What are the advantages of not eating meat?!
The real advantages, like your health. Not "saving animals" pls!!
Answers: I've been vegetarian for about a month now. What are the advantages of not eating meat?
The real advantages, like your health. Not "saving animals" pls!!
I've been Vegan for six weeks, feel great! Lost over 30 pounds. I'm convinced now that people can do just fine without animal products. If you do Veganism right, you'll actually get BETTER protein than if you were eating meat. You lose weight, eliminate mucus, lower your cholesterol, get better nutrients, breath better, sleep better. It's really better all-around.
there arent u need meat for nitrogen. Besides why would u not eat meat?
-Lower BMI
-Lower cholesterol level
-Longer average life expectancy
none. meat should be eaten, not avoided, meat was put here for a reason
Not getting sick! my one teacher got sick by almost every different type of meat. He got Hepatitis from shell fish, and he said that jelly stuff in the middle of the bone which is in the middle of ham is actually cancerous and he used to suck on those for the flavor, and much more I can't remember it all. So needless to say he turned vegetarian after all those insanse incidents.
well non but u need proteins that are in the meat for you to have strengh lettuce and other things wont work as a diet!
hi, sorry but there are so many its easier to give you this link
http://vegsoc.org/health/vital2.html
you will have a more hour glass figure because when you eat meat it all goes to your waste
OH My, This website will provide you with lots of information for reasons to go Veg!
There are some vitamins and nutrients in meat that is needed that vegetables can't provide.
But you can just pop vitamin pills all day long.
Hunger
Number of people worldwide who will die as a result of malnutrition this year: 20 million.
Number of people who could be adequately fed using land freed if Americans reduced
their intake of meat by 10%: 100 million.
Percentage of corn grown in the U.S. eaten by livestock: 80.
Percentage of oats grown in the U.S. eaten by livestock: 95.
How frequently a child dies as a result of malnutrition: every 2.3 seconds.
Pounds of potatoes that can be grown on an acre: 40,000.
Pounds of beef produced on an acre: 250.
Percentage of U.S. farmland devoted to beef production: 56.
Pounds of grain and soybeans needed to produce a pound of beef: 16.
Environmental
Primary cause of greenhouse effect: carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels Fossil fuels needed to produce meat-centered diet vs. a meat-free diet: 3 times more . Percentage of U.S. topsoil lost to date: 75. Percentage of U.S. topsoil loss directly related to livestock raising: 85.
Number of acres of U.S. forest cleared for cropland to produce meat-centered diet: 260 million. Area of tropical rainforest consumed in every quarter-pound of rainforest beef: 55 sq. feet. Current rate of species extinction due to destruction of tropical rainforests for meat grazing and other uses: 1,000 per year.
Cancer
Increased risk of breast cancer for women who eat meat daily compared to less than
once a week: 3.8 times. For women who eat eggs daily compared to once a week: 2.8 times. Increased risk of fatal ovarian cancer for women who eat eggs 3 or more times a week vs. less than once a week: 3 times. Increased risk of fatal prostate cancer for men who consume meat, cheese, eggs and milk daily vs. sparingly or not at all: 3.6 times.
Cholesterol
Most common cause of death in the U.S.: heart attack.
How frequently a heart attack kills in the U.S.: every 45 seconds.
Average U.S. man's risk of death from heart attack: 50 percent.
Risk of average U.S. man who eats no meat, dairy or eggs: 4 percent.
Amount you reduce risk if you eliminate meat, dairy and eggs from your diet: 90 percent
Average cholesterol level of people eating meat-centered-diet: 210 mg/dl.
Chance of dying from heart disease if you are male and your blood cholesterol level is
210 mg/dl: greater than 50 percent.
Natural Resources
User of more than half of all water used for all purposes in the U.S.: livestock production.
Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of wheat: 25.
Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of California beef: 5,000.
Years the world's known oil reserves would last if every human ate a meat-centered diet:13.
Years they would last if human beings no longer ate meat: 260.
Calories of fossil fuel expended to get 1 calory of protein from beef: 78.
To get 1 calory of protein from soybeans: 2.
Antibiotic
Ingredients: Any one of our instant noodles, fresh vegetables (if you don't have fresh
veggies handy, then our Just Corn and Just Veggies are just as good), Roasted Seaweed (optional), Wei-I Best Grade Laver Ro Su (bacon bits) (optional) and any of our frozen gourmet.
Percentage of U.S. antibiotics fed to livestock: 55.
Percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin in 1960: 13.
Percentage resistant in 1988: 91.
Response of European Economic Community to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock: ban.
