Eating vegetables will benefits us

more than eating meat

Being vegetarian or not should not be argue or force, but it will benefit the whole planet if
individuals support it. It all depends on how society will take the argument of becoming a
vegetarian. Before that, trophic levels are pyramids which makes the food chain easier to
understand, this involves in how species share their energy by eating. There are 1 to 5
levels, Primary produces are in the level 1 for the reason that they create their own food.
Then for level 2, herbivores are found such as the cow which only feeds with plants. And the
last ones which occupies the next levels, are the carnivorous predators, such as the lion by
eating meat.
Humans in this case are in the trophic level 3, by being carnivorous eating cows that fed with
plants. This becomes a disadvantage for the human being, for the reason that as energy
passes through a higher tropic level, roughly 90% energy become lost, this is why the higher
tropic levels end with slight amount of energy, and as a result there are less organism than
the first tropic levels. To maintain progress through living organism, energy is used as it goes
higher in the tropic levels in a food chain. For humans the food chain in the pyramid involves
as an example plants, cows and the man. For the first tropic level Plants receive about
1500kJ of energy as primary producers, then the next level are cows as primary consumers
with a 150KJ of energy and lastly the human as a top predators with 15KJ of energy. We can
all see why being vegetarian involves not only saving animals but to save ourselves and the
environment in many ways.
To show why being vegetarian benefits us, a food energy pyramid will tell us why in the
easiest manner. Primary producers such as the plants receive 100% of energy as 1500kJ, if
society manage to become the primary consumer and eat plants as the cows, then we
ourselves will gain more energy (10% more) from the pyramid, therefore will be completely
healthier with an improve life. When cows feeds with plant 90% of their energy would have
been used up, and then get lost as heat, remaining 10% of it. Then we consume these
animals, only 1% energy is transmitted to our bodies. Being top predators as most of us are,
we are just going to receive 1% as 15kJ of energy which could massively affect if we keep in
that position, by not only clearing lands for more foods to gain more primary consumers, but
to our body, by exaggerating the amount of meat we should eat and having less energy in
our system.
Being vegetarian is not all about environment allowing beauty in the world, with more
animals and a greener world. But having the ability of becoming superior from what you are
right now could be something you might think of doing, is not necessary but is beneficial for
your lifestyle. Eating 10 times more energy than usual, can become a change to you and
improve you in many ways, you will love life even more. You might not taste meat again, but
it is worth it. Any vegetable will support you with more energy than eating the cow with only a
percent of energy. It will balance your body and avoid future diseases restoring and repairing
your whole system by getting well fed. To make this clear for example a man who needs
3,000 calories per day, will have to eat a primary consumer with 30,000 Cal that fed from
corn with 300,000 Cal. This means that one man will receive 1.5 acres of corn per day from
the primary consumer, but if they manage to eat the corn directly, then 1.5 acres will not only
support to fed one man but 10 men. These studies tells us how we can massively improve
the world not only for the environment of the world, and to keep each of its biodiversity, but
to kept us with a most efficient amount of energy helping the population getting fed in the
best way possible
Bibliography
http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/lectures/kli
ng/energyflow/highertrophic/trophic2.html
http://www.nature.com/news/humans-are-becoming-more-
carnivorous-1.14282
http://eschooltoday.com/ecosystems/ecosystem-trophic-levels.html