Discuss the advantages of adopting a vegetarian diet?

Question

Discuss the advantages of adopting a vegetarian diet?

Answer 1

smaller carbon footprint

Answer 2

Reduces animal suffering:

http://www.chooseveg.com/animal-cruelty....

Animals on today's factory farms have no legal protection from cruelty that would be illegal if it were inflicted on dogs or cats. The number of animals that are bred and slaughtered depends directly on the consumer demand for meat. Every time we refrain from buying meat, we reduce this consumer demand and ensure that fewer animals will be bred and forced to suffer.

Preserves the environment:

http://goveg.com/environment.asp

"A major 2006 report by the United Nations summarized the devastation caused by the meat industry. Raising animals for food, the report said, is 'one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.'"

Protects your health:

http://www.pcrm.org/health/veginfo/vsk/v...

http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada...

The American Dietetic Association states that vegetarians have “lower rates of death from ischemic heart disease; … lower blood cholesterol levels, lower blood pressure, and lower rates of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and prostate and colon cancer” and that vegetarians are less likely than meat-eaters to be obese.

Answer 3

You can save animals and it has less fat in it.

Answer 4

1. Health benefits

2. Environmental benefits

3. Spiritual benefits