Vegetarianism is the Better Choice Essay -- Diet Vegetarian

The trend of abstaining from eating nerve and other animate being products is a rapidly growing one. According to David Bender in savage Rights Opposing Viewpoints, Today, nearly twenty million Americans are vegetarians, and many more have greatly reduced their total consumption (139). One meat-eating someone may ponder why these non-meat eaters would deprive themselves of the wonderful taste of meat and animal products. Another concern is over nutrition, mainly protein intake. Many meat eaters hope that a vegetarian diet does not and cannot supply the protein necessary for the body to function properly. There are many misconceptions (like the one above) and unknown facts associated with the vegetarian lifestyle. This essay will mitt with the issue of nutrition and reveal the truth about how the vegetarian diet can improve ones well being by, making weigh vent easier, boosting the level of energy one feels on a day to day basis, reducing the risks of Atheseriousis, cancer, di abetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, and heart disease. There are also many unknown facts associated with the vegetarian manner of life. One of which is the great role vegetarians play in reducing the hail of waste in the environment. What this statement means is that by not eating meat one is promoting the use of farmland for food for humans instead of farmland for grazing animals (this greatly reduces water usage and waste it also cuts down on the acreage of farm land utilise.) Water usage will become an increasing problem if more people do not find and down water conservation methods. According to data taken from John Robbins in Diet for a New America, if something is not done, the water in the Texas aquifers will be exhausted in less than thirty-five years (1). For reasons that will become clearer after reading this essay, vegetarianism seems to be an answer to the problem of water usage. With the increasing amount of land being used for farming to mainly feed animals used for f ood by us, comes increased soil erosion and leeching. Leeching is a term used to describe the process of the loss of nutrients from the soil, and the end result is sand that cannot support plant life. Vegetarians help to reduce the amount of farmlands needed to support animals.According to Robbins, in Diet for a New America, Since 1967, the rate of deforestation in the U.S. has been one acre every five second... ...nd most veal calves are subjected to confinement so trying that they cannot even turn around (134). The purpose for this treatment is so the animals expend as little energy (in the form of calories) as possible so that the animal gains weight substantially quicker. The raising of other food animals is quite similar to the treatment that pigs and veal receive.Food animals are often fed contaminated food, which poisons them and their meat. severe heavy metals build up in manure, bones, and internal organs, such as kidneys and livers, and are then recycled back through li vestock as feed. The diseased organisms that run short in animal tissue processed into feed can infect the livestock and inevitably infect us as well.When one considers the serious health risks of a meat and dairy based diet, the environmental devastation caused by animal agriculture, the huge waste of resources in a world faced with continuing human starvation, and the violence to and suffering of billions of animals the switch to vegetarianism makes perfect sense. Even if one is not willing to completely give up meat, just eating meat at less often will make a difference in ones health, and the environment.