Thursday, April 10, 2014

I want to be like you

I don't know if I'm the only person that does this, but I always imitate people and quote lines from movies and TV shows. I'm a freaking copy cat. The point is, I have a cousin that is a pescetarian, and I've always wanted to try to be just like her by giving up meat and substituting fish and seafood. But I've never really gone about it. I don't really ever plan on it, but it is an attractive idea...

There are many benefits of deleting meat from a diet. Firstly, it'll help prevent diseases like high cholesterol or heart disease since fat is being substituted for fiber and antioxidants, and weight loss is a possible outcome. Meats contain extra fat from animals that sometimes just hang out in your intestines years. Eww, that's gross. In addition, it'll keep all our cute four-legged friends alive. From "Why go veg?" featured on the Vegetarian Times, "Ten billion animals are slaughtered for human consumption each year. And, unlike the farms of yesteryear where animals roamed freely, today most animals are factory farmed: —crammed into cages where they can barely move and fed a diet tainted with pesticides and antibiotics. These animals spend their entire lives in crates or stalls so small that they can’’t even turn around. Farmed animals are not protected from cruelty under the law——in fact, the majority of state anticruelty laws specifically exempt farm animals from basic humane protection." And my last reason is that it'll save you a little bit of money here and there. Which do you think is more pricey, 200 pounds of beef or 200 pounds of tomatoes?
Honestly, I'd never become a full-time vegetarian, pescetarian, or vegan, but I am willing to imitate one of those diets for like a day or two to save the lives of my furry friends. I mean, I am a copy cat. It should be easy.

The title of the post has no relevance. I was watching random videos on YouTube, and I came across the song from The Jungle Book, giving me inspiration to blog.



1 comment:

  1. I think a lot of people feel this way toward the whole vegetarian/vegan lifestyle, but you don't have to fully commit before you can reap some of the benefits. Taking a day or two to try these diets can really open you're eyes you might find that on somedays you just want to change how you eat. It take baby steps.

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