REASONS NOT TO EAT MEAT
HEALTH AND NUTRITION
The meat produces constipation and its complications, obesity, cardiocirculatory diseases, excess calories, cholesterol, breast, colon, prostate, uremia, gout, renal insufficiency.
The diet based primarily on grains, vegetables and fruits, helps control diabetes and arteriosclerosis.
It is a complete food because all the nutrients the body needs are found in the plant kingdom, vitamins, amino acids and minerals are present in plants.
Vegetarian food contributes to a living human organism even more energy than meat, even the physical power of vegetarians can be extended even further than that of carnivores.
Coronary bypass surgery (bypass) or a chemotherapy session are much more cumbersome and difficult to change your diet. Being vegetarian is the best thing you can do for your health.
ECOLOGICAL
"It is estimated that the contribution of livestock to water contamination exceeds more than ten times that of humans and three to the industry" Philip Kapleau
"Millions of hectares of forest and forest are destroyed each year, when converted to grazing land and crops which are used exclusively for animal feed."
More than half of the water consumed in the world is used in livestock. While to produce a kilo of meat takes more than 20,000 liters of water, for a kilo of wheat needed only 227 liters, and a kilo of rice for 454 liters.
Every second will generate 125 tonnes of waste from the meat industry. They pollute rivers and produce toxic gases such as ammonia, methane and carbon dioxide, pollute the atmosphere, affecting the ozone layer and contributing to global warming.
300,000 km2 of tropical forest are destroyed each year because of the need for livestock grazing. A vegetarian saves 4,000 m2 of trees a year.
WORLD HUNGER
"Half of the world's fisheries is fed to livestock, 91% corn, 77% soybean meal, 64% barley, 68% oats and 99% of the