The Benefits of Vegetarianism in Contrast to Meat Eating

“When you are vegetarian your health goes down, because you need the proteins of the meat” that’s the most common sentence people say, evidently it has sense, but, what if I tell you that it is not completely true? Would you change your mind about not being vegetarian?

Vegetarianism means stop eating meat, seafood and products that include something from an animal. Become vegetarian isn’t easy, even less if meat is one of people’s favorite foodstuffs, but despite this, consider what happens before the meat is done for eating, cruelty to animals and a lot of pollution, and after? sicknesses. Being vegetarian could be something very helpful for everyone.

We all know that animals can provide goods for the society such as meat. “Eating meat is also animal abuse” that’s a phrase illustrated by a professor of law called Gary L. Francione and it’s a comment people shouldn’t be against; the reason is the next one: one of the strongest way of animal abuse is caused at farms. When people listen “farm” they start wondering about a big house with at a barnyard full of animals and beautiful green landscapes, but it is not the same thing in the actuality, right now a farm is such like a factory, where animals live without lots of privileges that they are meant to have, literally living in their own excrement, with no space for even move as consequence of the accumulation of animals living at small cages. This type of animal breeding is called “factory farming”. Animals deserve more than the life they mostly receive, they as well as humans can feel. It is stated by The Humane Society of the United States that people kill ten billion of animals just to get food from them, ten billion is a really big amount of deaths that must decline.

Anyway, it is not like someone killed a cow to feed their family and because of that vegetarian people thought that person was immoral. The thing right here is that factory farming is what make animals suffer and what has a lot of contaminants that pollute. The pollution that factory farming causes, even beats the amount of pollution produced by transport, so if the society wants to stop global warming, they have to stop with factory farming too, it only increases the production of chemical fertilizers and carbon emissions. However, here’s a question, why is factory faming caused? because people buy and eat meat, therefore people think the best way to help stop the factory farming is becoming vegetarian. But the problem isn’t killing the animal and eating its meat, the problem is the way people do it, the problem is the factory farming.

When animals are at the “farm”, they suffer another thing that haven’t being mentioned. The farmer always feed the animals with a substance that makes them grow up fast, so that way the farmer can kill them soon, consequently the quality of the meat goes down and the meat gets a lot of contamination, and when the meat goes to the respective places they go before being sell, they get too much processed, so as it is expected this has consequences, such as get sick of major illnesses like cancer, heart diseases, etc. The risk of getting sick increases by the time people eats more and more meat, and that’s the reason it is recommended by vegetarians to the other people to become like them. There’s a research made by Roy Morgan that says that at Australia, the old residents have a diet full of veggies and that helps to increase their good health possibilities. So stop eating meat can save lives, even some organizations have recognized that people do not really need the nutrients of the meat as long as the vegetables are combined with something else to replace the goods that a meat can provide.

In conclusion, all the cruelty caused for the animals because of the actual farms, the pollution produced by animal breeding and the chemicals that are needed for the processes and the illnesses that eating processed meat can cause are some of the reasons why people should become vegetarian. It is not 100% sure that when people start getting into the vegetarianism all the bad consequences that were mentioned will stop, but obviously they’ll start getting lower, what is completely sure is that animals do not deserve that type of treats.

References

• Enforcing the Legal Rights of Animals. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/10/01/enforcing-the-legal-rights-of-animals/eating-meat-is-also-animal-abuse
• Factory Farms Abuse Animals. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://sraproject.org/factory-farms-abuse-animals/
• Enforcing the Legal Rights of Animals. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/10/01/enforcing-the-legal-rights-of-animals/eating-meat-is-also-animal-abuse
• Earth, D. T. (2019, January 30). Top 10 Reasons for Going Veggie. Retrieved from https://www.downtoearth.org/go-veggie/top-10-reasons
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