Read the passage carefully and fill in each blank with an appropriate answer.

A vegetarian is someone who eats only vegetables and (01) from meat, including poultry, fish and

shellfish. Vegetarians often face regular questions about their reasons for converting to vegetarian and

(02) an entirely different lifestyle. Many of these reasons (03) broadly in the

categories of Ethics, Health, Environment and Global Food Shortage.

The first reason is that most vegetarians claim to have serious ethical problems with eating meat. They have chosen to

adopt a meatless (04) because they care for animals and do not want to eat something that has

to (05) first just so they could be nourished. Animal cruelty is predominant throughout the world, in

slaughterhouses, egg and dairy industries, and animal testing laboratories. For example, chicken spend their

(06) lives in a small cage whereas cows leave their fence enclosures only to be slaughtered.

Another reason many people choose to embrace a (07) lifestyle is to enjoy its many health

(08) . Eating vegetables has more advantages than eating meat alone for although you can get

essential nutrients in meats, there are also many (09) problems that meat can give you, such as

cholesterol. Also, animal products (10) extremely high amounts of fat and by not eating high fat

foods, you will be able to lose weight. Eating vegetables will also cleanse your body of toxins.