Are you a vegetarian?

Do you know what vegetarianism trend is? Do you notice and wonder why people are talking about being a vegetarian in these recent years? Vegetarianism is more popular than ever before and it is continuing to gow at an astonishing rate. In fact, during the last ten years the number of vegetarians in the UK has more than doubled. Based on Wikipedia, vegetarianism is the practice of following a plant-based diet including fruits, vegetables, cereal grains, nuts, and seeds with or without dairy products and eggs. A vegetarian does not eat meat, including red meat, fish, poultry, game, crustacean, shellfish and product of animal slaughter.

Readers, u may ignore my following words, but watch this video! It brings out the fact and the reason what I suppose to say in this post. It may be horrible, terrible, and cruel for some of you, but this is the truth!!! Nobody can deny it.

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) - Physicist and Theorist

I agree with this quote seriously after I done my little research on the reason of why people willing to become a vegetarian. People become vegetarians for different reasons. Some choose the vegetarians way of life based on health related motives, others become vegetarians out of silent protest against the suffering and mistreatment of animals in slaughterhouses, while still others shun meat for spiritual reasons.

Generally, I found out three simple reasons of why we should pratice vegetarianism, which are for the animals, for our earth and for our health. First of all, vegetarian avoid the food which is obtained by killing animals. Life on the farm isn't what it used to be as you can see from the video above. Today the majority of farmed animals are confined to the point that they can barely move, denied veterinary care, mutilated without painkillers and finally slaughtered - often while fully conscious. Sickness and disease run rampat in these squalid living conditions in an attempt to minimize costs. Most people would never dream of cramming up to 11 egg-laying hens into a file drawer-sized cage, ripping the testicles out of a screaming baby piglet, or cutting the throat of a cow as she stares back at you with her big brown eyes. We can save their life! The average vegetarian spares the lives of over 50 animals each year. That adds up to thousands during a lifetime.

Secondly, becoming vegetarian is one of the most important and effective actions you can take to ease the strain on our Earth's limited resources, protect the planet from pollution, prevent global warming, amd save countless species from extinction. The way that we breed animals for food is a threat to the planet. It pollutes our environment while consuming huge amounts of water, grain, petroleum, pesticides and drugs The results are disastrous. The environment would also benefit from the change in diet.

Thirdly, vegetarian diets offer a number of nutritional benefits, including lower levels of saturated fat, cholesterol, and animal protein, as well as higher levels of carbohydrates, fiber, magnesium, potassium, folate, and antioxidants such as vitamins C and E and phytochemicals. Vegetarians have been reported to have lower body mass indices than disease; vegetarians also show lower blood cholesterol levels; lower blood pressure; and lower rates of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and prostate and colon cancer. All these are good for our own health.

For those new to vegetarianism, this post will hopefully prove to be fruithful and thought-provoking, providing you with lots of valuable information that you will be able to benefit from time and time again.

Everytime we eat, we are making a powerful choice that has profound consequences on the lives of animals. At each meal, we make a decision between supporting cruelty or living compassionately. Fortunately, each one of us has the power to help end this suffering by simply choosing to eat vegetarian.

Here are some extra links that I think are quite useful. Have a look if you are interested.
http://www.vegsoc.org/news/2000/21cv/introduction.html
http://www.syl.com/hb/vegetariantrendsincludethedevelopmentofminorvegetariantypes.html
http://ezinearticles.com/?Benefits-and-Advantages-of-Vegetarianism&id=442194
http://www.chooseveg.com/animal-cruelty.asp