Vegetarianism- READ THIS PLEASE

Hi everyone, I'm Lani and I'm a vegetarian. Being a vegetarian is a very smart choice in my opinion and through facts. A lot of people think that it is impossible for them to do it, but obviously it's not because I can do it, therefor they can too. Really, vegetarianism is so much better that eating meat in many different ways. There is health benefits and benefits for the animals. It even helps the environment!

Not eating meat has so many health benefits you would never guess. First, obviously being a vegetarian means less intake of fat so for people who really need it, they can think of it as a lifestyle choice, rather than a diet. Also, eating this way helps to lower chances of getting certain types of cancer, strokes, and heart disease. Most of the meat people eat is store bought and inorganic, meaning it came from a factory farm. Before animals are killed, they are given pills and such to keep them alive until butcher time considering their living conditions are so terrible. By consuming meat of the animals that were fed those medicines, our bodies become less able to fight certain types of bacteria. That is not cool.

Vegetarianism helps the environment as well. One reason it helps is because many forests are cut down to build factory farms. Also, the transportation for meat creates more greenhouse gas emissions than all of the vehicles in the world COMBINED! Another reason eating meat is bad for the environment is because factory farms do not have any sort of sewage systems and all of the animal's waste goes to the rivers and water in the area, polluting the waters. In a world were our earth's health is so crucial at this time, this does not help what so ever.

Lastly, the benefits of the animals. The main thing is that animals for food are raise in large scale factories called factory farms. These terrible places make livestock lives absolute HELL. The animals are jammed into stalls they can hardly move around in, fed pills, and rarely get to lay down because of the small stalls. Chickens are crammed tightly together in small spaces and end up having a lot of them kill each other. Animals are beat and uncared for, living in slave-like conditions. Sometimes the cows are strung by their hooves upside down and have their throats slit while awake without painkillers. Factory farms are terrible places that no living thing should ever have to go to. It's very sad and after knowing about that, I don't see how people can eat meat. Here is the video of a factory farm that changed my views of meat eating forever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaHXA1LLB_I

If you watched the video, you know what to do now. You don't even have to stop eating meat. If you didn't watch the video, watch it now. Please.