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Vegetarianism: mind-washing propaganda which claims to assist longevity and save innocent animals, but is it true? We have evolved to eat meat; why else would we have canine teeth and hydrochloric acid in our stomachs which is made to break meat down? Surely if we evolved to just eat vegetables we would have flat teeth and four stomachs. It would be extremely hard to find a primitive tribe that only eats vegetables, because primitive people are hunter/gatherers just as we were back in the Stone Age. When vegetarians say that vegetarianism is the most natural way to stay nourished, it isn’t true; meat naturally contains many minerals and vitamins that you rarely find in vegetables such as: riboflavin, zinc, phosphorus, amino acids, iron and proteins. Most vegetarians get these nutrients from supplement pills made by modern technology, which isn’t natural. As well as meat for food and medicinal uses, many other by-products from animals are extremely useful in life such as leather for clothes and shoes, sheep’s wool for clothes and even ivory for piano keys. Take the Eskimos for example; after killing a large seal the Eskimos will eat the meat and blubber, then dry out the skin and use it make tents for shelter, clothes and even boats to catch more seals in the future. Every part of the animal is used, so the animal doesn’t die unnecessarily, on the contrary, it dies for the survival of many other humans and which is worth more? An animal’s life or a human’s? Although vegetarians lead people to believe that fat is bad for you, this isn’t necessarily true. For example, take the Eskimos. They live in an environment where no vegetables can be grown, so they live on a whole meat diet of seals and whales which have very high fat contents. Most Inuits live a very healthy lifestyle and don’t seem to be adversely affected by their fatty diets. Vegetarians say that vegetarianism increase life expectancy. It has been shown, however, in the Metastudy (1999), that actually vegetarians and meat-eaters have the about the same life expectancy. You could eat meat and live for the same amount of time as a vegetarian and vice versa. Protein can also be found in soy beans as well as meat. However, soy beans contain a hormone called Phytoestrogen which literally means female-growth-hormone-from-plant. When ingested this hormone will encourage rapid growth in girls and drastically decrease growth in boys. Consider this: young Sandra at the age of 14 looks like she could be 16 and Jeremy who looks 12 years old even though he is 15! Meat farms are accused of being overly cruel to animals. This is true in some cases but only small minorities; if you do not want to support cruel farms buy organic meat from regulated farms. If that doesn’t help, then think of this: if everyone stops eating animals and they were longer bred for food, their numbers would fall dramatically and the animals wouldn’t even have a life to live. Which would you prefer? A happy life followed by a usually painless death **//or//** no life at all? Not hard is it? Now, some vegetarians are strongly into the fact that they have never eaten meat and are “clean”. Then you look down and you notice something; they are wearing leather shoes! How is eating a hamburger worse than wearing leather shoes? Also when vegetarians protest for animal rights and hold their signs up, what’s holding those signs together? GLUE! And glue has gelatine in it which is an animal by-product! In addition, most vegetarians are always trying to recreate the taste of meat. Surely, if they choose not to eat meat they don’t want to taste it? But, no! They don’t eat meat but they still want it. That hardly makes sense, does it? "If everyone does not eat meat the suffering animals will not die in vain." Many vegetarians use this argument to try to deter people from eating meat. This is a false statement for many reasons. Firstly if everyone suddenly stopped eating meat the animals in slaughter houses would still be killed and would not be eaten therefore they would “die in vain”. Secondly if the animals were no longer bred for food, the numbers of those animals would drop by a huge amount, leaving them endangered or rare. The honest meat farmers would be out of a job causing unemployment numbers to rise and the biodiversity of the world would also drop dramatically. By now it should be obvious that vegetarians are just in a small minority which believe that eating meat is wrong. The majority of people in the world are not carnivores, but people who follow their ancestors and eat a balance of both meat and vegetables. In the end it is your decision: do you support the evolutionary, balanced and healthy omnivores or unhealthy and hypocritical vegetarians? And when all is said and done, soy beans will never replace the taste of a bacon sarnie! I’ll leave that choice to you, but remember that for every animal you do not eat, I’ll eat three.
 * __Why Meat Can’t Be Beat__**