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Why People Should be Vegetarian
A Studies of human evolution have shown that our ancestors were vegetarian by nature.
The structure of the human body is not suited for eating meat. Carnivores have short small
and large intestines. Their large intestine is characteristically very straight and smooth.
In contrast, vegetarian animals have both a long small intestine and a long large intestine.
Because of the low fiber content and high protein density of meat, the intestines do not require
a long time to absorb nutrients; thus, the intestines of carnivores are shorter in length than
those of vegetarian animals.
Humans, like other naturally vegetarian animals, have both a long small and large intestine.
Together, our intestines are approximately twenty-eight feet (eight and a half meters) in length.
The small intestine is folded back on itself many times, and its walls are convoluted, not smooth.
Because they are longer than those found in carnivores, the meat we eat stays in our intestines
for a longer period of time. Consequently, the meat can putrefy and create toxins. These toxins
have been implicated as a cause of colon cancer, and they also increase the burden on the liver,
which has the function of getting rid of toxins. This can cause cirrhosis and even cancer of the
liver.
Meat contains a lot of urokinase protein and urea, which add to the burden on the kidneys, and
can destroy kidney function. There are fourteen grams of urokinase protein in every pound of steak.
If living cells are put into liquid urokinase protein, their metabolic function will degenerate.
Furthermore, meat lacks cellulose or fiber, and lack of fiber can easily create constipation.
It is known that constipation can cause rectal cancer or piles.
Research has shown that infant mice fed by a female mouse having breast cancer will also develop
cancer. When human cancer cells were injected into animals, the animals also developed cancer.
If the meat which we eat daily comes from animals that originally have such disorders, and we take
them into our body, there is a good chance we will also get the diseases.
Most people assume that meat is clean and safe, that there are inspections done at all butcheries.
There are far too many cattle, pigs, poultry, etc. killed for sale every day for each one to
actually be examined. It’s very difficult to check whether a piece of meat has cancer in it, let
alone check every single animal. Currently, the meat industry just cuts off the head when it has
a problem, or cuts off the leg which is diseased. Only the bad parts are removed and the rest is
sold.
There is yet another concern. Antibiotics as well as other drugs including steroids and growth
hormones are either added to animal feed or injected directly into the animals . It has been
reported that people eating these animals will absorb these drugs into their bodies. There is a
possibility that antibiotics in meat are diminishing the effectiveness of antibiotics for human
use.
There are some people who consider the vegetarian diet not sufficiently nourishing. An American
surgical expert, Dr. Miller, practiced medicine for forty years in Formosa. He established a
hospital there, where all the meals were vegetarian, for staff members as well as the patients.
He said, "The mouse is one kind of animal which can support its life with both a vegetarian and
non-vegetarian diet. If two mice are segregated, with one eating flesh and the other vegetarian
food, we find that their growth and development are the same, but that the vegetarian mouse lives
longer and has greater resistance to disease. Furthermore, when the two mice got sick, the
vegetarian mouse recovered quicker."