VEGETARIANS AND VEGANS: DO YOU BELIEVE THIS?!
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yes that is actually the reason why i am a vegitarian. Like i am not someone who hates people that do eat meat but i presonally feel guity if an animal has to die just for me to eat it when i can easily eat other things
I love animals like crazy, and feel extremely sad and angered when they are mistreated (beat, starved, genetically modified, crammed in small spaces). I believe that animals should not have to die in these manners. I choose to not eat meat because I have other options for survival. But there are some ppl less fortunate who live in area's where plants are hard to find but animals are not. This is the case in which I feel it is very very sad...but okay to eat animals. We have the right to survive, but to also allow others (animals) to fight for their lives (which factory farms do not allow, and that's pathetic to take advantage over a being unable). I think that the closing caption is "be compassionate" in whatever you do.
Yes I believe this, and there is clear evidence coming from the United Nations to back it up. The use of animals is an inefficient way of transferring energy from crop production to human foods.
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Report states that an extra 50% of the crops we eat is produced to feed animals. But animals provide only 10% of the total human diet. And that feed doesn't go towards the entire 10%, as it includes fisheries, hunting of wildlife etc as well as farming. So right now an extra 50% volume of plant material could be available to use for other things. It may not all be suitable for use as food, but could perhaps be used to produce biofuels, fertilisers etc.
Livestock production is also responsible for huge losses of wildlife and indigenous plants. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation released a report in 2006 called "Livestock's long shadow" which detailed the elements of the MEAR describing how livestock production systems are associated with biodiversity loss wherever they occur, but more so than crop production. This is not about climate change, but the amount of space, water and other resources required to raise livestock. For example it takes an average of 1000 litres of water to produce 1 litre of milk.
The United Nations Environment Programme released a report this year called "Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Consumption and Production." They state that it will require an extra 70-100% of all the food produced right now to feed the extra 3 billion humans that will be alive by 2050 if we don't want the price of food to increase. So while it is reasonable for animal production to continue on small scales for those in environments where there are insufficient resources, the large scale livestock production systems are completely inappropriate considering our species can survive perfectly well without any animal products in our diet.
MEAR: http://www.maweb.org/en/index.aspx
FAO: http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a07…
UNEP: http://www.unep.org/resourcepanel/docume…
Water data: Hoekstra and Chapagain (2008). Globalisation of Water. Blackwell Publishing. Details here: http://www.waterfootprint.org/?page=file…
I am a vegetarian, but I do not believe this. We are the most advanced species on the planet it makes sense that we eat and have the ability to eat other animals. Other animals eat other animals. I do not agree with the process by which we do so, nor do I think the human body is designed to eat meat...especially copious amounts of meat that humans eat on the daily. It is cruel to animals that we have taken to such disgusting ways of treating and killing them for our own benefit, definitely, but I think humans can be eating animals to be fed without question. I chose not to.
No, I believe eating animal protein is unhealthy, and so much energy is used to farm animals that it is an inefficient way to feed modern man. Most of what meat eaters crave is the salt that is used to preserve the meat. People could not tell when a chicken nugget had no actual chicken in it.
The China Study
I believe animals should not have to die to satisfy any of our selfish desires.
vegan :D
Absolutely xx
Among other things, yes.
vegan
Why should an animal die for my taste buds?
Yes, i do.
Nope.
Yes, but that's only one of many reasons why I'm vegan.
animals eat other animals, why shouldn't we?