The Argument Against Meat-Eating
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The Hunger Argument
The Trees Argument
The Environmental Argument
The Cancer Argument
The Cholesterol Argument
The Natural Resources Argument
The Antibiotic Argument
The Pesticide Argument
The Ethical Argument
The Survival Argument
The Spiritual Argument
The Water Argument
The Extinction Argument
The Hunger Argument
Number of people worldwide who will die as a result of malnutrition this year: 20 million
Number of people who could be adequately fed using land freed if Americans reduced their intake of meat by 10%: 100 million
Percentage of corn grown in the U.S. eaten by people: 20
Percentage of corn grown in the U.S. eaten by livestock: 80
Percentage of oats grown in the U.S. eaten by livestock: 95
Percentage of protein wasted by cycling grain through livestock: 90
How frequently a child dies as a result of malnutrition: every 2.3 seconds
Pounds of potatoes that can be grown on an acre: 40,000
Pounds of beef produced on an acre: 250
Percentage of U.S. farmland devoted to beef production: 56
Pounds of grain and soya beans needed to produce a pound of edible flesh from feedlot beef: 16
The Trees Argument
People are at last beginning to awaken to the suffering of animals because they realise that they are sentient beings. We do not own this living Planet; we share it with animals and many other lifestreams. People are also opening their hearts and awakening to the sanctity of all life, and going vegan. There is now a glimmer of hope for the future of the Planet. The key is:- RESPECT ALL LIFE. Without this, we will make no progress and will have no peace in our hearts or in the world.
Everything is Connected
Trees are dying en masse, and these deaths are increasing at an alarming rate due to pollution, mainly from chemtrails and nuclear radiation! For this reason, people are realising that veganism is essential! Why?
Forests the size of Ireland are destroyed every year for cattle grazing.
On top of this, more forests are being destroyed to grow crops to feed to factory farmed animals just for humans to eat, causing so much animal suffering and death.
Go Vegan for Trees!
Between 65% and 91% of Amazon deforestation is directly linked to animal agriculture.
If 12kg of edible plant foods (corn, soy, grain) are fed to animals, you end up with only 1kg of meat. Therefore, most of our edible crops, which could be fed to humans, are being wasted. We have animal suffering and death on a huge scale, and also mass human starvation. Instead, we can choose to be compassionate and go vegan for the sake of animals, trees, humans, the Planet, the environment, etc.
Deforestation causes flood and drought. This in turn causes more tree deaths, and a breakdown of the whole ecosystem!
Therefore, there are now fewer trees to clean up more and more pollution.
Pollution is obviously cumulative too: in soil, air, water, and all living beings.
Not only is man’s output of pollution increasing, but also the variety of new types of pollution which are unknown to nature, including nano materials, genetically engineered organisms, nuclear, chemical, etc.
Two toxins combined are not twice as toxic, but can be sixty times more toxic in living organisms.
Twelve species, mainly animals, go extinct every hour! That’s 100,000 species a year!
Geo-engineering and eating animal products are the two main factors which are killing trees faster than we can replace them by planting young trees. A young tree cannot replace a mature tree when it comes to cleaning the air.
Go vegan to protect trees and the whole Planet. This is now very serious!
URGENT - Go Vegan to Save Forests!
The Environmental Argument
Cause of global warming: greenhouse effect
Primary cause of greenhouse effect: carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels
Fossil fuels needed to produce meat-centred diet versus a meat-free diet: 3 times more
Percentage of U.S. topsoil lost to date: 75
Percentage of U.S. topsoil loss directly related to livestock raising: 85
Number of acres of U.S. forest cleared for crop land to produce meat-centred diet: 260 million
Amount of meat imported to U.S. annually from Central and South America: 300,000,000 pounds
Percentage of Central American children under the age of five who are undernourished: 75
Area of tropical rainforest consumed in every quarter-pound of rainforest beef: 55 square feet
Current rate of species extinction due to destruction of tropical rainforests for meat grazing and other uses: 1,000 per year (this was some years ago)
The Cancer Argument
Increased risk of breast cancer for women who eat meat daily compared to less than once a week: 3.8 times
For women who eat eggs daily compared to once a week: 2.8 times
For women who eat butter and cheese 2-4 times a week: 3.25 times
Increased risk of fatal ovarian cancer for women who eat eggs 3 or more times a week vs. less than once a week: 3 times
Increased risk of fatal prostate cancer for men who consume meat, cheese, eggs and milk daily vs. sparingly or not at all: 3.6 times.
