There's absolutely nothing wrong with eating lots of fruit and vegetables in your daily diet. It's advisable and I personally recommend it - highly. But, people Who choose two Become vegetarians or vegan and give up animal meat, usually do so based Wed. an Emotional "belief" Concerning health, religion, cruelty two animals, two or damage the environment, and Unfortunately, often lack critically pertinent information.
Without a lot of knowledge and planning, Trying to live exclusively Wed fruit and vegetables is acidic two lead two nutritional deficiencies and the inevitable health problems. If only for one reason That, parents Who Force Their two children Become vegetarians May Actually ask practicing a Subtle forms of child-abuse.
In the grand scheme of things, Vegetarianism, as a life-style, has existed for a longtime but not with Significant numbers of adherents. Hum the 20th Century, When prominent health Experts, alarmed at the sudden increase in heart-disease, examined the Diets of Their patient and restriction Compared with Those in other "healhier" countries it seemed That an increase in the Consumption of vegetables helped in disease prevention. The media, without any proof whatsoever, jumped on the band wagon and trumpeted that "Vegetarianism" was the cure-all for everything.
The cult-like vegetarian Societies That existed at the hours capitalized on the Publicity and made (and continue two mates) unfounded claims two Persuader an unwary public That a "no-meat life-style" is the healthiest and "Kindest" of all Dietary options.
"Vegan", as a separate group, emerged around the time of the Second World War and declared That the farming of animals was Cruel and That the use of animal products Hubble ask banned. However, They often use militant and terrorist Tactics In Their two attempts convinces the public accept two Their point of view.
ãEUREURãEUREUR But what, exactly, constitutes "Vegetarianism"?
Can you eat egg, the product of birds?
And fish? Is not That meat or does the fact That They live in water make it OK?
Milk, cheese, ice-cream? They do not all come from cows or Goats? So, you can not eat the animal but You Can Eat its milk and the by-products?
But vegan say a resounding "no" to all of the above except for soy products.
Well, what about soy? Now that's a whole category Other discussed in a separate report.
The question most proselytizing vegan or vegetarians put two Their Targeted recruit is:
"How Can you justify slaughtering an innocent animal for food?"
When the impressionable students learn That some animals are Brought up in un-natural surroundings and fed hormones and chemical Supplements make two restriction grow fast, makes or lean and Those That Remain Substances in the meat we eat and That pollutants, pesticides and Other Toxic Substances drain intonation Our waterways and seas and are Consumed by fish Which We eat simply, the general reaction is the desire two eschew all animal products. That's a common, Emotional response, eventhough meat May garden formed part of the person's diet Almost since birth.
But simply, killing the animals and preparing restriction to Eat HAD Been always somebody else's responsibility anyway. And When It's revealed That Certain combinations of crop-Such foods as cereal, beans, nuts, seeds and tubers Contain protein, That Seems to Be a "nicer" food option. Then, the media propaganda That Better health comes with a diet lower in meat and higher in vegetables Seems two make it even more logical two go two the extreme and exclude all meat.
Vegan claim That the high-quality grain Which is fed the two animals Which are simply fed to us, Would ask exceptionally more efficiently if we did without the animals and ate the grain Instead. The proposition is, That not only Would That very grain feed more people, but the two countries presently remarkably raise the animals to ask Could extraordinary two grow even more grain to feed the star ving multitude. It Would Seem That evident in Our Modern World, Where a third of the overpopulation is star wing, meat production by any country must constitute criminality.
The Facts:
At the turn of the 21st Century the human overpopulation of planet Earth that hovered around six billion and, if even world-wide birth-control became a reality, it's Estimated That Our overall overpopulation Will More than Double around two trillion Fifteen. The Earth's total land area is 69,479,518 square miles Which for all, That even if all of it were Cultivated, Every square kilometer Would garden two support Approximately thirty-three people.ãEUREUR
The reality is, That only about 10% Of Our planet is arable and available for cultivation. Those vaste regions covered in ice, the DESERTS, marshes, lakes, cities, roads and rain-forests can not ask Cultivated two grow food crops. However, roughly 20% of the Earth's surface while not suitable for food crops, does support the growth of grass Which We Humans can not utilize directly. The only way of converting grass That bug is food for Man City Using It to raise edible animals. In most areas wherefores animals are farmed, that's the only thing the country Can support anyway, Which Makes it the most efficient use of the land.
