Why is eating meat bad for you?!
There is no longer any doubt about the fact that eating meat is bad for your health. The list of diseases known to be associated with meat, which are commoner among meat eaters, looks like the index of a medical textbook. Anaemia, appendicitis, arthritis, breast cancer, cancer of the colon, cancer of the prostate, constipation, diabetes, gall stones, gout, high blood pressure, indigestion, obesity, piles, strokes and varicose veins are just some of the well known disorders which are more likely to affect meat eaters than vegetarians. Avoiding meat is one of the best and simplest ways to cut down your fat consumption.
On June 6, 2007 World Bank workshop on livestock's "long shadow" brought together a diverse crowd. In addition to Bank staff, U.N. representatives, animal welfare activists, and environmental NGOs, Dr. Steve Osofsky from the Wildlife Conservation Society spoke to the group. But why would a conservation organization be interested in livestock? There's probably no place on Earth where livestock are more important to human health, the environment, and people's livelihoods than Africa. And there’s no other continent that has the same level of poverty and public health problems.
Those who still eat meat are, in my view, foolishly exposing themselves to the risk of contracting the horrifying human version of ....
**ANIMAL DISEASES**
Rabies
Anthrax
Bluetongue
Bovine Spongiform Encepalopathy (Mad Cow)
Brucellosis
Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia
Echinococcosis / Hydatidosis
Exotic Myiasis
Foot and Mouth Disease
Heartwater
Leptospirosis
Lumpy Skin Disease
Malignant Catarrhal Fever
Paratuberculosis
Peste des Petits Ruminants
Pseudorabies
Rabies
Rift Valley Fever
Rinderpest
Screwworm
Toxic Substance Contamination
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy ( Examples include, but are not limited to, the following diseases: Feline Spongiform Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Chronic Wasting Disease, Scrapie)
Tuberculosis
Vesicular Stomatitis
West Nile Virus Encephalitis
**AVIAN DISEASES**
Avian Infectious Bronchitis
Avian Infectious Laryngotracheitis
Avian Influenza (Avian/ Bird Flu)
Avian Tuberculosis
Chlamydiosis (pet birds)
Chlamydiosis (poultry)
Duck Virus Enteritis
Duck Virus Hepatitis
Equine Encephalomyelitis
Exotic Newcastle Disease
Fowl Cholera
Fowl Pox
Fowl Typhoid
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
Infectious Avian Encephalomyelitis
Infectious Bursal Disease
Marek's Disease
Mycoplasma gallisepticum
Newcastle Disease
Paramyxovirus
Pullorum Disease
Salmonella enteritidis enteritidis
Vulvovaginitis
Listeriosis
**DOMESTIC ANIMAL-ONLY DISEASES**
ringworm
vitamin deficiences
kidney disease
dental problems and overgrown teeth
fractured bones
hairballs
genital infections
hairballs
eye problems
septicemia(blood poisoning)
ear infections and mites
pneumonia
heart problems
abscesses
bladder stones
cystic ovaries
kidney stones
diabetes
cancer
leptosperosis
Add to those hazards the fact that if you eat meat you may be consuming hormones, drugs and other chemicals that have been fed to the animals before they were killed and you can see the extent of the danger. No one knows precisely what effect eating the hormones in meat is likely to have on your health. But the risk is there and I think it's a big one. Some farmers use tranquillisers to keep animals calm. Others routinely use antibiotics so that their animals do not develop infections. When you eat meat you are, inevitably, eating those drugs. In America, over half of all antibiotics are fed to animals and I don't think it is any coincidence that the percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin went up from 13% in 1960 to 91% in 1988.
Answers: Not really. Meat isn’t bad, but CRAZY bad for you and DAMN bad to the world. If you took all the food farmers use to make their cows to fatten our body, it would feed over 10 million starving people, over 7 million people died on hunger & starvation in 2007.
There is no longer any doubt about the fact that eating meat is bad for your health. The list of diseases known to be associated with meat, which are commoner among meat eaters, looks like the index of a medical textbook. Anaemia, appendicitis, arthritis, breast cancer, cancer of the colon, cancer of the prostate, constipation, diabetes, gall stones, gout, high blood pressure, indigestion, obesity, piles, strokes and varicose veins are just some of the well known disorders which are more likely to affect meat eaters than vegetarians. Avoiding meat is one of the best and simplest ways to cut down your fat consumption.
On June 6, 2007 World Bank workshop on livestock's "long shadow" brought together a diverse crowd. In addition to Bank staff, U.N. representatives, animal welfare activists, and environmental NGOs, Dr. Steve Osofsky from the Wildlife Conservation Society spoke to the group. But why would a conservation organization be interested in livestock? There's probably no place on Earth where livestock are more important to human health, the environment, and people's livelihoods than Africa. And there’s no other continent that has the same level of poverty and public health problems.
Those who still eat meat are, in my view, foolishly exposing themselves to the risk of contracting the horrifying human version of ....
