian just one day a week reduces consumption of saturated fat by 15 percent, enough to ward off heart attacks, strokes and cancer. Click on their website here to find some tasty meat-free recipes.