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pros: everyone is happy, including spiritually.
cons: meat industry taken down, (?) not enough fiber, but peanut butter takes care of that.
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Watch the documentary "The Future of Food" on Hulu or elsewhere. If nothing else, it will make you think twice about where you get your food. http://www.hulu.com/the-future-of-food" target="_blank">http://www.hulu.com/the-future-of-food
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meat takes up 4 x more space to raise than veggies organic food takes up 4x more space to grow. EVEN. Who will eat the meat when vegetarians wear leather? WASTE? Too many people for the planet to support is the real issue but too complicated to address? DIVERSION?
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Positive: The health benefits obviously and the greater avaiability of vegetarian food. People see what animals go through and actually go out to change things. Negative: Preachy vegetarians And NO, getting wanna-be celebrities to pose nude with puppies doesn't do sh*t, sorry PETA.
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read: Eating Animals and Planet of Blood. first is detailed and scientific. second is an old sci fi book about people landing on a planet 'of blood'.
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Watch the movie Food, Inc. It exposes a lot of the horrors of the meat industry, such as how the animals and the people who raise them are treated. I've been a vegetarian for about 2.5 years and it was one of the best decisions I have ever made. The meat industry negatively impact the environment because the amount of energy required to raise animals to kill is so much higher than that of growing plants to feed people.
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Animals don't deserve what they have to endure. It's rediculous and inhumane. If there's no need to kill in order to sustain yourself, why do it?
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The movie 'Earthlings' would answer this question very well for you. Its available on Youtube.
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My thing has always been: Why feed cows when we could feed people? Why do we need up to four extra stomachs to get in the way of filling our own? Simple efficiency.
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The only negative effect I can think that a vegetarian diet could possibly have on the environment is if vegetarians support the agricultural giants like Monsanto, or if vegetarianism takes hold on a much larger level in the US to the point that said giants try to capitalize on it.
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Yum a chili-triple bacon-pentaburger-crispy chicken-ham-n-cheese-onion rings-jar(and fried) jalapenos-shrooms melt..... with the fixins'.
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Less animals have to suffer, that's enough reason, alone. Imagine being raised in a pen, or a field, wherever, and there's a group sharpening their blades, eyeing you up. We can think "well that's a pig, or a cow, that's what they're for!" You wouldn't be saying that if you were a pig or a cow!
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As a moderate in all things, I think it's great to have large groups of both..it's a balance. Some eat the plants...some eat the meats. Some eats the both. All's good.
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Until pork is considered a vegetable, a vegetarian lifestyle would make this local environment pretty unpleasant...
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I heard on NPR today that Wisconsin alone has 5 MILLION gallons of cattle poop a day to deal with from the dairy industry. Couldn't they make fuel or electricity with that instead of polluting the earth/waterways.
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Here is some more info I found... "Conscientous people are trying to help reduce global warming by driving fuel-efficient cars and using energy-saving light bulbs. Although this helps, science shows that reducing our consumption of animal products is the most effective way to fight global warming. In a groundbreaking 2006 report, the U.N. (United Nations) stated that raising animals for food generates more greenhouse gases than all the cars and trucks in the world combined.[1] Senior U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization official Henning Steinfeld reported that the meat industry is "one of the most significant contributors to today's most serious environmental problems." Raising animals for food is one of the largest sources of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide emissions." Read more: http://liberationbc.org/issues/environment#ixzz0ZJohmmWa" target="_blank">http://liberationbc.org/issues/environment#ixzz0ZJohmmWa
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