Thank ME For A Vegetarian Thanksgiving!!!

For all carnivorous readers of my blog, please take a moment to view the above video. For all of you who consider yourselves moralists, do the same. For all of you who consider yourselves respectable human beings, do the same. For all of you who wish to truly solve some of the world’s most dire problems, please view the video, read on, and then consider what you have read.

Be a vegetarian for the sake of the animal, the sake of yourself, and the sake of the world.

How is vegetarianism better for the animal?
1) Viewing the above video should just about answer that one…
2) I, along with the majority of the populous, love animals. I simply prefer them alive.
3) No one who is a meat-eater can say in good conscience that they care about animals.
4) At most stockyards so called "downers" may lie suffering for days until they are dragged by chain to their slaughter.
5) Contrastingly, an animal can legally be kept in agony, sick or with broken bones simply because alive it will fetch a higher price for a rancher.
6) If you are Christian, Jesus preached peace and love for all of creation. You sit down to eat with 2 choices: contribute to the violence and genocide in the world, or simply eat a balanced vegetarian meal. Which of the two upholds the tenets of religion???
7) Animals DO have brain activity---Consciousness, thought, feelings…

How is vegetarianism better for the individual?
1) The consumption of animal products lowers the body’s pH. Acidic levels are often precursors to disease. This leads to cellular degeneration.
2) The majority of animals raised for human consumption are injected with hormones and antibiotics as to allow for greater efficiency in agribusiness. These chemicals are then consumed by the humans who consume the meat, leading to hormonal imbalances and resistance to antibiotics.
3) Consumption of meat actually leads to ingesting TOO MUCH protein. Though supporters of the meat industry try to convince us otherwise, scientific studies have shown that an excess of protein hurts calcium absorption, in turn contributing to osteoporosis and other bone-degeneration illnesses.
4) Because of differences in the bowels (human bowel is 12 times the length of the torso, while carnivorous animals have bowels 2 times the length of the torso), we are not fit for the consumption of meat. Such an improper bowel leads to high levels of toxicity in humans who consume meat as it putrefies.
5) On a calorie basis, spinach has 14 times the iron of a sirloin beef steak.
6) Animal products are deficient in Vitamin C.
7) The National Cancer Research Institute found that women who eat meat are FIVE TIMES MORE LIKELY TO GET BREAST CANCER compared to those who do not.
8) USDA meat inspection today is virtually non-existent with sometimes as few as 3 out of 1,000 carcasses checked. Federal inspectors are not allowed to stop the assembly line if a problem is sighted, they may only complain. Many cancerous carcasses pass inspection.
9) Factory-farmed animals have as much as 30 TIMES more saturated fat than yesterday's free-range, pasture-raised animals.
10) Meat contains 14 times more pesticides than plant-foods.
11) There are 20 - 30 thousand animal drugs currently in use. Roughly 90% have NOT been approved by the FDA. So prior to FDA inspection, these drugs are being ingested by you.
12) Detection of salmonella is not required by the USDA. Not a single plant in the country inspects for it. CBS's "60 Minutes" found half of the chickens they randomly purchased to be contaminated.
13) Nearly all toxic chemical residues in the American diet (95% to 99%) come from animal sources.
14) A mother’s milk from a nursing woman who’s diet is rich in meat is so toxic that if it were to be sold across state lines, it would be subject to confiscation and subsequent destruction by the FDA.
15) Meat-centered diets are linked to many different types of cancer.
16) In regions where meat is scarce, cardiovascular disease is unknown.
17) Meat contains no essential nutrients that cannot be obtained in higher quality directly from plant sources.
18) Due to the overuse of antibiotics in animal processing, we are embarking on an era on which antibiotics are useless and diseases untreatable.

Why is meat-consumption harmful to the world?
1) A meat-eating American needs 3-1/4 acres of cultivated farm land per year; vegetarians only require 1/6 acre per year.
2) Beef cattle return only 1 pound of meat for every 16 pounds of grain and soybeans they are fed, causing huge inefficiencies in food utilization, while millions of people go hungry.
3) 60,000 people die each year of starvation, while enough wheat is fed to animals (bred for human consumption) to feed 250,000. If we were to cut our meat consumption by even 10%, we could feed all of those who are starving.
4) It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce a single pound of meat.
5) It takes only 25 gallons of water to produce a pound of wheat.
6) A meat-eating American needs 3-1/4 acres of cultivated farm land per year; vegetarians only require 1/6 acre per year.
7) The planet's entire petroleum reserves would be exhausted in a just over a decade if the whole world adopted the technology used in the U.S. to produce the standard American meat-centered diet.
8) Forests are being destroyed for meat production. If we were to stop consuming meat, less land would be required for farming and the world would be restored to its natural order.
9) U.S. livestock produces 20 times the excrement of the human population. Their waste no longer serves to fertilize pastures a little at a time, since they spend much or all of their lives in factory sheds or feedlots. Wastes are often simply flushed away dangerously raising ammonia and nitrate levels in our drinking water. Going vegetarian helps to clean up our nation's water more than any other single action.
10) Ingestion of toxic fish led to a 30% decrease in sperm count in American men.
11) Cattle grazing is subsidized by the US government; this essentially means: YOU PAY FOR IT! (Taxes…) Without government subsidies, beef would cost $35 per pound.
12) Poultry processing is one of the most hazardous occupations. Work in that business can lead to repetitive motion disorders and nerve damage. I guess that could be called karma.
13) Agricultural engineers discovered that the energy costs of producing poultry, pork and other meats was over 10 times that of any plant food.
14) Over half of the water in the U.S. irrigates land for livestock feed and fodder.
15) When an Allied naval blockade in World War 1 forced Denmark into national vegetarianism, the death-rate dropped by 34%.
16) Every 3 seconds, a child dies of starvation. If meat consumption was reduced and the food fed to animals was used efficiently, we could prevent this travesty.
17) It follows that by ingesting meat, YOU ARE NOT ONLY KILLING ANIMALS, BUT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF HUMANS AS WELL.

So please view this site as well: http://www.vivavegie.org/vv101/101reas98.html for more information. It is not enough to merely read this and forget about it. Consider what you have learned, and do what what you think is right. Let us end this travesty.