What is good about being vegetarian?!
and how do i become one because i looove meat but i feel HORRIBLE thinking about the animals :(Www@FoodAQ@Com
Answers:
49 reasons :)
READ iit, AND YOU'll KNOW!.
The Environment
Conservation of Fossil fuel!. It takes 78 calories of fossil fuel to produce 1 calorie of beef protein; 35 calories for 1 calorie of pork; 22 calories for 1 of poultry; but just 1 calorie of fossil fuel for 1 calorie of soybeans!. By eating plant foods instead of animal foods, I help conserve our non-renewable sources of energy!.
Water Conservation!. It takes 3 to 15 times as much water to produce animal protein as it does plant protein!. As a vegetarian I contribute to water conservation!.
Efficient use of grains!. It takes up to 16 pounds of soybeans and grains to produce 1 lb!. of beef and 3 to 6 lbs!. to produce 1 lb of turkey & egg!. By eating grain foods directly, I make the food supply more efficient & that contributes to the environment!.
Soil conservation!. When grains & legumes are used more efficiently, our precious topsoil is automatically made more efficient in its use!. We use less agricultural resources to provide for the same number of people!.
Saving our forests!. Tropical forests in Brazil and other tropic regions are destroyed daily, in part, to create more acreage to raise livestock!. By not supporting the meat industry, I directly reduce the demand to pillage these irreplaceable treasures of nature!. Since the forest land "filters" our air supply and contains botanical sources for new medicines, this destruction is irreversable!.
Asthetics!. Decaying animal parts, whether in a freezer case or served in restaurants, can never be as asthetically pleasing to the senses as the same foods made from wholesome vegetable sources!. Only habit can allow one not to perceive this: a change in diet makes this self evident!.
Personal Health
No deficiencies!. There is no nutrient necessary for optimal human functioning which cannot be obtained from plant food!.
High fat plus cholesterol!. Animal foods are higher in fat than most plant foods, particularly saturated fats!. Plants do not contain cholesterol!.
"Carb" deficient!. Meat is deficient in carbohydrates, particularly the starches which are so essential to proper health!.
Vitamin deficient!. Except for the b-complex, meat is largely deficient in vitamins!.
Agricultural Chemicals!. Being higher on the food chain, animal foods contain far higher concentrations of agricultural chemicals than plant foods, including pesticides, herbicides, etc!.
Exposure to livestock drugs!. There are over 20,000 different drugs, including sterols, antibiotics, growth hormones and other veterinary drugs that are given to livestock animals!. These drugs are consumed when animal foods are consumed!. The dangers herein, in secondary consumption of antibiotics, are well documented!.
Pathogenic Microorganisms!. There are a host of bacteria and viruses, some quite dangerous, that are common to animals!. When I eat meat, I eat the organisms in the meat!. Micro-organisms are present in plant foods too, but their number and danger to human health is by no means comparable to that of those in meat!.
Worms and other Parasites!. Ditto on # 13!
Shelf life differential!. Plant foods last longer than animal foods!. Try this experiment: Leave out a head of lettuce and a pound of hamburger for 1 day, which will make you sick!?
Organoleptic Indications of Pathenogens!. Plant foods give tell-tale signs of "going bad"!. Ever hear of someone getting sick from "bad broccoli"!?
Heart Disease!. Meat eating increases the risk of heart disease, this country's #1 killer!. The correlation is an epidemiological fact!.
Cancer prevention!. Of all the natural cancer prevention substances found: vitamin C, B-17, hydroquionenes, beta carotene, NDGA, - none has been found to be animal derived!. Yet most meats, when cooked, produce an array of benzenes and other carcinogenic compounds!. Cancer is infinitely easier to prevent than cure!. Soybeans contain protease inhibitor, a powerful anticancer compound!. You won't find it in useful quantities in animal based food!.
Disease Inducing!. The correlation between meat consumption and a wide range of degenerative diseases is well founded and includes!.!.!.!.!.
Osteoporosis
Kidney Stones and Gallstones
Diabetes
Multiple Sclerosis
Arthritis
Gum disease
Acne!. Aggravated by animal food!.
Obesity!. Studies confirm that vegetarians tend to be thinner than meat eaters!. Obesity is considered by doctors to be a disease within itself!.
Intestinal Toxemia!. The condition of the intestinal flora is critical to overall health!. Animal products putrefy the colon!.
Transit time!. Wholesome food travels quickly through the "G!.I" tract, leaving little time to spoil and incite disease within the body!.
Fiber deficient!. Fiber absorbs unwanted, excess fats; cleans the intestines; provides bulk and aids in peristalsis!. Plant food is high in fiber content; meat, poultry and dairy products have none!.
