It's+time+to+think+about+Vegetarian

====//“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.” //====
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 * = ==Turning vegetarian or vegan is for the good of our planet as we can help the world FINANCIALLY, ENVIRONMENTALLY, PHYSICALLY and MENTALLY. Animals will thank you for **not taking their lives**, the planet will be a better place, and YOU will naturally be more healthy. The well-being of our planet is in the hands of your food choices. == ||
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-**LEO TOLSTOY, On Civil Disobedience**
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 * = **===WHY DO PEOPLE BECOME VEGETARIAN?=== ** People become vegetarian for many reasons. It may be because of they don’t particularly enjoy the taste of meat, if they have religion reasons, medical reasons and so forth. Some who are devoted to saving and minimsing the effect of glabal warming, climate change and sustaining important resources, are considering this method of life. There are 6 levels of vegetarianism **[Strictest to least strict]:**  

Vegans  don't eat anything that comes from animals. Lacto-vegetarian eat fruits, vegetables, nuts, cereals and dairy. Ovo-vegetarian eat fruits, vegetables, nuts, cereals and eggs. Lacto-ovo-vegetarian eat fruits, vegetables, nuts, cereals, dairy foods and eggs. Pesco-vegetarians eat fish, fruit, nuts, cereals and vegetables. Semi-vegetarians eat everything, except red meat. ||
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">===FOR=== ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">We are bringing many species of animals to the brink of extinction, just for the sake of our appetite. Even frogs, insects, fish, birds and animals are currently at 'endangered' level.— This is a terrible truth. Meat brings us a series of issues— For one, we have to face the issue of animal industries, which produce,as environmentalists call the 'most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.' and the animals from which we take the meat, will finally be free from extinction and harms way. Yes, some of you may argue, that though we have ceased eating meat, doesn't mean we'll cease in dairy— instead we'll increase our dairy products; but listen, this is true, however, compare the damage that milking a cow, or perhaps laying and egg would be, to killing the animal. There is a large difference there.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">Above, we can see in the midst of all these products the beef requires the most amount of water to make compared to all the other products. 50,000L of water. This amount just for one kilogram of beef is astounding— This water should be put to better uses, such as to dried up riverbeds, to the regions with little rainfall.

In addition to this, what about overfishing? Exactly what happened to sustaining fish? Currently scallops(Bass Strait), tuna, flake, dory, red snapper, king couta and the like, are being excessively overfished. To help prevent overfishing and promote sustainabile fishing by choosing: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Whiting over dory ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Bream over flake **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Flathead over red snapper ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Calamari over scallops  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**Tropical Trevally over tuna** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">As well as this, due to the fact that transporting, operation of livestock facilities, refridgeration, cooking, packaging all need energy. With animal industries as such a big industry, imagine how much energy consumption that would mean. We cannot simply make the energy appear from nothing, we need fossil fuels, coal and oil to produce the energy to be able to do all these. This means pollution, climate change and global warming. //**<span style="color: #808014; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"All the ice could be gone from the Arctic Ocean by the end of the summer melt season in 2012." **// **<span style="color: #808014; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Dr. H. Jay Zwally, ****<span style="color: #808014; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">NASA Climate Scientist ** //**<span style="color: #808014; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">December, September 2007 **// Doesn't this scare you? All the ice gone from the Arctic Ocean by 2012? By then, the sea level would have risen simaltaneously. Very possibly flooding small islands, ruining nesting grounds...etc. We would want that would we? Animal industries, so you know, contribute to biodiversity(a variety of living organisms living together in the same region) disasters, such as pollution, climate change, habititat destruction, too.— By becoming vegetarian, not only will the planet benefit, but also your physical and mental well- being. Australia is facing a momentous water decrease, and as our planet's driest inhabited continent we should conjoin in eating less meat, to help and be apart of saving our world, by changing our food choices from meat to vegies! || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Turning vegetarian is definitely something to consider in the coming years, as said in the previous— ' <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; language: en-AU; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 4.32pt; punctuationwrap: hanging; text-indent: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">Turning vegetarian or vegan is for the good of our planet as we can help the world FINANCIALLY, ENVIRONMENTALLY, PHYSICALLY and MENTALLY. Animals will thank you for not taking their lives, the planet will be a better place, and YOU will naturally be more healthy. The well-being of our planet is in the hands of your food choices.'
 * < **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">===AGAINST=== **<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Meat is an essential part of our diets. To maintain a healthy balanced diet we need to consume carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, mineral salts(helps strengthen your bones) and fibre—candy, meat, eggs, vegetables, milk, pastas. Here is another problem of trying to promote vegetarianism: Do you really think everyone will turn vegetarian? Think about those who love their generous chunk of meat each day. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Not only this problem though, but, with the majority of the levels of vegetariansm*, allowing dairy intake, it would mean that though we don't eat meat, we are still taking advantage of animals by taking their eggs, their milk, and so forth. With an increase of vegetrians of this like, surely this would mean an increase in dairy produce— in other words meaning that obviously there will be still plenty of animal cruelty. [[image:balanced_diet.jpg width="271" height="165"]] [[image:balanced_diet.jpg width="269" height="165"]] <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 80%; text-align: center;">*Note: Refer to the 6 levels of vegetarianism, in 'Why do people become vegetarian?' ||
 * = **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">===OVERALL STATEMENT=== **

By changing your <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">diet, replacing the meat into the vegetables, surely you will be promoting sustainabile fishing, reducing global warming, conserving water, preventing land degradation, reducing pollution, helping places in poverty, slowing the rising sea level and all those other factors, to others around you. Though it might seem not much to some, but even this little bit counts, and with another vegetarian or vegan, we may just tip the scales and save our planet.

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 * = **<span style="color: #3fa23f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">===HOW TO START YOUR VEGETARIAN DIET=== **  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Generally, ﻿most transitions into a fully fledged vegetarian require a gradual cutting down of meat intake— our bodies need to be accustomed with the change in diet; more importantly enjoy vegetarian food. It's often best to start in these steps: # <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Research: Decide which level of vegetrainism you want to be in.
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Research: Find foods that can take place of meats— find out about your nutritional needs. **
 * 2) **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Research: Make sure to prowl around for recipes that you may enjoy. **
 * 3) **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Inform parents/ guardians about your decision. **
 * 4) **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Begin gradually decreasing you meat intake. **
 * 5) **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Excersise regularly, and make sure your body has enough fluids and nutrients. **
 * 6) **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Once you have fully given up meat continue to excersise regularly and make sure you obtain enough vitamins and minerals. **
 * <span style="color: #ae1eae; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">IF YOU FIND THAT YOUR VEGETARIAN DIET IS NOT WORKING FOR YOU, **
 * <span style="color: #ae1eae; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">SLOWLY REGAIN YOUR MEAT INTAKE, DON'T RUSH IT. **

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 * = == <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">===VEGETARIAN SPINACH + TOMATO OMELETE=== ==

**<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">*NOT FOR VEGANS* **
**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ingredients: ** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">3 eggs 1 tbsp water Fresh chopped tomatos <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">1 cup fresh washed spinach <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1. In a bowl, mix eggs with water and give a good whisk. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2. Pour egg and water mixture into an oiled & heated frying pan (medium heat) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3. Cook egg and water mixture for 1 minute and add spinach and tomatoes. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. Cook until egg is firm (about 3 minutes). <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5. Salt and pepper to taste. || [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [|http://www.marineconservation.org.au] [|http://www.SupremeMasterTV.com] [] [] Thanks to:NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data. — Satellite images of the Arctic Ocean ||
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 * ©L.Mei—Wantirna C, 'It's time to think Vegetarian' 2010 ||

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