Vegetarians Care!

If you really set your mind to it, what would be your grounds for turning to vegetarianism? Would you become vegetarian to:

Reduce Cruelty to Animals - Improve Your Health? - Improve the Environment?

The medical evidence in support of the fact that meat is a potential health hazard is overwhelming. Fortunately, there are nutritious vegetarian alternatives, that will be delicious alternatives to the meat that is inappropriate to a vegetarian diet.

Vegetarians are far less likely to suffer heart disease, cancer, diabetes, or osteoporosis.

Vegetarians are a lot less likely to be overweight, or classed as obese.

Vegetarians don't consume the germs carried by dead animals, or traces of the drugs that were in some perverse way used to keep them alive.

Food scandals have been evidenced in many countries, but a larger scandal is when they are hushed up. There was a junior minister, who was required to resign and discredited, for telling the truth about eggs and salmonella. Can't really say whether the person concerned is vegetarian or not! Nevertheless, it's not just the eggs that can cause the illness, but the chickens themselves. There has been much advice about not letting them come into contact with other foods, to avoid cross contamination. Vegetarians never buy the chickens, so they don't run the risk.

There are more grounds for becoming a vegetarian, than shielding yourself from becoming ill. Consider the animals themselves? Were we really put on this earth to pack chickens into cages, with hardly any space to shift about? Then shorten their beaks to stop them pecking each other, and stuff them with drugs, to try to stop them from becoming diseased, from the filthy situation imposed upon them.

Vegetarians recognize that it's not just chickens, but lots of other animals that are subjected to the conditions of factory farming. We can be thankful for the publicity of the media, as they do occasionally bring notice to these issues, and point attention to things that governments would much prefer to hush up.

There has been a great deal of thought given to global warming, which is indisputably of significant concern, as much to vegetarians as anybody else. But, it is not always understood that animal waste is a significant part of the problem. It has been reported that US livestock produce 250,000 pounds of waste every second. That is twenty times more than humans. The effluent is a gaseous material, that adds to the methane dispersing into the atmosphere from both ends of these creatures. Obviously if more people became vegetarian, fewer animals would be required. It is evident that there are ecological reasons - as well as health reasons - as well as humane reasons - for becoming a vegetarian.

For the planet's sake, For the animal's sake, For your own sake - Stay a Vegetarian.

Richard Wise writes articles concerning natural health, and vegetarianism. If you require to know about vegetarianism please call at his web site http://www.vegetarianismonline.com that contains information regarding Can one vegetarian make a difference? and related vegetarian subjects.

This article is only for general information and is not intended for use as a medical source of information. Please use your personal judgement with regard to whether a vegetarian lifestyle is suitable for you. Those who are uncertain about taking a particular food or preparation, be it vegetarian or otherwise, should obtain the advice of their doctor, or other suitably qualified professional person.

The author does not accept any liability whatsoever, for any consequences arising from or thought to be arising from using this article.