WHY VEGETARIAN

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• The main reason for been vegetarian is self preservation.
  
  He who does not value life does not deserve it - LEONARDI DA VINCI


• HEALTHIER
  • All nutrientits necessary for optimal human functioning can be obtained from plant food, including more than sufficient protein. There is so much evidence that a diet based on vegetable protein diet is by far healthier. Exposure to livestock drugs. There are over 20,000 different drugs, including steroids, antibiotics, growth hormones and other veterinary drugs that are given to livestock animals. These drugs are consumed when animal foods are consumed. The dangers herein, in secondary consumption of antibiotics, are well documented.
• ENVIRONMENTAL
  • Water Conservation: It takes 3 to 15 times as much water to produce animal protein as it does plant protein.
    
    Efficient use of grains: It takes up to 10 Kg of soybeans and grains to produce 1 kg of beef and about 3Kg to produce 1 Kg of chicken. By eating grain foods directly, the food supply more efficient and that contributes to the environment.
    
    Soil conservation: When grains & legumes are used more efficiently, our precious topsoil is automatically made more efficient in its use. We use less agricultural resources to provide for the same number of people.
    
    Saving our forests: Tropical forests in Brazil and other tropic regions are destroyed daily, in part, to create more acreage to raise livestock. 33 percent of the global arable land is used to produce feed for livestock, that equates to about 30 percent of the earth’s entire land surface is turned into pasture and 100,000 litres of water is required to produce 1 Kg of beef.
• ETHICS
  • The entire life of captive "food animals" is an unnatural one of artificial breeding, vivious castration, hormone stimulation, use of steroids, abnormal diets to stimulate growth, routine use of antibiotics, a usual long inhumane ride to the ultimate end. Holding pens, electric prods, tail twisting, abject terror and fright, all these are very much a part of "modern"animal raising, shipping and slaughtering.
• FINANCIAL
  • Vegetarian diets are so much healthier and therefore mean spending less on health care. Vegetarian foods tend to cost less than meat based items.
• KARMA
  • According to the Law of Karma, if we cause pain and suffering to other living beings, we must endure pain and suffering in return both individually and collectively. We reap what we sow, in this life and the next, nature has its own justice and no one can escape the natural law of Karma.According to the Law of Karma, if we cause pain and suffering to other living beings, we must endure pain and suffering in return both individually and collectively. We reap what we sow, in this life and the next, nature has its own justice and no one can escape the natural law of Karma.
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