Health Reasons:
1. Lower risk of cancer. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has reported that vegetarians are less likely to get cancer द्वारा 25 to 50 percent.
2. Lower risk of दिल disease. Researchers Dr. Dean Ornish and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn have a program that includes a vegetarian diet and is currently one of the few programs that has been proven to reverse दिल disease. A vegetarian diet reduces cholesterol.
3. Lower risk of osteoporosis. Studies have shown that too much protein in our diet causes loss of bone calcium. Meat eaters generally get far और protein than they need या can use.
4. Lower risk of kidney and gallstones. The calcium leached from the बोन्स द्वारा the body's efforts to neutralize the acids produce द्वारा too much protein intake can end up forming kidney stones and gall stones.
5. Factory farmed जानवर carry disease. According to the FDA poultry is the number one स्रोत of food-borne illness. Despite the heavy use of pesticides and antibiotics, up to 60% percent of chickens sold at the सुपरमार्केट are infected with live salmonella bacteria. Approximately 30% of all pork products are contaminated with toxoplasmosis. We are increasingly at risk from highly contagious diseases like Mad Cow Disease and Foot and Mouth disease in भेड़ and cattle.
6. Factory-farmed जानवर contain toxic chemicals. Meat contains accumulations of pesticides and other chemicals up to 14 times और concentrated than those in plant foods. Half of all antibiotics used in the U.S. are used in farm जानवर and 90% of those are not used to treat infections but are instead used as growth promoters.
Environmental Reasons:
7. Inefficient use of agriculture. 70% of U.S. grain production is used to feed farm animals. The grains and soybeans fed to जानवर to produce the amount of meat consumed द्वारा the average American in one साल could feed seven people for the same period.
8. Inefficient use of water. It takes 2640 gallons of water to produce one pound of edible beef. The water used to raise जानवर for खाना is और than half the water used in the United States.
9. Inefficient use of energy.
Calories of fossil fuel needed to produce 1 calorie of protein in beef: 28.
Calories of fossil fuel needed to produce 1 calorie of protein in soybeans: 2.
10. Environmental Pollution. Raising जानवर for खाना is the biggest polluter of our water and topsoil. Factory farm animal waste pollutes the ground and groundwater horribly.
11. Destruction of natural habitat. It takes और land to raise जानवर for खाना than it does to produce the equivalent nutritional value द्वारा raising edible plants. Rain forests are being destroyed to make room for huge cattle ranches. Coyotes and other जानवर are poisoned and shot द्वारा western cattle ranchers who consider federal land to be their land for grazing.
Animal Rights Reasons:
12. जानवर on factory farms are over-crowded. They spend their brief lives in crowded and ammonia-filled conditions, many of them so cramped that they can't even turn around या spread a wing.
13. जानवर on factory farms are tortured. Within days of birth, for example, chickens have their beaks seared off with a hot blade. जानवर are hung upside down and their throats are sliced open, often while they're fully conscious.
14. जानवर on factory farms are treated like machines. They are pumped up with drugs, fed their own waste and forced to grow या produce as fast as possible. They are subjected to 24-hour artificial lighting while being crammed into tiny cages one on चोटी, शीर्ष of the other to make it easier to harvest.
15. We don't need to eat animals! Most of us in the U.S. don't eat जानवर because we must in order to survive. We eat them because we want to. We are subjecting जानवर to torture, damaging the environment unnecessarily and subjecting ourselves to greater risk of disease just to satisfy a desire, not a need.
आप can get a totally balanced diet without eating meat. All vegetables contain protein and too much protein consumption is unhealthy. Grains, legumes and soybeans contain plenty of protein. Vegetarian foods do not have to be boring. Spice it up! For example, veggies and चावल with some teriyaki, टेरियाकी sauce is delicious and as filling as any meat dish आप can think of while being far और healthy for आप and easier on जानवर and the environment. Why not give a vegetarian diet a try and give our environment a break. Your body will thank आप and so will the Earth!
