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| 02 Jan 2012 02:04 AM |
There is no longer any doubt about the fact that eating meat is bad for your health.
The list of diseases known to be associated with meat, which are commoner among meat eaters, looks like the index of a medical textbook.
Anaemia, appendicitis, arthritis, breast cancer, cancer of the colon, cancer of the prostate, constipation, diabetes, gall stones, gout, high blood pressure, indigestion, obesity, piles, strokes and varicose veins are just some of the well known disorders which are more likely to affect meat eaters than vegetarians.
Avoiding meat is one of the best and simplest ways to cut down your fat consumption.
Those who still eat beef are, in my view, foolishly exposing themselves to the risk of contracting the horrifying human version of Mad Cow Disease.
Add to those hazards the fact that if you eat meat you may be consuming hormones, drugs and other chemicals that have been fed to the animals before they were killed and you can see the extent of the danger. No one knows precisely what effect eating the hormones in meat is likely to have on your health. But the risk is there and I think it's a big one. Some farmers use tranquillisers to keep animals calm. Others routinely use antibiotics so that their animals do not develop infections. When you eat meat you are, inevitably, eating those drugs. In America, over half of all antibiotics are fed to animals and I don't think it is any coincidence that the percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin went up from 13% in 1960 to 91% in 1988.
The healthiness of a vegetarian diet is perhaps shown most dramatically by the fact that lifelong vegetarians visit hospitals 22% less often than meat eaters - and for shorter stays! Vegetarians tend to be fitter than meat eaters - as well as healthier - and many of the world's most successful athletes (particularly those who specialise in endurance events) follow a strictly vegetarian diet.
It is the fat in meat that does most harm - and which makes meat eating an even bigger health hazard than smoking - but don't think you can avoid the dangers simply by avoiding red meat because you cannot. If you want to eat a truly healthy diet then you must give up eating meat completely.
There are, of course, all sorts of old-fashioned myths about eating meat.
It used to be claimed that people who didn't eat meat would be short of protein.
But that is now known to be absolute nonsense.
And it is equally untrue that if you don't eat meat your diet will be deficient in essential vitamins or minerals.
Meat contains absolutely nothing - no protein, vitamins or minerals - that your body cannot obtain perfectly happily from a vegetarian diet.
Becoming healthier isn't the only reason for turning green.
Many of those who stop eating meat do so for moral and ethical reasons as much as for personal gain.
Every minute of every working day thousands of animals are killed in slaughterhouses. Many animals are bled to death. Pain and misery are commonplace - for animals suffer from pain and fear just as much as you do.
In an average lifetime the average meat eater will consume 36 pigs, 36 sheep and 750 chickens and turkeys. More and more people are deciding that they just don't want that much carnage on their consciences. It is never too late to stop eating meat.
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zgirl341
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| 02 Jan 2012 02:05 AM |
I sense a PETA supporter.
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alliezz8
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| 02 Jan 2012 02:05 AM |
Read half. + Title Enough to know this is gonna get some ejections. |
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MrPerry
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| 02 Jan 2012 02:06 AM |
| Im a man, I hunt, I eat meat. It's the way life works. |
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| 02 Jan 2012 02:06 AM |
| I do support PETA, because being cruel to animals is horrible!! |
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| 02 Jan 2012 02:07 AM |
| I don't think boys can live with themselves without meat! Can they? |
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| 02 Jan 2012 02:07 AM |
| No it's not natural at all. Sure animals eat eachother, but does that mean we have to, also? No. If someone breaks your arm, should you go and break someones leg? No. Don't be foolish, become vegan or at least vegetarian. |
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MrPerry
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| 02 Jan 2012 02:07 AM |
| Okay, it's also cruel have animals over populating and giving us diasese. |
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zgirl341
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| 02 Jan 2012 02:08 AM |
Also, we're at the top of the foodchain for a reason.
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| 02 Jan 2012 02:09 AM |
| PETA actually made me eat more meat and broaden my horizons of meat eating. |
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| 02 Jan 2012 02:09 AM |
| You don't need meat to survive! You can get everything that is in meat in much healthier, un-cruel things. |
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| 02 Jan 2012 02:09 AM |
Humans have been eating meat since the beginning of time, and not many of them died from it. Humans are omnivores, it's natural to eat meat.
We're humans, it's what we do.
Also, meat contains protein which is healthy for you. |
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| 02 Jan 2012 02:10 AM |
So, because people who fail to eat in a healthy manner fall ill, meat is bad?
Logic flaw detected! |
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| 02 Jan 2012 02:11 AM |
| Fine, eat meat, but vegetarians live a healthier, longer life. Unlike you fat, Mc Donald eating Americans. Did you know most slaughterhouses are in America? KFC doesn't use one type of meat, it mashes animals together and keeps them in stuffed cages. |
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MrPerry
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| 02 Jan 2012 02:11 AM |
Animals will over populate and kill humans if we don't keep them under control.
And it's not cruel. It's a quick kill.
Killing an animal is much different than you think. |
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| 02 Jan 2012 02:12 AM |
ARE ANY OF YOU LISTENING?
YOU CAN FIND EVERYTHING YOU FIND IN MEAT, IN A MORE HEALTHY, VEGETARIAN DIET!! |
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| 02 Jan 2012 02:12 AM |
I already had an argument like this yesterday, so I'll just sum it up, this time, in all caps.
BEING VEGETARIAN WON'T CHANGE THE AMOUNT OF ANIMALS THAT GET KILLED EVERY YEAR.
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alliezz8
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| 02 Jan 2012 02:12 AM |
| OD'er + Making up reasons not to eat meat = Troll Bait. |
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| 02 Jan 2012 02:12 AM |
Btw, I probably get more protein in a day then you ever get in a week.
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| 02 Jan 2012 02:12 AM |
"Unlike you fat, McDonald eating Americans."
Implying that all Americans are fat and that all meat eaters eat at McDonalds, neither of which is true in any sense of the word. |
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| 02 Jan 2012 02:13 AM |
You obviously don't understand how slaughterhouses kill animals.
"Why not just buy the non-cruel meat?"
Because the cruel meat is cheaper! So of course everyone buys the cruel meat.
WATCH THIS VIDEO:
meat. org
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MrPerry
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| 02 Jan 2012 02:13 AM |
Im fat? I go to McDonalds?
Yeah my mcdonalds is out exersizing in the woods hunting. |
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| 02 Jan 2012 02:15 AM |
"but vegetarians live a longer, healthier life"
That isn't neccessarily true, as there is nothing outside of bogus "clinical testing" to prove that.
How long have, historically, vegans, lived? Well, we don't know, because the vegan craze really started somewhere in the 60s & 70s. Very few of those people should, statistically, be dead, but the same goes for those who chose to live omnivorous lives.
Don't spew false facts... |
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