A Bunch of Interesting Facts and Researched Links about Being Vegetarian

Eating meat and buying products from companies who use animal testing is voting yes on murder and torture.

What They Don't Tell You

Eggs and milk don't come from small family farms like in children's books anymore.

"Meat wasn’t part of a diet. It just became much more important as they discovered it. Don’t worry vegetarians, there are lots of wonderful foods to get enough calories and protein, in fact it is a very good idea to be a vegetarian" -Dr. P-Z (my anthropology teacher)

MEAT Replacements

If you need any more convincing www.meat.org

Meat is not healthy

http://www.cancerproject.org/survival/cancer_facts/meat.php

 -"Large studies in England and Germany showed that vegetarians were about 40 percent less likely to develop cancer compared to meat eaters"

And for world hunger - instead of producing pounds and pounds of grains for one pound of meat... using grazing land for farming...

 Its actually undeniable that meat consumption is linked to cancer there have been tons of studies done on hundreds of thousands of people concluding that the chance of developing cancer is reduced at 40-88% (depending on the type of cancer) look it up I swear I’m not just making this up. And no its not all "fancy meat substitutes" if anything meat would be a "fancy veg substitute" because it is so much more costly to produce meat its not available to the poor in developing countries it is only available to rich people in first world countries.

 Without the meat production industry deforestation would hardly even be a problem. Cattle grazing land alone is 65-70% of the cause of deforestation -http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0812.htm . green house gasses would be drastically reduced

"It turns out that producing half a pound of hamburger for someone's lunch a patty of meat the size of two decks of cards releases as much greenhouse gas into the atmosphere as driving a 3,000-pound car nearly 10 miles."

- http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-greenhouse-hamburger