Why shouldn't I be a Vegetarian?!
Why shouldn't I be a Vegetarian?
My sister and I recently viewed an informational video full of propaganda. The video was based on slaughter houses and why we should be vegetarians. The hard headed meat lover that I am, I need a reason why I shouldn't be a Veggie head.
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There isn't really a justifiable reason to eat meat.We can survive perfectly fine without meat,and most of actually feel better as vegetarians.I know I do,and 95% of athletes put on veg diets said they feel better as a 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
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@ he had a dream
There aren't any essential nutrients found in meats that you can't get from vegetables.There are vegetarian sources of fats found in plants,healthy fats come from plants,not animals(olive oil,flaxoil,etc).Every year in the U.S., there are 75 million cases of food poisoning, and 5,000 of these cases are fatal.The USDA reports that 70 percent of food poisoning is caused by contaminated animal flesh,not vegetables.A vegan diet didn't kill that baby,starving it and the idiocracy of the parents did.
have no idea
Meat is delicious!
If you become a vegetarian will it change the treatment of animals? If you are truly concerned with the treatment of animals in slaughter houses then only buy organic meat the comes from farms you know don't partake in inhumane slaughtering practices.
Umm duh! Because meat is ohhhhh so good! You'd be missing out on the burgers, pizza, burritos, sandwiches, etc, etc, etc! If you think about it there are a ton of foods that would be nothing without the meat. Plus it's hard to get protein without some sort of meat in your diet. I guess you could always eat loads of peanut butter...
i agree with the person who said that you shoiuld eat organic meat. but if you feel like eating makes you feel bad then try going vegetarian. see if you can go without meat. it will be hard at first but if you believe that killing animals to eat them is wrong, then stand up for what you believe in. i support you all the way. :)
If you're looking for permission, okay go ahead, you have mine.
Being a vegetarian should be based on choice, not on psychological manipulation. Yes there are some less than gentle practices such as the production of veal, or foie gras, but that should NOT turn you off animal protein. On the other hand, there are some delightful Mediterranean dishes that don't have meat but are still quite good. Flip through an Italian or Greek cookbook if you're curious, but PLEASE don't give up on us Chateau Bearand types either!
bcz there are vitamins and minerals that u can only find in meat and fish. if u really care about the animals, then become an activist u not eatin meat doesnt help anyone
Picture this if you will...
A cow is on its way to die, there is nothing you can do to save it, it's life is sadly over... There is no changing it...
Why? Because humans eat meat, that's it... we need it to survive, we need it to keep us healthy...
Don't stop eating meat because you seen a "Propaganda" video, that video is just that, propaganda...
If you don't like how the animals we eat to LIVE are being treated then write your elected officials, for more humane methods of slaughter...
But becoming a Vegetarian is a probably the most useless thing you can do to encourage humane slaughtering.
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Consider that the human digestive tract cannot digest vegetable matter nearly as well as meat and dairy products and that our teeth are designed for eating both vegetable matter AND meat. It is not healthy to eat only vegetables, nor is it healthy to eat only meat. As our biology suggests, humans need a diet that is a mix of different types of food.
Keep in mind that many Vegan/Vegetarian choices in food contain a large quantity of soy. Aside from the fact that some people are allergic to soy (me included), many health risks are attributed to a diet to rich in soy.
All things in moderation...
..thats a silly question. why don't you just suffer a tiny bit and save a lot of animals the suffering of being killed (perhaps it wont help this second, but every time you refuse to buy/eat meat the industry gets one less supporter.) plus, it really is a much better lifestyle for the environment. obviously you don't need to change the way you eat, i was just trying to give you a different way to look at it.
if your up for it, go to youtube and type in earthlings. its another animal cruelty video that covers food, puppy mills/cateries/pet stores, testing, circuses and one more thing but i dont remember! :) have a good day regardless of the choice you make.
If you believe that you should become veggie, then do so. If you don't believe in it but just "think" you should because it's the right thing, then don't become veggie. You should be doing it for your own reasons...whether they are health reasons or animal rights reasons. Only you can decide if it's right for you! There is plenty of info on the net, do a bit of research and don't let anyone else push you into a decision!
As a vegetarian I can only give you reasons as to why you should become one. Contrary to ignorant people's beliefs there are many forms of non-dead animal proteins-tofu,legumes, peanut butter, tvp(texturized vegetable protein). Products like Boca, and Morningstar Farms are great meat alternatives. You kind find veggie burgers, veggie hot dogs, sausages, breakfast patties, "chicken" nuggets and patties, "steak"strips. And if you decide to continue consuming flesh buying only organic is a good idea. But remember that when you drink milk and eat dairy products those cows are kept pregnant so that they will produce milk that is taken away from them as are their babies.
I think that this should be your choice and if you believe that eating meat is wrong then don't eat it
The only reason not to be vegetarian is if it is affecting your health but other wise it is a matter of personal choice
You shouldn’t go vegetarian, you should go vegan.
If you want real answers got to factoryfarming.com.
Because you might turn in to a lettuce-head haha j/k
You live once, enjoy your food whether it be meat
or vegetable. Could you really live the rest of your life without ever having meat again???? Wow that would be tough.
Regarding the slaughter houses- how else could they kill the cow? Unless we go back to hunting our own food, how else can we get it on our dinner plate
You shouldn't be a veggie head because:
you want high cholesterol levels, high blood pressure, among other diseases on a meat-based diet,
you want animals to suffer while you enjoy ur meal,
you want to help in raising the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and pollute the environment more,
you want to see the skinny children in Africa die from lack of food.