Around ten million people in Germany eat meatless. Eating a vegetarian or vegan diet usually has ethical reasons, such as rejecting factory farming and the killing of animals, or because the energy-intensive production of animal-based foods causes significantly more CO2. Parents who follow a vegan or vegetarian diet understandably want the same for their children. Or they decide at some point to give up meat themselves. In both cases, there is often uncertainty: is this even appropriate for adolescents? The most important questions and answers.

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