Does anyone have any good arguments for becoming a vegetarian or vegan?
Here are just a few: 1. Avoiding meat is one of the best and simplest ways to cut down your fat consumption. Modern farm animals are deliberately fattened up to increase profits. Eating fatty meat increases your chances of having a heart attack or developing cancer. 2. Every minute of every working day, thousands of animals are killed in slaughter-houses. Pain and misery are common. In the US alone, 500,000 animals are killed for meat every hour. 3.There are millions of cases of food poisoning recorded every year. The vast majority are caused by eating meat. 4. Meat contains absolutely nothing – no proteins, vitamins or minerals – that the human body cannot obtain perfectly happily from a vegetarian diet. 5. African countries – where millions are starving to death – export grain to the developed world so that animals can be fattened for our dining tables. 6. ‘Meat’ can include the tail, head, feet, rectum and spinal cord of an animal. 7. A sausage can contain ground up intestines. How
