What is a vegetarian?
Vegetarian is defined as a person who does not eat meat, and sometimes other animal products, for moral, religious, or health reasons.
What are some of the benefits?
Some of the benefits of a vegetarian diet include:
Lower risk for:
Higher consumption of vegetables, fruits, soy, legumes, and nuts. Also higher consumption of complex carbohydrates, dietary fiber, and certain vitamins and minerals.
Lower consumption of saturated fats and cholesterol.
Lower risk for:
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Hypertension
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Diverticulosis
- Renal Disease
- Some Cancers
- Gallstones
Higher consumption of vegetables, fruits, soy, legumes, and nuts. Also higher consumption of complex carbohydrates, dietary fiber, and certain vitamins and minerals.
Lower consumption of saturated fats and cholesterol.
Background
Every day the idea of a vegetarian diet gains more and more popularity. The idea of abstaining from the consumption of animal products is no longer a foreign concept. Vegetarianism has become the one of the most popular diet options among the young generations. In today’s day and age, the concern to eat a well balanced diet and exercise regularly is becoming an important issue. The vegetarian diet eliminates the intake of any sort of meat and inputs the feeding on vegetables fruits, grains, nuts and a few specific animal products. The earliest evidence of vegetarianism originates in ancient India and Greek civilizations. Philosophers, politicians, writers, and even world renowned scientists agree that vegetarianism is a legitimate lifestyle choice.
§ Abraham Lincoln
"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."
§ Albert Einstein
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
§ George Bernard Shaw
"If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?"
§ Leo Tolstoy
"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields."
§ Mahatma Gandhi
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
"To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being."
§ Mark Twain
"I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further."
§ Pythagoras
"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."
§ Thomas Edison
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
§ Abraham Lincoln
"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."
§ Albert Einstein
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
§ George Bernard Shaw
"If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?"
§ Leo Tolstoy
"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields."
§ Mahatma Gandhi
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
"To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being."
§ Mark Twain
"I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further."
§ Pythagoras
"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."
§ Thomas Edison
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."