Veganism and vegetarianism
Now I’m not
going to say hey omnivore you doing the wrong thing you have to convert to
vegan or vegetarian, as that’d be enforcing my beliefs upon you and everyone
has a right to their own opinion. I’m not trying to convert you I’m just
telling you the truth about the human race so please listen. People may say
yeah yeah vegan/vegetarian; you’re weird. Have you ever thought about their
views of your diet? So you’re not confused I’m vegetarian and I wanted expand
my knowledge on veganism.
How humans are designed
First, we
need to look back to human evolution. Our ancestors were mainly eating a
plant-based diet and when fire was discovered and there was a shortage of
plants they would occasionally kill and cook animals for survival. 100 years
ago, only wealthy people could afford animal flesh, compared to today with meat
being fairly cheap due to overproduction. Meat eaters have a 32% higher risk of
developing heart disease due to the high cholesterol in meat. Human teeth are
not designed to rip animal flesh as we don’t have sharp canines. They are in
fact blunt like a herbivores. A true omnivores (an omnivore eats plants and
meat) jaw is only capable of moving up and down- a mouth that is supposed to
eat meat. As you know humans can move their jaw up and down and side to side
and have flat molars (unlike omnivores) just like a herbivore as herbivores
grind vegetables and fruit in their mouths. A human’s intestinal tract in not
suited to the digestion of meat. An omnivore has a short intestinal tract
compared to humans who have a long intestinal tract, so your digestive system
has enough time to break down fibre and absorb the nutrients from plant-based
foods. It saddens me that people care so much about animal testing but then
they don’t care about killing and eating them. It’s mad to me. It’s like adding
2 and 2 and equalling five, it doesn’t make sense.
If so I can safely
say that you are human and are capable of compassion. It is common for humans
to be repulsed by the sight of blood and have no desire to kill another being.
Animals like humans have feelings and experience fear. Their main purpose in life is to be safe, to
protect and raise their young and to reproduce.
Could stop world hunger and
damaging the environment
40% of the worlds crops are fed to livestock and not
the 800 million people dying from starvation. The current growth rate of crops
is enough to sustain 10-11 billion people. 51% or more of greenhouse gas
emissions are caused by animal agriculture according to a report by The
Worldwatch Institute. According to the US environmental protection agency
around 500 million tonnes of animal waste is produced by the US farm factory
animals each year. This waste can often end up in rivers and lakes causing
pollution. It takes around 20 times less land to feed a person on a vegan diet,
vegans eat the crops directly, so this would save food from being fed to
overbred animals. This results in less land for humans and less food for
starving people. It takes 4.5 kilos of grain to produce 450 grams of meat. Over
90% of the land cleared in the Amazon Rainforest since the 70’s is used for
grazing livestock. Each of you directly contribute to the killing of 7,000
animals throughout your lifetime. These animals include 11 cows, 27 pigs, 2,400
chickens, 80 turkeys, 30 sheep and 4,500 fish which all are dooming our planet.
82% of the world’s starving children live in countries where food is fed to
animals that are then killed and eaten by people in developed countries like
the US, UK, Australia and in Europe. A quarter of all grain production in
third world countries is now given to livestock, in their own country and out.
Oceans
Fishing boats are clearing all life from the ocean floor destroying
coral reefs, destroying sea life habitat. The fishermen kill thousands of
dolphins, sharks and sea turtles unintentionally catching them whilst catching
fish.
Thank you and I hope I have given you food for thought
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