Why Eating Meat Is A Good Source Of Nutrition

Eating meat was a good source of nutrition, sinceyour diet, and learn to live from the plant foods
the use of hormones, pesticides and massthe environment naturally provides. The animals
production methods was as yet unheard of. Aand your conscience will be better for it.
family raised and processed their own livestock.If most of us thought about the conditions in
Every morning the large golden eggs werewhich chickens used for meat and eggs are raised
plucked from the chicken's nests, which wereand slaughtered, we'd become vegetarian on the
lovingly cared for and fed healthy pesticide-freespot. Egg-laying chickens can be raised in cages
grains..with 6 chickens to a cage, each chicken getting
Today's factory farms use everything, but in theonly 67 square inches of space for its lifetime.
process they leave behind an environmental tollUnless they're certified and labeled as being
that generations to come will be forced to pay.free-range or organic or natural, they might have
Raising animals for food requires more that halfbeen fed growth hormones to get them to
the water used in the United States each yearslaughter faster, and antibiotics to combat the
and one-third of all raw materials, including fossildiseases which come from being raised in
fuels. This industry is the greatest polluter of ourcramped and less-than-clean conditions.
waters and is directly responsible for 85 percentAnd consider what the recommendations are for
of soil erosion. Our country's meat addiction iscleaning up after touching poultry? It's
steadily poisoning and depleting our land, waterrecommended to clean surfaces with bleach to
and air.remove bacteria, and to wash your hands
Of all agricultural land in the United States, 87thoroughly after touching a chicken.
percent is used to raise animals for food. That'sDo you really want to put something into your
45 percent of the total land mass of the Unitedbody that requires bleach to clean up after?
States.Something that needs to be cooked to specific
Methane is one of four greenhouse gases thattemperatures to be sure you've destroyed any
contribute to global warming. The world's 1.3 billionbacteria that could make you sick?
cows produce one-fifth of all methane emittedChickens and turkeys have become so
into the atmosphere.mass-produced and injected with antibiotics and
Raising animals for food causes more waterhormones that there's no taste to it anymore, so
pollution in the United States than any otherwhy bother? Even the most humanely treated
industry because animals raised for food producechicken has either been stunned in a salt-water
20 times the excrement of the entire humanbrine before being beheaded. In John Robbins
population-230,000 pounds every second. Of allexcellent book and video, Diet for a Small Planet,
raw materials and fossil fuels used in the Unitedhe shows us pictures of chickens being grabbed in
States, more than one-third is used to raisegroups by the neck and thrown into cages. Can
animals for food.you really consider eating a chicken with that
Rain forests are being destroyed at a rate ofvision in your head?
125,000 square miles per year. The primary causeAny means of mass-producing animals for human
of deforestation is raising animals for food.consumption is by its very nature unhealthy and
Coupled with the inhumane treatments of animalscruel for the animals, and unhealthy for humans
that are raised for human consumption, the costsas well. Even if you're of the opinion that man is a
of raising and processing these animals for humannatural hunter, how natural is it to eat an animal
consumption is becoming too high. Make athat's been raised in captivity and fed a diet of
commitment to reduce or eliminate meats fromhormones and antibiotics?