Body wastes!. Food from animals contain their waste, including adrenaline, uric anWww@FoodAQ@Com
READ iit, AND YOU'll KNOW!.
The Environment
Conservation of Fossil fuel!. It takes 78 calories of fossil fuel to produce 1 calorie of beef protein; 35 calories for 1 calorie of pork; 22 calories for 1 of poultry; but just 1 calorie of fossil fuel for 1 calorie of soybeans!. By eating plant foods instead of animal foods, I help conserve our non-renewable sources of energy!.
Water Conservation!. It takes 3 to 15 times as much water to produce animal protein as it does plant protein!. As a vegetarian I contribute to water conservation!.
Efficient use of grains!. It takes up to 16 pounds of soybeans and grains to produce 1 lb!. of beef and 3 to 6 lbs!. to produce 1 lb of turkey & egg!. By eating grain foods directly, I make the food supply more efficient & that contributes to the environment!.
Soil conservation!. When grains & legumes are used more efficiently, our precious topsoil is automatically made more efficient in its use!. We use less agricultural resources to provide for the same number of people!.
Saving our forests!. Tropical forests in Brazil and other tropic regions are destroyed daily, in part, to create more acreage to raise livestock!. By not supporting the meat industry, I directly reduce the demand to pillage these irreplaceable treasures of nature!. Since the forest land "filters" our air supply and contains botanical sources for new medicines, this destruction is irreversable!.
Asthetics!. Decaying animal parts, whether in a freezer case or served in restaurants, can never be as asthetically pleasing to the senses as the same foods made from wholesome vegetable sources!. Only habit can allow one not to perceive this: a change in diet makes this self evident!.
Personal Health
No deficiencies!. There is no nutrient necessary for optimal human functioning which cannot be obtained from plant food!.
High fat plus cholesterol!. Animal foods are higher in fat than most plant foods, particularly saturated fats!. Plants do not contain cholesterol!.
"Carb" deficient!. Meat is deficient in carbohydrates, particularly the starches which are so essential to proper health!.
Vitamin deficient!. Except for the b-complex, meat is largely deficient in vitamins!.
Agricultural Chemicals!. Being higher on the food chain, animal foods contain far higher concentrations of agricultural chemicals than plant foods, including pesticides, herbicides, etc!.
Exposure to livestock drugs!. There are over 20,000 different drugs, including sterols, antibiotics, growth hormones and other veterinary drugs that are given to livestock animals!. These drugs are consumed when animal foods are consumed!. The dangers herein, in secondary consumption of antibiotics, are well documented!.
Pathogenic Microorganisms!. There are a host of bacteria and viruses, some quite dangerous, that are common to animals!. When I eat meat, I eat the organisms in the meat!. Micro-organisms are present in plant foods too, but their number and danger to human health is by no means comparable to that of those in meat!.
Worms and other Parasites!. Ditto on # 13!
Shelf life differential!. Plant foods last longer than animal foods!. Try this experiment: Leave out a head of lettuce and a pound of hamburger for 1 day, which will make you sick!?
Organoleptic Indications of Pathenogens!. Plant foods give tell-tale signs of "going bad"!. Ever hear of someone getting sick from "bad broccoli"!?
Heart Disease!. Meat eating increases the risk of heart disease, this country's #1 killer!. The correlation is an epidemiological fact!.
Cancer prevention!. Of all the natural cancer prevention substances found: vitamin C, B-17, hydroquionenes, beta carotene, NDGA, - none has been found to be animal derived!. Yet most meats, when cooked, produce an array of benzenes and other carcinogenic compounds!. Cancer is infinitely easier to prevent than cure!. Soybeans contain protease inhibitor, a powerful anticancer compound!. You won't find it in useful quantities in animal based food!.
Disease Inducing!. The correlation between meat consumption and a wide range of degenerative diseases is well founded and includes!.!.!.!.!.
Osteoporosis
Kidney Stones and Gallstones
Diabetes
Multiple Sclerosis
Arthritis
Gum disease
Acne!. Aggravated by animal food!.
Obesity!. Studies confirm that vegetarians tend to be thinner than meat eaters!. Obesity is considered by doctors to be a disease within itself!.
Intestinal Toxemia!. The condition of the intestinal flora is critical to overall health!. Animal products putrefy the colon!.
Transit time!. Wholesome food travels quickly through the "G!.I" tract, leaving little time to spoil and incite disease within the body!.
Fiber deficient!. Fiber absorbs unwanted, excess fats; cleans the intestines; provides bulk and aids in peristalsis!. Plant food is high in fiber content; meat, poultry and dairy products have none!.
