Reports of our suffering environment are streaming in each day, and with a growing urgency Americans and citizens worldwide are being called to step up to the plate to combat global warming. One of the ways that many people have decided to combat our pollution of the planet is to become vegetarian. In 2000, vegetarianism was surveyed at 2.5% of Americans and since then it has risen to 6.7 in a 2006 survey.
One of the negative impacts we are facing today is the highly concentrated amounts of animal feces on mass animal farms, resulting in an overwhelmingly large methane gas output. 1 cow creates 800 to 1,000 liters of methane gas each day, and there are 1.3 billion cows worldwide. Methane gas traps heat in the atmosphere, in large part causing the greenhouse effect.
Eating meat makes you vulnerable to diseases such as mad cow disease, BIV (a bovine form of AIDS), salmonella, and e-coli poisoning. Eating a diet high in fruits and vegetables increases your vitamin intake, creating a better immune system and reducing your chances of contracting any disease.
Meat is also very fattening with even the leanest beef containing at least 7% fat. Some fats are healthy and needed to maintain health, but animal fat is not a healthy fat. Fat from animals is saturated fat, which clogs arteries, creates heart problems, and heightens cholesterol.
One unpleasant side effect of eating meat comes from it's difficulty in being digested by our digestive system. Because it takes a long time to digest, it can cause uncomfortable gas, which is both unpleasant for the person who ate the animal flesh, and for the people around them.
As Mahatma Gandhi once said, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
Buying meat from the supermarket is painless and relatively easy...just put it in a plastic bag and remember to use the hand sanitizer afterwards. But what if you met the poor creature that was slaughtered a few hours ago for you? What if you could pet it? Would you tell it that it is going to be okay? Would you want to save it? Give it a name? Buttercup? Ginger? Too often Americans settle into an unthinking rut, going through the motions without thinking about anything but the price per pound. If we all thought a little more about the animal, and less about the grocery list, we might feel a little more like ratatouille tonight, instead of meatloaf.
One of the negative impacts we are facing today is the highly concentrated amounts of animal feces on mass animal farms, resulting in an overwhelmingly large methane gas output. 1 cow creates 800 to 1,000 liters of methane gas each day, and there are 1.3 billion cows worldwide. Methane gas traps heat in the atmosphere, in large part causing the greenhouse effect.
Eating meat makes you vulnerable to diseases such as mad cow disease, BIV (a bovine form of AIDS), salmonella, and e-coli poisoning. Eating a diet high in fruits and vegetables increases your vitamin intake, creating a better immune system and reducing your chances of contracting any disease.
Meat is also very fattening with even the leanest beef containing at least 7% fat. Some fats are healthy and needed to maintain health, but animal fat is not a healthy fat. Fat from animals is saturated fat, which clogs arteries, creates heart problems, and heightens cholesterol.
One unpleasant side effect of eating meat comes from it's difficulty in being digested by our digestive system. Because it takes a long time to digest, it can cause uncomfortable gas, which is both unpleasant for the person who ate the animal flesh, and for the people around them.
As Mahatma Gandhi once said, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
Buying meat from the supermarket is painless and relatively easy...just put it in a plastic bag and remember to use the hand sanitizer afterwards. But what if you met the poor creature that was slaughtered a few hours ago for you? What if you could pet it? Would you tell it that it is going to be okay? Would you want to save it? Give it a name? Buttercup? Ginger? Too often Americans settle into an unthinking rut, going through the motions without thinking about anything but the price per pound. If we all thought a little more about the animal, and less about the grocery list, we might feel a little more like ratatouille tonight, instead of meatloaf.
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