http://www.wisegeek.com/has-it-been-proven-that-a-vegetarian-diet-is-really-healthier.htm
This was a website that really emphasized that having "a vegetarian diet [was] significantly healthier than one which includes meat" and used multiple global studies to track people's diets over years at a time and measuring how healthy vegetarians were versus meat eaters. The emphasis on the diet being "significant" was interesting because despite the research to back up this claim, the public opinion was still that a vegetarian diet was either lacking in protein or hard to follow. Based on this public opinion, I feel that this article was a result of some public relations environmental monitoring and possibly a public opinion tracking survey. Seeing as this article is only reporting on public opinion findings, I think that the next step would be reversing this public opinion through an educational campaign to get the public thinking about the truths and myths about being vegetarian.

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