Body wastes!. Food from animals contain their waste, including adrenaline, uric anWww@FoodAQ@Com
There are lots of good things about being a vegetarian!. Most of us are healthier than those who eat meat, you aren't supporting killing, personal or religious reasons, etc!.
If you feel horrible about eating flesh, cut back!. You don't have to cut it out all at once!. If you eat meat with every meal, every day, just cut out ONE of those times!. Two meals with meat every day!. When you get used to that, cut out another so it's one meal with meat every day!. Becoming a vegetarian is not for everyone!. But if you feel that bad about eating animals you probably don't enjoy meals with meat in them that much anyway!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
If you feel horrible about eating flesh, cut back!. You don't have to cut it out all at once!. If you eat meat with every meal, every day, just cut out ONE of those times!. Two meals with meat every day!. When you get used to that, cut out another so it's one meal with meat every day!. Becoming a vegetarian is not for everyone!. But if you feel that bad about eating animals you probably don't enjoy meals with meat in them that much anyway!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
In response to the first guy - exactly, let's spend nothing on meat and more on buying fair trade vegetables! :)
Let's make land much cheaper for the vegetable and fruit farmers too, a vegan diet takes 1/6 acres of land a week and a meat eater's takes 3 1/2 - pricey!.!.
"raised for meat" - I guess children raised to be in gangs should be killed too!.
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Anyway, there are so many reasons to be a vegetarian, mostly to do with the planet and your health!. Being a Lacto-Ovo won't stop the killing of animals unless you buy from a traditional farm (where they don't kill the male calves or the chickens or breed the cows over and over and over just so they can keep producing milk) - but it will help reduce the amount bred and then killed for meat!.
It will be good for your health, humans can't handle all the cholesterol from animal products!. However, we do need B12, which is found in it's highest concentration in animal products, so you'll need to take supplements for that!.
We only need 3mg a day (a meat eater on average consumes 2mg per day), and our bodies can store it for up to 5 years so you won't have to take the supplements daily!.
It's good for the planet because we won't be using so much water, electricity and land to keep the animals!. Too many rain forests are being chopped down to make space for the farms!.
Remember, NO meal is worth someone's life!. I would be really heartbroken if someone killed my dog or my cat for food!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Let's make land much cheaper for the vegetable and fruit farmers too, a vegan diet takes 1/6 acres of land a week and a meat eater's takes 3 1/2 - pricey!.!.
"raised for meat" - I guess children raised to be in gangs should be killed too!.
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Anyway, there are so many reasons to be a vegetarian, mostly to do with the planet and your health!. Being a Lacto-Ovo won't stop the killing of animals unless you buy from a traditional farm (where they don't kill the male calves or the chickens or breed the cows over and over and over just so they can keep producing milk) - but it will help reduce the amount bred and then killed for meat!.
It will be good for your health, humans can't handle all the cholesterol from animal products!. However, we do need B12, which is found in it's highest concentration in animal products, so you'll need to take supplements for that!.
We only need 3mg a day (a meat eater on average consumes 2mg per day), and our bodies can store it for up to 5 years so you won't have to take the supplements daily!.
It's good for the planet because we won't be using so much water, electricity and land to keep the animals!. Too many rain forests are being chopped down to make space for the farms!.
Remember, NO meal is worth someone's life!. I would be really heartbroken if someone killed my dog or my cat for food!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
It's easier than you think! You can either quit eating meat "cold turkey" or do it gradually, whatever you think will work best for you!. Get some Garden Burgers and imitation sausages!. They aren't necessary to a vegetarian diet but they might help to satisfy your cravings for meat!. Remember it's okay to *cheat* when you're just getting used to it, so don't be too hard on yourself!. Get some good vegetarian recipes and try new things so you're not eating bland tasteless stuff!. After a while you won't even miss meat!.
The good things about it are: you feel healthy and good, it's easier to maintain a healthy weight, you save money, and you know you're not hurting animals and the environment so much!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
The good things about it are: you feel healthy and good, it's easier to maintain a healthy weight, you save money, and you know you're not hurting animals and the environment so much!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
If you feel horrible about the animals, then your looove of meat shouldn't enter into the debate!.
Do what is right, not what you want!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Do what is right, not what you want!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
well you quit eating meat et beans or tofu for protein, most ppl i know just doit to loose weight!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
You make the choice!. Just remember eating meat is not wrong!. Those animals were raised for eating!. I feel more sorry fro the under paid farm workers harvesting those fruits and vegetables then the animals!. They are underpaid and receive no overtime but work harder then anyone else in our country to get the stuff to your table at a cheap rate!.
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