Here are some friends with simlar question as we.And I have this question for many days,anyone help us?
Kitty said: Yes.Whats the point of being a vegetarian?-I try seach this on internet but no results found.Maybe this is a stupid question.
Mike said: oh,no,you are wrong.I have found as below for this question(Whats the point of being a vegetarian?),it will help you,my kids.
Answers:
to save more meat for the normal people
some people dont want to eat meat because they think they will get ick off of it or they dont want to get fat if they have a high matabolism
Having the peace of knowing that you aren't making an animal suffer a horrible death for your own satisfaction.
too be healthy and save animals and attract other hott vegen guys!
People are vegetarians for a lot of different reasons. Some feel it's wrong to kill another creature--even to eat. Some have dietary restrictions for medical reasons, and some just don't like meat. I personally am not vegetarian, but I know several people who are. It's just a personal choice.
some say they dont like to kill anamials
but if you dont water a plant it dies,
but to die it has to be alive right?
so your killing things either way
A lot of people don't eat meat for many reasons. Some are for religious, spiritual, health and moral issues. Many vegetarians believe that if they don't eat meat they're saving a life (Which is not true. If a creature is bred to be eaten, it WILL be eaten sooner or later).
They also do it for a healthier lifestyle. It's all a matter of opinion. :)
Its healthier, more humane for animals, and I just read on Yahoo news items that recent research shows vegetarians have higher IQ's
personal values or belifes such as self choice, or religion. others dont like meat, or some just dont trust whats in the meat, and also diet.
....when meat runs out then you will survive the consequences
To stay true to your personal beliefs, to improve your health and lower your risk of health problems, to help the environment, and to NOT support the torture and slaughter of innocent animals.
Btw, I'm a vegan. :)
to avoid hormones? i dont' know.
Why be vegetarian?
Improving Personal Health
It's no secret that compared to average meat-eaters, vegetarians generally live longer, are less likely to be overweight, suffer far fewer incidences of cancer and heart disease, and have more energy. These facts have been consistently borne out by decades of scientific research. The largest epidemiological study ever conducted (the China-Oxford-Cornell study) concluded that those eating the amount of animal foods in a typical American diet have seventeen times the death rate from heart disease, and, for women, five times the rate of breast cancer, than those who get 5% or less of their protein from animal foods. (See the references at the end of this article.)
Meat contains 14 times the amount of pesticides as plant foods, since pesticides get concentrated as they move up through the food chain, and since they're more easily stored in fatty tissues. In 1980, six years after the pesticide dieldrin was banned, the USDA destroyed two million packages of frozen turkey products contaminated with dieldrin. (And such contamination can routinely occur without detection.) In 1974, the FDA found dieldrin in 85% of all dairy products and 99.5% of the American people. The EPA discovered that the breast milk of vegetarian women contained far lower levels of pesticides than that of average Americans. A study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine found that "The highest levels of contamination in the breast milk of the vegetarians was lower than the lowest level of contamination…(in) non-vegetarian women… The mean vegetarian levels were only 1-2% as high as the average levels in the U.S."
Saving the Earth
All food animals consume several times more grain than they produce as meat. So several times as much land is needed to grow grain to feed animals, several times as much energy is used to harvest the grain and transport it, several times as much water is necessary, several times as much pesticides, etc. Worldwide petroleum reserves would be exhausted in 11 years if the rest of the world ate like the U.S. The least energy-efficient plant food is 10 times as efficient as the most efficient meat food. A nationwide switch to a pure vegetarian diet would allow us to cut our oil imports by 60%.
Over half of the water used in the U.S. is used to grow feed for livestock. It takes 100 times as much water to produce meat than to produce wheat. The water required to produce a day's diet for a typical American is 4,000 gallons. (It's 1,200 for vegetarians and 300 for vegans.) Compared to a vegan diet, three days of a typical American diet requires as much water as you use for showering all year (assuming you shower every day).
U.S. Livestock produce 250,000 pounds of waste per second -- 20 times as much as humans. A large feedlot produces as much waste as a large city, but without a sewage system. Animal waste washed into rivers and lakes causes increased nitrates, phosphates, ammonia, and bacteria, and decreases the oxygen content. This kills plant and animal life. The meat industry account for three times as much harmful organic waste as the rest of the industries in the U.S. combined.
It takes ten times as much land to produce food for an average American compared to a pure vegetarian. An acre of land can produce 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but only 165 pounds of beef. In the U.S., 260 million acres of forest have been destroyed for use as agricultural land to support our meat diet (over 1 acre per person). Since 1967, the rate of deforestation has been one acre every five seconds. For every acre cleared for urban development, seven acres are cleared to graze animals or grow feed for them.