**ANIMAL DISEASES**
Rabies
Anthrax
Bluetongue
Bovine Spongiform Encepalopathy (Mad Cow)
Brucellosis
Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia
Echinococcosis / Hydatidosis
Exotic Myiasis
Foot and Mouth Disease
Heartwater
Leptospirosis
Lumpy Skin Disease
Malignant Catarrhal Fever
Paratuberculosis
Peste des Petits Ruminants
Pseudorabies
Rabies
Rift Valley Fever
Rinderpest
Screwworm
Toxic Substance Contamination
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy ( Examples include, but are not limited to, the following diseases: Feline Spongiform Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Chronic Wasting Disease, Scrapie)
Tuberculosis
Vesicular Stomatitis
West Nile Virus Encephalitis
**AVIAN DISEASES**
Avian Infectious Bronchitis
Avian Infectious Laryngotracheitis
Avian Influenza (Avian/ Bird Flu)
Avian Tuberculosis
Chlamydiosis (pet birds)
Chlamydiosis (poultry)
Duck Virus Enteritis
Duck Virus Hepatitis
Equine Encephalomyelitis
Exotic Newcastle Disease
Fowl Cholera
Fowl Pox
Fowl Typhoid
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
Infectious Avian Encephalomyelitis
Infectious Bursal Disease
Marek's Disease
Mycoplasma gallisepticum
Newcastle Disease
Paramyxovirus
Pullorum Disease
Salmonella enteritidis enteritidis
Vulvovaginitis
Listeriosis
**DOMESTIC ANIMAL-ONLY DISEASES**
ringworm
vitamin deficiences
kidney disease
dental problems and overgrown teeth
fractured bones
hairballs
genital infections
hairballs
eye problems
septicemia(blood poisoning)
ear infections and mites
pneumonia
heart problems
abscesses
bladder stones
cystic ovaries
kidney stones
diabetes
cancer
leptosperosis
Add to those hazards the fact that if you eat meat you may be consuming hormones, drugs and other chemicals that have been fed to the animals before they were killed and you can see the extent of the danger. No one knows precisely what effect eating the hormones in meat is likely to have on your health. But the risk is there and I think it's a big one. Some farmers use tranquillisers to keep animals calm. Others routinely use antibiotics so that their animals do not develop infections. When you eat meat you are, inevitably, eating those drugs. In America, over half of all antibiotics are fed to animals and I don't think it is any coincidence that the percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin went up from 13% in 1960 to 91% in 1988.
don't think it is I eat it every night
dnt know
technically its not but most people eat to much meat and that is unhealthy you know to much of a good thing
I think it's fine, as long as you eat a balanced diet. Everything in moderation.
I don't think it is i eat meat practically every chance i get! I love Meat.
Because of the hormones that they pump into the animals to get them fat and grow.
its not as long as you eat it in moderation.
its not eat it everyday
It is not, why do you think it is?
I don't think it is.
But some people think its bad because meat contains a lot of bacteria from animals and they think that it is just unhealthy.
It isnt in moderation.
Eating meat day after day builds up to many of the bad cholesterols.
Growth hormones are BANNED within the uk.
Organic meats are far safer to eat than your substandard intensively farmed supermarket rubbish.
clogs up ur arteries, its best to eat red meat as part of a healthy diet. Although its best not to eat it every day. im a vegetarian, so i think that killing the animal is the wrong part, although i do think that animal testing for science is ok if less animals are used and its a last resort, this is only because ive seen people with cancer. i do think that for cosmetics its cruel and should immediatley stop.
Wow, you actually buy into that veggie-loving bullcrap? The same people who shove why eating meat is "cruel" like how christians try to convert everyone who isn't with them?
Like everything in life, you just have to take it in moderation.
SOME meats are too high in bad cholesterol.
Are you serious? You are eating part of the dead body of an animal. There are diseases that could arise from the animal (so therefore their dead flesh). As well you can get diseases and health problems from eating meat, such as cancers (meat is carcinogenic), obesity, Alzheimer's, high cholesterol, heart diseases, impotence (for men), hypertension, anemia, arthritis, etc. Of course you can get these diseases without eating meat, but the chances are 0.72 compared to meat eaters. And with all the blood, feces, urine, hormones, & mucous/pus that comes with it from the animal, cant imagine that be any good for you! And fish meat can contain high amounts of mercury which is bad for you.
Also read The China Study for more information.
It is definitely a good thing to eat less meat, or not eat meat at all. Sure meat may have protein (human meat even does), etc, but you can get protein & other nutrients in non-animal sources, and plant sources are easier to digest.
Not to mention what meat production and consumption does to the animals, environment, & world hunger. But, that's another story!
no, but too much of anything is bad for you
Too much of anything is bad for you.
if you eat w/ a balanced diet then it's very good for you. if you eat too much it leads to cholesterol and (extremely slight) bigger risk of cancer, don't worry it only makes it like 3.73%