People should consider becoming Vegetarians'

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People should consider becoming Vegetarians.

• (Remember.You are people!)

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Why should I consider such a change in
lifestyle?!?

• It will help avoid unnecessary killing.
• It will help the environment.
• It will avoid me personal suffering(by improving
  my health)
• It will allow me to follow in the footsteps of
  many great people towards a better world.

Yes a better world!!
Nothing will benefit human health and increase
chances for survival of life on Earth as much as
the evolution to a vegetarian diet. Albert
Einstein
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At the (factory)farm
Yes , Mrtha..
Joe!?!
Who was that?!?
No one dear
But I saw someone!!
Never mind that honey my friend Bill was freed
yesterday!!
What a lucky lad..!
One of us might be next..
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What probably happened.

• Joe and Martha were freed the next day.
• Slaughtered ten minutes after.
• Joe was still alive while he was being butchered.
• And Death still walks around in the farms.

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But How hungry are we?!?

• The total number of land-based animals killed for
  food in the U.S. this year is projected to reach
  10,378 million
• 9 of the total usually die lingering deaths
  from disease, malnutrition, injury, suffocation,
  stress, or other deadly factory farming
  practices.
• The more egregious example are the 266 million
  laying hens (62 of those hatched), including 213
  million males dumped to suffocate slowly in
  plastic garbage bags upon hatching and 53 million
  spent females dumped on the waste pile, dead or
  alive, after a lifetime of laying eggs.
• In more personal terms , during a 75-year life
  span, a typical U.S. resident is responsible for
  the suffering and death of 10 cows, 34 pigs, and
  other small mammals, 2,535 turkeys, chickens and
  ducks, and uncounted numbers of fishes and other
  aquatic animals.

"Custom will reconcile people to any
atrocity." George Bernard Shaw
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..Environment

• Annually, an acre of land can produce 40,000
  pounds of potatoes, 50,000 pounds of tomatoes, or
  a paltry 250 pounds of beef.
• According to the Food and Agriculture
  Organization (FAO) of the United Nations,
  livestock farming contributes more to global
  warming than total worldwide transportation.
• Agribusiness today is the largest polluter of any
  industry. A farm of 5000 pigs produces as much
  excrement as a city of 50,000 people.

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat,
and the time will come when men such as I will
look upon the murder of animals as they now look
upon the murder of men.- from da Vinci's
'Notes' Leonardo DaVinci 1452 -1519
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A vegetarian diet can improve your health!

• Vegetarian diets are now recognized by many,
  including the American dietitic association, as
  being nutritionally adequate, and providing
  healthful benefits in the prevention and
  treatment of chronic diseases.
• The total direct medical costs in the United
  States attributable to meat consumption were
  estimated to be 30-60 billion a year, based upon
  the higher prevalence of hypertension, heart
  disease, cancer, diabetes, gallstones, obesity
  and food-borne illness among omnivores compared
  with vegetarians.
• People who consume higher amounts of fruits and
  vegetables have about one-half the risk of
  cancer, especially the epithelial cancers.

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Chances of disease are lowered
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Important vegetarian people

• Henry David Thoreau
• Buddha
• Socrates
• Plato
• Mahatma Ghandhi
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Charles Darwin
• Thomas Edison
• Martin Luther
• Sir Isaac Newton
• Schopenhauer
• William Wordsworth
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Voltaire

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Online resources used

• How hungry are we
• http//www.wfad.org/statistics/
  (1)
• http//alumnus.caltech.edu/brett/wh
  yveg.html
• Environment
• http//www.vegetarismus.ch/klima
  schutz/index_en.htm
• A vegetarian diet can improve your health
• http//www.vegetarian-nutrition.i
  nfo/updates/vegetarian_diets_health_benefits.php
• Chances of disease are lowered
• http//www.vegetarian-nutrition.i
  nfo/updates/vegetarian_diets_health_benefits.php