Around 85% of topsoil loss is directly associated with raising livestock. We have lost 75% of our topsoil. The USDA says crop productivity is down 70% as a result of topsoil loss. It takes nature 500 years to build an inch of topsoil. Vegan diets make less than 5% of the demands on the soil as meat-based diets.
Caring for Animals
Around eight billion animals are killed for food every year in the U.S. alone -- a number greater than the entire human population of the planet. Each meat-eating American eats the equivalent of about 24 animals per year. What's worse, modern agricultural methods mean that animals are raised in cramped confinement operations instead of the pastures from childhood picture books -- a practice known as factory farming. Chickens are crammed into cages with no free space, and are debeaked to keep them from pecking each other to death. Animals are pumped full of various powerful drugs to kill diseases resulting from filthy living conditions, and to make them grow or produce faster than nature intended. When cows and chickens stop producing as much milk and eggs as the younger animals, they're unceremoniously slaughtered and made into low-grade meat (fast food and pet food). For some, vegetarianism and veganism are ways to refuse to participate in the commodification of animals.
The countless and proven health benefits, not wanting to eat anything that has a face or cares for it's young, being educated about the unnatural, cruel ways that these animals are treated in life and when they are killed to be eaten, not wanting to help the fat-cat meat/cattle/pork/chicken/dairy industries to keep getting richer and richer off of our brainwashed stupidity about what foods are truly good for us. I could go on and on and on about the "point" of being vegetarian. Now a question for you? What's the point of woofing down every piece of dead animal (meat) you can get into your mouth? I don't think your answer will be anywhere near as good as mine.
Let's see..it's healthier and more ethical. Hows that?
What's the point of being a meat eater when
1) Meat is linked to obesity, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, bowel problems etc
2) All we need to keep us healthy is in vegetables, grains and legumes
3) Meat production is destroying this planet
4) Meat production is about the cruelty and slaughter of hundreds of innocent animals, just because humans think they can play God
5) Millions of people worldwide are starving because so much of the earth's resources has been taking up providing meat to the wealthier nations
If you want to eat meat, fine it's your choice. But don't slam us with remarks about what's the point. Just because we're in the minority doesn't make it stupid or worthless not to eat meat. I bet meat eaters will be in the minorty soon the way things are going.
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Kitty said: Yes.Whats the point of being a vegetarian?-I try seach this on internet but no results found.Maybe this is a stupid question.
Mike said: oh,no,you are wrong.I have found as below for this question(Whats the point of being a vegetarian?),it will help you,my kids.
Whats the point of being a vegetarian?
Answers:
to save more meat for the normal people
some people dont want to eat meat because they think they will get ick off of it or they dont want to get fat if they have a high matabolism
Having the peace of knowing that you aren't making an animal suffer a horrible death for your own satisfaction.
too be healthy and save animals and attract other hott vegen guys!
People are vegetarians for a lot of different reasons. Some feel it's wrong to kill another creature--even to eat. Some have dietary restrictions for medical reasons, and some just don't like meat. I personally am not vegetarian, but I know several people who are. It's just a personal choice.
some say they dont like to kill anamials
but if you dont water a plant it dies,
but to die it has to be alive right?
so your killing things either way
A lot of people don't eat meat for many reasons. Some are for religious, spiritual, health and moral issues. Many vegetarians believe that if they don't eat meat they're saving a life (Which is not true. If a creature is bred to be eaten, it WILL be eaten sooner or later).
They also do it for a healthier lifestyle. It's all a matter of opinion. :)
Its healthier, more humane for animals, and I just read on Yahoo news items that recent research shows vegetarians have higher IQ's
personal values or belifes such as self choice, or religion. others dont like meat, or some just dont trust whats in the meat, and also diet.
....when meat runs out then you will survive the consequences
To stay true to your personal beliefs, to improve your health and lower your risk of health problems, to help the environment, and to NOT support the torture and slaughter of innocent animals.
Btw, I'm a vegan. :)
to avoid hormones? i dont' know.
Why be vegetarian?
Improving Personal Health
It's no secret that compared to average meat-eaters, vegetarians generally live longer, are less likely to be overweight, suffer far fewer incidences of cancer and heart disease, and have more energy. These facts have been consistently borne out by decades of scientific research. The largest epidemiological study ever conducted (the China-Oxford-Cornell study) concluded that those eating the amount of animal foods in a typical American diet have seventeen times the death rate from heart disease, and, for women, five times the rate of breast cancer, than those who get 5% or less of their protein from animal foods. (See the references at the end of this article.)
