Benefits of being Vegetarian.

On average, vegetarians live 10 years longer.

But many of you criticize us, say we are not healthy and that 'God' gave us animals to eat.
The Bible is against abusing animals, I suggest you read the part where the man is called a sinner by an angel because he beat his mule.

For all of those flesh consumers out there, here are the benefits of being a vegetarian, and, I researched it. I will provide links to prove I'm not pulling anything from my ass.

Low risk of heart related conditions.
Lower blood pressure.
A vegetarian diet can eliminate needs for medications in those with diebetes.
Prevention of cancer.
Removal of toxins harmful to the body.
Easier digestion of food.
Stronger immune systems.
Reduction of skin excrements.
Live longer.

http://www.benefitsofvegetarianism.com/vegetarian-health-benefits.html


"You'll live a lot longer. Vegetarians live about seven years longer, and vegans (who eat no animal products) about 15 years longer than meat eaters, according to a study from Loma Linda University...And a British study that tracked 6,000 vegetarians and 5,000 meat eaters for 12 years found that vegetarians were 40 percent less likely to die from cancer during that time and 20 percent less likely to die from other diseases."

"Heart health- Today, the average American male eating a meat-based diet has a 50 percent chance of dying from heart disease. His risk drops to 15 percent if he cuts out meat; it goes to 4 percent if he cuts out meat, dairy and eggs."

" You'll reduce your risk of cancer. A study in The International Journal of Cancer concluded that red meat is strongly associated with breast cancer. The National Cancer Institute says that women who eat meat every day are nearly four times more likely to get breast cancer than those who don't. By contrast, women who consume at least one serving of vegetables a day reduce their risk of breast cancer by 20 percent to 30 percent, according to the Harvard Nurses Health Study. Studies done at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg suggest that this is because vegetarians' immune systems are more effective in killing off tumor cells than meat eaters'. Studies have also found a plant-based diet helps protect against prostate, colon and skin cancers."

"You'll give your body a spring cleaning. Giving up meat helps purge the body of toxins (pesticides, environmental pollutants, preservatives) that overload our systems and cause illness. When people begin formal detoxification programs, their first step is to replace meats and dairy products with fruits and vegetables and juices. "These contain phytochemicals that help us detox naturally," says Chris Clark, M.D., medical director of The Raj, an Ayurvedic healing center in Fairfield, Iowa, which specializes in detox programs."

"Your bones will last longer. The average bone loss for a vegetarian woman at age 65 is 18 percent; for non-vegetarian women, it's double that. Researchers attribute this to the consumption of excess protein--the average meat-eating American woman eats 144 percent over the recommended daily allowance; the average man eats 175 percent more."

"You'll avoid toxic chemicals. The EPA estimates that nearly 95 percent of pesticide residue in our diet comes from meat, fish and dairy products. Fish, in particular, contain carcinogens (PCBs, DDT) and heavy metals (mercury, arsenic; lead, cadmium) that cannot be removed through cooking or freezing. Meat and dairy products are also laced with steroids and hormones."

"You may get rid of your back problems. "Back pain appears to begin, not in the back, but in the arteries," says Neil Barnard, M.D., president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and author of Foods That Fight Pain (Harmony Books, 1998). "The degeneration of disks, for instance, which leads to nerves being pinched, starts with the arteries leading to the back." Eating a plant-based diet keeps these arteries clear of cholesterol-causing blockages to help maintain a healthy back."

"You'll be more "regular." Eating a lot of vegetables necessarily means consuming fiber, which pushes waste out of the body. Meat contains no fiber. Studies done at Harvard and Brigham Women's Hospital found that people who ate a high-fiber diet had a 42 percent lower risk of diverticulitis. People who eat lower on the food chain also tend to have fewer incidences of constipation, hemorrhoids and spastic colon."

"You'll cool those hot flashes. Plants, grains and legumes--especially soy--contain phytoestrogens that are believed to balance fluctuating hormones, so vegetarian women tend to go through menopause with fewer complaints of sleep problems, hot flashes, fatigue, mood swings, weight gain, depression and a diminished sex drive."

"You'll help reduce famine. Right now, 72 percent of all grain produced in the United States is fed to animals raised for slaughter. It takes 15 pounds of feed to get one pound of meat. But if the grain were given directly to people, there'd be enough food to feed the entire planet. In addition, using land for animal agriculture is inefficient in terms of maximizing food production. According to the journal Soil and Water, one acre of land could produce 50,000 pounds of tomatoes, 40,000 pounds of potatoes, 30,000 pounds of carrots or just 250 pounds of beef."

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0820/is_1999_April/ai_54232138/pg_3/?tag=content;col1

Eatting flesh- Society as Zombies

Nothing is more delicious, more satisfying, more mouth-watering than a nice, bloody clump of flesh.

Yes.

We are meat, eating meat.
We are flesh, eating flesh.
We are living creatures, eating living creatures we do not need to eat to survive.

We don't need meat, and live longer, healthier lives without it.

So why do we eat it?
And why do we consume said flesh in such large quantities?
Why must the animals be treated so horribly?
Why isn't it okay to hoard humans in small spaces, inject them with drugs to manipulate them, feed them unnatural diets that are not healthy, and give them painful and horrific deaths? While animals experience that all, an more?

