Why eat meat?!
Why eat meat?
why? we evolved from vegetarian animals, meat causes cancers and diseases and is very difficult for our body to digest. why eat it? SoVeg.com
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We don't eat it, this is the vegetarian section.
Why not just plant yourself in the ground, and be a vegetable, you leaf consuming fruitjob?
Probably because it has proteins and fats and hwatnot. Also because most people prefer the taste of meat over just veggies.
because we can.
Because we get protein and if there were no meat then some animals wouldn't survive.
You're right,there isn't really a reason to eat meat...
Why be a vegetarian?
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
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?
Because I want to, what other reason do I need? It's good for me, gives me stuff i need, and i enjoy it.
Why don't you eat meat? You don't want to. Fair enough, so stop having a go at people with different attitudes than yourself.
Not necessarily, we may have a common ancestor who was a vegetarian, but it is important to consider that we divided from there to a subgroup, homo sapiens sapiens. The reason for this, was that at some point we were able to adapt when there may have been a change in the environment where vegies and fruits weren't available, so we turned to meat to survive.
Meat is not harmful, but an essential as long as you eat it right, of course it's hamrful to eat meats at Mcdonalds, cause they cook it with unhealthy fats. Meat is high in protein and lipids to help us in Metabolic processes in our body, that is why when becoming a complete Vegan, one has to be very careful to still have a diet high in fats and proteins.
Therefore, one can survive without meat, but that does not mean one lives on a healthier diet!!!
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cause there's nothing like the taste and feeling of well seasoned meat gnawed between the teeth!
i think its great that your a veggie but dont try and make me feel bad about eating meat let me guess are u between 15-20 female and highly opinionated but lack all the correct info on becoming a vegitarian, when i was your age i kenw 3 girls who became very ill because they just stopped eating meat and didnt go about vegitarinism in the right way, meat gives us many necessary protiens and minerals and without these you can become ill. I do agree that eating stuff like mcdonalds is not good 4 u and that most people in general do eat to much meat, but eating meat a few tims a week wont cause cancer in the average person. hope i wasnt 2 rude