The document provides reasons for adopting a vegetarian lifestyle, including that it is more humane and ethical to not kill animals for food. A vegetarian diet is also better for human health, as it reduces risks of diseases like heart disease and cancer. A plant-based diet is more sustainable and efficient, as it takes many more resources like land, water, and crops to produce meat compared to plant foods. The document argues that humans are naturally herbivorous based on anatomical traits, and that factory farming practices that produce meat and dairy cause unnecessary animal suffering.

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Be Humane! Be Vegetarian!
Presentation on
Why Vegetarian?
Compiled by Amitt Parikh
Author of Conversations with The Mysterious One

5. Remember you are a Human Being and not
just another Cruel Animal living in the jungle!

6. Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate
abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral
judgments using the accumulated knowledge of the ages, have the right
to take the lives of other sentient organisms, particularly when we are not
forced to do so by hunger or dietary need, but rather do so for the
somewhat frivolous reason that “we like the taste of meat”?
- Peter Cheeke, PhD
Contemporary Issues in Animal Agriculture, 2004 textbook

7. Blood... pain... screams... sadness...
Cold hearted murder. Is this humane?

8. Blood bath…Who cares how animals die?

9. The killing of animals for food
is merciless and inhumane.

10. Reasons for being Vegetarian

11. Every minute of every working day, thousands of animals
are killed in slaughter-houses. Every year, more than 27
billion animals (including fish) are killed for food in the
United States alone. Animals who die for your dinner table
die alone, in terror, in sadness and in pain.

12. How would you like
to spend your last
hours locked in a
truck, packed into a
cage with hundreds
of other terrified
animal and then
cruelly pushed into a
blood soaked death
chamber.
Anyone who eats meat condones
and supports the way animals
are treated.

13. Animals suffer from pain and fear just
as much as you do. Because when
animals feel pain, they scream, too. If
you burn them, they feel it. If you give
them electric shocks, they feel it. Other
animals feel pain in the same way and
to the same degree that we humans do.

14. Every day, tens of millions of one-day
old male chicks are killed
Because they will not be able to lay eggs. There are no rules
about how this mass slaughter takes place. Some are crushed or
suffocated to death. Many are used for fertiliser or fed to other
animals.

15. Animals which are a year old are often far more rational - and capable
of logical thought - than six week old babies. Pigs and sheep are far
more intelligent than small children. Eating dead animals is barbaric.

16. You are what you eat!
In a lifetime, the average meat eater will consume 36 pigs, 36 sheep and 750
chickens and turkeys. Do you want that much carnage on your conscience?
Your thoughts are directly related to the food you eat.

17. As a civilized human being, you should respect conscious
life by eating as low on the food hierarchy as possible.
HUMAN
CONSCIOUSNESS
FOOD HIERARCHY BEEF
MUTTON
CHICKEN
FISH
EGGS
VEGETABLES
FRUITS
WATER

18. Every ‘commercial use’ of animals, and also those in dairy, egg and
leather industry, stands for ‘exploitation’ - since competition, economic
thinking and aiming at profit automatically lead to the exploitation of
animals.
In addition to this dairy, egg and leather industry are so firmly multi-sided
and undetectably connected to meat-industry, that every consumption,
or every usage of dairy products, eggs and leather stimulates meat-
industry at the same time.

