Become A Vegetarian, Persuasive Essay Options

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Tremendous amounts of people consume meat every single day. There are many reasons why people should become vegetarians. Believe it or not, by eating meat it causes environmental damages! So many innocent animals are being treated with cruelty just to become food. Consuming meat even has a very negative affect on people's health. Will people stop at nothing to just eat meat?

It takes an enormous amount of resources to produce meat. It can take 100 times more water to produce a pound of meat than it does to produce a pound of wheat. A majority of farming land in our country is used to grow grain for animals or for animals to graze for food. The amount of fossil fuels to produce meat is a lot higher than the amount it takes to produce plant foods. Animal agriculture produces an enormous amount of waste, which affects the environment. The large amount of excrement produced by the far animals gets into our streams and lakes. The noxious smell of factory farms pollutes the air around them for many miles. Every time people eat meat, it has a major affect on the environment.

If people become vegetarians, a lot of animal abuse will also stop. The making of foie gras is a perfect example of animals being abused for food. Foie gras is produced by shoving a metal pipe down the throats of ducks & geese and pumping up to 1/3 of the bird's body weight into their stomachs everyday! It causes their livers to become diseased and enlarged. The birds must endure the force-feeding two to three times a day, every day, until they are dead! In the foie gras factory farms, the birds are forced to live in intensive and overcrowded confinement. They are unable to spread a wing, walk, or even turn around! Over 500,000 ducks are killed in the U.S. every year to make foie gras. Another example is the abuse that chickens get. They are sorted male from female at the chicken farms. Then the male chickens are casually thrown in a sack on top of each other and suffocate, just because they cannot become layers or meat providers. Pigs are equal in intelligence to chimps and higher than dogs, yet they are still abused and killed for food. People should stop this unnecessary abuse and mutilation of animals, and become vegetarians.

Not only is eating meat harmful towards animals, it is also bad for people’s health. Meat is full of antibiotics, hormones, diseases, cancer, fecal matter, and has a tendency to turn rancid in people's digestive tracts. Too much protein is also very harmful for our bodies. Physiological studies show that human bodies are not designed to eat meat. One cannot handle the quantity of meat that most people consume. Vegetarians live a longer and healthier life. Fruits and veggies are still the best.

If people have any sense of compassion, they would think twice before eating meat. Consuming meat has a negative effect on our environment. By becoming a vegetarian, people can save the lives of many animals. People could even be healthier if they would just stop eating meat. Clearly being a vegetarian is the best way to go.



(Sorry for any grammar/spelling mistakes, I was in a hurry typing it.)