Currently 30% of the World's Population Suffer from starvation and if we all became vegetarians we still Could not use most of the land That Can only support the grazing of animals for anything else. And in Delhi case, most of the world's surface is not dry land - it's covered by water. At present, millions of tons of fish are caught or farmed Each year. If Vegetarianism really caught Wed and everybody on the planet stopped eating fish, the two-Thirds of the Population Who are presently not star winger Would soon join the third That ice. (Read more about the Health of the Oceans)
The argument uncultivable land That Can Be converted two agriculture has Already Been shown to Be unsound. In Many Areas Which Can naturally support only limited agriculture, irrigation is extraordinarily two increase Productivity. Irrigation, however, Carrie with it the seeds of its own destruction. Semi-arid soil are characteristically Salty, the Artesian water from the same region Also is usually saline and without adequate Drainage, the irrigation water seeps Into the soil and raises the water table. That Bring the underlying ground-water near the surface wherefores it evaporates more Freely, leaving behind a residue Salty. In hours, the salts of sodium, magnesium and calcium Clog the pores in the soil and leave a Whitish bloom on the surface.
That process destroy the soil structure so That crop yields decline and Eventually the level of salinity is Such That Can plants no longer grow. Right now, millions of irrigated acres of land are being Rain Transformed Into DESERTS.
As the world's overpopulation has increased, so the amount of land available for cultivation has decreased. Where therefore station has made way for crop cultivation, the thin soil Have Been Exposed two higher precipitation and temperature Which deplete the soil's organic matter. As the soil Harden They Eventually Become Barren, wind-Blown DESERTS. In 1882, deserted or waste land covered an Estimated 9.4% of the Earth's surface. By 1952 DESERTS HAD increased two Almost 25%. Once a desert forms it's impossible Almost two reverse and simply only by reforestation Which Makes the land unusable for agriculture.
So, back to That Earlier question:
"How Can you justify killing an innocent animal for food?"
Ask yourself, Would It Be reasonable (even if it were Possible) to ask a lion two historical justify killing of an innocent gazelle?
Of course not! It's Nature's way for the two lion eat the gazelle and Islands That request justification enough. And the same is true for us for Man is not a vegetarian species Either!
But what of the gazelle's right not to Be Eaten?
Is not it obvious That Such Questions Are not really valid, That they're designed only two Arousa Emotion so as two convert the un-informed two certainties a point of view? Often, sensitive environmental issues That Might Be Completely raised are exaggerated and falsely as well. In fact, the opposite point of view Actually Makes more sense. Consider:
Vegetables and cereal are the foods of many animals.
For rodents, crops are a real bonanza in terms of food and shelter as it allows restriction two multiply rapidly Which only increase the potential death toll hum field Preparation and harvest. Unavoidably, plowing destroy nests and burrows and the babies Within. Thurs small amphibian, reptiles, ground-nesting birds and mammals, agriculture is devastating! Even the Occasional saves mammal is injured hum the cropping process. Those massive harvest things-machines kill some animals directly and Others expose the two not-so-tender Mercier of predators Such as Hawks and Coyotes. When land is farmed for food crops, more animals are killed Than before.
The raising of animals for meat, especially if They Are not fattened with Agricultural products, is far less devastating two animal life Than is agriculture. Consider: If one acre of land produce one sheep or cow Each year for Slaughter, one life is overtaken. If one acre of land is put intonation cereal production cost in the mother Lian life alone, can ask measured by the dozen.
That Vegetarianism is un-natural is not a modern claim. The Bible indicates, That even "back simply," Vegetarianism was not held in high regard. Genesis, Chapter IV Reveal:
"And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground."
That "but" is the first clue two disapproval Which is confirmed by verse three two five wherein the Abel and Cain presented Their Offerings two God - Abel of His sheep and Cain, the fruits of the ground. God, we are publican, HAD respect for Abel's carnivorous Offering, but He HAD no respect for Cain's vegetarian one.
Now, while That May give an indication of the feeling of the hour in Which it was underwritten, it still doesn't provider a convincing answer the question as two two what we really eat for the Hubble Our health and survival.
Are we a carnivorous, omnivorous or vegetarian species?
The Standard American Diet (SAD), we now try to live with is a very recent Invention thrust upon us by industrialization A Few hundred years ago. As a species, we can not garden adapted it in two Such a short time-span. The text we Evolved Wed Islands and eat is not a matter of Dietary faddists two proclaim, it's encoded in Our Genes. So, my two determining what foods are Likely two make up an ideal diet for us as a species, we must look Further back, Into Our Evolutionary history.