Response of U.S. meat and pharmaceutical industries to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock: full and complete support.
Pesticide
Fewer than 1 out of every 250,000 slaughtered animals is tested for toxic chemical
residues.
Percentage of U.S. mother's milk containing significant levels of DDT: 99.
Percentage of U.S. vegetarian mother's milk containing significant levels of DDT: 8.
Contamination of breast milk, due to chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides in animal
products, found in meat-eating mothers vs. non-meat eating mothers: 35 times higher.
Ethics
Number of animals killed for meat per hour in the U.S.: 660,000.
Occupation with the highest turnover rate in U.S.: slaughterhouse worker.
Occupation with the highest rate of on-the-job-injury in U.S.: slaughterhouse worker.
Spiritual Consciousness
Food is the source of the body's hemistry, and what we ingest affects our consciousness, emotions and experiential pattern. If we want to live in higher consciousness, in peace and happiness and love for all creatures, then we should
consider not eating meat, fish, shellfish, fowl or eggs.
Karmic Consequences
Major religions around the world such as Buddhism or Hinduism teach that all of our actions including our choice of food have karmic consequences. By involving oneself in the cycle of inflicting injury, pain and death, even indirectly by eating other creatures, one must in the future experience in equal measure the suffering caused.
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Vegetarian quotes:
Animals are not food. ?People at VegeCyber.
May all that have life be delivered from suffering. -- Buddha.
For hundreds of thousands of years the stew in the pot has brewed hatred and resentment that is difficult to stop. If you wish to know why there are disasters of armies and weapons in the world, just listen to the piteous cries from the slaughterhouse in the midnight. Poem by a Chinese monk.
What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ... The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? --Jeremy Bentham.
Animals are my friends--and I don't eat my friends. -- George Bernard Shaw.
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.
We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals knowing we're not contributing to their pain. -- Paul and Linda McCartney.
Thou shall not kill. ?First of Ten Commandments (Christian) and First of Five Precepts
(Buddhist).
Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf. -- Dick Gregory.
I would not eat if no one kills the animal ?said the meat eater?I would not kill if no one
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Homer: You mean you're not going to eat BACON? Lisa: No, Dad.
Homer: Or SAUSAGE or PORK CHOPS or HAM? Lisa: Dad, those all come from the same animal.
Homer: Oh, suuuuure, Lisa ... some magic animal. -- Homer and Lisa Simpson.
How can you eat anything with eyes! -- Will Kellogg.
I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger. -- Oprah Winfrey.
Once I was fishing and caught the hook in the fish's eye. That was the last time I ate a killed creature. -- Janet Barkas, editor of Grove Press.
The world's environment can no longer handle beef. -- Jeremy Rifkin, author of Beyond Beef.
Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger. -- John Denver.
Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans. -- Ali MacGraw.
Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count. -- Rue McClanahan.
I grew up in cattle country--that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health. -- K.D. Lang.
All creation has the same right to life. -- Sun Bear and Jaya Bear.
I would not want to get to know a pig very well if I intended to eat him. -- Pat Leigh.
A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat he
participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. -- Leo Tolstoy.
Whenever we cause suffering or death to any other being, we cause suffering to the Great Life Force. -- Shik Po Chih.
I went snorkeling and noticed how gently the fish welcomed us into their world ... as
compared to the violence with which we welcomed them into ours. I became a vegetarian. -- Syndee Brinkman.
If any kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again. I was so moved by the intelligence, sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on "Babe" that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian. -- James Cromwell.
I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nurture our culture, let's begin with the animals who have been nothing but our beasts of burden for so long. -- Riki Rockett.
Items containing raw or uncooked egg should be avoided so as not to contact a certain strain of salmonella. (It used to be thought that only broken eggs could transmit salmonella ... now it is known that the mother passes salmonella through the egg.) (There is more incidence of food poisoning from eggs than from meat, fish, or milk.) -- Jane Snow, food editor of the Beacon Journal.
To his butler: Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. -- Winston Churchill.
Since visiting the abbatoirs [slaughterhouses] of South France, I have stopped eating meat. -- Vincent Van Gogh.
Thousands of animals [now billions] are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race. -- Romain Rolland.
More and more we realize that a vegetarian diet is a good idea. -- Dr. Edward Martin, head of Dept. of Defense Health.
My respect and empathy towards animals includes sea dwellers too - from dolphins to fish to lobsters. So, of course, I wouldn't dream of eating them. -- Alexandra Paul.
As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness. -- Richard Gere.
We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we
happened to look out of the kitchen window at