Think About It.
I hear complaints from some about veganism and vegetarianism. Meat eaters seem as defensive about their diets as Christians and Muslims are about their religions. Perhaps the same kind of false assumptions and faith is being applied.
Lots of meat eaters claim that it is there right to eat meat. That eating meat is a personal choice. Eating meat is exercising their freedom. It tastes good so there fore they should eat it.
Well just like religion has lost all it battles when confronted by science so has the argument that meat or animal products are good for human consumption, They have lost in the legitimate scientific research studies. I am not just talking recent scientific studies either. Researchers back in the early 1800s found the same results. One such researcher Dr. George Macilwain became a vegetarian after finding that animal grease, fat and alcohol as being leading causes of cancer.
Both Socrates and Plato wrote in favor of a plant-based diet. Quote from Plato” We shall eat animals at our own peril.” It has been obvious for centuries that those who ate large amounts of meat and animal products suffered more diseases.
Lets look at Americans today. 82% of Americans are at risk of heart disease, 65% are over weight 31% are obese and suffer high levels of diabetes, joint problems, and numerous types of cancers.
Over 700,000 Americans die each year of heart disease and millions more suffer related problems. Creating a giant market for the pharmaceutical industry.
Nearly 600,000 Americans die of cancers each and millions more suffer from the pain of chemo and radiation treatments that often cause secondary cancers to start. The cost of these diseases are bringing our health care system to its knees.
At the root of all this suffering and death is American’s high consumption of animal products. The science is in if you want to reduce your risk of these diseases reduce or cut these food out of your diet. A vegetarian reduces their risk of heart disease and cancer by an average of 50%. A vegan reduces their risk of heart disease and cancer by an average of 86%. Yet the greed of the food industries still markets these dangerous animal products as necessary nutrients.
Lets examine the argument,” It’s my body and my personal right to eat meat if I want to.”
Is eating meat or animal products personal? The obvious answer to this question is no. The decision to eat animal products affects everyone on the planet. Your personal choice to do something harmful to the planet and a majority of your country men all deciding to do the same thing has a dramatic effect on this planet and our life support systems. Raising millions of animals for slaughter wastes 90% percent of the calories farmed to feed them while 60 million people starve to death on this planet. Raising millions of animals for food produces more green house gases than transportation and industry combined. Raising millions of animals for slaughter is producing billions of tons of sewage waste that is polluting our rivers streams and fresh water aquifers. Every pound of meat uses a gallon of petroleum. The animal products industry has a huge carbon footprint. And for a world in a fresh water crisis the animal food industry is the largest waster of fresh water there is.
So you see eating meat is based on false assumptions and faith. When you choose to eat animal product you are not only affecting your own health but the health of every one you love. Your decision to eat meat affects everyone on the planet and it affects the health of our planet. Eating meat is not personal it is a selfish choice in a world that cannot sustain such choices.
Atheists pride them selves as self disciplined thinkers. Is it any wonder that so many of our greatest atheist minds have chosen to be vegan or vegetarian? Perhaps as a meat-eating atheist you should re-examine your dietary choices and see if they are logical or rational behavior. Dennis Renner
"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."
Leonardo da Vinci, artist and scientist
"Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel Prize 1921