Try to avoid plant stress. If the soil is too dry or the compost is not nutritious enough, give it more water or fresh soil or compost. Cover plants in the event of a cold spell, which can keep them from being directly exposed to cold temperatures, rain or snow. Choose varieties of the plant that can resist bolting.
Ghent also has more vegetarian restaurants per capita than most cities (13 for a population of 240,000). Of course, there are many parts of the world where vegetarianism is widespread, largely because of religious principles and dietary laws. Hindus, Jains and Taoists all advocate vegetarianism to a greater or lesser extent, and this has a positive effect on the availability of vegetarian food in India and Asia. Between 20% and 40% of India's population is vegetarian â the figure is muddied by the fact that most Indian Hindus do not consider people who eat eggs to be vegetarian. Clear food labelling laws make things easy for vegetarian visitors.
They point to the cruel practices and the high environmental cost of raising animals for food as reasons for excluding meat from the diet. Most Americans, however, continue to eat some form of meat or fish. Ten percent of people consider themselves to be vegetarians, according to a 2013 Gallup poll.