Even with this information, people protest that our bodies cannot function to their full potential without obtaining protein from animal meat. This is completely untrue. There is more protein per ounce in cheese, nuts and the majority of vegetables than there is in pork or beef. It was only recently proven that vegetables contained the complete proteins, which was earlier thought that we could only obtain through animals. Proteins, which come from vegetables, are better for the body, as they do not contain any toxins, which protein from animals is full off. Protein originally comes from vegetables, vegetarians eat it directly, rather than eat is second-hand from animals.
Another argument commonly used in favor of eating meat is that vegetarians always seem to become tired very easily. As I said before, by eating meat we generally consume too much protein, and it has been proven that too much protein intake reduces the body’s energy. Endurance tests were carried out, and in these tests vegetarians done a lot better than meat-eaters. Another study showed that vegetarians were able to perform physical tests two to three times longer than meat-eaters before tiring out. I believe that if people were more educated about vegetarian diets, there would be a dramatic fall in the number of meat-eaters there are today.
I understand that a lot of people have no interest in giving up meat in their diets because they believe that humans were designed to be meat-eaters, although this is contradicted by the simple fact that human’s bodies are not even suited to digest meat. The intestinal tract is the name of the place within the body where food is digested. Meat-eating animals have short intestinal tracts, this is so that decaying, and toxin-producing meat can be rapidly passed out of the body. Plant eaters have long intestinal tracts; this is because plants decay more slowly. Humans have long intestinal tracts, which means when we eat meat toxins can overload the kidneys and lead to gout, arthritis, rheumatism and cancer.
The majority of the human population believes that humans ate meat from the very beginning of time. This has been proven by historians to be impossible as human’s teeth and jaws were designed with the intention that humans would be omnivorous. It was only as time progressed that human’s invented weapons to kill animals, and cutlery to allow it to be possible for them to eat meat. Even in most industrialized countries, the consistent eating of meat is less than a hundred years old, as it started with the invention of the refrigerator and the consumer society, which we live in.
One of the most common public issues today is starvation, especially in third world countries. A lot of people around the world are involved in trying to find a solution to solve this problem, although the world hunger problem is artificial. There is enough food being produced to feed every living person on the planet, but we are careless with whom we give this food to. In order to produce meat, we feed grain, which could feed people, to livestock. Figures show that for every sixteen pounds of grain fed to cattle, we achieve only one pound of meat. If the production of meat were to be decreased by just ten percent, this would leave enough grain to feed sixty million people. I do not believe that any humane person can argue with that.
The government is spending a lot of money to try and protect the environment. A lot of the general focus seems to be on oil tanker spilliages polluting the oceans and rivers. There doesn’t seem to be much attention paid to the fact that contaminated sewage from slaughterhouses for animals are one of the most major sources of pollution. The general public doesn’t seem to care much about this as they believe that nearly everything causes some proportion of pollution. Environmental officers say that the production of livestock creates ten times more pollution than residential areas and three times more pollution than industry. It seems that no only are humans intent on killing themselves by eating meat; they also want to destroy the world.
Is murder wrong? The obvious answer is yes. It is against the law to kill another human being and to ill-treat or kill a domestic pet. Why then, is it perfectly legal to kill billions of other animals? Apparently, it is because animals have no feelings, although people believe that their pets do have feelings. This is because they have developed a relationship with their pets. They have not developed any relationships with the animals they intend to eat, so therefor it is okay to kill them. Why then, is it not okay to kill other people whom we do not know? It is because we are selfish, and we live in a world built up of people who insist on getting what they want.
When someone buys a piece of meat, they are paying for an animal to be slaughtered. Telling a human this is like telling them that they are the opposite sex of what they are. They will deny it until they have run out of breath, and are unable to speak. They say that someone else has already killed the meat and it will be murdered whether they eat it or not. This is untrue, when an animal is slaughtered; it is because consumers demand it.
Nearly all of the meat-eating population would give up meat if they had to kill the animals themselves. They have basically said this. If they do not have to take part in the killing process, they are perfectly happy to live as hypocrites, and only eat dead animals when they look like a plain piece of meat in packaging.
Millions of animals are bred just to end up on a dinner plate. They live in hell, packed tightly together, with not an inch to move, for the whole of their lives. That is if you can call being kept alive in such conditions, just to feed people, a life. The animals are very aggressive towards each other, which is understandable in these conditions; they become Hannibals and attack and eat each other. When the screaming animals are ready to be killed, they are stunned by electric shock or by being hit by hammers. They are then hoisted in the air by their feet and moved through the factory of death on a conveyor belt. While still alive, their throats are slit, and the murders cut off their flesh for meat. While their bodies are being ripped off in shreds for meat, the animals are still alive, waiting to bleed to death. Any meat-eater I know refuses to look at pictures of these slaughtering and slaughter houses, they even refuse to listen. They believe that the animals should be treated with a little more kindness, and be brought up “free range” but they do not intend to give up their meat, they just want to eat it without a guilty conscience.
I understand that a lot of people find the idea of becoming a vegetarian completely impossible, but I think I have given enough reasons for people to put a little effort into eating less or no meat at all. The foundations of many people’s arguments are simply that they love the taste of meat. This is excuse for killing animals can not be justified in any way. The world is full of meat alternatives, and there are constantly new brands and wider ranges of non-meat products coming onto the consumer market. People say they like the taste of meat, but it is really the taste of two thousand and five hundred different drugs the animals have been injected with during breeding, that they like the taste of. Drugs are used to mask the dead animal, making it red, juicy and appealing. When in fact it really looks like part of a decaying animal, with a putrid smell and a grey, green colour.
People say they don’t have the time or will power to stop eating meat, when really what they should be saying, is that they don’t care about anything but themselves. They are inhumane beasts who carry the graves of thousands of dead animals within them.
