Should We Eat Meat Laura Fraser Analysis

Should We Eat Meat? In the article “Why I Stopped Being a Vegetarian,” Laura Fraser discusses the reasons why she became a vegetarian and why she chooses not to follow the same lifestyle after fifteen years. Fraser examines that during the time she was a vegetarian, she was missing the one protein she wanted the most, which was meat. Fraser wasn’t strict when it came to her being a vegetarian. She considered herself as a pesco-ovo-lacto-vegetarian because she ate diary product and eggs, as well as fish. When Fraser began to eat meat she soon realized that everyone who eats meat should eat less of it. I agree with Fraser that we should eat less meat. However, I disagree with the reasons why people become vegetarian. Eating less meat is not going to solve all the problems in the world but it can have a positive impact such as the environment rational. Fraser stated, “If Americans just ate less meat – like driving cars less often – the problem could be alleviated without giving up meat entirely. (698). This approach has worked for centuries and continues to work in America and Europe. The problem isn’t meat, but too much meat. (698). The way we eat meat and how often we eat it can cause a major effect on the environment. The more meat Americans eat, the more animals’
Health concerns or religious reasons guide some people to this belief. I respect everyone reasons, but I don’t agree with this one. Fraser stated “There’s a lot of evidence that vegetarians live longer, have lower cholesterol levels and have a slim chance of obesity and heart rate disease.” (Fraser, 689). Vegan and vegetarians believe that meat is bad for humans, which is not true. Unprocessed meat is just as healthy as vegetables and fruits because it contains high quality of complete protein. Consuming protein from meat is important because it contains many nutrients and the amino acids we need that our body cannot