Do you believe being a vegetarian or vegen helps the world? Why?!
Do you believe being a vegetarian or vegen helps the world? Why?
Answers:
if enough people were vegatarians, then yes it would. But for right now, people are too close minded and selfish to make that sacrifice, so being vegitarian is a personal improvment for me. It lets me know im not contributing to the horrors and crimes comitted it the meat industry.
It lessens animal cruelty and saves money on some medical expenses, such as when a meat eater gets their heart disease and high cholesterol, being a vegetarian is a far healthier diet and helps reduce the risk of many diseases created and/or worsened by eating meat.
No, I don't believe vegetarians are gonna save the world. They're just biological chauvinists when you come right down to it. Just because you're killing a lower form of life doesn't make you any less of a murderer if you look at things in a truly objective manner. Besides, lest we forget, Hitler was a vegetarian. So much for vegetarians being more humane that the rest of us!
yes,,,,more meat for me
everytime you go farther down in the food chain you lose 1/10 of energy
so you can feed 10x more people with plants than with meat
No.
I love vegetarians and vegans to death, but nothing is going to stop those freaks from killing animals/things that come from animals to eat...unless we all want to drink water and eat air :D
I mean, half the food we eat has been dead so yeah you might as well eat it....
Not really---why would it?
I know the vegans like to argue about methane from animals---but WE produce it too, and even MORE so when eating things like beans & broccoli----so that argument becomes null.
Animal by-products are beneficial in many ways, too----for fertilizers, pet foods, clothing and shoes, among others.
Plant matter makes decent fertilizer, but manure is MUCH better.
Face it--God gave us the animals to eat after Noah's flood---and I for one will not refuse his gifts.
I don't neccessarly think so ... People will make claims to it being healthier, but some of the most unhealthy American food is French Fries, so that's not the case. In regaurds to animal cruelty, I would aggree that mass food production for American society may and can be cruel to animals, but these animals only exsist for that purpose. Does anyone think of the long term needs of raising all these animals if we should just open the barn door?
I think an important thing that vegetarian and vegan lifestyles can teach is community, with the usage of local produce, ecology, with the maintaining of the produce, and self suffiency if you grow your own food. But I don't think we will benefit from teaching native people of various parts of the world to become vegetarian or vegan where they have never been before.
I think it can be an important choice for someone ... but It's not everyone's choice.
There are benefits and downsides to it.
I don't think that a single person begin vegetarian or vegan helps the "world" necessarily. I guess people do it because it makes them feel like they are making a difference, but the meat-eaters of the world will always outweigh the nonmeat-eaters. Therefore, to stop eating meat in order to "save the animals" is kind of dumb.
However, it is a great lifestyle. It is healthier, if done right, and definitely has its ups! I'm not a vegetarian, but could be easily as I don't care for much meat. If I ever decided to do it, it would be for the health reasons.
Vegetarians raise awareness for animal cruelty, true. I guess that helps the world. But, as long as there are people who buy the meat, the meat-packers won't stop doing what they are doing.
First off, Hitler was not a vegetarian.
Second, yes being vegetarian does help the world. One vegetarian may not do a lot, but at least we are doing something.
We help end animal cruelty, and save water (less needed for animals), and have less deforestation.
Of course. Change beings with one person. If no one stood up for what was right, there would be no fairness, good, or right in the world.
the amount of land each cow needs is far more than a crop of vegetables, feeding the same amount of people. dont buy it? the amount of land for cows doubles once you take into account the how much space we use for alfalfa they eat, cows dont live off of the grass in their pastures. i dont mean to sound like a hippy but rain forests are being torn down to make room for these cows. another thing is, meat goes through much more processing than non meat products, thus worse for the environment. im a vegetarian and im not going to argue that it is more or less healthy for the body, but the world, absolutely.
Yes. First of all, there have been thousands of acres of virgin forests which were cut down and burnt in South America, just so the McDonald's Corporation could raise cattle to supply their chain of stores in South America with fresh beef. After they cut down all those trees, back in the 1980's, they learned that the land did not support grazing animals as well as they had believed. Twenty times as much land was required for each head of cattle, in the areas where the rain forests were cut, slashed and burned, compared to those ranches in the US where cattle had traditionally been raised in the US.
There was a massive boycot of McDonalds stores in the US, and eventually they stopped the practice of clear cutting and slashing and burning the virgin rain forests. The trees which were cut down no longer contribute to the oxygenation of the earth's atmosphere. That is one point to consider.
If you read the book, Diet For A New America, by John Robbins, you will gain a great deal of insight into what the meat-centered diet does to our planet.
It has even been said that violence against women in third world nations is connected to the practice of raising animals for eating their meat.
Some more pieces of information off the top of my head which are based on what is in the book I mentioned by John Robbins: It takes over 2000 gallons of water * to raise one pound of beef. The number of pounds of grain used to grow one pound of beef could be used to make enough bread to feed a family for a few days. (* See EarthSave.org)
John mentions that there are six areas around the world where Native Indigenous Peoples have lived untainted by "Progress" and "Technology" for untold generations, and they are all nearly 100% Vegetarians. A few of these groups consume around 10% animal protein in their diets. They do eat some fish, in some cases, or chicken, and butter and milk, but no beef is eaten by any of those six groups. They do not have the diseases that are found in the "Westernized" world. They live well into their 100"s and actively contribute to their cultures and societies, and are not tossed aside into Nursing Homes or Hospitals. That helps the world in some ways.