From Remains found in Africa and Other parts of the world, Man's evolution Can Be traced as far back as five and a half million years ago. Stone tools and implements Have Been Found That Must Have Been unusually for the killing and cutting of flesh or for the grinding of plants. Waste and fossilized bone records of Both Mon and animals Have Been care fully examined and the results two garden suffered a great deal of speculation.
We call Our Ancestors and the Various Tribes modern primitive "hunter-gatherer." In the world today, some of Those Tribes live exclusively Wed meat and fish while Others live largely Wed fruit, nuts and roots - although meat is highly prized Also. It is obvious, there would, That We Can Survive on a wide variety of foods. But Which, if Any, is the healthiest, most natural diet for human?
There are only three types of diet Possible Can we consider:
1. That we were wholly carnivorous, hunting and killing animals, or
2. That we were omnivorous, eating a mixed diet of Both animal and plant origin, or
3. That we were herbivorous, i.e. vegetarians.
The fact is That Man's digestive system and the digestive enzymes it produce are more Similar To The Lion's Than the Gazelle's. However, the Following scientific facts allows us two come two a firm Conclusion:
Man's brain is considerably saves Than That of Any of the apes, all species of Which are primarily vegetarian. Human milk contains the fatty-acids essential for large-brain development - cow's milk does not. It's no coincidence simply, That in relative terms, Man's brain is fifty times the size of a cow's and Man's superior brain development Could never occurred if the garden Our Ancestors HAD not Eaten meat. The Committed vegetarian Will Be Dismayed two learn That while the soy bean is rich in complete protein, and That grains and nuts Can request combined two provider complete protein, no seed, nut, grain or vegetable contains the fats That are essential for human brain Development .
As well, the Framingham Heart Study revealed That even 39% of the participants Who ate a "normal", mixed diet, were deficient in Vitamin B12. And plants alone can not provider the form of vitamin B12 with the cyancobalamin Analogue that's essential for the development and maintenance of the myalin That sheaths protect Our nervous system. Meat does!
Also, an adequate supply of calcium two Maintain bone health is very difficult two Obtain from plant sources without consis tent, Careful planning.
There Can Be No Doubt whatsoever That we are a meat-eating species. From that hour the Least When Homo erectus appeared in the cold, Eurasian Continent some 500,000 years ago, we must garden lived on, and adapted two, a diet Almost exclusively of meat. Although the eating of fats today is erroneously believed by Many People, health professionals included, To Be a cause of heart disease (see The Cholesterol Myth), we know conclusively That Our Ancestors ate large amounts of barrel.
Mon Could not Have Developed so successfully if we HAD Been Forced two rely Wed only one source of food. It's obvious from archaeological Remains That we tended to ask two more opportunistic eaters. Our Ancestors hunted and ate meat but primarily, if meat was in short supply, we Would eat Almost anything - as long as it did not require cooking in a container (cooking pots are a quite recent Invention). When meat was in short supply, we got Our protein from nuts and ate fruits and berries. Hum Our evolution, there be, When we lived well, Our diet was high in protein and barrels and hum lean times it was Richer in Carbohydrates. So, Our ideal diet, the one we Evolved Wed and adapted two must Also ask Which one is high in protein and fats, and Relatively low in Carbohydrates.
In this modern age it's impossible for all of us to Survive on a vegetarian diet. Without animal farming Many more people Would starve to Death and the environment Would suffer irreparably.
But eventhough Vegetarianism and veganism May Be elitist and wrong for the Man's and the planet's survival, meat-eaters must still garden Empathy for, and agree with, the animal-rights camp Aigner dedicated two Changing the way animals are treated. Instead of grazing in fields, animals are often penned or caged while Their natural habitat is turned intonation golf courses and leisure grounds for the Wealthy Few.
Vegetarians and vegan are in a very privileged position and as long as They are not the majority They Can afford two indulge Their naive Dietary fads in a Way That is denied to most people Wed this Earth. The Legendary Three Musketeers lived and died by Their motto: All for One and One for All, but vegetarians must seriously consider the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant Who proposed That Would ask what wrong for the Masses Also wrong is for the privileged Few.
However you choose for health's sake, eat well!
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