Are Vegetarians Healthier?

Are Vegetarians Healthier?

Could veggie burgers increase your lifespan? Many experts insist that switching to a vegetarian lifestyle can greatly increase overall health, leading some to ditch their pork rinds like an old smoking habit. Still others swear by an omnivorous diet, saying that occasional New York steak never hurt anyone. Is a fresh helping of tofu just what the doctor ordered, or only a lot of empty calories?

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stop discussing other animals
  • SocialistBetty
    oh really?

    so you're saying that having a system by which to judge the necessity or relevancy of actions or inactions is not natural?

    and you are wrong.... animals follow moral codes of behavior. bet you didn't know that. some animals, in fact, ignore that moral code... and do so knowingly.

    in fact, it's a general consensus that some kind of morality is indeed embedded into our genetic code. (obviously... if you're charles manson and co., or the like, something went wrong.)




    ......also remember that raising animals, and the slaughter of animals, and the shipping of animals, and the butchering and everything else also provide employment. which workers need. so that's a moot point.



    so why don't you try finding a real argument as to why people should do what is completely unnatural by eating only vegetable foods that are out of season where they live instead of eating what is available and sustainable?


    unless you think it natural to have oranges in february. and all manner of legumes, lettuce, avocados, etcetera etcetera etcetera.


    now if your'e argument against eating meat is the treatment of animals, you should go to farmsanctuary and sign the petitions they have. i've already done it. i see no reason why animals should not have led decent lives before being killed for consumption (rather than rotting away slowly like the rest of us).

    - SocialistBettyUS June 13, 2009 7:59PM

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