There are many reasons why someone might go on a Vegetarian diet or on a Vegan diet.
Ethical reasons, such as recognizing the fact that the animals used to make human foods have feelings, are conscious as we are, they can think as we think, they can dream and can love, just like humans can.
Health reasons, such as recognizing the fact that there have been no Vegetarians who have been on that kind of diet for a couple of years or more who ever get any form of cancer or any kind of Blood disease.
Economic reasons, such as recognizing the fact that the costs of whole grains, fruits, nuts and vegetables and un-processed foods from the local Market cost much less than "convenience foods" and processed foods and meats.
Unlike Vegetarians, people who are on meat-centered diets who eat the "traditional" diet found in the US (40% or more of animal protein at every meal) are simply "asking for trouble".
The cause of Osteoporosis is a high protein diet, because the calcium is leached out of one's body due to the presence of excess protein that causes a condition of hyperacidosis and ketoneuria, which helps burn the fat off through some kind of chemical reaction inside the body, as Dr Atkins found, but also causes many kinds of diseases. People on the high protein "Atkins diet", who chose to ignore the requirement to be on a stringent regimen of high doses of multi-vitamins and minerals, have died in six months after starting that diet.
There are literally BILLIONS of dollars spent every year in the US on Medical costs associated with the meat-centered diet. Those costs include such medical conditions as colon cancer, Osteoporosis, Arterioschlorosis, High Blood Pressure, and many others, all of which are preventable.
As far as the world itself, when people are living on a Vegetarian diet, or better yet, on a Vegan diet, there are fewer natural resources which are spent just to raise animals that are made into human and animal foods.
In the giant Agri-Businesses that are in the US, which are described in the book by John Robbins, there are pigs and calves and chickens, and of course cattle who only know a life of suffering, before their life is ended.
The hundreds of millions of animals that are slaughtered every year would not be needlessly suffering and the ranchers would not be breeding such high numbers of animals, if more people were Vegetarians.
The natural resources consumed so these animals may be raised would remain untouched, or they would be used to help eliminate world hunger and world poverty.
World Poverty could simply be erased from the planet earth if enough people became compassionate enough to choose the lifestyle which places a value on Life first, above the belief that anybody has a right to consume anything they want as much as they like, regardless of the consequences.
Vegetarians typically have a higher regard for Life, and for recycling, and for returning back to the earth materials that contribute to the healing of the planet we all live on and share. Not all Vegetarians have chosen the diet or the lifestyle for "ethical reasons".
vegetarian=healthy
healthy people=healthy workers
healthy workers=better economy
Isnt that what we need?
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...
Source(s)
See the issues involved with eating meat
http://goveg.com/theissues.asp
yes it helps pervent pollution and makes more meat for the carny's
Behold my research report for school!:
Veganism and its Positive Benefits:
I used to have a chicken. Her name was Abigail, she was beautiful, smart, and she loved to cuddle and play in the sand. I loved that chicken like you would love your cat or dog. Have you ever had a dog or a loved pet pass away? Well, then you know how I felt when I woke up to find my Abby out of her coop one morning, another animals tracks leading from her completely mutilated body into the forest. Two ideas flash through my mind every time I see a piece of meat being served, that the animal someone is eating was intelligent, loving, and enjoyed living just like Abigail. Its entire life was completely destroyed for one person’s enjoyment at just one single meal. A lot of people think it’s unhealthy to not have animal protein, and that animal’s death was quick and painless. Some think that animals are inferior to them and were put on this planet for us to consume. In most cases, all of what was just listed is completely wrong. Veganism is the most beneficial lifestyle choice to go with for ourselves, natures, and our animal’s sake.
There are many types of Vegetarianism. First there is Lacto-Ovo vegetarians whom only stray from consuming actual meat and still eat dairy, eggs, and animal byproducts; Second, Lacto Vegetarians whom are Lacto-Ovo but do not consume eggs; Finally, Ovo vegetarians whom are Lacto-Ovo but consume dairy; and the extreme vegetarian, the Vegan. According to the PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) Vegetarian Starter Kit’s article ‘Eating for Life’, Veganism is the act of not consuming, buying, or using any animal derived substance including meat, dairy, eggs, honey, beeswax, fur, wool, ect. (4). There are also fruitarians, whom are vegan and do not consume any vegetables that kills the plant when retrieved.
Veganism’s earliest recording was in the sixth century by Greek philosopher Pythagoras (according to the Encyclopedia Americana 2005) and was continued by many other philosophers well into the fifth century (934). It follows that during the rein of the Roman Empire, meat was thought of as a “cruel and costly luxury”. Since then, many other historical figures with great intelligence levels, such as Albert Einstein and Ben Franklin, have been abstaining from the consumption of animal derived products.
