If you are thinking of becoming a vegetarian you may be debating if it is for health reasons or because you do not like the thought of animals dying to be used as food. A person in this situation may also be questioning if this dramatic change to their life will help the planet at all. However, if enough individuals do stop, it becomes statistically more important to the health of animals on this planet. To provide an example of this, you only have to look at how many people in America suffer with heart disease that eat meat regularly.
If it weren’t specifically for meat, eggs, and dairy products which are the three largest sources of cholesterol, heart attacks and other heart and circulatory problems would be far less prevalent. The organization Earth Save has calculated that a vegetarian has only a quarter of the chance of a heart attack as someone who has meat in their diet. Those individuals that have gone one step further an become vegans have around a ten percent chance of a heart attack as opposed to people on regular diets. The improvements in health do not end there if you are a vegetarian.
For instance, you won’t be exposed to nearly as many preservatives, which are common in meat and are linked to cancer. As a vegetarian you won’t be exposed to various hormones (that are packed into animal feed), which often disrupt normal hormonal processes in the body. The consumption of lactose will also be reduced which is claimed to cause some digestive problems. The health advantages to becoming a vegetarian are unquestionable but there is also the fact that many animals will not lose their lives to feed you either.
One particular study illustrates this point by claiming that the average American is responsible for the death (for food) of over two thousand seven hundred animals during their life. If you quit eating meat now, you could literally prevent the suffering and death of hundreds of animals over the course of a couple decades. If you were also to give up dairy products and eggs, many battery hens and cows would not need to be used to feed you. After the information you have read here it would be difficult to say no to becoming a vegetarian wouldn’t it? It is hard to ignore the facts and the number of animal lives that would be saved is huge, not to mention the reduction in your chances of contracting a heart condition or cancer.