Families wiped out completely, traped in small cages, injected forcefully with hormones to make them grow unusually fast. So much so that they harm their legs with their very girth. Disease spread wildly amoungst them while most go insane from the small confinement. They reciece little to no veterinary care whatsoever, and often develope painful sores and lacerations from the packed, small conditions.

OH, wait, thats right! FREE RANGED animals dont experience that at all!

Free range animals hardly live any differently! Yes, they experience some outside time, but often times they return back into their confined spaces, and are still harmed and hurt without little care.

Chickens are debeaked, live in cages in which they can not move, or spread their wings. Within this process they develope sores, ailment, and often death. The ones remaining are often dipped in boiling water to remove their feathers while alive.

Cows are forcefully inseminated to produce calf. When the calf is produced, the milk begins to flow. While the calf is taken away to begins its short few months of veal preperation, the mother is drained of her milk constantly. Injections help her produce abnormal amounts of milk. Back to the calf who is fed a poor diet of grains that is lacking in the nutrients that the mothers milk would have provided. Living in a small dark box, the veal cannot develope properly because the confined space, which provides the creature with 'tender' meat. When the mother has exhausted all she could, the cow's lifespan is shortened, and she is sent to the slaughter house.

Don't even think that pigs have it easier.

We are the only creature on earth who hoard animals for the sole perpose of food, a food we live longer without, and torture them, using them with everything they could posibly offer.

A lion does not collect impala's, crate them for years, torture them just to kill them for food. No, unlike all other carnivorous animals, the humans are the only animal who will willingly make other creatures suffer for... taste.

A lions kill is swift and to the point. The animal dies instantly.
More so, the lion kills out of necessity, not taste.

Humans do not need meat.
We excell without it. We are not suppose to eat meat, that is why we can not properly digest raw meat. It is why many of our teeth are smooth, and not sharp. It is why we have no sharp claws or physical attributes to hunt with.

We have to MAKE tools to hunt, we have to COOK our food to disgust it, and we CAN NOT TEAR flesh with out bare hands.

We USED to eat grass, hence the appendix.

Other evidence of humans originally being herbivores are:

Our intestines match that of the herbivorous animals.
Our stomachs acidity matches that of the herbivorous animal.
Our blunt teeth, it matches that of the herbivorous animal.
We have alkaline in our saliva, something a carnivore does NOT have, and herbivorous animals do.
Carnivores do not require fiber, only herbivores do to help move food through our long intestines.
Cholesterol does not bother carnivores, only herbivorous creatures. Humans can not have high cholesterol.

We are not even built to BE omnivores.
THAT'S WHY WE ARE HEALTHIER WITHOUT RED MEAT.

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/09/are-humans-carnivores-or-herbivores-2/

Humans were originally vegetarian, then we had started eating meat. It is only better to return to our roots.

Vegetarian: Learning and why I became

We were just finishing reading Johnathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," when my teach, Ms. Davidoff, had inquired our thoughts about his story. Most of us was grotesqued, the thought of consuming small children to stop starvation and overpopulation was positively insane! And most, if not all, found the story more disturbing than amusing. My teacher, she listened, nodded a few, and when everyones thoughts were done being vocalized, she looked to the class with his gleeming glasses and somewhat unsettling face;

"That is how I feel about eating animals. Eating animals to me, is as disgusting as eating babies."

I had knew she was the head of that ASPCA club at our school, but I did not know she was a vegetarian. When she spoke further on the analogy, I felt it was best that I stayed away from meat.

I always thought I was an animal lover, and I've even attested to a few PETA videos, but I never took them seriously because I was in denial and I thought they were exaggerated. But it seems, a lot of animals suffer unnecessarily to satisfy our taste buds.

I was asshamed at what I done, and my journey to vegetarianism begain that March of 2009.

When I went home that day I tediously plucked every strand of chicken I saw inside my rice and chicken soup. I did not know that it was still unvegetarian-like to eat what was left, but I tried my hardest to cleanse my body of the evil I once done.

Once I understood that was not vegetarian, I messed up once again for assuming the ignorance of fish begin, well, vegetarian.

Vegeta- is a root word for a reason.

I fried my fish in the same oils that my family fried they meats. And I continued to eat fish for nearly a month and a half to two months before I realized that fish was not vegetarian.

In this phase, I transitioned into a deeper vegetarian.

I did not cook my foods in the same oils that meat cooked in, and I did not eat fish. I began reading and understanding ingredients, but I did not know all the terms like 'mono-diglycerides' because it wasn't, well, blatant.

Chicken Stock, and other simple terms is what I had looked for. It took several more months before I understood how thorough I had to really be. I can say, that the last seven or so months I've been a lot more aware of the things I have been putting in my body.

I know what I am eating pretty much in and out, and I read the ingredients of everything.

I have been without meat (excluding fish) for a year, and vegetarian for 10 months. I am very happy with the change, and as I type this I am coincedentally wearing a shirt that states "Kiss me I'm a Vegetarian."

I feel healthier, and I feel happier. I know that animals are not dying because I want their flesh.

And a link to the story my teacher analogy'd from is http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html