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The biggest negative reason to be a vegetarian in my opinion is the one given by the majority of Vegetarians – Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends. This refrain can be expressed in many other ways such as:
I do not eat animals because of ethical reasons. It is cruel to kill animals for food. Animals bleed, feel pain and scream when they are killed and I don’t like it. All animal food comes from “Animal Factory Farms” where they are kept in horrible condition and I protest that. “It’s a wonderful
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By Sanjeev Sharma, on March 31st, 2009 | Tags: Health Reasons, Negative Reasons, Red Meat | Category: News | There is a new research report from US that says that people who eat the most red meat (beef and pork) and the most processed meat (cold cuts and luncheon meats, hot dog, bacon, sausage from both Red and White meat) have the highest overall risk of death from all causes, including heart disease and cancer.
The study carried out by the National Cancer Research Institute is one of the largest to look at the highly controversial and emotive issue of whether eating red meat is indeed bad for health. Those who eat meat will,
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By Sanjeev Sharma, on March 24th, 2009 | Tags: Blindness, Health Reasons, Negative Reasons, Red Meat | Category: News |
I have come to believe that one of the constants in this world is that research always comes up to negate what it had said earlier. In school every year I would be taught that what I was told in the previous grade was not the gospel truth and that there were exceptions. Same is the case with research findings in all fields including the area of connection between health and meat.
One such research findings published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, suggests a strong link between diet and Age related
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While reading about the stand of various religions on meat eating, one of the constant themes that I got was about every religion’s advice that we should not be cruel to animals. There have been innumerable references in all religious texts and quotes attributed to religious leaders which convey love for animals. Many of these can be found under the Quotes pages in this website as well.
While the love for animals has been universally exhibited, it is also true that no religion bars meat eating in unambiguous terms. This has also been demonstrated
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By Sanjeev Sharma, on March 7th, 2009 | Tags: Islam, Negative Reasons, Religion | Category: Negative Reasons to be a Vegetarian |
In this day and age if there is one religion about which one can be absolutely sure that there is no ambiguity if it prohibits meat eating or not, then I think it is Islam. Even though I have seen a lot of sites on the internet started by Muslims who espouse the cause of vegetarianism and have read a lot of references about Prophet Mohammed denouncing ill treatment of animals, I think that Islam does not prohibit meat eating at all. In fact, Prophet is quoted as saying, “the master of all foods
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Christianity does not support vegetarianism and hence it is not possible to promote vegetarianism using Christian religion. I know there would be a lot of vegetarian Christians out there who would protest, but then they are in a minority. Even they do not know what their number is. This theme will be read a lot of times in this article – if Christians believe that their religions supports vegetarianism then why is it that there are so few Christian vegetarians? If you would like to prove me wrong, then please turn into vegetarians!!! Else, believe me
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By Sanjeev Sharma, on March 1st, 2009 | Tags: Negative Reasons, Religion | Category: Negative Reasons to be a Vegetarian |
I am still on the track of negative reasons to become and remain a vegetarian. The reason why I am classifying reasons to be vegetarian into positive and negative is that I firmly believe that if you would like to start a movement, then your reasons for the same should be irrefutable. And they should not be such that to the person whom you would like to convert to your cause they
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