Many say Non-veg people are helping the life cycle, and that meat eating is a part of how our world works. What is a good counter-argument for this? -Vegetarianism is more natural! If we were meant to eat meat, then why do we have to cook it before we can consume it without getting sick? Every other carnivore can eat meat raw.
-Our teeth are more similar to those of gorillas and apes than those of carnivores. Meaning, our teeth are best suited to grind vegetables and roots and not tear through meat.
-There's that bible thing, if you're into it. In God's perfect plan when Adam and Eve were in the garden they ate only vegetables and only until they had betrayed God and were sent out of the garden did they consume flesh.
I can't think of the rest right now so that's it. Good luck! "To put the energy-using demand of meat production into easy-to-understand terms, Gidon Eshel, a geophysicist at the Bard Center, and Pamela A. Martin, an assistant professor of geophysics at the University of Chicago, calculated that if Americans were to reduce meat consumption by just 20 percent it would be as if we all switched from a standard sedan 鈥?a Camry, say 鈥?to the ultra-efficient Prius.
Similarly, a study last year by the National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science in Japan estimated that 2.2 pounds of beef is responsible for the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide emitted by the average European car every 155 miles, and burns enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for nearly 20 days." There is no better environmental protection than animals. We do not look after them. Every single one of them looks after us. From the Tiger to the vulture to the cockroach to the butterfly to the earth warm, there is not one animal that is not there.
I mean, in which way, does not impact well on our life? Let's take one example. When I was young my mother used to tell me the story about a king who could not be killed because he put his heart into the heart of a butterfly. When they kill the butterfly then only the king could be killed and it is quite; rue. My life and my son's life depend on that butterfly鈥檚 life. Why? Because butterfly pollinates flowers. If you don't have the butterfly you won't have the flowers and if you don鈥檛 have the flowers you won't have the insects that live on the flower. If you won't have the insects you won't have the birds that if you don鈥檛 have birds you don鈥檛 have the seeds that makes the forest; if you don鈥檛 make the forest you won't get rain and if you don't get the rain.
I remember one friend told me very proudly that these vultures used to come and nest in his house and so they cut down all the trees and drove them away. This is how we hurt them away, we hit theme call them dirty and so now the vultures have disappeared. There are no vultures in North India. As a result single village has a crisis, a medical crisis because when earlier the animals used to die or when they are used to be a garbage the vulture would clean it off. Now there is nobody to clean it up and so the carcasses lie there completely putrefying and stinking.
The green flies and the butterflies sit on it. They then sit on people and spread disease. So many villages that I have seen where they take the carcass of dead cow and throw it into the village pond, spreading disease to every single person who drinks from that, play in that and wash the clothes in that and why because one bird has finished there, one vulture has vanished there.
Let us look for instance at the cockroach. Now the cockroach is the worst possible example. No body likes cockroaches. You know the first reaction you have when-you see a cockroach "Mummy kill it, kill it, kill the cockroach", where the men and women run, but if we did not have the cockroach you and I would not be sitting in Chennai Today. We would not have a single city in India or the world. The human being produces very poisonous feces, urine, sweat. Even a little new born baby that is still suckling at its mother's breast, even this the nappy waste is extremely poisonous. Now when we have a bath, when we spit, when we go to the bathroom, all this comes out, through the sewage. Now and when it comes through the sewage it goes into water body and this goes into water body and now if it were to go into a water body untreated, within 15 minutes we would have no water body left because all the waste are so poisonous. As soon it goes into the sewage, the cockroach eats at and then the cockroaches' waste is totally biodegradable.
The cockroaches' waste is harmless because he has been invented by mankind to clean up your filth and make it biodegradable. He is therefore invented for sewer. When you get into a kitchen it is not that the cockroach is coming there to say Hello to you all because he likes your face. If you leave filth in the kitchen sometimes you can't even see the filth you left. This poor chap comes out to clean up your filth and go back, or not go back if he is killed.
Let us look into the Meat. The single biggest environmental crisis in India, Forget the cruelty that you cause, forget the fact that these animals are killed with great pain and suffering, and that pain and suffering becomes all part of our Meal. How are going, to suffer? Let us look at the economic side One goat eats two and half hectare of land before it is killed. This goat belongs to the people who do not have land because if they have land they do not grow goat, the; will grow soyabean. Now this goat and all his brother's and sister's, where do they feed? They feed only in two places i.e. what is known as free or common land belong to me and you which are important for our survival. They either feed in the jungle or they feed in on the hill side.
Whenever the goat feeds he pulls out the roots: Goats don't feed like cows. When
they pull out the grass it will never grow, again because the top soil-starts flying. There is no grass to keep the top soil it starts flying, and thus it creates pollution problem and Asthma etc., There will be no growth on the earth. Now when it destroys the hill part, all the little rivulets of the water may dry. So you have no water. When the goat goes into the jungle, they finish every little tree that is growing, every little bush that is growing. People cut trees for wood and for other things and on the other hand you have no more little trees growing because the goat has eaten it. So you have
now forest cover less than 6% that is why sometimes you have the rain, sometimes you don't have the rain. We no longer have climates. We have weather conditions
changing from day to day, because we have no regulatory mechanism. I love meat. It's that simple. They can say what they want about their agenda. I couldn't give a crap what veg's say. I just eat the meat and don't worry about them. for the 1000000000000th time its not eating the meat that is wrong, it is the way animals are treated in farms, and the **** they are fed to make them grow in an abnormal rate, and the way they are beaten and cruelly tortured their entire lives
i mean if they just raise these animals in a nice big farm, let them grow normally and have enough space to run around a bit.. and then when its time to harvest... just shoot them in the head, nice and clean shot. very little suffering... if that is the case then i'm all for it. but that is not that case. interesting. i didn't know the cockroach was invented by man! veg is the best. (Meat) animals are only bred to be eaten. There's no "helping" of anything. If people didn't eat them, they wouldn't be bred and they wouldn't suffer. There is nothing natural about the way we obtain meat. Its as simple as that. We are so far separated from the "natural" world that trying to compare the two is completely invalid. |
