What ae the benefits of being vegetarian???

Question

i want to be one.also tell me the cons of it.

Answer 1

You would get any disease's the animals have got.

It is healthy because you don't eat the animal fats.

You live 12 years longer.

Vegetarian diets can aid in keeping body weight under control and substantially reduce risks of heart disease and osteoporosis

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Answer 2

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being a vegetarian you wont' have to eat those hormone injected abused animals

the cons....no more meat but there are fake meat made from vegetables that taste EXACTLY like regular meat

Answer 3

Best way the answer that is to tell you how it benefits me!

1. I don't have to eat  meat which was laden with hormones while it was still alive.  They load meat with chemicals to make it appear fresh in supermarkets.  So as a vegetarian I don't get those chemicals.

2.  I don't have to worry about protein  when I eat a varied amount of veggies ,fruit &beans, cereals, grains!

  3.  I don't have to look a bloody meats to have something to eat.  Meat is gross it is bloody and sickly looking.

   4.  I am healthier as a vegetarian than I've been when I was a meat eater!  That's less time in Hospitals!

    5.  I don't miss any meat.. if I want something like meat   I can make a fake meat!  It's close to the taste of the real thing but not exactly but I didn't really like the taste of the real meat!  

     6.  Veggies & fruit seem to taste better to one who doesn't eat meat anymore!

      7.  If U don't buy meat..  U save money with that  U can buy more fruit &  veggies!

     The only negative thing of being vegetarian is having to explain to meat eaters  that vegetarian is a healthier way of eating  than eating  dead carcass!  They the meat eaters refuse to believe the truth!

Answer 4

pros - farts arent as stinky (at least in my experience), and body odor is rarely a problem (unless your a vegetarian who eats all kinds of weird spices and stuff)

cons - you have to eat a lot of veggies and fruits and healthy foods to make up for nutrients. some consider this a con and others a pro. I consider it a pro, because I am a lot healthier now that I eat lots of greens. also you have to let go of meat. not too hard though because there are lots of delicious alternatives.

Answer 5

20 REASONS for being VEGETERIAN

Vegetarianism is the fastest growing trend in the developed world. Here are 20 (and even more) reasons why you should think about turning green too.

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1)Avoiding meat is one of the best and simplest ways to cut down your fat consumption. Modern farm animals are deliberately fattened up to increase profits. Eating fatty meat increases your chances of having a heart attack or developing cancer.



2)Every minute of every working day, thousands of animals are killed in slaughter-houses. Pain and misery are common. In the US alone, 500,000 animals are killed for meat every hour.



3)There are millions of cases of food poisoning recorded every year. The vast majority are caused by eating meat.



4)Meat contains absolutely nothing - no proteins, vitamins or minerals - that the human body cannot obtain perfectly happily from a vegetarian diet.



5)African countries - where millions are starving to death - export grain to the developed world so that animals can be fattened for our dining tables.

  

6)'Meat' can include the tail, head, feet, r****m and spinal cord of an animal.



7)A sausage can contain ground up intestines. How can anyone be sure that the intestines are empty when they are ground up? Do you really want to eat the content of a pig's intestines?



8)If we eat the plants we grow instead of feeding them to animals, the world's food shortage will disappear virtually overnight. Remember that 100 acres of land will produce enough beef for 20 people but enough wheat to feed 240 people.



9)Every day, tens of millions of one-day-old male chicks are killed because they will not be able to lay eggs. There are no rules about how this mass slaughter takes place. Some are crushed or suffocated to death. Many are used for fertiliser or fed to other animals.



10)Animals who die for your dinner table die alone, in terror, in sadness and in pain. The killing is merciless and inhumane.



11)It's must easier to become (and stay) slim if you are a vegetarian. (By 'slim', I do not mean 'abnormally slender' or 'underweight' but rather, an absense of excess weight!)



12)Half the rainforests in the world have been destroyed to clear ground to graze cattle to make beefburgers. The burning of the forests contributes 20% of all green-house gases. Roughtly 1,000 species a year become extinct because of the destruction of the rainforests. Approximately 60 million people a year die of starvation. All those lives could be saved because those people could eat grain used to fatten cattle and other farm animals - if Americans ate 10% less meat.



13)The world's fresh water shortage is being made worse by animal farming. And meat producers are the biggest polluters of water. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce one pound of meat. If the US meat industry wasn't supported by the taxpayer paying a large proportion of its water costs, then hamburger meat would cost $35 a pound.



14)If you eat meat, you are consuming hormones that were fed to the animals. No one knows what effect those hormones will have on your health. In some parts of the world, as many as one on four hamburgers contain growth hormones that were originally given to cattle.



15) The following diseases are commoner among meat eaters: anaemia, appendicitis, arthritis, breast cancer, cancer of the colon, cancer of the prostrate, constipation, diabetes, gallstones, gout, high blood pressure, indigestion, obesity, piles, strokes and varicose veins. Lifelong vegetarians visit hospital 22% less often than meat eaters and for shorter stays. Vegetarians have a 20% lower blood cholestrol level than meat eaters and this reduces heart attack and cancer risks considerably.



16)Some farmers use tranquillisers to keep animals calm. Other routinely use antibiotics to starve off infection. When you eat meat you are eating those drugs. In America, 55% of all antibiotics are fed to animals and the percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin went up from 14% in 1960 to 91% in 1988.

  

17)In a lifetime, the average meat eater will consumer 36 pigs, 36 sheep and 750 chickens and turkeys. Do you want that much carnage on your conscience?



18)Animals suffer from pain and fear just as much as you do. How would you like to spend your last hours locked in a truck, packed into a cage with hundreds of other terrified animal and then cruelly pushed into a blood soaked death chamber. Anyone who eats meat condones and supports the way animals are treated.



19)Animals which are a year old are often far more rational - and capable of logical thought - than six week old babies. Pigs and sheep are far more intelligent than small children. Eating dead animals is barbaric.



20)The world's most successful scientists, thinkers, environmentalists, philosophers & spiritual leaders ARE/WERE vegetarian.

Answer 6

pros- awesome farts

cons- having to eat crappy food, always looking near death, more judgmental of others who choose to eat the way nature intended, self righteousness, and depending on your perspective, the aforementioned farts.

Answer 7

Pros-

-Low cholesterol (vegetarian) and no cholesterol diet (vegan)

-Easier to maintain a healthy weight

-Risks for most kinds of cancer are greatly reduced

-Vegetarians save 95 lives a year!

-Animal products (which aren't organic) tend to be loading with all kinds of chemicals (hormones, antibiotics) which are harmful to you.

Cons-

-It's hard at first to get used to it

-Fake meat can be pretty pricey

-some people make fun of vegetarians.

But I have been a vegeatrian for 1 year in 3 days!

I love it, and you  just get used to it.

- J A N E L -