5 Reasons To Be A Vegetarian

A little insight to the perks of being a vegetarian.

1. It's super healthy!

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With a lower chance of developing heart disease, some forms of cancer, diabetes and hypertension, also less chance of being obese.

2. It's an opportunity to try food you'd never even consider eating before!

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With a restriction on food that you can eat, trying new dishes is part of the fun!

3. It helps save resources and energy we need

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Being veggie reduces the amount of resources used to raise (and then kill) millions upon millions of animals. Studies show one acre of land can grow 200,000 pounds of potatoes but when used for cattle feed, it produces less that 160 pounds of edible cow flesh, yummy!

4. It's better for the environment

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Two thirds of central America's rainforests have been destroyed to create room to raise cattle that's used for meat in many US industries, so being a veggie helps prevent this, it also reduces the killing of our oceans fish and prevents the destruction of reefs and coral.

5. To protect the animals

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Every year, 58 billion land animals are killed for human consumption. These animals are raised to be killed in the most hellish ways imaginable, with no way of escape or crying for help. The conditions they're kept in highlights how little respect some people have for these animals, who are spending their short, inhumane life trapped and being injected with hormones to be then killed for human consumption. Being a vegetarian enables you to have the satisfaction of saying you're standing up against this treatment of these innocent animals.