10-18-2009, 04:55 AM
I was an occasional non-vegetarian some 5-6 years ago. Except my mother (a strict vegetarian) everyone else was an occasional non-vegetarian. But since then my whole family is vegetarian now.
Here are my reasons to choose vegetarianism over non-vegetarianism.
1) One creature is the food of other creature but we as human have conscience to cause least amount of violence. I follow principle of least violence. Plants have least number of sense organs and further when you pluck the fruits then it does not kill them (though there are exceptions).
2) Already explained in this thread is that amount of resources required to create certain amount of meat is far greater than creating same nutritious value vegetarian food. If people switch to vegetarianism then millions of people will not sleep with hungry stomach.
3) There is always a risk of great number of ailments from eating meats.
4) Raising animals for food do have severe negative effects on environment.
Here are my reasons to choose vegetarianism over non-vegetarianism.
1) One creature is the food of other creature but we as human have conscience to cause least amount of violence. I follow principle of least violence. Plants have least number of sense organs and further when you pluck the fruits then it does not kill them (though there are exceptions).
2) Already explained in this thread is that amount of resources required to create certain amount of meat is far greater than creating same nutritious value vegetarian food. If people switch to vegetarianism then millions of people will not sleep with hungry stomach.
3) There is always a risk of great number of ailments from eating meats.
4) Raising animals for food do have severe negative effects on environment.