The way a vegetarian diet is better for the environment than a meat based diet is because raising livestock is far more detrimental to the environment than raising grains, fruits, and vegetables. Vast acres of trees are cut down to make room for cattle. In fact that is what has happened to much of the rain forests in South America. Not only does livestock farming take up a lot of space, but the animals

Clearly factory farming and vegetarian lifestyles are topics with several facets of interest and concern. They each affect an assorted number of environmental issues. When asked, 25 percent of the general population ranked “the environment alongside health, education, and crime as one of the most important issues facing the Government” (Dept.of Envr, 2002). This could be another explanation for the increase in vegetarianism in the last few years; people are simply more aware and concerned for the environment. Other contributing images to vegetarianism come from the media. All in all, I think vegetarianism is looked at in a positive light. Maybe not for just for the reasons discussed prior, but for more aesthetic reasons as well. Living in such a Hollywood oriented society, body image is of great concern. Vegetarianism also has a highly influential group of spokespeople including Pamela Anderson, Moby, and Alicia Silverstone. This celebrity backing is shown to influence a younger and younger generation of vegetarians.

As far as health concerns from a non-meat diet, they are small if handled appropriately. We as humans are designed to consume meat products. Therefore it does seem a little unnatural to cut it out of a diet. In the same respects, the amount of meat

There are other harms from the animal industry that travel through the waters. When testing streams surrounding these industries, eighty percent contained antibiotics and hormones in the water. The reason the livestock industry is thought to be at blame for this is because of their use of these products on their animals. It is not only injected to promote growth and fight disease but it is also present in the animals’ feed. It is not known what the effects all of these contaminates will have on humans in the doses found in the water (part per billion) but “potential concerns from the presence of these compounds include reproductive impairment, increased incidences of cancer, the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and the increased toxicity of chemical

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