Some of the Tragic Results of Meat Eating:
Research has shown that eating meat can cause some of the following diseases:
- High blood pressure
- Heart disease
- Diabetes
- Stroke
- Parkinson’s disease
- Bladder cancer
- Colon cancer
- Prostate and ovarian cancer
- Lung, skin and kidney cancer
- Breast cancer.
- Blue tongue disease
- E coli
- Salmonella (over 2300 types possible)
- Bird flu
- Mad cow disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy)
- Pig's disease (PMWS)
- Shellfish poisoning
- Listeriosis
- Pre-eclampsia
- Campylobacter
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SOME OF THE COSTS OF MEAT EATING:
HEART DISEASE
- Over 17 million lives lost globally each year
- Cost of cardiovascular disease is at least US$1 trillion a year
CANCER
- Over 1 million new colon cancer patients diagnosed each year
- More than 600,000 colon cancer-related mortalities annually
- In the United States alone, colon cancer treatment costs about US$6.5 billion.
- Millions of people are newly diagnosed with other meat-related cancers every year.
DIABETES
- 246 million people are affected worldwide
- An estimated US$174 billion spent each year on treatment
OBESITY
- Worldwide 1.6 billion adults are overweight with 400 million more who are obese
- Costs US$93 billion each year for medical expenses in the United States alone
- At least 2.6 million people die annually from problems related to being overweight or obese
ENVIRONMENTAL
- Use up to 70% of clean water
- Pollute most of the water bodies
- Deforest the lungs of the Earth
- Use up 90% of the world's cereal
- Cause world hunger & wars
- 80% cause of global warming
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Supreme Master Ching Hai
February 28, 2008 - Austria
MASTER: Suppose you know something is poisonous to your children; will you deliberately give it to them, to harm them? No! So now all the evidence points out that meat is also poisonous and alcohol is bad. Just ban them outright. There’s no more discussion.
Make it your mission in life, to inform people about the danger of eating meat, and show them the solution.
Some Benefits of a Vegetarian Diet:
- Lower blood pressure
- Lower cholesterol levels
- Reduce Type 2 diabetes
- Prevent stroke conditions
- Reverse atherosclerosis
- Reduce heart disease risk 50%
- Reduce heart surgery risk 80%
- Prevent many forms of cancer
- Stronger immune system
- Increase life expectancy up to 15 years
- Higher IQ
Conserve up to 70% clean water
Save over 70% of the Amazonian rainforest from clearance for animal grazing
A solution for world hunger:
- Free up 3,433 million hectares of land annually
- Free up 760 million tons of grain every year (half the world’s grain supply)
Consume 2/3 less fossil fuels than those used for meat production
Reduce pollution from untreated animal waste
Maintain cleaner air
Save 4.5 tons of emissions per US household per year
Stop 80% of global warming
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SAVE YOUR LIFE:
GO VEG. BE GREEN.
SOURCES:
- Supreme Master Ching Hai
- UN Food and Agriculture Organization
- American Dietetic Association
- Stockholm International Water Institute
- Smithsonian Institution
- Carnegie Mellon University
