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Vegetarian or Non-vegetarian?

Vegetarian food is being eaten for may centuries, and so is non vegetarian. Non-vegetarian food

is considered to be rich in protein and vitamins. Many people in this world today are omnivores,

such as the Thais, the Chinese, the British, the Americans and the Arabs. But many people are

still converting to vegetarianism. Even my family and I are vegetarians. But why is this? Why

aren't all people eating non-veg? Is it purely for religious purposes? Or is there another more

scientific and intricate reason behind vegetarianism? Lets investigate...

Non-vegetarian food is eaten mainly because it is rich in protein. Many people eat meat

because of it's high protein value. Proteins are very important for our growth and resistance

power. Non-vegetarian people eatbeef, pork, chicken, fish and even fried, large worms. Some even

drink snake- soup. Some in the west do not know what vegetarianism is. They laugh at those who

take only vegetarian. They ask the vegetarians how they live eating only ' Leaves ' or ' Rabbit

Food '. I have experienced these types of things myself. But the truth is that even though

vegetables may be lower than meat in protein, some vegetarian foods contain ample amounts of

proteins, such as :-

1)Dairy Products like milk, cheese, curds etc.

2)Soybeans

3)Tofu

4)Nuts like Peanutss, almonds, walnuts etc.

5)Cereals

And many more. So being a vegetarian means having to control your diet and eating lots of

protein rich foods.

Scientists have recently discovered that non-vegetarians have 50% more chances of getting

heart problems than vegetarians. They have also found out that vegetarians have only 40% of the

chance of getting cancer than non-vegetarians. Meat and eggs are laden with saturated fat and

cholesterol, which make us fat and obese and also leads to clogged arteries and heart attacks.

Plant foods, on the other hand, provide all the energy, protein, vitamins and minerals that we

need to be healthy and strong, without all the fat and cholesterol.

The meat of animals may also contain many toxic materials that are consumed by the

animals when they eat contaminated food or drink contaminated waater. Those toxins (dioxin,

heavy metals, pesticides, hormones and antibiotics ) are then stored in the Adipose Tissues under

the skin and eating the meat makes the toxins enter our body leading to cancer and mental

problems.

On average, vegetarian humans live six to ten years longer than non-vegetarian humans.

Sometimes meat contains harmful bacteria which can cause diarrhoea, stomach pain, vomiting

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and even organ failure. The extreme crowding and filth found on factory farms leads to the spread

of diseases such as avian flu, foot-and-mouth disease, mad cow disease and SARS.

Non-vegetarian is also bad for the environment. The farms need 22 times the acres of

land to grow vegetables for human consumption to feed the livestock. Cows must be fed 10

kilograms of grain to produce one kilogrom of meat. All this grain could have filled the stomachs

of people below the poverty line. Rotting meat produces Methane and phosphine .That is why it

smells so bad. The cows reared like pigs for slaughter in farmhouses produce much more methane

along with excretion than the normal grass eating cows do. That is because their stomachs can't

digest grains well, and the farmhouses couldn't produce that much grass. Methane gas is a

greenhouse gas, which causes global warming even more than Carbon Dioxide.

Many species of sealife is getting extinct because of fishing for meat. In one year,

non-]veg people buy an average 16 kilograms of fish, but because fishing nets haul up all the fish

that come in their way, an average of 200 kilograms of fish per person are discarded. In the past

50 years, fish

ing companies have killed 90% of the population of large fishes.++--

It is also important to know that the human body is not designed for the intake of

meat. Recent studies proved that :

1)Our canine teeth as opposed to carnivores are short and blunt. Carnivores have large and

pointed teeth while the structure of the canine teeth of humans is rather like that of the few

herbivores that have canine teeth.

2)Our chewing habits, too differ from those of carnivores. We, like herbivores, chew our food

to an extent until we can swallow it. Carnivores, on the oth+er hand, prefer to swallow their

food whole.

3)Our saliva also has enzymes that break up carbohydrates unlike carnivores and like

herbivores.

4)The small intestines of humans and herbivores are 10-11 and 10-12 times the entire body

length respectively, while that of carnivores os only 3-6 times as long.

5)Humans and herbivores have short, blunt nails while carnivores have claws.

So, it is quite clear that the human body is NOT adapted to theeating of meat. Obviously, it will

lead to some diseases or disfunctionings.

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CONCLUSION

It is a pity that so many animals are being killed everyday for our leisure. Countless

animals are being mercilessly killed at this very moment. So after all this is it fair that we kill

animals, by taking their lives far earlier then they ought to live and cruelly eat them for just our

greedy purposes, to fill our stomachs, and relish on the taste??? Animals have the right to live as

much as we do. Dogs and cats are kept in households with all the comforts, and cows and chickensand fish are tortured by scalding them in hot oil when they are sometimes still alive. Eggs are

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worse. It is like killing a child even before birth. Even before it sees what the world is like.

Imagine if you were a chicken, and were taken to a meat house and shut up in cages in which you

could scarcely breath and then fed to get you fattened and after that have a knife go through your

neck, to satisfy the human stomach? Would it be fair? The answer is no. Some people say that

animals are made only for the food and clothes and entertainment of humans, but then, why do

they have a heart, a brain and cells?Many have switched over from non-vegetarianism to

vegetarianism. They have realised, animals too have life, they have feelings, but the most

important thing is that they have a right to live a full life, just like us...