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could you tell me some reasons for becoming a vegetarian?Eating meat is bad for our health?For the animals?
Posted by admin on April 1st, 2010
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For the Environment:
The raising of animals for food is the number one contributor to global warming; it creates more greenhouse gases than all forms of transportation combined.
For your Health:
Animals in industrial situations are routinely given feed laced with pesticides, to decrease the numbers of insects on their feces- a major problem in factory farms. They are injected with huge amounts of hormones and antibiotics, and these substances can be found in all cuts of meat.
Meat eaters have higher rates of type 2 diabetes, heart disease and colon cancer.
For the Animals:
Veal crates, battery cages, gestation crates, slaughterhouse practices…
for me its all about the animals. look at some sites on the net and your never eat meat again
1. Health (less chance for obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, etc). Animal fat tends to hold contaminants more easily than plant matter that is more fibrous.
http://www.pcrm.org/health/veginfo/vegetarian_foods.html
2. Environmental: Methane from mass animal farming has 20 times the heat trapping abilities of CO2. 16 pounds of vegetable matter are consumed just to get one pound of beef. "70 percent of the grains and cereals we grow to farmed animals, and almost all of those calories go into simply keeping the animals alive, not making them grow."
An exponential amount of land, water, and energy use compared to farming vegetable matter. "Nearly half of the water and 80 percent of the agricultural land in the United States are used to raise animals for food."
http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/2007/08/why-the-no-impa.html
http://www.goveg.com/environment.asp
3. Ethics (basic law of nature is never to take more than you need. In most places of today’s modern world it is more than possible to eat a healthy vegan diet. Most meat comes from industrial practices in which animals live in inhumane conditions.
Just think what it would be like to live in cramped fecal ridden conditions, pumped up with hormones only to have your throat cut, head slammed with a bolt, or an electric anal device shoved up your rectum and the juiced turn on. If you are not willing to die as such for another being to be eaten then neither should you eat another being that had to live and die in such conditions, especially since there are healthy alternatives).
http://www.animalawareness.org/pages/types_farming.html
I just never liked meat. My family are card carrying meat lovers and I am side-dish-Sally. On special occasions, I feasted on the side dishes while by siblings and cousins ate my share of the "good stuff" usually steak,bbq pork ribs and sausages or venison chili. I still ate a little bit but for the most part, I just ate veggies and fruit. By the time I turned 18, the transition was natural and effortless.
I am now also a part time pro environment and animal rights activist.
Health is one reason–of course, this means you have to eat properly and not be a junk-food vegetarian! But as a rule, vegetarians have lower incidences of heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Because it takes between 5 and 15 pounds of plant food to make a pound of animal food, meat concentrates pesticides their food is typically grown with. Animals confined for their flesh are also fed large amounts of hormones and steroids to make them grow bigger and faster, plus antibiotics to prevent/counteract infections that result when too many beings are in too small a space. When you eat meat, dairy, and eggs, you ingest those drugs as well.
Animal foods have no fiber and have cholesterol. Plant foods have no cholesterol and fiber. Fiber is good. Dietary cholesterol is bad (your body makes all the cholesterol you need).
Of COURSE it’s bad for the animals. Many chickens are on the verge of heart failure when they’re sent to slaughter at roughly six weeks of age. Because they grow so big so fast, their bodies can barely stand the strain. The animals live essentially in their own waste, breathing in the fumes from it. Not to mention the animals are KILLED, which is almost certainly bad for them.
And then there are the environmental reasons–land cleared for grazing, the fact that it takes 10 times the fossil fuels to produce a calorie of animal food as it does plant food. The fact that it wastes water. The U.S. EPA determined that runoff from factory farms causes more water pollution than all industrial sources combined. The U.N. determined that meat industry contributes more to global warming than all forms of transportation. Go to the Bite Global Warming website for more information.
Hope this helps.
Balance and moderation is the KEY to any reasonable diet
You can have a good diet whether you eat meat or not…
And you can be healthy with either diet
animals die and suffer in the veggie fields as easily as they do in the slaughter houses.
there is blood on everyone’s little fingers
Here is a great (and very detailed) list of reasons to be a vegetarian… It’s what made up my mind for me I highly recommend people watch this video
http://www.meat.org