Meat eaters more pollutant than cars,trains and planes
A website says people should be vegetarian to help the poor, stop cruelty to animals, save the environment and avoid bird flu.
The site, action.petaindia.com/ea-campaign also says the other reasons to avoid meat were to prolong life, prevent heart disease, reduce the risk of cancer, lose weight, create global peace and discover the range of vegetarian foods.
The site claims that Drs Dean Ornish and Caldwell Esselstyn had used a vegan diet to prevent and reverse heart disease.
“The risk of developing heart disease among meat eaters is 50 percent higher than it is among vegetarians,” the site says.
The site quotes ‘The Physicians Committee for responsible Medicine’ saying vegetarians are about 40 percent less likely to get cancer than non vegetarians regardless of other risks like smoking, body size and socio-economic status.
It says healthy vegetarians diets support a life of good health and provide protection against numerous diseases and the three biggest killers, heart disease, cancer and strokes.
“Vegetarians live six to ten years longer on average than meat eaters do,” it says.
The site quotes a United Nations report as saying eating meat causes almost 40 percent more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, ships and trains in the world put together.
“Eating meat is one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global,” the site quotes the UN report.
The site also quotes the World Health Organization (WHO) report saying if the avian flu virus mutated, it could be caught simply by eating undercooked chicken flesh or eggs and food prepared on the same cutting board as infected meat or eggs, or even touching eggshells contaminated with the virus.
It further says vegetarianism was the tap root of humanitarianism and that if anyone wanted to save the planet, they only had to stop eating meat.
The site, action.petaindia.com/ea-campaign also says the other reasons to avoid meat were to prolong life, prevent heart disease, reduce the risk of cancer, lose weight, create global peace and discover the range of vegetarian foods.
The site claims that Drs Dean Ornish and Caldwell Esselstyn had used a vegan diet to prevent and reverse heart disease.
“The risk of developing heart disease among meat eaters is 50 percent higher than it is among vegetarians,” the site says.
The site quotes ‘The Physicians Committee for responsible Medicine’ saying vegetarians are about 40 percent less likely to get cancer than non vegetarians regardless of other risks like smoking, body size and socio-economic status.
It says healthy vegetarians diets support a life of good health and provide protection against numerous diseases and the three biggest killers, heart disease, cancer and strokes.
“Vegetarians live six to ten years longer on average than meat eaters do,” it says.
The site quotes a United Nations report as saying eating meat causes almost 40 percent more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, ships and trains in the world put together.
“Eating meat is one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global,” the site quotes the UN report.
The site also quotes the World Health Organization (WHO) report saying if the avian flu virus mutated, it could be caught simply by eating undercooked chicken flesh or eggs and food prepared on the same cutting board as infected meat or eggs, or even touching eggshells contaminated with the virus.
It further says vegetarianism was the tap root of humanitarianism and that if anyone wanted to save the planet, they only had to stop eating meat.