Ten Great Reasons to Become a Vegetarian!
1. Avoid meat borne illnesses: i.e. mad cow disease, parasites, bacterial infections, etc..
2. Avoid cross contamination between foods from meat bacteria
3. Cutting out meat reduces your fat consumption and keeps you at a healthy (slim) weight.
4. Save the life of many animals: animals killed for food are often slaughtered in cruel, painful, and inhumane ways.
5. No more mystery meat (or wondering which part of the animal it came from)!
6. Vegetarians have a 20% lower blood cholesterol levels than meat eaters reducing risks of heart attack and cancer considerably.
7. Significantly reducing the amount of chemicals you consume: animal farmers feed their livestock hormones, tranquilizers to calm them, and antibiotics to prevent infections.
8. Help the environment: Meat producers are credited as the largest fresh water polluters and contribute to world hunger by using massive amounts of vegetables and grains to feed their animals. They are also the reason half the rain forests in the world are eliminated-to make grazing room for their herds.
9. Vegetables are nutrient dense foods. Meats do not provide nearly as many nutrients as vegetables. The nutrients meats do provide can be found in other vegetarian friendly foods.
10. Vegetarian diets are healthier and more diverse, providing the body with a variety of nutrient dense foods. Vegetarian diets are healthier and safer for diabetics, lower the risk of cancer due to the concentrated cancer fighting nutrients present in vegetables, lower the risk and incidence of obesity, and reduce the incidence of certain degenerative diseases.
