Scientists know that the diet of any animal corresponds to its physiological structure. Human physiology, bodily functions, and digestive system are completely different from those of carnivorous animals. According to the diet we can divide vertebrate animals into three groups: meat eaters, grass-and-leaf eaters, and fruit eaters.
Furthermore, it is obvious that our natural instincts are non-carnivorous. Most people have other people kill their meat for them and would be sickened if they had to do the killing themselves. Instead of eating raw meat as all flesh-eating animals do, humans boil, bake, or fry it and disguise it with all kinds of sauces and spices so that it bears no resemblance to its raw state.
Another danger facing meat eaters is that animals are frequently infected with diseases which are undetected or simply ignored by the meat producers or inspectors. Often, if an animal has cancer or a tumor in a certain part of its body, the cancerous part will be cut away and the rest of the body sold as meat. Or worse yet, the tumors themselves will be incorporated into mixed meats such as hot dogs, and labeled "parts" or "mechanically seperated meats" (yummy!). In one area of America, where there is routine inspection of slaughtered animals, 25000 cattle with eye cancers were sold as BEEF!
With my friend Nicole in front of "Cows", Vancouver. |
As soon as an animal is killed, proteins in its body coagulate, and self-destruct enzymes are released, so by the time the animal is slaughtered, placed in cold storage, "aged", transported to the butcher's shop, purchased, brought home, stored, prepared, and eaten, one can imagine what stage of decay one's dinner is in! PLUS, it takes meat about five days to pass out of the body, and during this time the disease-causing products of decaying meat are in constant contact with the digestive organs.
If we ate half as much meat, we could release enough food to feed the entire "developing world."
Reducing meat production by just 10% would release enough grain to feed 60 million people.
The shoking and tragic truth is that 80-90% of all grain grown in America is used to feed meat animals.
Twenty years ago, the average American ate 50 pounds of meat annually; this year he will eat 129 pounds of beef alone.
The vegetarian diet is the diet of the future-the diet which we human beings must adopt once again if we are to save our natural resources and, even more important, the precious lives of human beings all over the world. The vegetarian today is the human being of the future. Today's vegetarian points toward the direction that everyone will eventually follow, as people realize more and more the benefits of eating a vegetarian diet and the disastrous results of pursuing our present course.
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