19. Eating Non–Veg food is injurious to health!

20. What does meat contain?
 Drugs / Hormones
There are over 20,000 different drugs, including sterols, antibiotics, growth
hormones and other veterinary drugs that are given to livestock animals. These
drugs are consumed when animal foods are consumed. The dangers herein, in
secondary consumption of antibiotics, are well documented.
 Tranquillisers / Antibiotics
There are over 20,000 different drugs, including sterols, antibiotics, growth
hormones and other veterinary drugs that are given to livestock animals. These
drugs are consumed when animal foods are consumed. The dangers herein, in
secondary consumption of antibiotics, are well documented.
 Agricultural Chemicals.
Being higher on the food chain, animal foods contain far higher concentrations of agricultural chemicals than plant
foods, including pesticides, herbicides, etc.
 High fat plus cholesterol.
Animal foods are higher in fat than most plant foods, particularly saturated fats. Plants do not contain
cholesterol. Modern farm animals are deliberately fattened up to increase profits. Eating fatty meat
increases your chances of having a heart attack or developing cancer.
 Pathogenic Microorganisms.
There are a host of bacteria and viruses, some quite dangerous, that are common to animals. When you eat
meat, you eat the organisms in the meat. Micro-organisms are present in plant foods too, but their number and
danger to human health is by no means comparable to that of those in meat.
 Body wastes.
Food from animals contain their waste, including adrenaline, uric and lactic acid, etc., Before
adding ketchup, the biggest contributors to the "flavor profile" of a hamburger are the leftover
blood and urine.
 Excess protein.
This causes excess nitrogen in the blood that creates a host of long-term health problems.

21. Meat is not good for your health
 Vitamin deficient.
Except for the b-complex, meat is largely deficient in vitamins.
 Carbohydrate Deficient.
Meat is deficient in carbohydrates, particularly the starches
which are so essential to proper health.
 Fiber deficient.
Fiber absorbs unwanted, excess fats; cleans the intestines; provides bulk and aids in peristalsis. Plant food is high in
fiber content; meat, poultry and dairy products have none.
 Intestinal Toxemia.
The condition of the intestinal flora is critical to overall health. Animal products rot the colon.
 Food poisoning
There are millions of cases of food poisoning recorded every year. The vast majority are caused by eating meat.
 Shelf life differential.
Plant foods last longer than animal foods. Try this experiment: Leave out a
head of lettuce and a pound of hamburger for 1 day, which will make you sick?
 Transit time.
Wholesome food travels quickly through the "G.I" tract, leaving little time
to spoil and incite disease within the body.
 Organoleptic Indications of Pathenogens.
Plant foods give tell-tale signs of "going bad". Ever hear of someone getting
sick from "bad broccoli"?

22. Common Diseases Among Meat Eaters
Heart Disease High blood pressure
Obesity Breast cancer
Appendicitis Diabetes
Mad Cow Disease Indigestion
Piles
Arthritis
Anaemia Gout
Cancer of the prostrate
Strokes Constipation

23. Health Benefits of Being Vegan
According to the American Dietetic Association’s position paper, vegetarians on average
have lower body weight, cho-lesterol, and blood pressure, and lower rates of type 2
diabetes, heart disease, prostate cancer, and colon cancer.
It is the position of the American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of
Canada that appropriately planned vegetarian diets are healthful,
nutritionally adequate, and provide health benefits in the prevention
and treatment of certain diseases.
High fruit and vegetable consumption is associated with a reduced
risk for cardiovascular disease, several common cancers, and
other chronic diseases (such as macular degeneration and cataracts).
Whole-grain consumption is associated with a reduced risk for heart disease, diabetes,
high blood pressure, and stomach and colon cancers. Regular consumption of nuts is
linked with a lower risk for heart disease and lower mortality rates.
Electrical activity in the brain as shown by EEGs has shown that the vegetarian diet
induces alpha waves, which indicate a state of neuromuscular relaxation not just of the
brain but of the whole body. Leadbeater maintains that this scientific research proves the
beneficial action of vegetarianism on behaviour, in that it promotes a sense of wellbeing
"analogous to the state of meditation on the most profound truths".

