Why Become A Vegetarian? [View All]

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Why Become A Vegetarian?
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Meet Hamid, a hypothetical child in sub-Saharan Africa. He's two years old, two and half feet tall and weighs 20 pounds. He has tiny hands and tiny feet and piercing dark eyes. Each day his little tummy rumbles in pain because he struggles to get enough to eat. He will likely die soon.

If so, he will become one of 16,000 children who die each day from hunger, one child every 5 seconds. If famine doesn't kill him a disease may sweep through his hunger ravaged body and finish the job.

None of us wants little Hamid to die or to live so miserable a life. Yet there are millions more children just like him in many parts of the world and they and their parents reach out to us for help.

One way we can help is to become vegetarians. It takes far less land and other resources to raise fruits, vegetables, grains and nuts than it does to raise animals for slaughter. And wide spread rain forests and ancient timber lands have been cleared and are being cleared to raise animals for slaughter.

If the industrialized nations cut back on their meat production and instead grew healthier foods, there would be far more food to share with the world and we would all be taking better care of our bodies by eating healthier.

But there is another reason I became a vegetarian. Karma - What goes around comes around. I didn't want any living creatures being killed so I could eat their flesh. They are living, thinking beings just as I am.... Continued at http://sane-ramblings.blogspot.com/
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