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The largest living land animal, the African bush elephant, is a herbivore. This is a list of herbivorous animals, organized in a roughly taxonomic manner. In general, entries consist of animal species known with good certainty to be overwhelmingly herbivorous, as well as genera and families which contain a preponderance of such species.
Veganism involves following a vegan diet, which is a diet that includes no animal products of any kind. It can extend to ethical veganism which avoids or boycotts all products and activities whose production or undertaking is perceived to exploit animals, such as leather, silk, fur, wool, and cosmetics that have been tested on animals, as well as blood sports such as bullfighting and fox hunting.
A vegetarian patty prepared from crushed soybean, avocado, tomato and beetroot. This is a list of meat substitutes . A meat substitute, also called a meat analogue , approximates certain aesthetic qualities (primarily texture, flavor and appearance) or chemical characteristics of a specific meat .
This is a list of people who have permanently adopted a vegetarian diet at some point during their life. [1] [2] [3] [4] Former vegetarians and those whose status is ...
The Vegan News changed its name to The Vegan in November 1945, by which time it had 500 subscribers. [63] It published recipes and a "vegan trade list" of animal-free products, such as toothpastes, shoe polishes, stationery and glue. [64]
Leaf monkeys are the most vegetarian, subsisting primarily on leaves, and eating only a small number of insects, while the other species are highly opportunistic, primarily eating fruit, but also consuming almost any food items available, such as flowers, leaves, bulbs and rhizomes, insects, snails, and even small vertebrates. [6]
A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically evolved to feed on plants, especially upon vascular tissues such as foliage, fruits or seeds, as the main component of its diet. These more broadly also encompass animals that eat non-vascular autotrophs such as mosses , algae and lichens , but do not include those feeding on decomposed ...
Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described—of which around 1 million are insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million in total. Animals range in size from 8.5 millionths of a metre to 33.6 metres (110 ft) long and have complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs .