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Ive been a vegetarian for a year now, and Ive been eating healthy all of my life. My diet consists of vegetables, soups, meat substitutes, iron supplements, beans, nuts, etc. However, lately, Ive been feeling extremely weak and lazy. My father also warned me that I may not grow anymore because of this vegetarianism deal.
I chose to become vegetarian because, of course, I have done my research before i converted, and I realized all the horrible things inside meat and chicken. All the hormones and unhealthy things.
Im a health freak, and as one, i just decided not to eat any kind of meat or chicken. Fish was still part of my diet, since my mother wouldnt let me have it any other way.
Anyhow, Im thinking of eating ORGANIC meat only, and I read that it was unhealthy and i could end up with a disease.
Is this true? Is organic meat unhealthier? What are the difference between organic and non-organic? Where can I find restaurants with organic meat?
The rise in popularity of organic produce over the past few years has been incredible. Instead of being seen as the choice for cranks or people with more money than sense, now over one in four Britons chose some organic products on a regular basis and even small supermarkets have an organic section. Larger supermarkets often have whole aisles for organic produce, including meat, dairy, fruit and vegetables and dried goods.
Is Organic Better for you?
The growing numbers of consumers choosing to buy organic cite a range of reasons, with the fact that organic produce is tastier and healthier. But is it?
It may be that people feel better for buying responsibly and it is certainly true that the practices in producing organic meal, fruit and vegetables are healthier – using no chemicals for example – but there are not actually any findings that show conclusively that organic produce is healthier.
The Results May Come Later
What we may find is that the tests available now do not show that organic food is better, or that our bodies will only show the benefits of organic eating many years into the future. Let us not forget that smoking was once considered healthy, with adverts promoting its benefits. We now that is not true and quite startlingly so.
Better Production Methods – Meat
What is proven and recognised is that the methods used in organic farming are a more responsible, respectful way to farm and rear animals. Intensive farming uses the cheapest available feed, the smallest available space and the shortest available life to maximise profits.
Organic farming is far slower than that – people who own and run organic farms tend to appreciate the life of an animal more, respect their day to day conditions and ensure they are killed with respect, too. Their food is not pumped full of additives or water. So whilst there is no proven nutritional benefits to eating organic meat, it does tend to be more naturally tender, with a better texture, as the animals will have had a more stress free life.
Supporters of organic meat will often say that the meat has higher naturally occurring anti oxidants, vitamins and minerals, too, although this has not been scientifically proven.
Better Production Methods – Fruit & Vegetables
Organic fruit and vegetables are grown without the use of genetically modified ingredients, pesticides or chemicals and is often considered more tasty. While there is no proof that this is the case, 29% of Britons who buy organic products believe it to taste better, with over 60% believing it to be healthier.
What is certainly true is that by buying locally produced, organic products by joining a box scheme for example, your fruit and vegetables will certainly be fresher, have travelled far less food miles and will not have been kept in a refrigerated distribution centre for weeks before they arrive, cellophane wrapped and perfectly formed, at a supermarket near you.
So although there is not yet any scientific proof that eating organic meat or fruit and vegetables is better for you, people who eat organic say they feel better for it and are acting in a more responsible, sustainable way.
Okay so i’m 15, starting to get a little bit overweight not obese, found out that meat gives you too much proteins than what your body needs and growing up you can develop cancer. i appreciate that i have found out all of that stuff when i’m still young as i wouldn’t like to grow up with diseases and cancer, I read about vegetarianism and the advantages of it, I usually eat a lot of chicken but I don’t admire chicken or love it so much, meat also is not necessary . and recently I have found out that they are slaughtering animals illegally in my country , not necessarily all meats but there was a video leaked of them hitting the cow on its head and then slaughtering the poor animal, also they kill animals in front of each other which in my religion is considered forbidden as animals also have feelings, and my aunt lives in the country side and grows her own food including chicken, and seeing her slaughter a chicken (legally) but the chicken was resisting and it looked awful, so I think being a vegetarian is good for me and not really that hard except for fish :\ fish is my favorite meat and the healthiest comparing to red meat and chicken (it has omega fats which are healthy and B12 vitamins) , and actually i like it because eating fish gives me nutrients that help my body and my hair too! I don’t eat it regularly so maybe 2-3 times a month maximum and sometimes we can spend 3 months or so without fish so I don’t eat it that regularly but turning into a vegetarian would be good unless mum decides to cook fish, okay i’m so talkative, bottom line …. if i eat fish would that be called semi-vegetarianism or what? I don’t want to walk around saying i’m vegetarian because what matters to me is that I don’t want to eat meat from a tortured poor animal and also for health reasons, are there vegetarians who eat fish? if so, what are they called?
my aim is : lacto-ovo vegetarian 
wish me good luck, by the way , any tips ? where would i get my proteins?
my aim is : lacto-ovo vegetarian 
wish me good luck, by the way , any tips ? where would i get my proteins?
