Goveggi

Vegetarian Diet Improves your Health

		NATURAL HEALTH WORLD Vegetarians reduce Animal Suffering and Slaughter In India alone, 800 million animals are slaughtered for food each year.These animals are as feeling as any household pet and, in many cases, far more intelligent. Yet they are still forced to live tortuous, short lives; denied access to their young, deprived of basic freedoms, fed on unnatural diets and chemicals, kept in cramped conditions where they frequently develop physical and psychological abnormalities. Then they're transported from factory farm, to livestock market, then to the horrors of the slaughterhouse. Some have to endure the long, stressful haul to markets abroad, often in extremes of weather without adequate provisions such as food, water, air and light, to places where conditions are even worse. They are then killed. Meat and fish production is damaging the Earth beyond repair. Here's how: Methane-emitting livestock contribute massively to the 'Greenhouse Effect' and global warming. Ammonia from animal waste and agricultural fertilisers contribute to acid rain which kills aquatic and plant life. Livestock farming makes inefficient use of limited resources. Millions of people go hungry and thirsty in the developing world while grain and water is squandered on rearing animals to be slaughtered for food in the developed world. Millions of hectares of life sustaining rain forest are destroyed each year to create grazing pasture. This kills off and puts at risk animal species and indigenous human populations. Over-fishing of the Earth's oceans has decimated fish populations to the point of near extinction of many species. Dolphins and whales are indiscriminately killed by drift nets while massive amounts of dead fish are thrown back into the sea or used as pig and sheep feed. Intensive grazing causes soil erosion and nutrient depletion.


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