Vegetarianism
Animals are what make meat, a simple fact of life. And so, certain animals are raised in unhealthy and unsanitary conditions, and are sometime treated very cruelly as we see one videos on Youtube nowadays, so many young people decide that they have had enough of our barbaric meat eating ways and say that they are going to swear off meats, and often trying to convince others that we have been lead astray in the past and must stop harming animals to gain food that we do not truly need. Some people merely do it because it is the latest trend, and want to keep up with what’s ‘cool’ nowadays. What some vegetarians don’t seem to realise is that humans are natural carnivores, our canine teeth being proof of this, and generations of being omnivores and eating meat for nutrients has made our bodies a little more dependant on the flesh then we may realise.
In a very interesting article, I read that having a truly healthy vegetarian diet is very hard to obtain. I have seen the effects personally of a non balanced vegetarian diet on a friend of mine, and despite the health issues she has begun to developed over her years of being vegetarian, she refuses to return to the ‘cruel and evil’ ways of meat. Believing every little thing groups like PETA post on the internet about animal cruelty, it seems to be impossible to her to believe that not all farms chop off chicken beaks so they can’t fight and shove them into large dark barns where they sit for months at a time before being slaughtered, or that not ever piece of beef was once a veal calf, shoved into a crate and not allowed to move so the meat would be tender. And I think this is the leading reason why people decide to go vegetarian, because they believe that meat is cruel, and the story ends at that. Surely, our body does not need the protein meat provides to survive?
Some of the health problems you can risk when becoming vegetarian range from
Zinc and Iron Deficiency
DHA (Omega 3 fatty acid) Deficiency
Protein-Energy Malnutrition
And other deficiencies and malnutrition’s. Many vegetarians are known to be drowsy or unfocused because of low vitamin levels.
In the article I mentioned before, it stated that a truly healthy vegetarian diet may have only one answer, and that is that everything must be eaten raw so that nutrient are not cooked out of the food. Since grains and soy beans (They are toxic raw) cannot be eaten raw, there goes the entire grain food group. In order to gain needed protein for the lack of meat, you will have to eat things that are produced by animals. Eggs are an amazing source of this protein, and if you are vegetarian, to be healthy it is recommended that you eat around eight eggs raw so that you may gain what you need.
Something that many vegetarians do turn to is soy bean. Soya beans are toxic when eaten raw, but can be eaten cooked. And when cooked, Soya beans crosslink, creating mutagenic, carcinogenic substances and become and appetite enhancer, and can upset the hormonal balance in women and cause menstrual problems. Soya beans also contain an anti-nutrient which will makes essential nutrients useless.
I think that people must learn to accept the facts of life. I am not writing this to tell vegetarians that their moral choices are wrong, but warning the consequences these actions may have against yourself and those around you. People must realise that even though it is your life, and you have complete control over it, your decisions do not just affect yourself. You will always have someone that cares about you, no matter what you think, and when you hurt yourself, even if it is over guilt that something your eating was once a living, breathing creature, it is something that nature has provided and it is natural for humans to eat meat. This is something that is a completely personal choice, however, and there is no one that should be able to force you to change your mind. It is your decision and your decision alone. Just hope that you make the right one for yourself, and make sure that you know the facts when you decide on something.
