Summary
Should we stop eating other animals? What are the moral, environmental, and health issues involved?

Context
There have been very few human societies in which no meat or fish are eaten, although in some parts of the world the normal diet is made up largely of staple foods such as rice, with meat and fish being relatively rare additions; this has often been due to poverty rather than choice. In modern Western societies, however, 'voluntary' vegetarianism is on the increase. This debate is about whether it is right for human beings to eat other animals (including fish). To take an even more absolute line, the proposition could argue for veganism - this means eating no dairy produce or eggs (as well as no meat or fish).

u forgot to put ur views buddy....

Is duniya main kuch janwar sirf isliye hain jinko sirf khaya jaa sakta hai!!like murga!! Murge ki is duniya main koi utility nahin hai!!
Murga na to dudh deta hai!!Na hal chalata hai!!Aur na ande deta hai!!
Usi tarah aur bhi janwar hai jinka koi upyog nahin hai sirf khane ke alawa.....

as far as i m concerned i last ate a non veg meal on 31st dec. 1999 so yeah u can say that i ve become a pure vegetarian...

letme tell u barring the initial few days / weeks i m enjoying it...

i m not saying that we shud all turn vegetarians bcuz there r some countries where there is almost no vegetation and ppl will starve if they become a vegetarian... but i hate the idea of eating non veg food on certain days only...arre if u eat u shud eat it everyday...there shudnt be any exception....like monday ko is bhagwan ka din hai so i cant eat and blah blah blah....
i dont believe in that theory.

hee hee mere jaise janwaron ka bhi iss duniya mein koi upyog nahi hai mere bhai....

kya tu mujhe bhi kha jayega?

wat rubbish!!

Poultry industry is one of biggest industry which helps economical development.
this is another medium for ppl to earn money. Each animal have its own significance.

well abt me i m non vegeterian i don't bother wid theories only eat wat suits my Stomach

Arrey bhooka maarna hai kyaa mujhe?? I love non-vegetarian food. Dekhengey, aagey chal ke agar lagey toh veggi ho jaayenge but abhi toh PETA / GEETA / SITA koi bhi boley, I am not gonna eat ghaans phoons....

arey sasoor ...mujhe to pussy khane aur doodh pine ki adat hai ...ab pussy oo pussy cat naaahi hai oo hai pussy ...dekho uska photo ee raha...ee animal hai kaa ?




batao jara humko ...

A very good topic indeed !
But I have a question before I could answer your topic.
People who are vegetarian think that its wrong to kill animals
Some People say that People who kill animals for food have no mercy, because when there is enough of vegetarian food why would one kill animal for the pleasure of food. It's well said that we eat to live and not live to eat.

The question is "To be vegetarian you still have to kill plants, Now is killing plants is OK, isi'nt that killing too, what I mean is you are still killing, if not the innocent animals then the innocent plants for your food. Is that alright ?

Ok here's my stand for this topic...

PROS

The main reason to be a vegetarian is to reduce animal suffering. Farm animals such as chickens, pigs, sheep, and cows are sentient living beings like us - they are our evolutionary cousins and like us they can feel pleasure and pain. It is wrong to farm and kill these animals for food when we do not need to do so. The methods of farming and slaughter of these animals are often barbaric and cruel - even on supposedly 'free range' farms. Also, in most countries, animals farmed for food are not covered by animal welfare laws that protect other animals.

To suggest that battery farms are in some way 'natural' is absurd - they are unnatural and cruel. To eat meat is to perpetuate animal suffering on a huge scale - a larger, crueller, and more systematic scale than anything found in the wild. Furthermore, the very fact of humanity's 'superiority' over other animals means they have the reason and moral instinct to stop exploiting other species. If an alien species from another planet, much more intelligent and powerful than humans, came and colonised the earth and farmed (and force-fed) human beings in battery farm conditions we would think it was morally abhorrent. If this would be wrong, then is it not wrong for we 'superior' humans to farm 'lower' species on earth simply because of our ability to do so?

The fact that human beings are omnivores (and are rational agents with free will) means that they can choose whether to eat meat, vegetables, or both. It might be 'natural' for men to be violent towards one another but that does not mean that it is right that they should carry on being so. Some natural traits are immoral and should be restrained. In any case, our closest animal cousins - the apes - have an all-vegetable diet.

Becoming a vegetarian is an environmentally friendly thing to do. Modern farming is one of the main sources of pollution in our rivers. Beef farming is one of the main causes of deforestation, and as long as people continue to buy fast food in their billions, there will be a financial incentive to continue cutting down trees to make room for cattle. Because of our desire to eat fish, our rivers and seas are being emptied of fish and many species are facing extinction. Energy resources are used up much more greedily by meat farming than my farming cereals, pulses etc. Eating meat and fish not only causes cruelty to animals, it causes serious harm to the environment and to biodiversity.

There are significant health benefits to 'going veggie'; a vegetarian diet contains high quantities of fibre, vitamins, and minerals, and is low in fat. (A vegan diet is even better since eggs and dairy products are high in cholesterol.) The risk of contracting many forms of cancer is increased by eating meat: in 1996 the American Cancer Society recommended that red meat should be excluded from the diet entirely. Eating meat also increases the risk of heart disease - vegetables contain no cholesterol, which can build up to cause blocked arteries in meat-eaters. A vegetarian diet reduces the risk of serious diseases and, because it is low in fat, also helps to prevent you becoming overweight. There are plenty of vegetarian sources of protein, such as beans and bean curd; and spinach is one of the best sources of iron.

Going vegetarian or vegan means massively reducing the risk of contracting food-borne diseases. The inclusion of animal brains in their own feed led to the outbreak of Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis (BSE or 'mad cow disease') and its human equivalent, Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (CJD). Almost all of the potentially fatal forms of food poisoning (E-coli, salmonella, BSE) are transmitted by meat and poultry.

lo bhaia aab murge ki gand mat marlena

lo bhaia aab murge ki gand mat marlena

Let there be another, green revolution, then lets think of this.

BRO THAT'S WHY WE ARE CALLED "VEGETARIANS", WHO EATS "VEGETABLES" THAT COMES FROM PLANT AND I ACCEPT THAT NON VEG FOOD TASTES GOOD THEN VEG, COZ I WAS A NON VEGETARIAN AND I QUIT EATING MEAT, KYONKI MAINE EK MEAT PROCESSING FACTORY KA VIDEO DEKHA THA, DEKHTE HI RONGTE KHADE HO GAYE, BELIEVE ME PEOPLE IT WAS HORRIFYING. AUR YAR, IS IT RIGHT THAT SIRF TASTE KE LIYE KISI JAANWAR KO MAARO, COZ KO BHI VITAMINS AUR MINERALS NON VEG MAIN HAIN WO VIG MAIN BHI HAIN

I'm a veggie myself. Stopped eating meat when I turned 7. I do feel that being veg is one of the reasons why I'm in good shape. Also makes me feel good about myself.

I've also read that research has shown that meat eaters are more prone to brittle bone disorders and arthritis. And as most people know, consumption of meat also increases the chances of developing high blood pressure.

But everyone has a choice as to whether they want to eat meat or not.

good good

m too a pure veggie.......my views r.......its really cruel tht we eat animals.......