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Be Humane! Be Vegetarian!
Presentation on
Why Vegetarian?
Compiled by Amitt Parikh
Author of Conversations with The Mysterious One
Remember you are a Human Being and not
just another Cruel Animal living in the jungle!
Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate
abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral
judgments using the accumulated knowledge of the ages, have the right
to take the lives of other sentient organisms, particularly when we are not
forced to do so by hunger or dietary need, but rather do so for the
somewhat frivolous reason that “we like the taste of meat”?
- Peter Cheeke, PhD
Contemporary Issues in Animal Agriculture, 2004 textbook
Blood... pain... screams... sadness...
Cold hearted murder. Is this humane?
Blood bath…Who cares how animals die?
The killing of animals for food
is merciless and inhumane.
Reasons for being Vegetarian
Every minute of every working day, thousands of animals
are killed in slaughter-houses. Every year, more than 27
billion animals (including fish) are killed for food in the
United States alone. Animals who die for your dinner table
die alone, in terror, in sadness and in pain.
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.
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.
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.
You are what you eat!
In a lifetime, the average meat eater will consume 36 pigs, 36 sheep and 750
chickens and turkeys. Do you want that much carnage on your conscience?
Your thoughts are directly related to the food you eat.
As a civilized human being, you should respect conscious
life by eating as low on the food hierarchy as possible.
ONSCIOUS NESS
HUMAN
BEEF
MUTTON
HIERARCHY CHICKEN
FISH
EGGS
FOOD
VEGETABLES
FRUITS
WATER
Every ‘commercial use’ of animals, and also those in dairy, egg and
leather industry, stands for ‘exploitation’ - since competition, economic
thinking and aiming at profit automatically lead to the exploitation of
animals.
In addition to this dairy, egg and leather industry are so firmly multi-
sided and undetectably connected to meat-industry, that every
consumption, or every usage of dairy products, eggs and leather
stimulates meat-industry at the same time.
Eating Non–Veg food is injurious to health!
What does meat contain?
Drugs / Hormones
There are over 20,000 different drugs, including sterols, antibiotics, growth
hormones and other veterinary drugs that are given to livestock animals. These
drugs are consumed when animal foods are consumed. The dangers herein, in
secondary consumption of antibiotics, are well documented.
Tranquillisers / Antibiotics
There are over 20,000 different drugs, including sterols, antibiotics, growth
hormones and other veterinary drugs that are given to livestock animals. These
drugs are consumed when animal foods are consumed. The dangers herein, in
secondary consumption of antibiotics, are well documented.
Agricultural Chemicals.
Being higher on the food chain, animal foods contain far higher concentrations of agricultural chemicals than plant
foods, including pesticides, herbicides, etc.
Pathogenic Microorganisms.
There are a host of bacteria and viruses, some quite dangerous, that are common to animals. When you eat
meat, you eat the organisms in the meat. Micro-organisms are present in plant foods too, but their number and
danger to human health is by no means comparable to that of those in meat.
Body wastes.
Food from animals contain their waste, including adrenaline, uric and lactic acid, etc., Before
adding ketchup, the biggest contributors to the "flavor profile" of a hamburger are the leftover
blood and urine.
Excess protein.
This causes excess nitrogen in the blood that creates a host of long-term health problems.
Meat is not good for your health
Vitamin deficient.
Except for the b-complex, meat is largely deficient in vitamins.
Carbohydrate Deficient.
Meat is deficient in carbohydrates, particularly the starches
which are so essential to proper health.
Fiber deficient.
Fiber absorbs unwanted, excess fats; cleans the intestines; provides bulk and aids in peristalsis. Plant food is high in
fiber content; meat, poultry and dairy products have none.
Intestinal Toxemia.
The condition of the intestinal flora is critical to overall health. Animal products rot the colon.
Food poisoning
There are millions of cases of food poisoning recorded every year. The vast majority are caused by eating meat.
Transit time.
Wholesome food travels quickly through the "G.I" tract, leaving little time
to spoil and incite disease within the body.
