We Weren't Designed To Eat Meat, Here Is Proof, page 48

Originally posted by Disney
Danger Girl, thanks for starting this post.

Anonymous made a good post, here are my 2 cents:
I'm a vegetarian since two yeras ago, and People, I must tell you that definitely I am sick less often. (wait--- have I been sick in past 2 years? hmmm...) Previously I was seriously sick like once or twice a year, for a week or so. And I also got to say that I DID NOT LOST A KILOGRAM OF WEIGHT, and feel no less fit than before.

There are MANY reasons to NOT eat meat, and there are FEW reasons to do.
Reasons not to eat include:

1. You're directly supporting killing of animals. (If you would have to kill every animal you eat meat from with your very hands, I am not sure you would eat as much meat as you do... if you would at all. Sometimes people just do not want to see and realize the obvious. In the US alone, 500,000 animals are killed for meat every hour.)

2. You're directly supporting the starvation of many people and deforestation. (100 acres of land will produce enough beef for 20 people but enough wheat to feed 240 people. Half the rainforests in the world have been destroyed to clear ground to graze cattle to make beefburgers)

3. Meat contains absolutely nothing - no proteins, vitamins or minerals - that the human body cannot obtain perfectly happily from a vegetarian (!) diet.

4.The following diseases are commoner among meat eaters: anaemia, appendicitis, arthritis, breast cancer, cancer of the colon, cancer of the prostrate, constipation, diabetes, gallstones, gout, high blood pressure, indigestion, obesity, piles, strokes and varicose veins. Lifelong vegetarians visit hospital 22% less often than meat eaters and for shorter stays. Vegetarians have a 20% lower blood cholestrol level than meat eaters and this reduces heart attack and cancer risks considerably.

Guys, honestly... In a lifetime, the average meat eater will consume 36 pigs, 36 sheep and 750 chickens and turkeys. Do you want that much carnage on your conscience?

(data from www.giveusahome.co.uk...)

I'll touch on your post a bit.

First off I'm hardly ever sick and I eat alot of meat. Now onto other things.

1.I live in ND, My family has been killing our meat to eat for a long time. Everything from fish, upland game, waterfowl to venison. Just to name a few. It's only the few(vegitarians(sp.?) that cringe at killing animals. I don't kill animals for sport, I kill them for food. I don't find killing animals funny, or fun, but it's necessary.

2. Q.Q, oh that's right. It doesn't really affect much of us in the US, and even if it did. Those of us who hunt and even grow our own food are fine. That's all I'm going to say though. Nature has a mysterious way of balancing things and humans won't be able to disrupt that balance long.

3. I'll direct you to plenty of other posts made by other people. Even if there's vegetables in some part of the world that has plenty of vitamins found in meat, that doesn't mean that vegetable is available to everyone. In terms of finding it in the wild.

4. Commoner? I'll just attribute that one to deficiency killing your brain.

All I got from your post was that you find killing animals for food to be mean and you want nothing part of that. IMO you can't surely say what group of people(meat eaters vs. vegitarians) are healthier in the long run. Because the fact is, is that the group of people who eat nothing but veggies vs people who eat both pales VASTLY in comparison. It's probably like comparing 10 million to 1 million.

[edit on 3-4-2010 by Judohawk]