I was just asking would that make me a vegetarian or no? and i know where the fish we eat come from, i have seen places where they get fish for supermarkets and such stuff , btw I am in Egypt and they don’t torture fish here
i read that vegetarians passion site , i just want to be healthy and i don’t want to eat meat slaughtered in such an awful way, my main aim is not being a vegetarian, i just wondered if i eat fish would that be considered being a vegetarian or no, as far as i know fish in Egypt isn’t hit on its head or whatsoever torture that happens to fish, but If i heard about anything like that i would stop eating fish and turn into a real vegetarian
I’m tired of adding details, we don’t have dolphins here, I don’t eat shrimp or anything like that, just normal fish xD but actually yes the Nile is being mistreated and okay i should stop eating fish, i’ll do everything gradually and hopefully i’ll get over fish soon
I’m tired of adding details, we don’t have dolphins here, I don’t eat shrimp or anything like that, just normal fish xD but actually yes the Nile is being mistreated and okay i should stop eating fish, i’ll do everything gradually and hopefully i’ll get over fish soon
hey you Orlando what ever, I asked about WOULD THAT MAKE ME A VEGETARIAN OR NOT!! and you’re offending me actually, if you are really pissed you shouldn’t have answered, there are a lot of vegetarians living healthier than people who eat meat, i’m not offending meat eaters i’m still one but i don’t wanna eat it man i care about animals, you can eat them as long as they are slaughtered properly, so stop shouting and i don’t want answers about going to workout because i’m in a sports TEAM! and i’m not doing this for weight loss!!!
Just about all the questions here like yours are about whether or not vegetarians eat fish. Why do people think it’s OK? If you have to categorise it as animal, vegetable or mineral what category would you put it in?
The treatment of livestock for meat production is disgraceful and it’s good that you want to exclude that suffering from your diet.
But please investigate the way fish are caught and processed. Because many regard them as a lower life form, their treatment is perhaps even worse than that of chickens (probably the worst treated of livestock).
Health-wise, although fish do contain some useful nutrients they also contain mercury, worms and parasites. There are other ways of getting the omegas and B12.
Environmentally, humans have been ripping so many fish from the oceans that many species are either locally extinct or endangered. Farmed fish are no better off – kept in pens so overcrowded that the water has to be medicated to prevent disease outbreaks. The fish are force fed to speed up the turnover. Their food is fish, and they eat more of it than they would in their natural surroundings.
Fishing trawlers use huge nets, many kilometres long, and just haul up everything that is unlucky enough to be trapped. The target species are retrieved and the rest is just treated like rubbish (slammed on the deck, trodden on…) then thrown back into the ocean to die a slow and painful death.
The official term for someone whose only meat consumption is fish is a pescatarian. This is not a branch of vegetarianism as it involves eating an animal. Even if you only do it occasionally.
A little more research on your part will help you select a proper vegetarian diet which will benefit both you and all other food animals. Good luck.
Edit – MejraThea, “vegetarians that don’t eat meat are vegans”??? Oh dear…
Edit2: protein is actually found in most foods. Do a quick google search on “vegetarian sources of protein” and you’ll be amazed. MejraThea has the totally wrong idea about protein (but she’s not alone as most meat eaters think that way), it is easily obtained from many foods, and much better for you if you get it from numerous sources other than just meat.
Also search google for “vegetarian and vegan sources of B12″ and “vegetarian and vegan sources of omega fatty acids”.
Have fun with your investigations; I’m sure you won’t regret your decision!
Dear Senator Barbara Boxer,
I am a student at Standley Middle School concerned with health, diseases caused by various meats, and animal cruelty. Animals are being slaughtered at 7 billion per year, and a 1.6 billion percentage is used for human consumption. The animals we eat today are abused and kept in factory farms or slaughterhouses, and bred in small places where they must live a horrifying life without their parents. By eating meat, we participate and encourage these horrible acts. It is finally time to take a stand and protect the environment and our animals by saying no.
Although it is said that meat is especially healthy and valuable, as you can see it is not entirely necessary for your body. Meat carries many nutrients, as well as diseases and problems such as diabetes, obesity, high cholesterol, heart disease, high blood pressure, and general cancer. Fresh fruits, vegetables, beans, and whole grains are all you really need to maintain a healthy organism. Vegetables and fruits are the main sources of nutrients and contain many vitamins and minerals which protect against the harmful diseases that meat provides and does not encourage animal cruelty. It may seem easy to be omnivorous and consume meat, while still protecting against it’s diseases. However, lack of complete vegetable intake is now believed to cause tumor diseases, cardiovascular disease, and degenerative diseases. By not eating meat, you’ll be eating fewer chemicals that are stuffed into the many meats we know today. Fortunately, vegetables contain vitamin A and C, which decreases your chances of cancer or any of the above listed diseases by 46%.
