Why Adopt A Vegetarian Diet - 1116 Words

Running Head: WHY ADOPT A VAGETARIEN DIET Cathy Wu Why Adopt a Vegetarian Diet Instructor: Emily Ryan ELD103 Writing Camosun College March 29th, 2016 Why Adopt a Vegetarian Diet Paul McCartney (1975) had said: â€Å"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.† Recently, to be a vegetarian is still a controversial issue that attracts people’s attention, so the word â€Å"vegetarian† frequently appears on TV advertisement, restaurants or markets. As its name suggests, vegetarian defines someone who lives on a diet of vegetables, fruits, dairy and nuts and they reject eating meat or any products of slaughter. Human used to be the meat-eater, people believed meat gives us protein, also strength; however,†¦show more content†¦Calves, for example, they are raised in the very small crates that they couldn’t walk or turn around, the workers violently kicking and punching, make them live in the fear of violence every day. Death is brutal. Human should have the compassion for these lovely animals rather than keep killing and eating them. For this ethic reason, people should reject cruelty and choose to adopt a vegetarian diet, which is more moral and helping animals get rid of the suffering. Moreover, people cannot morally justify the pain and sufferings of animals. There is a popular but controversial topic that it is hard to imagine if human is at the bottom of the food chain, human will be treated like those suffering animal, and the animal can freely kill the human just for their daily foods. Consequently, it’s moral and ethical for people to have a meat-free diet to stop the cruelty to animals because animals are as same as human, all of them have rights to continue their lives. Secondly, some vegetarians choose to switch meat diet to vegetation diet for environmental reasons. Nowadays, nearly a third of all the Earth’s land is used for livestock production, which is seriously endanger our environment. Meat production requires unsustainable levels of precious resources, like lands, water, and energy. For example,