Healthy Vegan Models
Model vegan. Raw
greens, nuts, seeds, bananas. Compassionate and intelligent
https://www.plantbasednews.org/author/great-vegan-athletes - Vegan Athletes
https://eluxemagazine.com/people/our-20-sexiest-vegan-women/ - Healthy Vegans
The Cholesterol Argument
Number of U.S. medical schools: 125
Number requiring a course in nutrition: 30
Nutrition training received by average U.S. physician during four years in medical school: 2.5 hours
Most common cause of death in the U.S.: heart attack
How frequently a heart attack kills in the U.S.: every 45 seconds
Average U.S. man's risk of death from heart attack: 50 percent
Risk of average U.S. man who eats no meat: 15 percent
Risk of average U.S. man who eats no meat, dairy or eggs: 4 percent
Amount you reduce risk of heart attack if you reduce consumption of meat, dairy and eggs by 10 percent: 9 percent
Amount you reduce risk of heart attack if you reduce consumption by 50 percent: 45 percent
Amount you reduce risk if you eliminate meat, dairy and eggs from your diet: 90 percent
Average cholesterol level of people eating meat-centred-diet: 210 mg/dl
Chance of dying from heart disease if you are male and your blood cholesterol level is 210 mg/dl: greater than 50 percent
The Natural Resources Argument
Years the world's known oil reserves would last if every human ate a meat-centred diet: 13
Years they would last if human beings no longer ate meat: 260
Calories of fossil fuel expended to get 1 calorie of protein from beef: 78
To get 1 calorie of protein from soya beans: 2
Percentage of all raw materials (base products of farming, forestry and mining, including fossil fuels) consumed by U.S. that is devoted to the production of livestock: 33
Percentage of all raw materials consumed by the U.S. needed to produce a complete vegetarian diet: 2
The Antibiotic Argument
Percentage of U.S. antibiotics fed to livestock: 55
Percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin in 1960: 13
Percentage resistant in 1988: 91
Response of European Economic Community to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock: ban
Response of U.S. meat and pharmaceutical industries to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock: full and complete support
Greta Thunberg, 15, Vegan, started the "Fridays For Future" Global Movement
Greta Thunberg has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Woman of the Year Award, Vegan of the Year Award.
The Pesticide Argument
Common belief: U.S. Department of Agriculture protects our health through meat inspection
Reality: fewer than 1 out of every 250,000 slaughtered animals is tested for toxic chemical residues
Percentage of U.S. mother's milk containing significant levels of DDT: 99
Percentage of U.S. vegetarian mother's milk containing significant levels of DDT: 8
Contamination of breast milk, due to chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides in animal products, found in meat-eating mothers versus non-meat eating mothers: 35 times higher
Amount of Dieldrin ingested by the average breast-fed American infant: 9 times the permissible level
The Ethical Argument
Number of animals killed for meat per hour in the U.S.: 660,000
Occupation with highest turnover rate in U.S.: slaughterhouse worker
Occupation with highest rate of on-the-job-injury in U.S.: slaughterhouse worker
Useful websites
http://www.worldpeacediet.com/
http://www.peacetoallbeings.com/
http://circleofcompassion.org/
The Survival Argument
Only athlete to win Ironman Triathlon more than twice: Dave Scott (6 times winner)
Food choice of Dave Scott: Vegetarian
Largest meat eater that ever lived: Tyrannosaurus Rex (Where is he today?)
The Spiritual Argument
Killing animals also kills humans and destroys the Holy Living Planet and Her environment, and affects all forms of life at every stage of Spiritual Evolution, high or low, all which creates negative Karma for man. Do not eat blood and flesh, as this is both barbaric and primitive. The plant food diet is the diet of the future, and is needed for our physical and Spiritual survival and evolution! The cruelty to, and lack of respect for, animals, is blocking man’s spiritual progress, and the dawning of the New Age. Naturally, there is no room for cruelty and the murder of sentient beings in an age of enlightenment and world peace.
“Thou shalt not kill”
Religious Branding. Religions are manipulated and used to divide people. Religion should unite people because of the universal Teachings on Love for all life. Many Teachers, many Paths, is perfectly acceptable to open-minded open-hearted Truth seekers who respect all Spiritual Teachers for their wisdom and works.
“Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics” - Voltaire (1694 – 1778)
“Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can’t eat money” - Cree Indian proverb
“A Shaman revealed that animals will be arriving more and more in the lives of humans – in dreams, as guides, in the news, everywhere – because they realise that humans are in trouble and need the message they are here to tell”
If we love and respect the Creator, we will love and respect humans, animals, the Holy Mother Earth, and all lifestreams, including the advanced benevolent life visiting this planet. If we love and respect all lifestreams, we are showing that we love and respect the Creator. Religion is not about competition, but about cooperation. All life is One. Spirituality is about Love In Action, and the realisation that All Life Is Sacred.
