Vegetarianism

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that people adhere to a vegetarian diet for physical health, environmental, ethical, and religious reasons. The author points out that the vegetarian diet excludes most meat products, omitting the nutritional value of meat, which include calcium, iron, riboflavin, vitamin D, and vitamin B12. Therefore, vegetarians, especially vegans, should be careful to take supplements that provide them with the necessary daily requirements. The paper relates that many animal activists approve of vegetarianism because of the cruel practices in farming to provide enough meat for the increasing world population.

Table of Contents
Introduction
The Nature of Vegetarianism
Animals
The Environment
The Benefit of Physical Health
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"The environment suffers as a result of factory farming, and in addition, many nutrients are lost through producing animal feed rather than grains to feed human beings. Vegetarians argue that the mass of grains used to feed animals far outweigh the amount of meat eventually produced. It is suggested that, rather than attempting to pour so much food into animal products, that plant foods should directly be produced for human consumption. In this way abundance rather than scarcity can be produced, and nutrients "recycled" through animals could then be directly obtained from the grain products."

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