Appendicitis Diabetes
Piles
Arthritis
Anaemia Gout
Strokes Constipation
Health Benefits of Being Vegan
According to the American Dietetic Association’s position paper, vegetarians on average have
lower body weight, cho-lesterol, and blood pressure, and lower rates of type 2 diabetes,
heart disease, prostate cancer, and colon cancer.
Whole-grain consumption is associated with a reduced risk for heart disease, diabetes, high
blood pressure, and stomach and colon cancers. Regular consumption of nuts is linked with a
lower risk for heart disease and lower mortality rates.
Electrical activity in the brain as shown by EEGs has shown that the vegetarian diet induces
alpha waves, which indicate a state of neuromuscular relaxation not just of the brain but of the
whole body. Leadbeater maintains that this scientific research proves the beneficial action of
vegetarianism on behaviour, in that it promotes a sense of wellbeing "analogous to the state
of meditation on the most profound truths".
Health Benefits of Being Vegan
• Eating plenty of fruits and vegetables. They contain vitamin C, which
is essential for uilding collagen, the underlying bonematrix. For a
variety of reasons, animal protein causes severe bone deterioration.
Milk, in particular, is poor insurance against bone breaks the healthiest
calcium sources are green leafy vegetables and legumes.
• Vegetarians are fitter than meat eaters. many of the world's most
successful athletes are vegetarian.
• Longevity. To increase ones risk of getting degenerative disease means decreasing ones
chance to live a naturally long healthy life. Huzas and other peoples with large centenarian
populations maintain lifestyles that are relatively meat free.
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.
The length of mans digestive tube is 5-8 meters and the distance between
the mouth and the coccyx is 50 to 80 centimetres, which gives us a result
of 10 as in other frugivorous animals and not 3 as in the carnivorous or 20
as in the herbivorous animals.
More Reasons to be Vegetarian
Stance against Factory Farming.. You cannot make
a statement against factory farming if you yourself eat animals.
Your Economic Vote. You support the meat industry and the
way they operate when you purchase and use their products.
Corporate-owned factories
where cows are warehoused in
huge sheds and treated like
milk machines have replaced
most small family farms. With
genetic manipulation and
intensive production
technologies, it is common for
modern dairy cows to produce
100 pounds of milk a day— 10
times more than they would
produce in nature. To keep milk
production as high as possible,
farmers artificially inseminate
cows every year. Growth
hormones and unnatural
milking schedules cause dairy
cows' udders to become painful
and so heavy that they
sometimes drag on the ground,
resulting in frequent infections
and overuse of antibiotics.
When we humans
understand that we do not
need to kill to eat, we will
find healthy, energy-giving
food in nature. Then only
peace will prevail
Some facts
Kilos of potatoes that can be grown on 1 hectare of land: 22,417
Kilos of meat that can be produced 1 hectare of land: 185
Percentage of protein wasted by cycling grain through livestock: 90
Number of people worldwide who will die as a result of malnutrition
this year: 20 to 40 million
Litres of water necessary to produce 1 kilo of wheat: 209
Litres of water necessary to produce 1 kilo of meat: 20,861
The diet of the most powerful animals on the planet,
including gorillas, elephants and bulls: pure vegetarian
The life expectancy of vegetarians compared to
nonvegetarians: Vegetarians live, on average,
six extra years.
The largest meat-eater that ever lived:
Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Diet of six-time Ironman Triathlon winner Dave Scott, nine-time Wimbledon
winner Martina Navratilove, World Recordholder for bench press Stanton price
and India's international cricket star Anil Kumble, President of India Mr.A.P.J.
Abdul Kalam: Vegetarian
VEGETARIANISM IN PERSPECTIVE
A vegetarian is a person who does not eat meat, fish,
or fowl or products containing these foods.The eating
patterns of vegetarians may vary onsiderably:
Lacto-ovo-vegetarian: Eats a diet of mainly grains, vegetables, fruits, legumes, seeds, nuts, dairy
products, and eggs, and excludes meat,
fish, and poultry;
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