Meat contains 14 times the amount of pesticides as plant foods, since pesticides get concentrated as they move up through the food chain, and since they're more easily stored in fatty tissues. In 1980, six years after the pesticide dieldrin was banned, the USDA destroyed two million packages of frozen turkey products contaminated with dieldrin. (And such contamination can routinely occur without detection.) In 1974, the FDA found dieldrin in 85% of all dairy products and 99.5% of the American people. The EPA discovered that the breast milk of vegetarian women contained far lower levels of pesticides than that of average Americans. A study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine found that "The highest levels of contamination in the breast milk of the vegetarians was lower than the lowest level of contamination…(in) non-vegetarian women… The mean vegetarian levels were only 1-2% as high as the average levels in the U.S."
Saving the Earth
All food animals consume several times more grain than they produce as meat. So several times as much land is needed to grow grain to feed animals, several times as much energy is used to harvest the grain and transport it, several times as much water is necessary, several times as much pesticides, etc. Worldwide petroleum reserves would be exhausted in 11 years if the rest of the world ate like the U.S. The least energy-efficient plant food is 10 times as efficient as the most efficient meat food. A nationwide switch to a pure vegetarian diet would allow us to cut our oil imports by 60%.
Over half of the water used in the U.S. is used to grow feed for livestock. It takes 100 times as much water to produce meat than to produce wheat. The water required to produce a day's diet for a typical American is 4,000 gallons. (It's 1,200 for vegetarians and 300 for vegans.) Compared to a vegan diet, three days of a typical American diet requires as much water as you use for showering all year (assuming you shower every day).
U.S. Livestock produce 250,000 pounds of waste per second -- 20 times as much as humans. A large feedlot produces as much waste as a large city, but without a sewage system. Animal waste washed into rivers and lakes causes increased nitrates, phosphates, ammonia, and bacteria, and decreases the oxygen content. This kills plant and animal life. The meat industry account for three times as much harmful organic waste as the rest of the industries in the U.S. combined.
It takes ten times as much land to produce food for an average American compared to a pure vegetarian. An acre of land can produce 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but only 165 pounds of beef. In the U.S., 260 million acres of forest have been destroyed for use as agricultural land to support our meat diet (over 1 acre per person). Since 1967, the rate of deforestation has been one acre every five seconds. For every acre cleared for urban development, seven acres are cleared to graze animals or grow feed for them.
Around 85% of topsoil loss is directly associated with raising livestock. We have lost 75% of our topsoil. The USDA says crop productivity is down 70% as a result of topsoil loss. It takes nature 500 years to build an inch of topsoil. Vegan diets make less than 5% of the demands on the soil as meat-based diets.
Caring for Animals
Around eight billion animals are killed for food every year in the U.S. alone -- a number greater than the entire human population of the planet. Each meat-eating American eats the equivalent of about 24 animals per year. What's worse, modern agricultural methods mean that animals are raised in cramped confinement operations instead of the pastures from childhood picture books -- a practice known as factory farming. Chickens are crammed into cages with no free space, and are debeaked to keep them from pecking each other to death. Animals are pumped full of various powerful drugs to kill diseases resulting from filthy living conditions, and to make them grow or produce faster than nature intended. When cows and chickens stop producing as much milk and eggs as the younger animals, they're unceremoniously slaughtered and made into low-grade meat (fast food and pet food). For some, vegetarianism and veganism are ways to refuse to participate in the commodification of animals.
The countless and proven health benefits, not wanting to eat anything that has a face or cares for it's young, being educated about the unnatural, cruel ways that these animals are treated in life and when they are killed to be eaten, not wanting to help the fat-cat meat/cattle/pork/chicken/dairy industries to keep getting richer and richer off of our brainwashed stupidity about what foods are truly good for us. I could go on and on and on about the "point" of being vegetarian. Now a question for you? What's the point of woofing down every piece of dead animal (meat) you can get into your mouth? I don't think your answer will be anywhere near as good as mine.
Let's see..it's healthier and more ethical. Hows that?
What's the point of being a meat eater when
1) Meat is linked to obesity, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, bowel problems etc
2) All we need to keep us healthy is in vegetables, grains and legumes
3) Meat production is destroying this planet
4) Meat production is about the cruelty and slaughter of hundreds of innocent animals, just because humans think they can play God
5) Millions of people worldwide are starving because so much of the earth's resources has been taking up providing meat to the wealthier nations
If you want to eat meat, fine it's your choice. But don't slam us with remarks about what's the point. Just because we're in the minority doesn't make it stupid or worthless not to eat meat. I bet meat eaters will be in the minorty soon the way things are going.
correctness,It's Non-profit and only for informational purposes.
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