Meat Industry Vs Vegetarian Essay

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The Meat Industry verses Being a Vegetarian
Do you know where the meat we all eat come from? This is something we all need to think about when we cook a nice juicy steak or going to your local McDonald’s for a Big Mac. Eating meat could be seen as being wasteful since it takes a lot of plants, which we know as a crop, can produce a small amount of meat. When people do a meat based diet is high in fats and cholesterol these are killers and bad for your health, verses a vegetarian diet, it offers a lot of good stuff such as minerals, vitamins (tons of it), good proteins and fibrous indigestible materials.
I believe that meat is a very wasteful use of resources and its clauses hunger and poverty. Studies show that a large amount of grain to feed livestock, this
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Folks over Knives (2011) this is research on T. Colin Campbell, PhD and Caldwell Esselstyn Jr, MD which showed that food is the best medicine you can ever have.
2. Super-Size Me is when Morgan Spurlock goes to McDonald 's and eat only their food for 30 days, this movie will show the Physical and Psychological effects of what meat can do to you.
3. Earthlings is another great film which shows how animals suffer with food, fashion, as a pet, entertainment and medical research.
4. Food, Inc. which convinced me to becoming vegetarian. This movie has a lot of great food experts showing and explaining about the vegetarian life.
5. Babe- This movie has been claimed to lead most kids and adults to go vegetarian.
I have lived a vegetarian lifestyle for 2 months and is loving it. My health is getting better and I feel very great about life. I have done a lot of research before going through this great journey and I am glad I did. I want to end with another great quote from Mahatma Gandhi, I would recommend everyone to meditate on these words, “It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessing of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow

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