What is the benefit, if at all there is any in becoming a vegatarian?!
Answers: Besides saving animal from cruelty, what other benefit(s) exist?
Better health, losing weight, less odds of cancer.
There is a lot of evidence to suggest various health benefits, but no hard proof.
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Long life and well being are said to come from a vegetable diet. If you crave other foods all the time, it would undermine the benefit.
1. Better health. The average adult has 5-20 lbs. of undigested beef in his/her colon. Fruits and vegetables don't have near the fat that meats do.
2. More attractive. As archaic as it sounds, some people go veetarian or vegan simply to clear the skin and lose weight.
3. Environmentally friendly. The cleaning of factory farmed animals' wastes (cattle barns, chicken coops, etc...) puts more methane gas ( the stuff depleting the ozone) into the water and air. A guest on CNN remarked that we could all drive Hummers if we could just quit dirty meat.
There are many benefits to becoming vegetarian, but these are a few I like to throw out when I find myself DEFENDING my choices
Well, you can hang out here, say his forum is "yours" and whine why non-vegetarians have the audacity to post. According to some vegetarians, you can laugh and "dance with joy" as one put it if another human being dies but that would be okay as long as you don't harm animals.
You can also now brag about your superior diet and ridicule those that don't share your ideas because they are not messianic as you are and call them names
You can look down at your own parents, brothers and sisters and other relatives and call them unsupportive if they disagree with you. Never mind that if you're underage. You know better overnight as soon as you become one
You can now make demands for special treatment in school and ask more vegetarian choices even if most of the other kids are not
You can block and thumb down and report other users who don't share your ideas even if they do make sense and call them "trolls"
There is supposedly a secret decoder ring and a secret handshake but I am not sure...I think you have to join PETA for those
Veggies will tell you that they will live longer than meat eaters. What they fail to mention is that the extra years you live you will be living in a retirement home unable to make it to the toilet in time. While us meat eaters are resting happily in our graves, not sh*tting ourselves every two minutes.
Everyone has to die. I think so long as you get to about your 70s you can consider yourself as having had a good innings and you're pretty much on bonus time after that.
Good health.
I know have never seen an obese vegan or vegetarian. Have you seen a fat person who doesn't eat meats or junk food?
And no, I am not vegetarian myself. I do eat small amounts of fish and meat quite regularly. I do have vegetarian friends, however.
I would expect that giving up meat and dairy for a few months would be beneficial for most of us. Weight loss, clearer skin etc.
well a longer and healthier life seems like a pretty good start for me, not to mension all the money iv saved.
more energy...lose weight...ur sh!t dont stink.
Do we really need more reason than saving animals from cruelty? If someone told you that you could save someone from a life of pain, degradation, and torture, ultimately ending in slaughter, wouldn't you want to help? Especially if they told you that all you had to do was stop eating meat for a week, and you would save their life? Of course, so why is it any different because it's other animals and not humans being tortured and slaughtered by the millions?
Ending torture should not be only a veg*n ideal. I would like to think that most people are opposed to it, and would like to see pain and suffering stopped.
There are indeed hundreds of other perfectly compelling reasons to remove animal products from our diets, but I only need one.
I personally can't see any. Having done some reading, it appears that humans evolved eating a more carnivorous diet than previously thought. Hunter gatherers average over 50% or their nutrition from animal sources and do/did not have the lifestyle diseases we have today like high blood pressure, etc.
The Inuit diet is traditionally almost entirely meat and fish and uncooked at that. Yet the Inuit don't seem to have had lifestyle diseases until a western "modern" diet was introduced.
When humans started agriculture, we became smaller and weaker. Pre-agriculture remains of humans put the average height at about 5'10" or so. After agriculture, we shrank to about 5'2" or 5'4" due to deficiencies in a mostly plant-based diet.
A vegetarian diet is not natural for humans. If it was, vegetarians and vegans wouldn't need so many supplements to stay healthy. Humans are omnivore - opportunistic eaters who evolved eating meat and supplemented with berries and some starchy tubers.
The majority of the fruits, vegetables and especially grains we consume are the result of 10,000 years of selective breeding and splicing.
That's not to say we shouldn't push for a more natural, less cruel way of growing our food. We should. The cramped unsanitary conditions, bad feed and hormones are unhealthy for both the food animal and the person who eats it. But humans need animal protein in one form or another. It is our nature and we have to accept that.
There are no proven benefits from being a vegetarian. I agree with Mike...
and to gedanate....i know a few obese vegetarians, one who has been one for more than 20 years, and she is a big girl!
Just becoming a vegetarian doesn't have any health benefits. It's the diet you choose once becoming that vegetarian that is the determining factor. Will your diet consist of vege, beans and other all natural nutrient sources or will it be cakes and cookies and chips and processed foods.
Anyone who is saying that being a vegetarian is healthy by default is just plain wrong.
Nothing, whats so good about eating rabbit food all day?
I have a few veggie friends and what they eat bores me just grass and flowers basically.
Eat meat dammit.
And to the answer above
I know one obese veggies and 2 overweight ones.