24. Health Benefits of Being Vegan
• Eating plenty of fruits and vegetables. They contain vitamin C, which
is essential for uilding collagen, the underlying bonematrix. For a
variety of reasons, animal protein causes severe bone deterioration.
Milk, in particular, is poor insurance against bone breaks the healthiest
calcium sources are green leafy vegetables and legumes.
• Recent research has demonstrated the importance of protective antioxidant nutrients in
the diet found in fresh fruit and vegetables. These antioxidant nutrients include the
betacarotene form of vitamin A, vitamin C and E. Many researchers now believe that these
nutrients play a major role in reducing the risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease
and cancer. A high consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables is a benefit of vegetarian
diets.
• Vegetarians are fitter than meat eaters. many of the world's most
successful athletes are vegetarian.
• Longevity. To increase ones risk of getting degenerative disease means decreasing ones
chance to live a naturally long healthy life. Huzas and other peoples with large centenarian
populations maintain lifestyles that are relatively meat free.

26. If we eat the plants we grow instead
of feeding them to animals, the
world's food shortage will disappear
virtually overnight. Remember that 100
acres of land will produce enough beef
for 20 people but enough wheat to
feed 240 people.
African countries - where millions
are starving to death - export grain to
the developed world so that animals
can be fattened for your dining
tables.

27. Half the rainforests in the world have been destroyed to clear ground to graze
cattle to make beefburgers. The burning of the forests contributes 20% of all green-
house gases. Roughtly 1,000 species a year become extinct because of the
destruction of the rainforests. Approximately 60 million people a year die of starvation.
All those lives could be saved because those people could eat grain used to fatten
cattle and other farm animals - if non-vegetarians ate 10% less meat.

28. Water Conservation. It takes 3 to 15 times as much water to produce
animal protein as it does plant protein.The world's fresh water shortage is
being made worse by animal farming. And meat producers are the biggest
polluters of water. It takes 2500 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of meat.

29. Conservation of Fossil fuel. It takes 78 calories of fossil fuel to produce 1
calorie of beef protein; 35 calories for 1 calorie of pork; 22 calories for 1 of
poultry; but just 1 calorie of fossil fuel for 1 calorie of soybeans. By eating plant
foods instead of animal foods, I help conserve our non-renewable sources of
energy.

30. Efficient use of grains. It takes up to
16 pounds of soybeans and grains to
produce 1 lb. of beef and 3 to 6 lbs. to
produce 1 lb of turkey & egg. By eating
grain foods directly, I make the food
supply more efficient & that contributes
to the environment.
Soil conservation. When grains & legumes
are used more efficiently, our precious topsoil
is automatically made more efficient in its use.
We use less agricultural resources to provide
for the same number of people.

31. Saving our forests. Tropical forests in Brazil and other tropic regions are destroyed daily, in
part, to create more acreage to raise livestock. By not supporting the meat industry, you directly
reduce the demand to pillage these irreplaceable treasures of nature. Since the forest land "filters"
our air supply and contains botanical sources for new medicines, this destruction is irreversable.

32. Personal Finances
Health care costs. Being healthier on a vegetarian diet
means spending less on health care.
Food costs. Vegetarian foods tend to cost less than
meat based items.

33. Man is designed by nature to be vegetarian
Natural diet. Our hands, teeth, feet, intestinal tract...even our bodychemistry is
that of an herbivore. Man in no way has the constitution of a carnivorous being.
Hunt and voracity are unnatural to him. Man has neither the sharp pointed teeth
or claws to slaughter his prey. On the contrary his hands are made to pick fruits,
berries and vegetables and teeth appropriate to chew them
The whole of the human body even down to the slightest
detail is destined by nature for an exclusively vegetable
diet. His short mandibles of medium force, his canines of
the same length as his other teeth, and his tuberous molars
do not permit him to chew grass or devour meat without
preparing these foods through cooking. His digestive organs
are formed in ccordance with the disposition of his teeth. His
stomach is simple and his intestine canal is of medium length
and very well fixed to his large intestine.
The length of mans digestive tube is 5-8 meters and the distance between
the mouth and the coccyx is 50 to 80 centimetres, which gives us a result
of 10 as in other frugivorous animals and not 3 as in the carnivorous or 20
as in the herbivorous animals.

