48 reasons to become a vegetarian
Text: Li Shizeng
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1. Countless animals were abused due to heavy feeding.
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2. Not killing is the first step to cultivate compassion. Eating meat is a cruel habit. Why? Brudack, a Greek writer, once pointed out in On Meat that human beings have an inexhaustible variety of vegetables and fruits. The reason why they eat meat is not because of this need, but because of vanity and boredom with these fruits and vegetables, so they begin to eat some impure and inconvenient food. Robert louis stevenson, a writer of children's books, also pointed out that cannibalism is the most disgusting behavior; But for Buddhists and vegetarians, we are like cannibals who kill each other, because we also eat babies-just not our own children.
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People are afraid of death, so why don't animals care about each other?
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Vegetarian diet lightens the burden on the stomach.
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5. It is a moral character of self-demand to restrain one's desire to turn to meat.
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6. Carnivores have claws and fangs, which can prey on and bite other animals, but humans don't.
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7. It takes only three or four hours for plant food to enter the stomach and be excreted, while it takes at least twelve hours for meat. The waste gas that remains in the body and decomposes seriously affects human health.
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8. Unlike carnivores, when humans see other animals, they will instinctively kill and bite.
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9. Vegetarians are less likely to suffer from cardiovascular diseases and cancer than ordinary people.
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10. If all mankind are vegetarians, the energy crisis will be a problem in 260 years.
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1 1. It is impossible to get mad cow disease, reduce the chances of salmonella and Escherichia coli poisoning, prevent diabetes, and strengthen the immune system: vegetarianism is synonymous with health!
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12. Vegetarians are not alone: there are many famous people who are vegetarians, such as dustin hoffman, Leonardo da Vinci, Einstein, Shi Huaizhe, Hank Allen, the king of American home runs, paul mccartney, Edison, kathy johnson, Virgil, Chris, Ovid, Fordler, Wagner, Wells, and so on.
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13. Gout and arthritis caused by hoarding meat in protein rarely occur in vegetarians.
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14. vegetarianism is one of the future trends: this can be seen from the increasing number of vegetarians in various countries year by year. There are140,000 vegetarians in the United States, while nearly a quarter of the population in Britain are vegetarians, and the age group has a downward trend. It is no longer a patent for the elderly. It's fashionable to be a vegetarian in the future!
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15. The human intestine is twenty times as long as the body, similar to herbivores, but different from carnivores.
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16. Animal husbandry is the biggest force to destroy forests, and meat indirectly becomes the killer to destroy the earth.
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17. Livestock manure can also cause environmental pollution.
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18. Topsoil loss is the reason why many civilizations have disappeared in history; In the United States, 85% of the causes of topsoil loss are related to animal husbandry. Vegetarianism is not only good for your health, but also good for the earth, because a meat-free diet helps to maintain natural resources. Meat food is harmful not only to human health, but also to the environment.
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19. The stomach acid of carnivores is 20 times that of humans, so the strong acid environment is enough to digest meat and bones.
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20. The land productivity required to feed a meat eater can feed 20 vegetarians.
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90% of plant food is wasted!
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We can put forward:
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Plants 100 people.
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Beef and dairy products for 30 people
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Chicken and egg 12 people
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Pig 8 people
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2 1. The strongest animals in the world don't eat meat either: It is often said that the main reason for eating meat is to enhance physical strength, but do you know that the strongest animals in the world are vegetarians, such as elephants, cows, horses and camels. Take the silverback gorilla as an example. Its physiological structure is similar to that of human beings, but it is much stronger than human beings, and it only eats fruits and some plants.
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I don't think they know that many world-class athletes choose vegetarianism to keep their strength, such as Bill Pickering, the former record holder for swimming across the English Channel, and Roy Hilligan, the American bodybuilder.
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If all mankind are meat eaters, the oil reserves will be exhausted in thirteen years.
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23. The amount of water needed to raise a cow can float a destroyer.
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24. It takes 2500 gallons of water to produce a pound of meat, which is equivalent to the water consumption of a family for one month.
