Can someone give me very good reasons to become a 100% vegetarian?

Answer 1

* Avoiding meat is one of the best and simplest ways to cut down your fat 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 animals 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 grain to the developed world so that animals can be fattened for our dining tables.



* '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 that the intestines are empty when they are ground up? Do you really want to eat the content of a pig's intestines?

* If we eat the plants we grow instead of feeding them to animals, the world's food shortage will disappear virtually overnight. Remember that 100 acres 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 because they will not be able to lay eggs. There are no rules about how this mass slaughter takes place. Some are crushed or suffocated to death. Many are used 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. (By '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 because of the destruction of the rainforests. Approximately 60 million people a year die of starvation. All those lives could be saved because those people could eat grain used to fatten cattle and other farm animals - if Americans ate 10% less meat.



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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 gallons of water to produce one pound of meat. If the US meat industry wasn't supported by the taxpayer paying a large proportion of its water costs, then hamburger meat would cost $35 a pound.

* If you eat meat, you are consuming hormones that were fed to the animals. No one knows what effect those hormones will have on your health. In some parts of the world, as many as one on four hamburgers contain growth hormones that were originally given to cattle.

* The following diseases are commoner among meat eaters: anaemia, appendicitis, arthritis, breast cancer, cancer of the colon, cancer of the prostrate, constipation, diabetes, gallstones, gout, high blood pressure, indigestion, obesity, piles, strokes and varicose veins. Lifelong vegetarians visit hospital 22% less often than meat eaters and for shorter stays. Vegetarians have a 20% lower blood cholestrol level than meat eaters and this reduces heart 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 those drugs. In America, 55% of all antibiotics are fed to animals and the percentage 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 conscience?

* Animals suffer from pain and fear just as much as you do. How would you like to spend your last hours locked in a truck, packed into a cage with hundreds of other terrified animal and then cruelly pushed into a blood soaked 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 successful athletes are vegetarian.

Answer 2

I'll keep this simple for you, but provide references for you to look further if you choose to.
The 5 most statistically common reasons for going Veg*n are:
Human Health
Human Rights
Animal Rights
Animal Welfare
The Environment

Each one on it's own has EXCESSIVE EVIDENCE to support it, providing a person with more verifiable, reproducable, observable facts than all the evidence COMBINED to support the eating of animal produce. This is indisputable, and even the animal produce promoters admit it! So you can take a brief glance at the iceberg and be so overwhelmed that you'll simply go Veg*n by default, or you can choose otherwise, but now that you've read this message, you can't claim ignorance. You have been warned. Every reputable scientific study EVER conducted relating to animal consumption indicates to eat less animal and eat more vegetable, including opinion polls, surveys, medical diagnoses, humanitarian studies, environmental analyses, etc, etc. Everything points to Veg*nism, and thus the most sustainable religious, spiritual and economic practices in the world have a minimum vegetarian requirement, with strong preference to veganism or better. Please do your homework, and most importantly ...
"Be the person you wish to see in the world" - Gandhi

Be here now,
Karl

Answer 3

Great question. I am 58 years old. I haven't eaten meat or fish since I was 20. The main reason I quit, cold turkey, was because I embarked on a spiritual path that educated me on the facts of meat-eating. Plus I love animals, so why would I contribute to their pain and suffering? In this country there are so many other ways to obtain protein and nutrients, we simply do not have to run these organized slaughter houses simply so we can satisfy the demands of our tongues. Anyone hear of karma? The violence we put out there, will come back to us...that's a guarantee. That goes for individual karma, as well as the karma of this entire nation. (seeing that...one can understand the future of this country, or the world, is not too good). Want to be truly and sincerely compassionate and loving? Cut out all violence in your life....particularly meat-eating. It has a very subtle effect on your consciousness. According to the Vedic wisdom, meat-eating is done in the mode of ignorance. If we seek true spiritual understanding, we must elevate ourselves to the mode of goodness...and that means eliminating as much violence from our lives as much as we possibly can. We don't have to be a fanatic about this, be practical. But always keep trying. Also, in this country it's hard to be a vegetarian sometimes, as people think if they want to be one, they have to eat boring or tasteless food. I learned to cook East Indian food, and I'm so grateful for that, as it is truly satisfying and substantial. There's alot of meat substitutes on the market today, too. And of course there are always the health benefits of a meatless diet. And a thousand other reasons which a couple of folks have so very nicely outlined in some of their answers. Good luck!

Answer 4

No - there is hardly ever a good reason to become 100% vegetarian. The human body requires equal parts of protein, carbs and fats (with accompanying vitamins and minerals and trace items) to survive in good health. A vegetarian diet usually leaves you deficient in one or more categories of important nutrients...

Answer 5

No. And there are several in favor of being omnivorous. Do a google for "the naive vegetarian". You will find some interesting points.
Personally, I just can't figure out where to draw the line, I mean salads and radishes I pull from the garden are alive too...

Answer 6

Yea firstly being a non vegetarian increases heart diseases......if u like it a lot addition cud lead to obesity again leading to heart diseases which cud lead to diabetes.But it's totally upto u coz yes even vegetables live and we kill them...but out of both obviously vegetarian is healthier and we have to eat sumthin to live.SSo it's better to go vegetarian.Plus when u eat non veg food...u aslo take in with it toxins which are respinsible for violent behaviour.Hence those who are vegans or vegetarians are less violent compared those who are not.These toxins are a result of the fear produced in the animal when they are bout tobe killed.Even animals can sense their death.

Answer 7

There is no reason, we are made to eat meat and need the nutrients.. Sure ther are other ways to receive these nutrients these days but why torture ourselves? If you are feeling bad for the animals, than go and hunt your own meat. It is more humane and is much healthier.. You could avoid fast food chains, or limit your intake of meat. Either way there is nothing quite like a steak on the grill...Good Luck

Answer 8

No, don't do it. Your body is designed to ingest and digest meat. That's why you have the teeth for it. The nutritional benefits are undeniable. You should just balance your intake well.

Just remember, eating meat is a part of life. Do you think plants want to be your food? HA HA

Enjoy that piece of steak.

Answer 9

yeah, it has been prooved that non veg is not an appropriate food 4 humen . u can better get it through this
u can c that all the non vegitarian animals use there tongues 4 drinking purposes. where as all the vegetarian animals use there lips 4 drinking purposes
u can well observe that humen also use lips 4 drinking so
what did u get after observing this !!!
HOPE U GET IT!

Answer 10

i am a vegetarian myslef and i tell you that you are going to feel really good with yourself. first of all cuz you won't feel sorry everytime you eat a piece of meat. and it's also good cuz animals shouldn't be eaten. they have a heart and a life too

Answer 11

Improved health. Mad cow is real and commercially produced meat is tainted, even the chicken and pig. A lot of fresh vegetables will make a person feel good.