Does anyone have any good arguments for becoming a vegetarian or vegan?

Answer 1

Here are just a few:

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.

2. 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.

3.There are millions of cases of food poisoning recorded every year. The vast majority are caused by eating meat.
4. Meat contains absolutely nothing - no proteins, vitamins or minerals - that the human body cannot obtain perfectly happily from a vegetarian diet.

5. African countries - where millions are starving to death - export grain to the developed world so that animals can be fattened for our dining tables.


6. 'Meat' can include the tail, head, feet, rectum and spinal cord of an animal.

7. 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?

8. 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.

9. 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 fertilizer or fed to other animals.

10. Animals who die for your dinner table die alone, in terror, in sadness and in pain. The killing is merciless and inhumane.

Answer 2

Don't listen to the guy above me....vegan is the healthiest life style you adopt. Animal Fats are bad for you and can cause heart desease. Humans are not designed to eat animals. You just have too really make sure you get enough protein from other sources. Like Soy, Nuts, Seeds, Beans, Cheese (if your not vegan). It's not an easy thing to do but nothing worth doing is ever easy. IF you stop eating meat for a month i promise you will start to lose a taste for it. You feel more energetic adn your ksin and hair will look better as long as you are getting all your nutrients. I'm not perfect by all means but i have cut out red meat completely for the past 10 years. You should just faze it out...start with red meat, then chicken and turkey,....then decide if you want to go vegan. Also make sure you are getting enough Omega Fatty Acids.

Answer 3

There are SO many good reasons for making a transition to a vegetarian/vegan diet.

Environment- Raising animals for food uses vast quantities of natural resources, including, water, land, and oil. It uses about 860 million acres of land in the US and creates huge amounts of water and air pollution. Livestock produce 130 times the amount of waste that people do. With the amount of land and resources it takes to raise livestock for one meat eating person, you could support enough crops for twenty vegetarians.

Health- Vegetarian diets contain less overall fat, especially saturated fat, are lower in cholesterol (cholesterol free if vegan), include huge amounts of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, are higher in fiber which is protective against diseases like cancer, diabetes, and coranary artery disease, and contain phytochemicals (plant chemicals) which are believed to help prevent and fight disease. Vegetarians typically have clearer skin, improved digestion, and better overall health than their meat eating counterparts.

Compassion- The vast majority of animals raised for human consumption are raised on huge factory farms. These are not the small family farms where you picture the animals spending their days grazing in an open field. Many never set foot outside until it's time to be loaded on the truck for the slaughter house. They are overcrowded, given as little care as possilble, and continually given loads of antibiotics to keep them alive under these conditions. In order to fatten them up quicker they are also given so many growth hormones that it's common for their legs (especially chickens)to break under their own weight. At the slaughter house many animals are hung upside down and boiled, skinned, and/or slaughtered while fully conscious.

Personally I am still a "newbie" vegetarian. (1 year) It is the best thing I have ever done...for myself, animals, and the Earth. I will not go back to a meat based diet again. With all the improvements on my health (there have been many!) and the more I do research and learn, the more it just confirms that I have made the right choice.

Answer 4

Most animals which we eat are vegetarians. Why put your food through a vegetarian first and then eat it? Eat the vegetables directly from the plant without processing them.

That being said, why do we have incisors for cutting through meat if we were intended to be vegetarians?

Answer 5

Reasons for being vegan:

Animals killed for food suffer huge amounts of fear at abbatoirs and despite what is claimed they are usually not killed humanely.They are also often very young-pork,chicken,duck and lamb all routinely come from juvenile animals and veal comes from cattle that are literally babies.

Most farm animals are fed a diet full of additives and routinely given drugs such as antibiotics-many of which are still in meat you buy from the store.

Dairy cows are kept pregnant,their calves are taken away at a few days old which causes huge distress to mother and calf.Females are reared for milk but male calves are killed as they will never produce much milk compared to beef breeds.The cows are killed as soon as their milk production decreases-usually about 7 yrs old when they could naturally live a lot longer.Their meat is poor quality and usually ends up in pet food.

Egg-laying hens are often battery farmed.Barn and free range are also usually kept in unhealthily crowded conditions.They are never allowed to incubate their eggs and rear chicks so they lay eggs constantly.This leads to calcium deprivation and they are killed for very cheap chicken as soon as this affects their health too much.Of the eggs that are fertilised and used to produce the next generation of egg-layers some of course produce male chicks.These are worthless as like the male dairy calves they will never grow as fat as meat breed poultry so they are gassed and sold as the 'day old chicks' people buy as snake food.

Honey bees make honey to feed their colonies during the winter and dry periods when flowers are unavailable.They try-and fail of course-to defend it from bee-keepers and many die by getting their stings caught in the protective suit and being disembowled.Also honey is nectar bees have swallowed and removed the water from and then vomitted back up-yuck.

Your body can be perfectly healthy on an animal product free diet.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Show somebody a picture of a lamb or something cute and tell them how they're brutally slaughtered!!
Or tell people of how a lot of animals are treated when they're being 'harvested': like chickens; chickens are kept in huge sheds, with barely any room to move around as they are so close to each other, and when they are mass produced, they are force fed form when they're young, so they're extremely 'obese', and their bones haven't matured yet, so their legs break, and they get trampled on by other chickens, and the ammonia from the s*** burns their legs...so the next time you see a chicken in the supermarket, look for the chickens and look at their legs...
Lovely..

Answer 8

Its all about equal rights of living on this earth. It doesn't mean that if we are human beings we only have the superior rights of living on this earth. If an animal kills a human being we group together to kill it. What about those helpless animals which we kill everyday to satisfy our appetite. Our mother nature has given plenty of vegetarian options.

Finally remember one thing ....that the blood and remains of countless slaughtered animals is polluting the environment and it will raise its head in the form of a deadly disease one day....for sure....

Answer 9

Saving the animals would be the best argument - since we can grow crops to feed everyone. Long time ago, scarcity of food led humans to become meat eaters. We don't have the problem anymore, at least in the USA.

Answer 10

There are too many good reasons to list them all. So I'll start with a good Web Site to view. Meet your Meat.org narrated by Alec Baldwin. It's a real eye opener. It shows the deplorable conditions the animals are exposed to. The animals are diseased,left to die slow painful deaths. So the farmers turn to over use of antibiotics, and growth hormones. to speed production. (any wonder why the rise in cancer in humans,? or why preteens are going through puberty at such earlier ages than a few generations ago. or the average shoe size is 2-3 sizes larger than previous generations. could it be the growth hormones in our food?)This answered a alot of questions, as well as brought up other links re guarding better food choices. If you still think it's OK to eat meat after viewing this. at least choose animal meat that is raised "free range" or by organic farming practice.

Answer 11

Veganism or vegetarianism both take a lot of dicipline. Aside from the fact that both can contribute to a healthier lifestyle, there is also the question of morality towards what you eat. Yes, many turn to this solution for health but to go into without the question of what life you are saving could establish a bad diet. You need to make up for what youre not eating anymore. For instance, meat carries many of the main nutrients we need to survive, such as iron, you need to be able to healthily without swaying and sticking to junk foods.