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Five Good Reasons to Become a Vegetarian
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If you've been considering making some positive changes in your life, you might begin by eating lower on the food chain. Vegetarianism is healthier, cheaper, kinder to the environment and more humane than meat eating.
Live Long & Well
Did you know that vegetarians have significantly less heart disease, cancer, diabetes, kidney failure, osteoporosis and obesity than carnivores? The chance of death from a heart attack is 50% for an American male carnivore, but only 4% for a vegetarian. Women who eat animal products daily are nearly four times more likely to get breast cancer than non-meat eaters. Non-vegetarian mothers' milk has ten times the levels of toxic DDT than that of vegetarian mothers.
As for cows milk, it's a high-fat fluid created by nature to turn a 45-LB calf into a 400-LB bovine behemoth in 18 months. One glass of whole milk has 34 milligrams of cholesterol and 8 grams of fat. (By contrast, eight ounces of soy drink has no cholesterol, and only 2 grams of fat.) Humans are the only species that take another animals milk, and the only one to drink milk after infancy. Milk often causes allergic reactions, digestive disorders, and heart disease.
Eggs - intended by nature as the total life support for chick embryos for 21 days before hatching - clog your blood stream with concentrated cholesterol, raising blood pressure and impairing circulation. All meat contains cholesterol. No plant food does. Also, animal flesh and dairy foods are totally lacking in fiber, necessary for preventing intestinal cancer.
Most animal food now contains antibiotics, artificial growth hormones, and toxic pesticide residues. Many commercially-raised chickens have cancer of the lymph nodes. Even fish often contains chemical carcinogens from our polluted waterways. The best way to avoid these poisons is to eat naturally cultivated vegetables, fruit, grains, legumes, nuts, seeds, and other plant foods. New vegetarians often report feeling more energy and less physical symptoms soon after eliminating animal products.
Earth-Friendly
The environmental arguments for vegetarianism are also persuasive. Each minute of every day, 20 more acres of US forest are sacrificed for animal grazing. Over 85 percent of all our topsoil loss is directly related to livestock raising. More than half of all our water consumption is for animal production.
In Central America, more than a quarter of all rain forests have been destroyed to produce beef since 1960. A hundred species per year are driven to extinction due to destruction of tropical rain forests. And plant agriculture uses ten times less energy than factory farming of meat.
Just Plain Humane
Then there are the considerations of conscience. The US meat industry kills 660,000 animals per hour. Many are boiled alive or bleed to death from slit throats. Calves are immobilized in crates and killed at 14 weeks for veal. Chicken are raised in tightly packed cages, denied natural light and earth to walk on.
Less Hungry
If Americans reduced their intake of meat by just 10%, world hunger could be eliminated by using the freed land to grow grains, beans, and vegetables.
Vegie-Economics
And if that's not incentive enough, consider your personal finances. Pound for pound, plant protein is much less expensive than animal protein. And don't forget that the hidden costs of meat-eating include higher medical bills, taxes for government subsidies to the livestock industry, and clean-up of land and water pollution.
Any Questions?
Wondering if you'll get enough protein foregoing steak and burgers? Have no fear. Highly digestible amino acids are plentiful in whole grains, legumes, nuts, greens, and vegetables (minus the antibiotics and hormones). Actually, excess protein in the American diet is a far greater danger than too little, leading to osteoporosis and kidney failure. Calcium abounds in leafy greens, grains, beans, nuts and seeds. And plant food is naturally low in sodium (salt) and high in vital potassium, while the reverse is true of animal products.
The only nutrient that strict vegetarians might miss is vitamin B12, and it can be obtained from nutritional supplements, green algae and spirulena, or an occasional cup of yogurt. The well-known Vermont author and educator, Scott Nearing, lived past 100 years of age, eating no animal products at all for his last 50, and never got sick or showed any symptoms of vitamin deficiencies.
If you still believe the myth that meat is needed for strength, consider that elephants, bulls, horses, buffaloes and gorillas all thrive soley on grasses and other plants. In fact, the only man ever to win the Ironman Triathlon more than twice was vegetarian Dave Scott, and he took the title six times!
For more information, contact the Vegetarian Resource Group, PO Box 1463, Baltimore MD 21203
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Lonny Brown,
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Lonny J. Brown, Ph.D. is the author of "Self-Actuated Healing" (Naturegraph, Publ.), and "Enlightenment In Our Time," (BookLocker.com/
LonnyBrown).
His writings on holistic health have appeared on AOL's Alternative Medicine Forum and in Alternative Health Practitioner, Yoga Journal, and many other progressive publications.
Dr. Brown teaches holistic health, mind/body healing, and stress reduction courses at hospitals, schools and businesses throughout the US. His Web site also features essays, tapes, books, and links to a variety of integrative health sources.
Lonny J. Brown, Ph.D. is also the author of " ENLIGHTENMENT ONLINE - The Newsletter for Spiritual Cyberspace.
holistic.com/lonny
lonny@holistic.com
lonnybrown@aol.com
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