The grains we feed to livestock could feed twice as many hungry people in third-world countries. Weakening the livestock industry by purchasing less or no meat is a step towards rejiggering resources to save lives. Additionally, 25% of methane emissions is due to cattle farming alone - excluding chicken and other poultry, pigs and sheep farming.
2. Ethics:
Because most of us can't stand to see the execution of a cow much less eat it's flesh after witnessing this. Many people feel that it's wrong to kill animals and eat it's meat out of pure habit. You don't have to have a meat and two veggies for you nightly meal.
3. Food Poisoning:
Infected meat and meat recalls involved 9.80% of the world's food poisonings. Also, studies show that the clear wrappings in supermarkets and butcher stores are made with chemicals that lower sperm count in men; fur from animals contain formaldehyde which causes cancer; barbecued charred meat contains carcinogens, known to be a leading cause of cancer; and E coli comes from animal feces, usually found in hamburger.
4. High Cholesterol:
Meat diets go hand in hand with high cholesterol and cholesterol health issues. For meat consumers, the lowest cholesterol level is 150 while the average cholesterol for the average vegan is 128 as they do not consume any cholesterol. Studies are also connecting men with high cholesterol levels as having double the impotence problems as men on vegan diets.
5. Milk Consumption:
Milk consumption has been connected or tied to Crohns Disease, arteriosclerotic heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, infectious diseases, milk sickness, Parkinson's disease, allergies, anal fissures, chronic constipation, ear infections, multiple sclerosis, and prostate cancer. Milk is for calves not humans. Humans are the only living thing that consumes milk from another animal.
6. Fast Food:
Fast food restaurants are quickly being targeted as the cause of childhood obesity. It is considered unhealthy and can eventually cause many health problems due to the emphasis on meat products.
7. High Fiber:
The vegan diet contains high amounts of fiber and phytochemicals, all necessary to keep the body healthy and boost the immune system. Vitamin C is in many vegetables and fruits, which is an antioxidant and Vitamin E (almonds and hazelnuts and safflower oil, turnip greens, tomatoes, peanuts and peanut butter, and dark leafy vegetables) also in vegan diets can decrease the risk of Alzheimer's Disease.
8. Because Einstein said so:
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
9. Weight Loss:
Vegan and vegetarian diets are the only diets that work for a successful long-term weight loss program. Popular diets that promote meat consumption will eventually increase a person's risk of becoming obese. Americans on meat and dairy diets have three times the obesity as vegans. Only 2% of those on vegan diets are obese.
10. Water Usage:
The water on earth is the lowest is has ever been, with 25 gallons of water needed to produce one pound of wheat and 2,500 gallons to produce only one pound of meat. Meat and dairy farming use 159,250,000,000 liters per year of water for their operations.