Our body needs a lot of calcium, protein, fibers, carbohydrates and fats. Generally, fats are obtained from eating meats. However, meat only contains saturated fats, which come from animal sources, while plants and minerals contain healthy unsaturated fats which can easily substitute for fatty foods in order to maintain a healthy organism. Although a fiber-based diet lowers bad cholesterol, it also helps with digestion and comes from fresh fruits and whole grains, such as whole-wheat bread and brown rice.
If someone were to treat dogs and cats as other animals are treated in factory farms, they would be convicted for crime and put in jail, but what makes those other animals any less important? Today, the majority of these animals are kept in such cramped places that they can barely move, they are denied any veterinary care, abused and tortured while still conscious, and finally slaughtered. Today, farm animals do not have any legal rights the way household pets do. They are fed drugs to fatten or “spoil” them, which genetically alters them to grow at a much faster pace. Many of these animals are not slaughtered at all, but die within their own weight instead- gained from these various harmful, aging drugs. Centers for disease control state that “70-90% of chickens are infected before they are shipped to markets for sell.” Vegetarianism a healthier lifestyle that does not encourage the cruelty of these defenseless creatures.
Although each animal suffers a great deal of pain, they each do this differently. Cows, for example, are drugged to give a larger amount of milk than naturally given, often never see their babies again, and are hung and left to die when they are too old to produce rich milk. I believe that many vegetarians believe the fair treatment of all living creatures should be legalized to prevent this cruelty. Take a stand against this treatment and say no. Thank you for your help in this matter. Remember, every life counts.
Sincerely,
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Thanks! I guess I’m kind of arguing that because of how the animals are treated, they’re not healthy for us.
Good subject. This is a fine essay for your age!
A couple of points. Your first sentences might start too strong and alienate some in your audience immediately. Maybe words like “slaughter” and “disease” could be softened in the opening paragraph.
Although it would require quite a bit or rewrite, you might consider also offering grass fed beef and shopping locally as an alternate to going totally vegetarian. If you arguing the treatment of animals is cruel, would it still be cruel to eat animals if they had enjoyable lives while they lived? Realistically, the audience might need a path to becoming vegetarian. The path might include LESS meat, and more ethical treatment of animals.
Perhaps instead of of making people feel like criminals who treat animals cruelty, or support that by buying meat, you could take a different tact by reminding them that animals feel pain and fear just like our pets and ourselves.
I might recommend dropping the last two sentences. You want the reader to reach this conclusion by your essay contents… I like the end at “say no”.
Good work and good luck!
P.S. Sorry, I just noticed you addressed this specifically to a senator. This might change a few of my comments slightly… sorry. For example, I thought you were trying to address change to a wide audience, not affecting a politician to make change.
In spite of glaring reports from alternative circles, soy is still considered a miracle food by many people. Even the medical community – who should be aware of the real affects of soy – still recommend this food as a great vegetarian source of protein and nutrients. This, however, is not true.
I like to call soy an “anti-food.” That may sound harsh to some of you, but what soy does to us is so dangerous, so profound it deserves to be labeled harshly. Here’s just some of the things in soy that, in my opinion (and many other’s), make it an anti-food:
Phytoestrogens: These are essentially plant hormones. I know a lot of people who buy organic milk to avoid hormones, but don’t realize that soy products are actually even more dangerous. Phytoestrogens interfere with normal hormone regulation. This can really throw our systems out of whack, causing problems like PMS (premenstrual syndrom), cystic fibrosis and even breast cancer in women. In men, these phytoestrogens can cause high estrogen and a decline in testosterone production. This leads to fat weight gain, decreased libido and all sorts of other problems (I know you guys out there don’t like the sound of that). We should also be concerned about the negative impact these plant hormones have on fertility.
Trypsin Inhibitors: Trypsin is important for protein assimilation, so these inhibitors interfere with protein absorption – ironic, considering soy is considered by many to be a valuable protein source. These trypsin inhibitors have led to stunted growth and pancreatic disorders (including cancer) in test animals.
Phytic Acid: Soy contains very high levels of phytic acid, which interferes with the use of valuable minerals like calcium, copper, iron, magnesium and zinc. The phytic acid in soy is also extremely resistant to soaking, sprouting and fermentation (which works to neutralize phytic acid in other foods like grains Cheeseslave made a great post about soaking grains).
