Topic: Eating Meat
Sometimes people ask me why I don't eat meat, and here's my top three reasons. First of all I feel it is inhumane to eat cows or pigs. I believe that are thinking and feeling beings. They are exposed to horrible suffering in factory farms. I also do not eat chicken, turkey and lamb, but I do eat seafood.
My second reason is red meat has too much saturated fat and cholesterol. It contains hormones and nitrites. There have been many studies that link red meat to increased risk of cancer and heart disease.
My third reason is that raising animals for food increases global warming, even more than from cars, trucks and trains. Cows produce methane that is 23 times more potent at trapping heat than carbon dioxide.
Posted by Arlene Lengyel
at 1:00 PM EDT
