 Re: Re: How to Successfully Become a Vegetarian
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Originally posted by Stella
i dont know about it
because i am non vegetarian
21 REASONS for being VEGETERIAN
* Avoiding meat is one of the best and simplest ways to cut down your f
at consumption. Modern farm animals are deliberately fattened up to increase
profits. Eating fatty meat increases your chances of having a heart attack
or developing cancer.
* Every minute of every working day, thousands of animals are killed in
slaughter-houses. Pain and misery are common. In the US alone, 500,000 anima
ls are killed for meat every hour.
* There are millions of cases of food poisoning recorded every year. The
vast majority are caused by eating meat.
* Meat contains absolutely nothing - no proteins, vitamins or minerals -
that the human body cannot obtain perfectly happily from a vegetarian diet.
* African countries - where millions are starving to death - export grai
n to the developed world so that animals can be fattened for our dining tabl
es.
* 'Meat' can include the tail, head, feet, rectum and spinal cord of an
animal.
* A sausage can contain ground up intestines. How can anyone be sure tha
t the intestines are empty when they are ground up? Do you really want to ea
t the content of a pig's intestines?
* If we eat the plants we grow instead of feeding them to animals, the w
orld's food shortage will disappear virtually overnight. Remember that 100 a
cres of land will produce enough beef for 20 people but enough wheat to feed
240 people.
* Every day, tens of millions of one-day-old male chicks are killed beca
use they will not be able to lay eggs. There are no rules about how this mas
s slaughter takes place. Some are crushed or suffocated to death. Many are u
sed for fertiliser or fed to other animals.
* Animals who die for your dinner table die alone, in terror, in sadness
and in pain. The killing is merciless and inhumane.
* It's must easier to become (and stay) slim if you are a vegetarian. (B
y 'slim', I do not mean 'abnormally slender' or 'underweight' but rather, an
absense of excess weight!)
* Half the rainforests in the world have been destroyed to clear ground
to graze cattle to make beefburgers. The burning of the forests contributes
20% of all green-house gases. Roughtly 1,000 species a year become extinct b
ecause of the destruction of the rainforests. Approximately 60 million peopl
e a year die of starvation. All those lives could be saved because those peo
ple could eat grain used to fatten cattle and other farm animals - if Americ
ans ate 10% less meat.
*
The world's fresh water shortage is being made worse by animal farming
. And meat producers are the biggest polluters of water. It takes 2,500 gall
ons of water to produce one pound of meat. If the US meat industry wasn't su
pported by the taxpayer paying a large proportion of its water costs, then h
amburger meat would cost $35 a pound.
* If you eat meat, you are consuming hormones that were fed to the anima
ls. No one knows what effect those hormones will have on your health. In som
e parts of the world, as many as one on four hamburgers contain growth hormo
nes that were originally given to cattle.
* The following diseases are commoner among meat eaters: anaemia, append
icitis, arthritis, breast cancer, cancer of the colon, cancer of the prostra
te, constipation, diabetes, gallstones, gout, high blood pressure, indigesti
on, obesity, piles, strokes and varicose veins. Lifelong vegetarians visit h
ospital 22% less often than meat eaters and for shorter stays. Vegetarians h
ave a 20% lower blood cholestrol level than meat eaters and this reduces hea
rt attack and cancer risks considerably.
* Some farmers use tranquillisers to keep animals calm. Other routinely
use antibiotics to starve off infection. When you eat meat you are eating th
ose drugs. In America, 55% of all antibiotics are fed to animals and the per
centage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin went up from 14%
in 1960 to 91% in 1988.
* In a lifetime, the average meat eater will consumer 36 pigs, 36 sheep
and 750 chickens and turkeys. Do you want that much carnage on your conscien
ce?
* Animals suffer from pain and fear just as much as you do. How would yo
u like to spend your last hours locked in a truck, packed into a cage with h
undreds of other terrified animal and then cruelly pushed into a blood soake
d death chamber. Anyone who eats meat condones and supports the way animals
are treated.
* Animals which are a year old are often far more rational - and capable
of logical thought - than six week old babies. Pigs and sheep are far more
intelligent than small children. Eating dead animals is barbaric.
* Vegetarians are fitter than meat eaters. many of the world's most succ
essful athletes are vegetarian.
Click here to find out which food you could eat as a vegetarian.
source: http://www.giveusahome.co.uk/articles/vegetarianism.htm
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