The article ‘Eating for Life’, also informs us on how our bodies are affected by animal products in. Consuming meat, dairy, and eggs can lead to higher risks of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, stroke, and clogged arteries (5). Because of all of these health concerns associated with eating meat, vegetarians live 6-10 years longer than meat consumers on average (4). Milk and dairy itself are completely foreign to the human body. The only milk healthy to consume is breast milk, and this is only at infancy. This is why some people are lactose intolerant; their body tries to fight off the “invading substance” which causes them to get sick. Humans are the only animals that drink milk from a different mother (or species for that matter) and the only ones to drink milk past infancy. In conclusion, milk is for baby cows, and they gain almost 1000 pounds off of it before their second birthday (5).
Going vegan is helpful for the environment also. Land is needed to raise animals, and land to grow the crops that they eat. For example, according to PETA’s article ‘How does Eating Meat Harm the Planet?’, more than two hundred and sixty million acres of United States forest have been completely wiped out to crops to feed slaughterhouse animals. In addition, 70% of our corn, wheat, and other grains, are given to animals that could be roaming free finding their own food provided for them by the environment (9). Keep in mind that this is ONLY for animal’s food, this land and nourishment could be used to feed all of the starving people around the world! To put it more simply, 55 square feet of rainforest is cut down just for one quarter pound burger (9)!
If this is how much slaughterhouse animals eat, think of how much they drink. Nearly half of America’s consumed water is given to animals raised for food. (9) A vegetarian uses about three hundred gallons of water a day for food, while meat eaters use an average of four thousand. This is almost fourteen times more! Overall, if everyone were vegan, think of how much land and water we would save.
Now that the effects that concern us are explained, think of what all of those depressingly helpless animals must go through. As if follows, most people think “Consuming meat is a way of life, they were put on this planet for us to eat”. But they aren’t, and they are not treated humanely either. For instance, chickens were put here to enjoy the outdoors, taking dust baths, and to love life like us! According to PETA’s article ‘Meet your Meat’ in reality chickens never see the light of day until they go to the slaughterhouse on a truck; until then they are kept in miserable warehouses. In addition, most poultry are crippled from carrying the weight of their genetically manipulated and drugged bodies (8). As for the young, when chicks are just born, the females’ beaks are chopped off with a hot axe to prevent pecking when sent to warehouses. Most male chicks are tossed into the garbage or ground up (still fully conscious) into fertilizer (8).
Pigs on the other hand are thought of to be stupid and dirty. In real life they are extremely intelligent creatures that are very neat and tidy, except when cooling off in the mud. How do we treat them though? We take piglets from their mothers when less than one month old and rip out their tails and teeth to prevent complications at the slaughterhouse (9). In a familiar case, cows love to munch grass and care for their young; more than forty one million of these sweet, loving animals suffer for meat and airy industries per year (6). Each of these cows only has about 20 square feet of living space; this is like trying to fit twelve full size cows in one bedroom (6)! This isn’t as bad a calf’s used for veal; they are taken from their mother and kept in stalls were they can’t even turn around, and fed a diet low in iron, all just to keep the meat tender and pink. Other cows used for things like ground beef and sirloin are sometimes fully conscious when hung by ankles and skinned.
In essence, Veganism is obviously the most beneficial lifestyle choice for us, natures, and animal’s sake .So why do we torture animals only to get negative health and environmental benefits? We do because of modernized, fast food oriented, obese American culture. Most countries will refuse to eat American slaughtered meat because of the preservatives we pump animals with and how inhumanely we treat them. On the contrary, if all of America stopped eating meat, we would save so much water, land, and lives, including our own. Ultimately, converting to a Vegan lifestyle is the best thing you can do to make a difference in the world, for you, and for animals.
No, it just doesn't harm the world like an omnivorous (including "lacto-ovo vegetarian) lifestyle does. Just because you don't commit bad/harmful acts that you used to commit does not mean you are "helping" anything; you just aren't harming anymore.
Yes I really believe in that because non-veg will effect kidneys and lungs of the people who have them and that oil will be accumulated in the body which will many effects such as stomach pain,lever cancer and many more...But I feel veg is ery good and very few effects are there in veg items and it will keep our parts of our body healthy and clean...And also all the countries doctors are advising to have veg and not non-veg...
yes! its much better for the environment.... over-fishing of the seas is a huge problem now. every person that abstains from fish and meat is helping our natural ecosystem.
if youre not part of the solution, youre part of the problem
because vegetarianism has to start somewhere and with less consumers comes less producers. Duh..
Good for animals,and environment.If everyone were vegetarian,or vegan we could feed all of the starving peole,with the grain we feed the cows.Also,we wouldn't have so much global warming because of the slaughter houses.
Yes it lessens animal cruelty and all in between but okay I'm vegetarian you're vegetarian where all vegetarians but there are still 64% of the world today that are still eating meat. We're only trying to prevent it but they still kill them while we are trying to help them. We can't protest against it. Vegetarians and vegans are 37% today and most of them are film stars.
It dosen't help it but it lessens the people eating meat for a good cause. And I do believe that being vegetarian helps most animals. And all it takes is most of them.
YES BUT U STILL NEED EAT MEAT GIRL, MAN MEAT OFCOURSE!