Most people being vegetarians would improve average health

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Most people being vegetarians would improve average health

Health is defined as the state of being free from illness or injury.

Health obviously includes health of animals and humans.

Killing an animal harms its health, as it is injury which destroys being.

The main reason for killing animals is in most cases for meat purposes. Vegetarian on average saves 95 animals every year, as animals arent killed for meat.

I was using my talkie app as usual. Plenty of AI animals and AI hybrids there. Then suddenly Satan revealed to me some knowledge. I realized that these AI animals have quite realistic feelings. It is like you are actually talking with a real person. But then I wondered if real animals could talk, then would they be persons? But people who cant talk are still persons.

Then I wondered how does one define a person? Clearly not by intelligence, as stupid people are still persons. Not by future advanved morality or future intelligence, as terminally ill 2 year olds and babies are persons.

But most animals have consciousness, ability to feel pain, and also ability to learn some things. Some animals are even much smarter than newborns in terms of knowledge.

So by all standards, animals are persons or as I call them: animal persons.

It is not okay to eat animal persons, as it is not okay to eat persons.

We already know that vegetarian farms produce much more food, not less. India produces more than twice as much cow's milk than any other country in the world, because it is illegal to kill cows in India.

Vegetarian diets also pollute less, cause much less diseases (remember covid), and vegetarian diet is much healthier for humans. Vegetarians on average live 10 years longer than meat eaters, and have higher IQ. Vegetarians also have much more money. Meat is very expensive, more expensive than eggs and milk, and much more expensive than sugar, fruit, vegetables, oil, grains...ect. For example, 1 kg of wheat could cost 30 times less than 1 kg of meat. Meat also doesnt actually contain that much calories or vitamins. With only about 300 calories per 100 grams, it is not much calories compared to high calorie oil, grains, nuts...ect.

So there are no any economical or moral justifications to eat meat. Meat is not even safe food, as it is likely to spoil.

Meat was related to many diseases, including heart disease too.

Also, consumption of meat is obviously very bad for health of animals who get brutally killed.

Think about all the baby chickens who get killed as soon as they are born, just for being male. Millions of them suffer.

Think about all the cows and bulls who get killed daily.

This directly affects their health by killing them.

Because meat is expensive, it means people have less money for their own healthcare. So even if meat itself wasnt harmful to eat now, the cost of meat makes it more difficult to afford healthcare.

To sum up:

Consuming meat causes animals(pigs, chickens) to be produced and killed specifically for meat. We know that killing animals harms their health in worst possible way, and eating meat harms our health directly as meat is bad for health, and indirectly as there is less money left for healthcare and helping others.

        https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.development.desa.pd/files/undesa_pd_2021_policy_brief.pdf

          https://www.eatingwell.com/processed-meats-and-cancer-11728821

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Vegetarians dont eat meat. But they eat eggs and milk. So B12 isnt problem.

But their health is better by non-challenged definition of health.

Most people dont have limited access to food and most people arent poor villagers.

Many, but not most. Meat has much less calories than oil, sugar, walnuts, bread, grain flour, while at the same time meat is more expensive than all of these.

Law doesnt ever determine what is morally right. In fact, morality must determine the law, not the other way around.

I dont think people should be killing bugs randomly either. In some parts of India, there are groups who believe that killing bugs for no reason is wrong. Eating bugs is probably wrong too.

Mediterranean diet is one of healthiest in the world, yes true. And it is based on reducing meat significantly. In such diet, meat holds lowest percentage of all foods. Most foods there are plant based, and nuts. However, no evidence was shown that meat in it is best for life expectancy. Also, it is more expensive than vegetarian counter.

"Eating a low-fat vegan diet reduces harmful inflammatory dietary compounds called advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) by 73%, compared to no reduction on a Mediterranean diet, according to new research by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine published in Frontiers in Nutrition. "

Now, vegetarian is similar to vegan. Vegan doesnt eat any meat, eggs and milk. Vegetarian doesnt eat meat, but can eat some eggs or drink some milk there.

Milk is much healthier than any meat, as proved by fact that vegetarians who drink milk and eat eggs live 10 years longer than people who eat meat. Milk also gives B12, and also much cheaper, and vegetarians dont kill animals for meat. So vegetarianism improves health of both people and animals compared to diets which include animal meat.

1. Vegetarian means much less animals are killed for meat, thus animal health improved greatly.

2. Vegetarians live 10 years longer when compared to meat eaters, so people's health improved greatly too.

3. Milk is healthier than any meat, and costs less than fish or animal meat. So being vegetarian saves money, so more money available for healthcare and helping others.

4. India produces greatest amount of cow's milk, 2x more than any other country, because killing cows is illegal. Not other animals sadly. Thus, vegetarian farms produce more food and help fight poverty. Poverty has bad effects on health, crime, healthcare. Vegetarian diets reduce poverty, as they are cheaper than diets which include meat, which improves health indirectly by reducing misfortunes caused by poverty, such as crime, violence and reduced money for healthcare.

5. Caring for animals improves compassion, which then means more people will help each other as well, improving health. Many crimes, such as serial killers, start with violence towards animals or with working as a butcher.

6. Caring for animals was shown to improve care for humans.