Reasons to stop consuming so much meat:
Stop Cruelty to Animals
On today's factory farms, animals are crammed by the thousands into filthy windowless sheds, wire cages, gestation crates and other confinement systems. These animals will never raise families, root in the soil, build nests or do anything that is natural and important to them.
Prolong Your Life
Vegetarians live six to 10 years longer on average than meat-eaters do. Healthy vegetarian diets support a lifetime of good health and provide protection against numerous diseases and the three biggest killers – heart disease, cancer and strokes.
Avoid the World's Number One Killer
The risk of developing heart disease among meat-eaters is 50 per cent higher than it is among vegetarians. Drs Dean Ornish and Caldwell Esselstyn have used a vegan diet to prevent and reverse heart disease. Dr Esselstyn's book documents their 100 per cent success with unclogging people's arteries and reversing heart disease.
Reduce Your Risk of Cancer
According to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, "Vegetarians are about 40 percent less likely to get cancer than non-vegetarians, regardless of other risks such as smoking, body size, and socioeconomic status".
Meat can be very dangerous especially because of our ignorance about how it's processed. Meat comes along with many diseases. Studies show links between diet and cancer, one of the most noticeable findings was that people who avoided meat were much less likely to develop a disease. Heavy meat consumption increases your risk of dying from all causes, including heart disease and cancer, according to a federal study conducted by the National Cancer Institute and featured in Archives of Internal Medicine. Farmers increase animal's growth with steroid hormones, which are used in beef cattle and sheep. They include estrogen, progesterone and testosterone. Since every type of meat is from the female animal, the meat contains synthetic female hormones that are given to the animals in order to make them develop faster and bigger. By consuming synthetic hormones from an animal, the human's hormonal balance becomes disrupted. This leads to several health conditions.
Cool that you Googled a few facts about how vegetarian diets are good for you, however you really have a terrible argument here. Being that we live in the real world and not Lala Land, there are negative effects of nearly everything you do. Yes there are benefits to eating nothing but plants, but you fail to mention any of the negative effects such as the fact that 92% of vegetarians are deficient in vitamin B12, which is used in the functions of every cell in your body. This weakens your argument because you fail to mention the counter arguments.
ReplyDeleteAlso, you come off as very biased. Showing extreme bias makes one look like someone who obsesses over a certain issue. This obsession can cloud your judgement and cause you to believe things that are untrue, making your argument even weaker.
Overall, although you have facts to back your argument, the way you present your information makes your argument weak.