34. More Reasons to be Vegetarian
Stance against Factory Farming.. You cannot make
a statement against factory farming if you yourself eat animals.
Love for animals. If you love your pets, extend that
love to all other animals. Will you eat your dog or cat?
World Peace. There can never be peace among men while
men are declaring war on other highly developed life forms.
The law of Karma. If you partake in the slaughter of
animals, you will have to repay your contribution to that act.
The law of karma is nature’s universal law and does not spare
anyone.
Easy substitutes. There are vegetable based substitutes
for every meat roduct Imaginable.
Your Economic Vote. You support the meat industry and the
way they operate when you purchase and use their products.

35. Corporate-owned factories
where cows are warehoused in
huge sheds and treated like
milk machines have replaced
most small family farms. With
genetic manipulation and
intensive production
technologies, it is common for
modern dairy cows to produce
100 pounds of milk a day— 10
times more than they would
produce in nature. To keep milk
production as high as possible,
farmers artificially inseminate
cows every year. Growth
hormones and unnatural
milking schedules cause dairy
cows' udders to become
painful and so heavy that they
sometimes drag on the ground,
resulting in frequent infections
and overuse of antibiotics.
Why become Vegan?
A cow produces milk only after she has had a calf. Every year we make her pregnant and kill
her calf so that we can take her milk. After four calves we kill and eat the cow when she is
about seven years old, even though she should live for twenty, because she is now less
productive. 70% of beef comes from milk cows. Beef, milk and veal are all one business, all the
same bloody, animal slave industry. It is just the same for chickens and eggs.

36. Male calves, the "byproducts" of the dairy industry, endure 14 to17 weeks of
torment in veal crates so small that they can't even turn around. Female calves
often replace their old, worn-out mothers, or are slaughtered soon after birth for
the rennet in their stomachs (an ingredient of most commercial cheeses). They
are often kept in tiny crates or tethered in stalls for the first few months of their
lives, only to grow up to become "milk machines" like their mothers.

37. Vegetarianism helps us
replace brutal violence
with the persuasive force
of fraternal love. This love
reaches out without
imposing, in a spirit of
helping and sharing..
When we humans
understand that we do not
need to kill to eat, we will
find healthy, energy-giving
food in nature. Then only
peace will prevail

38. Some facts
 Kilos of potatoes that can be grown on 1 hectare of land: 22,417
 Kilos of meat that can be produced 1 hectare of land: 185
 Percentage of protein wasted by cycling grain through livestock: 90
 Number of people worldwide who will die as a result of malnutrition
this year: 20 to 40 million
 Litres of water necessary to produce 1 kilo of wheat: 209
 Litres of water necessary to produce 1 kilo of meat: 20,861
 The diet of the most powerful animals on the planet,
including gorillas, elephants and bulls: pure vegetarian
 The life expectancy of vegetarians compared to
nonvegetarians: Vegetarians live, on average,
six extra years.
 The largest meat-eater that ever lived:
Tyrannosaurus Rex.
 Diet of six-time Ironman Triathlon winner Dave Scott, nine-time Wimbledon
winner Martina Navratilove, World Recordholder for bench press Stanton price
and India's international cricket star Anil Kumble, President of India Mr.A.P.J.
Abdul Kalam: Vegetarian

39. VEGETARIANISM IN PERSPECTIVE
A vegetarian is a person who does not eat meat, fish,
or fowl or products containing these foods.The eating
patterns of vegetarians may vary onsiderably:
Vegan: follows a strict diet excluding eggs,
dairy, and all other animal products;
Lacto-ovo-vegetarian: Eats a diet of mainly
grains, vegetables, fruits, legumes, seeds, nuts,
dairy products, and eggs, and excludes meat,
fish, and poultry;
Lacto-vegetarian: Excludes animal flesh
and eggs;
Ovo-vegetarian: Excludes animal flesh
and dairy products;

40. Thank you!
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