If you enjoy chowing down on a bacon sandwich then maybe this video will save your life and help cure world hunger. Then again, maybe it won’t, bacon sandwiches are very tasty. Either way, these are 10 shocking facts that might just turn you vegetarian.
People are drawn to vegetarianism by all sorts of motives. Some of us want to live longer, healthier lives or do our part to reduce pollution. Others have made the switch because we want to preserve Earth’s natural resources or because we’ve always loved animals and are ethically opposed to eating them.
Vegetarian diets are naturally lower in saturated fat, and cholesterol, and higher in plant nutrients than most meat-based diets. Vegetarians have been shown to have a 24% lower risk of dying of heart disease than non-vegetarians. New Harvard research has shown high consumption of red meat and heme iron may increase the risk of heart disease by 50% amongst diabetics. World-renowned physician Dr. Dean Ornish found that patients on a low-fat vegetarian diet actually reversed coronary heart disease.
10GM Chickens
Chickens have been genetically modified to grow as big and fast as possible, crippling their legs and organs. If you grew as fast, by two years old you´d weigh 158 kg.
09Pink Slime
Supermarket ground beef is made from pink slime. The beef is made from slaughterhouse scraps used in dog food and sprayed with ammonia so it´s safe for human consumption.
08Chick Murder
200 million baby chicks are ground alive in egg factories worldwide every year. They travel down conveyor belts and the male ones slide into a meat grinder where they´re crushed to death.
07Boiled Alive
A slaughterhouse must kill 1100 pigs hourly, which means pigs aren´t always stunned properly before entering the “scalding tank”. Their skin peels off in boiling water when they´re fully conscious.
06Meat Glue
FDA Guidelines state that ground beef, chicken nuggets and tacos only have to be 35% meat. The other 65% can be chemicals, silicon dioxide, artificial flavoring and meat glue.
05Save the Planet
The meat industry produces 14.5% of our greenhouse gases. If the whole world went veggie, we could start reversing climate change and reduce our methane emissions by 24%.
04Bird Poop
Half of all supermarket poultry contains bird feces. 48% of chicken and Turkey meat is contaminated with E. coli, bacteria that causes, bloody diarrhea and kidney failure.
03Live Longer
On average vegetarians will live almost 10 years longer than the rest of the population. People that eat bacon regularly lose an hour of their life for every bacon sandwich they eat.
02Famine
Worldwide, 842 million people are starving, but going veggie will stop world hunger. If livestock grain was given to people instead, then 800 million people could be fed.
01Cancer
Red and processed meat can give you cancer. 1/3 of cancers are related to diet. If you eat meat then you´re 20% more likely to die this year than those who don´t eat.
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