“A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism” - Leo Tolstoy
“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it” - George Bernard Shaw
“Everything is laid out for you. Your path is straight ahead of you. Sometimes its invisible, but its there. You may not know where it’s going. But you have to follow that path. It’s the path to the Creator. It’s the only path there is” - Chief Leon Shenandoah
“Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking” - Marcus Aurelius
“When we are ready to make positive changes in our lives, we attract what ever we need to help us” - Louise Hay
“It is by a willingness to serve that we empower the love in us so that it may flow freely and do its work as it knows best” - Paul Lambillion
A Prayer for Compassion - 2018 - Trailer. This new film features vegan teachers who follow various Spiritual Paths, and it is awakening people from many different faiths. Respect for all life is the key. Humans never did put their heart into the Teachings or take them very seriously, thereby disrespecting their Spiritual Teachers. Now we have mass extinction. We also have great opportunities for change and advancement. If not now when? If not you, who?
The Water Argument
It takes 100 times more water to feed a meat eater, than it does to feed a vegetarian!
User of more than half of all water used for all purposes in the U.S.: livestock production
Amount of water used in production of the average cow: sufficient to float a destroyer
Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of wheat: 25
Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of California beef: 5,000
The Extinction Argument
100,000 species are going extinct annually!!! Billions of trees are dead globally, and every country is affected. We now have no choice but to go vegan – for animals, the Mother Earth, the environment, humans, trees, and all sacred life. Veganism is the quickest, simplest, and easiest way, to combat global warming and greenhouse gases, and you can start today to control the market through choice of compassionate diet and lifestyle.
https://www.plantbasednews.org/post/global-shift-vegan-diet-stop-wild-animals-disappearing-2026
https://www.preventyearzero.org/
https://www.vegansociety.com/go-vegan/why-go-vegan
https://www.veganaustralia.org.au/meat_eaters_are_main_cause_of_species_extinction
Sir David Attenborough
“We Can't Go On Eating Meat Like We Have. People need to be responsible when it comes to trying to keep the planet healthy”
The natural historian made the comments during an interview of the upcoming issue of Radio Times magazine.
According to Sir David, he has lost his appetite for meat, and he says he thinks he's been inspired by the state of the planet.
"I haven't been a doctrinaire vegetarian or vegan, but I no longer have the same appetite for meat. Why? I'm not sure.
"I think subconsciously maybe it's because of the state of the planet. Although, I've never really been one for eating enormous meals and I'm not particularly a gourmet either, so I can't pretend that I'm feeling deprived in any way or that it's cost me all that much."
Eating animals - and the planet
Sir David's thoughts about the impact of animal agriculture on the planet are consistent with a major study published in 2018, which offered the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of the planetary damage created by farming.
"A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use. It is far bigger than cutting down on your flights or buying an electric car" - lead researcher Joseph Poore, at the University of Oxford, UK.
Behind all this, lies the corrupt and mistaken idea that all life is here to be used for man's own selfish ends. This is his downfall.
PLANT FOODS FOR A HEALTHY BODY
Fauja Singh
108 years old in 2019, Vegetarian, Sikh, 26 mile marathon runner! How healthy, fit, and strong, do you want to be?! How long do you want to live?
Dr Gabriel Cousens – Plant food diet
See the video “Simply Raw – Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days”
Dr Gabriel Cousens proves that a raw organic vegan plant diet heals! Toxins and deficiencies cause disease. The body is a fantastic self-healing mechanism, providing it is given the correct nutrients and energies! Athletes are using this type of diet with amazing results.
“2019 Will Be Year Of The Vegan” - stated by two renowned publications
Time to go Vegan – For animals, trees, Mother Earth, and all life.
“Civilisation is a conspiracy … Modern life is the silent pact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences” - John Buchan (1875 – 1940)
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities” - Voltaire (1694 – 1778)
“No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions” - Murray B. Levin
“The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface” - Elizabeth Stanton
“Government is not reason; its not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it’s a dangerous servant and a fearful master” - George Washington
“War is over. If you want it” - John Lennon
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds” - Albert Einstein
“Without a struggle there is no strength”
“An empire is an immense egotism” - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction” - James Baldwin
“Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence” - Physician and Philosopher
“The wise have one wish left: To know the whole, The Absolute. The foolish lose themselves in fragments, and ignore the root” - Angelus Silesius
“Your treasure house is within. It contains all you will ever need. Use it fully instead of seeking vainly outside yourself” - Hui Hai
“Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking” - Marcus Aurelius
“When we are ready to make positive changes in our lives, we attract what ever we need to help us” - Louise Hay
“Be not afraid!
This very hour begin
To do the Work
thy Spirit glories in.
A thousand unseen forces
Wait to aid.
Be not afraid.
Begin. Begin.”
“Change your thoughts and you will change the world” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The nature of man is always the same; it is their habits that separate them” - Confucius
“Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down: Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroys information, & religions destroy Spirituality”
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