Who is better A Vegetarian or a non vegetarian?

Answer 1

Just because you are a vegetarian doesn't mean you are better than some one else,but here are some reasons to go veg...

Environment
1.Half of all the water consumed in the US is used by animal agriculture
2.For every 1 acre of land cleared for urban development,7 are cleared to grow feed for livestock or grazing land for livestock
3.The livestock population in the US create 140 times the excrement as the human population of the US
4.Food for a vegan for 1 year can be produced on only 1/6 of an acre of land, while it takes 3 1/4 acres of land to produce food for a meat-eater for one year.

Health
1.“It is the position of the American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada that appropriately planned vegetarian diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate and provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases.”

“Well-planned vegan and other types of vegetarian diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including during pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood and adolescence. Vegetarian diets offer a number of nutritional benefits, including lower levels of saturated fat, cholesterol, and animal protein as well as higher levels of carbohydrates, fiber, magnesium, potassium, folate, and antioxidants such as vitamins C and E and phytochemicals. Vegetarians have been reported to have lower body mass indices than nonvegetarians, as well as lower rates of death from ischemic heart disease; vegetarians also show lower blood cholesterol levels; lower blood pressure; and lower rates of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and prostate and colon cancer.“

World Hunger
1.Out of the 40 poorest countries,we buy grain from 38 of them to feed to animals so we can have meat
2.We feed more than 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.
3.The world's cattle alone consume a quantity of food equal to the caloric needs of 8.7 billion people—more than the entire human population on Earth.
4.For every 16 pounds of food you put into livestock,you only get one pound back of edible flesh

Worker's Rights
1.The rate of repetitive stress injury for slaughterhouse employees is 35 times higher than it is for those with other manufacturing jobs.
2.The farmed-animal industry has also been condemned for exploiting children—kids in their early teens have even died while working in animal-processing plants, and Multinational Monitor magazine called Tyson Foods one of the world’s “Ten Worst Corporations” because it hires people in the U.S. who are too young to work legally.
3.Kids have even been killed while working in slaughterhouses in the United States—a 15-year-old died, and a 14-year-old was seriously hurt in separate incidents at Tyson’s animal-processing plants. “One teenager died and another suffered serious injuries because this company ignored the law,” the U.S. Labor Department noted. “It was illegal for either one of them to be employed in the kind of work Tyson’s hired them to do.”
4.Immigrant workers are easy prey for the meat industry. After they are brought to the U.S., they’re often so desperate to make money to send to their families back home that they’ll take any job without complaint. If they’re being treated unfairly, they don’t have any choice but to continue working for the farmed-animal industry, and if they become injured and can no longer work, they are often stuck in the U.S. with no job and no money to buy a bus ticket home.

US Beef Isn't Safe(I believe it isn't)
1.France, which has only a fraction of the U.S. cattle population, tests more cattle in a single week then the U.S. has tested in a decade
2.According to Europe's latest annual report, Europe is testing cattle at a rate of almost two thousand times that of the United States
3.Almost all fattening beef cattle, all dairy calves and all adult dairy cows raised conventionally are fed meat and bone meal in the United States
4.Under the 1997 feed regulations, the FDA specifically allowed the feeding of chicken litter to cattle to continue, even if the chickens had just been fed meat and bone meal made from cattle remains
5.The U.S. also is presently testing only 1 out of every 18,000 cows slaughtered
6.In fact, the USDA, which now tests only 1 percent of all slaughtered cows
7.The USDA is run by several lobbyists,Alisa Harrison,who is now spokesperson of the USDA,was the spokesperson for the National Cattleman’s Beef Association for 15 years,how can an industry meant to protect you be run by the industry they are supposed to protect you from?

Watch(not a peta video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghxknys7r...

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See the issues involved with eating meat
http://goveg.com/theissues.asp

Answer 2

Better how? I think questions like this just perpetuate the notion that vegetarians and non vegetarians are competing with each other some how.

I never looked at another person and said to myself, well that person is eating meat for dinner he must be a bad person, or a lesser individual that a vegetarian. And vice versa.

What makes one person better than another? Well, that is someones opinion I guess. IMO diet is not apart of the criteria for one person being better than another.

Answer 3

Of course vegetarianism is a better choice than eating meat. Veganism even better. ;) It is better for animals, ourselves, and the enviroment.

I find that vegans and vegetarians are usually more openminded, healthier, more compassionate and generally more aware of what is happing in the world, than meat eaters whose taste buds will justify any evil done to animals and our nature.

"Because it tastes good" seems to be their favourite excuse, closely followed by "but humans ALWAYS ate meat". After hearing many silly comments like that, my conclusion is that meat makes people stupid.

Answer 4

"Lets see. If you like having yellowish pale skin, always tired, and looking sick all the time ,than being a vegetarian will suit you " ==========quite the contrary.it has been proven that a vegetarian diet is the healthiest+ personally,i feel better in the knowledge that i'm not filling myself with corpses.

think about this:the main reason we people eat meat is because it's tasty right? so merely to satisfy our tastebuds,is it right to KILL another living being?

Answer 5

There are some good people who eat meat, and there are some bad people who are vegetarian. It works both ways- your diet doesn't really make you a bad person.. (But from a karma perspective eating meat is effectively paying for slaughtering animals- and the butcher/farmer will get bad karma for killing it).

Answer 6

Hmmm. You asked "Who". So I will assume you mean the person and not the diet.
A vegetarian is better at opening your mind to new ideas.
A non vegetarian can tell better jokes.
I like the company of both.

Answer 7

I think a vegatarian is better (even though i'm an omnivore) because you are not eating any killed animal. I have to confess that I love meat and I cannot stop eating it and my parents wont allow me to become vegatarian but I still say vegatarian is better

Answer 8

Well, let's see...you could be a fish head, a bull head, an egghead or a cabbage head...depending on what you eat. The diet of an individual does not make you better or worse than someone else. Since everything we eat has been or was capable of being alive at one time we cannot determine better or worse based on diet.

Answer 9

Better at what.

Answer 10

Better at what?