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25. When people accuse the aquaculture industry of over-pumping underground water power, which causes the crisis of stratum subsidence and energy consumption, they seldom think that meat is actually the bane.
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26. Reducing the intake of meat, dairy products and eggs by 50% can reduce the incidence of heart disease by 45%; If you don't eat these foods at all, you can reduce the incidence of heart disease by 90%.
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27. Men who eat meat, cheese, eggs and milk every day are three to six times more likely to develop prostate cancer than men who eat less or don't eat these foods.
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Meat-eating women over 28.65 years old lose their bones at an average rate of 35% every year; The vegetarian rate was 18%.
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29. The breast milk of meat-eating women is 35 times more contaminated by pesticides than that of vegetarian mothers.
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30. Meat and pharmaceutical companies have regarded feeding antibiotics to livestock as a normal feeding method, and the problem of drug resistance has affected human beings.
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3 1. The oil needed to produce one pound of beef can be used to produce forty pounds of soybeans.
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32. The struggle of animals before death will cause toxic endocrine in the body, and these toxins are harmful to consumers.
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People who are used to eating animal flesh and blood also have aggressive character in their blood.
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34. In order to make people eat a pound to move protein, animals must be given 2 1 pound of protein.
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35. Take the United States for example. If you consume 10% meat a year, you can release12 million tons of grain for human consumption and feed 60 million people.
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36. In the United States, the residue of chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides in meat products is 55%, while the residue in fruits, vegetables and grains is below 10%.
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37. The plant energy of half a pound of beef can be used to save 40 third world children. One pound of beef needs 16 pound of grain, and 15 pound is consumed by animals and eventually becomes excrement.
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Through meat, we only absorb 10% energy from plants. Raising a large number of livestock requires a lot of medicine to prevent them from getting sick. We eat meat and those chemicals.
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39. 1986, there was a surplus of beef (650,000 metric tons more), which had to be subsidized by the government, and taxpayers in the same market in Europe spent $500 million each year.
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Too much beef in Europe can be sold to the third world at the lowest price, which will destroy the local market.
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4 1. The large-scale production of animal husbandry needs to import a large number of miscellaneous grains such as soybeans from the third world at a very low price, while chemical fertilizers are produced in the European market and sold at a higher price.
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42. Meat is the main cause of many civilized diseases. Most people either eat too much or eat incorrectly. Protein is an animal, which is the main cause of many allergies and other diseases. Some skin diseases can only be treated by vegetarian methods. Vegetarian religious groups in South India and Europe and America are healthier than meat eaters.
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43. The population of the world is increasing, and 2 1 century will be twice that of the 20th century. Fertile land is getting less and less. If we continue to eat meat and food, it will definitely not be enough.
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44. The excreta produced by raising a large number of livestock is now sprinkled on less and less farmland, resulting in excess fertilizer and polluting groundwater.
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45. Groundwater has been seriously polluted by nitrate, which is caused by excreta and fertilizers. Nitrate in groundwater can cause cancer and polycythemia, which is very unfavorable to children. Nitrate is also found in mineral water, indicating that nitrate has penetrated into the stratum. The mineral water we are drinking now is 100 years ago.
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46. Forest deaths and acid rain are mainly caused by air pollution. The evaporation rate of ammonia AC in feces is the highest in livestock farms and nearby forests, and the destruction rate of Dutch forests is 30%, which is the result of a large number of animals. Ammonia gas produced by animal husbandry in the Netherlands was also detected in northern Finland.
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47. Some polluted air is produced by nitrogen in excreta. In Germany, 65,438+00 liters of nitrogen fell with the rain on the land of10,000 square meters, and the North Sea was also seriously polluted. Fish are slowly decreasing, algae are increasing, seawater is short of oxygen, and fish parasites are increasing.
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48. Brazil's rainforests, known as the lungs of the world, are being cut down more and more seriously just to feed animals. Woodland is becoming more and more barren. Every three or four years, another piece of land must be found, and the original land becomes wasteland.
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