Soy can also cause problems with the absorption of other nutrients, like vitamin B12 and vitamin D – yet another reason why high soy consumption is causing rampant nutrient deficiencies in vegetarians and vegans. Soy can also damage the thyroid, which may explain why thyroid dysfunction is so common nowadays.
Furthermore, during processing soy takes on an even uglier face and forms neurotoxins like MSG. Processed soy also contains high levels of aluminum, a highly toxic metal linked to many health problems (like Alzheimer’s).
Experts like Sally Fallon Morrell, head of the Weston A. Price Foundation, are highly concerned with the amount of soy in our children’s diets today, often beginning with soy formula at birth. I was shocked to read this statement on the Weston A Price Foundation website: ”Babies on soy formula receive the estrogenic equivalent of at least 5 birth control pills per day.”
Soy is just not meant to be eaten – at least, not the way we eat it today. Remember, traditional cultures ate only small amounts of highly fermented soy (i.e. fermented for six months). Fermented soy was often eaten with foods like fish broth, which would counteract some of the adverse effects like thyroid damage.
So, this is why I say no to soy. What has been your experience with this food?
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I have a gastroenterologist who recommended me to take Miralax & Suppositories everyday for the next 3-6 months. This will be too harsh on my body. I am a diabetic and I have severe high blood pressure. I have been advised to start on a body cleansing program because the constant fatigue is the main problem. OTC Regimen seems to work for a little while and then I start getting constipated again or I will have to discontinue because I get dehydrated from diarrhea. I have been advised by the gastroenterologist to be on a high fiber diet. I have been advised to eat only fruits and vegetables from the internal medicine physician. No breads, No Sugar, No Salt, No Caffeine. No Fried Foods. No Excuses. I have been advised to start on a vegetarian meal program that is designed for diabetics.
So, I am searching for a high fiber diabetic vegetarian meal program and complete body cleansing program for overall health. I am suppose to eat 6 small meals a day. I have digestive problems so it is hard for me to take multivitamins. I would eat lot of high fiber foods and would get constant bloating and gas discomfort. So, I would need to be on a cleansing program and drink plenty of water only with every meal to eliminate the symptoms.
So, I was told if I could afford it; they would recommend me to start on the DrNatura Colonix Program for the first three months along with the Digestaid and Flora Protect Probiotics for the first three months to start regulating the bowel movements and eliminate the toxins that causes fatigue. It would cost me $293.24 for the three month program but do you think that it would be worth a try?
I have asthma, severe high blood pressure, diabetes, acid reflux disease, and internal hemorrhoids & external hemorrhoids. I have been breaking out in so many rashes lately but they said that the body acid and diabetes may be the cause of this and a body cleansing program and vegetarian diet should eliminate this program within the first two weeks.
It is amazing what the body goes through. I have three children and I would not want them to lose their mother over something that can be avoided. A body cleansing regimen is important for any woman or man and that is why I had to have the colonoscopy. I am searching for a healthy lifestyle and I am not good at staying on a diet program with cleansing out the body first. The body cleansing program is suppose to be a jumpstart towards a healthy lifestyle. It is suppose to take the taste of junk foods away and that is what I need. A program to coach me the right way to maintain a healthy lifestyle and remain on this healthier lifestyle for the rest of my life.
$300 sounds like a lot of money for something you can do yourself. You don’t need a jump start, you need to find a healthy diet that you can stick to.
For the most part all colon cleansing products are scams. Colon cleansing is wholly unnecessary and a waste of time and money. Regardless of hype, regardless of ingredients, method, or testimonials, colon cleansing is quite purely and simply medical quackery. The one exception to this is when it’s prescribed medically as in preparation for an examination such as colonoscopy.
The main reason it’s called a scam is because the colon is a continuously self-cleaning system. Everyone knows that food goes in at the top of the GI tract and the leftover waste material quite naturally comes out the other end.
There is little scientific evidence to support any benefits of colon cleansing. It’s generally unnecessary and at times may even be harmful. Although doctors prescribe colon cleansing as preparation for medical procedures, it doesn’t do anything for the symptoms you listed. Their reasoning is simple: The digestive system and bowel naturally eliminate waste material and bacteria — your body doesn’t need enemas or special diets or pills to do this.
If you are seriously considering colon cleansing, consider trying these steps first:
* Drink plenty of fluids, including water
* Eat a diet rich in fiber, low on red meat is fine. it doesn’t need to be vegetarian.
* Get regular exercise, like walking for 30 minutes each day, or better
These simple step will get the same result, and you saved your money. Good Luck!