Meat Eaters vs Vegetarians

There have always been conflicts between vegetarians and

meat eaters over whether or not to become vegetarians.
For and against arguments have been developed for
years. However we need to consider major factors like
nutrition environmental factors or how much energy is
lost at each link in the food chain energy that was
originally stored by the autotrophic plants is dissipated
along the food chain. The more links in the food chain the
more dissipated or unusable energy. For instance a grass
plot which has a potential of !"""" #cal will be eaten by grasshoppers which will then only pass on !""" #cal
$%"& is 'ost or used( and so on. )erhaps by the time we get to the large mammals which we eat there is less than
!& of the original energy which was available in the grass plot.
*n my opinion * think that people should best be vegetarian +,'- if it is in a .lobal /cale.
That vegetarians protect animals is not a valid e0cuse as all these people support at least one thing which is more
harmful than eating meat. However much of the world1s massive hunger problems could be solved by the reduction
or elimination of meat2eating. 'ivestock pasture land could be reduced and converted into land which would be
used to grow food for humans. )resently enormous 3uantities of energy which could feed humans is fed to livestock
being raised to produce meat. 4asically what * am saying is that all the effort and space that is used for growing
livestock should be used for feeding humans. 5 human who eats meat occupies much more ecological space than
one who doesn6t eat meat as the meat eating human occupies all the space needed for feeding the animal they eat.
*n 7""% twenty million people worldwide died as a result of malnutrition. +ne child dies of malnutrition every 7.8
seconds. +ne hundred million people could be ade3uately fed using the land freed if 5mericans reduced their intake
of meat just by a small !"&9
/o if we consume the producers rather than the consumers we will have appro0imately !"""""& energy
available to humans than if we ate meat.
For health reasons we might also be advised to eat the producers. Thisd would prevent people dying from
cardiovascular diseases caused by consuming animal fats which is the most common death in the majority of
countries. The risk to men who eats no meat is !:&. ;educing one1s consumption of meat dairy and eggs by !"&
reduces the risk of heart attack by !"& and completely eliminating these products from one's diet reduces the
risk of heart attack by 90%! <e need to consider Heart attack is the most common cause of death in the =./.
killing one person every >: seconds. The male meat2eater1s risk of death from heart attack is :"&
*n conclusion * think that although it will be e0tremely difficult if we all become vegetarian at a global scale we will
not only improve our health and death risks but also help people in poor countries the environment and the planet
itself9
4ecome or not to become
vegetarian?
By: Israel Sornoza erino
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