haha

you're lazy

i was a veg. for 7 years and the catalyst was "meat is murder" and various other morrissey and peta approved "conversionary" tactics. i'm also buddhist and most buddhists dont eat meat. but like i said to nalini....if i didn't order this steak, the cow would still be dead. i didn't kill it. my ordering didn't even kill it. and everyone is not going to stop eating meat....what is the point.

haha.

you are lazy.

1. Vegetarians have a 20% lower rate of mortality from all causes (ie. they live longer & don't get sick as often)
2. Meat is full of traces of antibiotics, hormones, toxins produced by stress & pesticide residues that become concentrated from all the crops they have eaten
3. Fish contain heavy metals & other pollutants -many of which originated on farms
4. The world health organisation recommends a diet low in saturated fat, sugar, salt & with plenty of fibre - exactly what you get on a vegan/vegetarian diet
5. Farmed animals contain upto 50% saturated fat in their bodies
6. Vegetarians have 24% reduced risk of getting heart disease & Vegans a 57% reduction (heart disease is the biggest killer in the UK accounting for 50% of deaths)
7. Obesity is rare in vegetarians, obesity is related to many diseases
8. Vegans & vegetarians have lower blood pressure & cholesterol levels - high levels are associated with heart disease, strokes & kidney failure
9. Vegetarians have a 50% reduced risk of dying of diabetes
10. Vegetarians have a 40% reduced level of cancer than the general population thought to be because they have a higher intake of vitamins A,C & E
11. Vegetarians have a reduced risk of developing gall & kidney stones
12. 80% of food poisoning is due to infected meat (faeces, bacteria etc.) after all meat is decomposing flesh - most of the rest is due to salmonella in eggs
13. Osteoporosis due to calcium loss from bones is mainly due to the sulphur content in meat & casein protein in milk that cause calcium to be lost in the urine - the countries with the highest meat & dairy consumption are those with the highest levels of brittle bones
14. 50% of people do not have the enzyme to digest milk properly & milk allergy is related to asthma & eczema
15. Meat eaters have double the rate of Alzheimers disease as Vegans & Vegetarians - some people also think that Parkinsons disease is also linked to meat eating
16. Egg yolk is a dense concentration of saturated fat & the white is high in albumin protein associated with leaching calcium into your urine. Butter is 80% saturated fat, cream is 40% saturated fat & cheese is 25-40% saturated fat
17. Meat eaters are two and a half times more likely to get bowel cancer than Vegetarians
18. The cling film used to wrap meat in supermarkets & butchers contains chemicals linked to falling sperm counts in men
19. Chinese people (living mainly on a vegetarian diet) consume 20% more calories than Americans but Americans are 20% fatter
20. Of 2,100,000 deaths in the USA in 1987, 1,500,000 were related to diet (ie. meat & dairy)