Editing Vegetarianism (section)

===General===
{{Main|Ethics of eating meat}}
With regard to the ethics of eating meat, scholars consider vegetarianism an [[ideology]] and a [[social movement]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Gorvett|first=Zaria|title=The hidden biases that drive anti-vegan hatred|url=https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200203-the-hidden-biases-that-drive-anti-vegan-hatred|access-date=September 26, 2020|website=www.bbc.com|date=February 4, 2020 |archive-date=February 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200209122636/https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200203-the-hidden-biases-that-drive-anti-vegan-hatred|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Review of Adam D. Shprintzen's "The Vegetarian Crusade" |website=History News Network |date=November 11, 2013 |url=http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/153600 |access-date=September 26, 2020 |archive-date=January 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122035734/http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/153600 |url-status=live }}</ref> Ethical reasons for choosing vegetarianism vary and are usually predicated on the interests of [[non-human animals]]. In many societies, controversies and debates have arisen over the ethics of eating animals. Some people, while not vegetarians, refuse to eat the flesh of certain animals due to cultural [[taboo]], such as cats, dogs, horses or rabbits. Others support meat eating for scientific, nutritional and cultural reasons, including religious ones. Some meat eaters abstain from the meat of animals reared in particular ways, such as [[factory farms]], or avoid certain meats, such as [[veal]] or [[foie gras]]. Some people follow vegetarian or [[Veganism|vegan]] diets not because of moral concerns involving the raising or consumption of animals in general, but because of concerns about the specific treatment and practices involved in the processing of animals for food. Others still avoid meat out of concern that meat production places a greater burden on the environment than production of an equivalent amount of plant [[protein]].<ref>Searchinger, T.D., Wirsenius, S., Beringer, T. et al. Assessing the efficiency of changes in land use for mitigating climate change. Nature 564, 249–253 (2018). {{doi|10.1038/s41586-018-0757-z}}</ref> Ethical objections based on consideration for animals are generally divided into opposition to the act of killing in general, and opposition to certain [[Intensive farming|agricultural practices]] surrounding the [[animal husbandry|production]] of meat.