Why Should Someone Become a Vegan?
An article about Why Should Someone Become a Vegan?
eganism, the act of freeing ones self from the use of animal product and animal by-products has been around for a long time. Since the 1960s veganism has shown a immense increase in popularity and has gained more respect and recognition. Going vegan has many benefits, some of which include helping to stop the slaughter of innocent animals (obviously), benefits to your personal heath, a clean environment and helping with the epidemic of world hunger.
Did you know the big open fields most people picture when they think of a farm are virtually non-existent in today’s world? Most factory farms keep their livestock jam-packed in filthy cages, usually too small to even turn around in. Many animals go their entire lives, or at least until they are loaded on the truck bound to the slaughter house without feeling the sunshine on their back. Farm animals are genetically altered or given drugs to induce an unnaturally fast growth rate, produce larger amounts of milk and eggs or to allow them to live in otherwise unlivable conditions. These drugs and genetic alterations kill and cripple many animals every day. Animals bound for slaughter have virtually no protection from cruelty and abuse at the hands of the factory workers. The big corporations care only about making as much money as possible while spending as little as they can, even if it means small, filthy cages inhabited by living and dead animals alike and no exercise for the animals so that all their energy goes toward gaining weight. By going vegan you can save more than 100 animals per year from this cruel fate.
Studies have shown that a vegan diet is one of the healthiest things that you can do for yourself. Veganism helps prevent heart disease, stroke and cancer among other things. Vegans are nine times less likely to become overweight than their meat eating buddies. Vegan children typically grow taller and have higher IQs than non-vegan children. Strong ties between meat consumption and many diseases such as osteoporoses, Alzheimer’s, asthma and even male impotence have been found vegans have been proved to fight disease better than meat eaters.
Raising animals for food is extremely inefficient. It can take as much as 32 pounds of grain to produce two pounds of edible animal flesh. This is because most calories consumed by the animals go into simply existing, not helping growth. The United Nations stated that raising animals for food “is one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems on every scale from local to global.” Almost half of the water, 70% of wheat grains and corn and 80% of agricultural land in the U.S. is used for livestock. All these resources could be put towards important world problems such as the problem of world hunger if people would go vegan.
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Stat | Sep 30, 2008 | Reply
Very good article but only one thing surprises me ! You are saying that vegetarians grow taller than meat eaters. All these basketball players in the NBA are 100 % non vegetarians but are still over 190 cms tall ??
Kim Buck | Oct 6, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for the insight – I am on my second attempt to become a vegan.
Liane Schmidt | Oct 8, 2008 | Reply
Good article – keep up the nice work!
Blessings.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
katien | Jan 19, 2009 | Reply
Good article – I’m a vegetarian, so agree with you. You have a letter V missing at the beginning.
Tim Commerford | Feb 9, 2009 | Reply
Very nice article!
As “katien” said before, the letter V is missing at the very beginning of the article.
Anyways, veganism is my life. I’ve been vegan since I was 15 and it completely gices you a new outlook on life. I have more energy, and am more physically fit than I was back when I was a meat eater or even basic vegetarian. I can’t say that all vegans will grow taller than meat eaters, but I’m vegan and 6′4 and my brother is vegan and 6′2, and not only are our parent(s) fairly average, but we both started from when we were teens. A properly balanced vegan diet started during the growth years is how you grow tall. As for these NBA players, they are just abnormally tall people people that decide to make a career out of playing basketball before it even grew popular like it is today and we were tall back in those days. The homemade teams we created (usually 2 on 2 [Zack and I and some other neighborhood kids, although more and less kids came and went]) are what makes being a child (especially a child fun).
NBA was an empty dream (dream that is unlikely) of mine back when I was 5′8 at age 15, and then I went vegan and as I started to grow 2/3 inches a year (contrary to the average, carnivorous 1 inch a year) it looked like it almost was gonna pan out. Anyways, I got into the music career some time back and have been sporting that, football, and surfing in recent times. If you guys are looking for some funky, hard rocking music check out ‘Rage Against the Machine’. I play bass with some other guys. We’ve been together since ‘91 and through our music and message, [I] think we’ve encouraged political and environmental activism among youth and old(er) generations alike. We might be doing some shows later this month (February). We’re talking about a new album by the way which may or not be out later this year. For sure, there will be an album. We’ve got a few songs written at the moment, but we’re lookign for a record label (Tom, our guitarist, might be teaming up with some buddies of his to start an individual label so we won’t have to rely on these corporate fatcats called “Epic records” any longer. They’re starting to become total @$$holes to us), some time (to write new songs, rehearse, and PLAY SOME SHOOOOOOWS!), etc.
Anyways, check us out at http://www.ratm.com and get involved in both our music and message. Fight the system, live left, GO VEGAN!
Peace,
“Timmy C”