"Eating Animals"

Like I stated earlier, I'm a vegetarian. Okay, I'm not trying to ruin meat for you. I became a vegetarian my finding out exactly where my meat is coming from. And I didn't like what I saw. I encourage you to educate yourself, but you won't see me listing the things that they do to animals or any of that gross stuff. I am however, going to list a few reasons of WHY you should join us in veggie land.

Top Reasons to be a Vegetarian:

1. Love of animals. Animals destined to be on your plate usually are treated….well, inhumanly.
2. You'll eat fewer chemicals lower on the food chain.
3. You might lose weight by avoiding saturated fat in meat, butter and the animal fat used in baked goods, desserts and fried food.
4. Live longer! Eastern cultures that eat less meat/use meat replaces live longer. Don’t you want to enjoy this life as long as you can, and be healthy while you enjoy it? (+3-6 years)
5. If everyone in North America reduced their animal food consumption by just 10 percent, the grain we would save from animal feed could be used to feed all of the hungry throughout the world.
6. The most serious environmental problems of our time are all directly linked to eating meat
7. Easy substitutes. There are vegetable based substitutes for every meat product imaginable.
8. You're in good company. You may even personally know other vegetarians and not even know it.

If you're considering it, I recommend watching "Food, Inc." and THEN reading the book "Eating Animals". The movie shows you a lot of gross stuff. The book talks about the gross stuff, but also gives you a lot of good facts.
Like meat? Hate those hippie vegetarians? Tell me your side.