Vegetarian Questions

If you actually decided to do it, would you know your motive for turning to vegetarianism? Would you become vegetarian to:

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

The medical evidence to support the fact that meat is a potential health hazard is compelling. However, there are nutritious vegetarian dishes, that will more than compensate for the meat that is unnecessary in a vegetarian diet.

Vegetarians are far less prone to be afflicted with cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, or diabetes.

Vegetarians are far less prone to be fat, or classed as obese.

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

Food scandals have been evidenced in lots of countries, but a larger scandal is when they are hushed up. There was a British Health Minister, who was required to resign and discredited, for stating the truth about salmonella and eggs. Don't know whether the good lady is vegetarian or not! However, it's not just the eggs that are responsible for disease, but the chickens themselves. We are advised about not allowing them to be placed near other foods, to avoid cross contamination. Vegetarians never buy the chickens, so they are not at risk.

There are other grounds for becoming a vegetarian, than defending yourself from illness. Consider the animals themselves? Were we really put on this earth to cram chickens into wire cages, with no room to shift about? Then debeak them to stop them pecking one another, and stuff them with drugs, to try to prevent them from getting diseases, from the filthy situation imposed upon them.

Vegetarians know that it's not just chickens, but lots of other animals that are subjected to the conditions of factory farming. We can be thankful to the oft-criticized media, because they do occasionally bring notice to these matters, and point attention to material that governments would much rather stifle.

There has been a great deal of publicity to draw attention to global warming, which is undoubtedly of significant concern, as much to vegetarians as anybody else. But, it isn't generally realized that animal waste is a significant contributor. It has been reported that US farm animals turn out more than 100,000 kilograms of waste every second. That is twenty times as much as humans. This waste is a gaseous material, adding to the methane passing into the air from the orifices of these creatures. Obviously if more people were vegetarian, less animals would be needed. Therefore, it is clear that there are environmental reasons - as well as health reasons - as well as humane reasons - for becoming a vegetarian.

For your health's sake, For the animal's sake, For the planet's sake - Remain a Vegetarian.

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J. Flowers prepares articles concerning natural health, aromatherapy, herbal remedies, antioxidants, allergies and vegetarianism. To find out more about vegetarianism please visit his web site http:/www./vegetarianismonline.com which has advice concerning leather and silk, and other matters.

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