We should stop eating meat!

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Meat is governing the world. Nowadays, normal Americans eat 6.2 hamburgers per one week and 91% of them buy beef every day. 100,000 cows are slaughtered, processed and delivered to their tables. But this is not only in America. Nowadays, everybody in the whole world are addicted and controlled by meat. It is impossible to imagine the world without meat now. However, few people understand that this delicious food cause a number of serious problems that are linked to the survival of mankind. So, we should stop eating meat.

First of all, livestock like cow and sheep are devastating the earth and that’s the reason why we should stop eating meat. In fact, a number of serious environmental problems are caused by animals. The xmost serious one is soil eruption. Because of the soil eruption being accelerated by their strong hooves trampling over soil, great part of land is turning into wasteland. This make it impossible for farmers of developing countries to cultivate the land and cause starvation. Animals also devastate biodiversity. They remove the habitat of numerous living things such as rainforest based on their voracious appetite. In addition, domestic animals contribute to global warming and water pollution. To solve these serious problems, it is important to stop eating meat.

To add with, meat diet cause a lot of social problems and we should stop eating meat. Although famine in developing countries is one of the most serious problems, 1/3 of the crop produced every year is consumed to raise animals for meat. In other words, animals are being more and more fat while thousands of people are dying every day in some countries. This could cause social conflict in the future since there are a few countries that don’t permit meat diet. Also, modern meat diet is violating basic rights of animals. Because of human’s greed, a number of animals are born to die, experiencing horrible pain through their whole life. It is illogical to say that human has such rights to treat other living things in a horrible way. So, it is extremely important to stop eating meat.

To conclude, meat diet is not good for us at all. Some people might say that we need abundant protein in the meat to stay healthy. However, it is such a prejudice that our body can’t be operated well without meat. In fact, there are lots of substitutes that are much efficient than meat in energy production. But I don’t want to say that we need to stop meat diet immediately. What I want to say is to be aware of problems caused by meat diet and control ourselves to stop eating meat too much only to be troubled with obesity and other diseases caused by excessive meat diet. Since a number of problems caused by meat are related to the survival of human, stop meat diet is connected to prosperity of human. So, we should stop eating meat.

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