If you really set your mind to it, what would be your reason for turning to vegetarianism? Would you become vegetarian to:
Improve Your Health? – Reduce Cruelty to Animals? – Improve the Environment?
Medical evidence to substantiate the theory that meat is a potential health hazard is persuasive. Fortunately, there are wholesome vegetarian foods, that will healthily replace the meat that is alien to a vegetarian diet.
There is a great deal to be derived from vegetarian diets
Vegetarians are much less liable to suffer cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, or diabetes.
Vegetarians are a lot less liable to be overweight, or classed as obese.
Vegetarians don’t consume the germs latent in dead animals, or traces of the drugs that were perversely used to keep them alive.
You must know that there is a lot to be gained from vegetarian menus
There have been food scandals in many countries, but a larger scandal is when they are covered up. There was a senior government official, who was required to relinquish their job, for telling the truth about eggs and salmonella. Can’t really say whether the individual involved is vegetarian or not! However, it’s not just the eggs that are responsible for the illness, but the chickens themselves. There has been much advice about not allowing them to be placed near other foodstuffs, for fear of cross contamination. Vegetarians never buy the chickens, so they don’t run the risk.
There are more reasons for converting to being a vegetarian, than shielding yourself from illness. What about the animals themselves? Were we really put on this earth to cram chickens into wire cages, with hardly any room to move about? Then debeak them to stop them pecking each other, and fill them full of drugs, to try to stop them from becoming diseased, from the filthy conditions imposed on them.
Vegetarians know that it is not just chickens, but lots of other animals that are subjected to the conditions of factory farming. We can be grateful for the publicity of the media, because they do occasionally draw notice to these matters, and point attention to problems that governments would much rather cover up.
There has been a good deal of thought concerning global warming, which is without doubt of grave concern, as much to vegetarians as anybody else. However, it is not always understood that animal waste is a major part of the problem. There are reports that US farm animals produce 250,000 pounds of waste every second. That is twenty times more than people. The waste is a gaseous material, that adds to the methane dispersing into the atmosphere from the orifices of these creatures. Of course if more people were vegetarian, fewer animals would be needed. Therefore, it is apparent that there are environmental reasons – as well as humane reasons – as well as health reasons – for becoming a vegetarian.
For your health’s sake, For the animal’s sake, For the planet’s sake – Become a Vegetarian.
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