"Speaking for a species that can't speak
I'm talking about the slaughter of the innocent and the weak
I call it a crime and now it's time to make a change
You know we're ready to rearrange
I'm on one mission, to kill an old tradition
Make a meat-eater like a black and white television
It's time to take the dying out of what we eat
So get out of your seat
Because it's time to beat the meat"
The main reasons not to eat meat probably is because it is .....
*unethical, as you take someone's life away from them. And for that matter, most people would not even manage to slaughter, and then chop the dead animal, themselves.
*Meat does not taste good, it is dead animal muscles or fat, that hardly tastes anything before you spice it. And if you think the taste of meat is desirable
*there are vegetarian/vegan meat substitutes for almost any meat you could possibly think of. Bacon, fish sticks, meatballs, sausages, hamburgers… even squid, shrimps and beef jerky!
And also,
*it is no secret that veg. food is much better for your health, as meat often leads to belly cancer and obesity, while *vegetarian/vegan food counteracts to heart- and vein disease.
If you are vegetarian/vegan you often eat more varying and you get all the nutrition materials
(Though if you are vegan and do not eat alga very often you should take nutritional supplements of vitamin B-12).
As if it was not enough that meat is bad for your health, and of course the animals, it is also
very *bad for the environment. It takes about 10 to 100 % more energy "producing" meat than producing veggies. Meat animals of the world alone consume food equal to calorific needs of 9 billion people.
This means that *in theory no one would have to starve if everyone ate vegetarian/vegan food.
The hard *fishing has damaged the seas badly, fishspecies has completely disappeared, and the ecosystem is roughly imbalanced.
If you compare with, for example, lentils, beans and soy meat, *meat is also quite expensive.
Like George Bernard Shaw said: "Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends".
I think that people in the future (if the world isn't ruined) will look back at us and wonder how we could not have seen the similarities between the holocaust and what we are doing to the animals.
Isaac B. Singer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1978 and survivor of the holocaust, was vegetarian for 35 years. He used to do those similes, and said:
"In relation to animals, all people are Nazi's; for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka".
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"So if I asked you to sacrifice
To make a change and drop the knife
Could you bring yourself to pay the price
To change your ways to save a life
And the life you save, just might belong to you
So the only question now is "whatcha gonna do"
Cause if you're not convinced, then you'll be coerced
Cholesterol will kill you if we don't get to you first
Time to make decisions, change our selfish ways
Time to make a difference no more dying for our tastes"
-Good Clean Fun