Most research shows vegetarian diets lead to low levels of:

B12

Iron

Omega 3’s

Zinc

Magnesium.

**These nutrients are VITAL for many bodily functions.

Protein powders including these nutrients can even go up to $165

For people with osteopenia or osteoporosis:May find that eating a diet high in protein from pasture raised meats is more effective than supplementing with calcium supplements.

Benefits:

1.Good source of dietary proteins which provides essential amino acids.(building blocks of blood, bone, enzymes, hormones, and skin.)

2. Muscle building properties

3. Essential Nutrients: B vitamins, iron, zinc, magnesium,

Vitamin E

A complete protein contains an adequate amount of all of the essential amino acids that should be incorporated into

a diet.

Complete proteins are found in animal foods such as:

*Soybeans are the only plant protein considered to be a complete protein.*

An incomplete protein is any protein that lacks one or

more essential amino acids in correct proportions. By

combining foods from two or more incomplete proteins,

a complete protein can be created. The amino acids that

may be missing from one type of food can be

compensated by adding a protein that contains that

missing amino acid.

The following foods are examples of incomplete proteins:

Nutrients can be received by eating both complete and incomplete proteins.

AN ARGUMENT FIGHTING AGAINST EATING MEAT WITH THE GOLDEN RULE WOULD BE:

“Humans don’t want to be eaten, so we shouldn’t eat animals.”

But does the golden rule apply to animals the same way it applies to humans?

-We make our dogs go to the bathroom outside, would we make our babies go to the bathroom outside? Or is it just because a DOG isn’t a HUMAN?

-We keep our turtles, snakes and reptiles in a cage. Do we keep our human babies in a cage? Or do we keep our REPTILES in a cage because they aren’t HUMANS?

Animal Waste

Our Environment Down the Toilet

Toxic Animal Waste

Eating Animalsby: Jonathan Safran Foer

• Most simply put, someone who regularly eats factory-farmed animal products cannot call himself an environmentalist without divorcing that word from it’s meaning…

– If I misuse a corporation’s logo, I could potentially be put in jail; if a corporation abuses a billion birds, the law will protect not the birds, but the corporation’s right to do what it wants. That is what it looks like when you deny animals rights. Its crazy that the idea of animal rights seems crazy to anyone. We live in a world in which it’s conventional to treat an animal like a hunk of wood and extreme to treat an animal like an animal…

People don’t care about animals. I believe that. They just don’t want to know or to pay. A fourth of all chickens have stress fractures. It’s wrong. They’re packed body to body and can’t escape their waste, and never see the sun. Their nails grow around the bars of their cages. It’s wrong. They feel their slaughters. It’s wrong, and people know its wrong. They don’t have to be convinced. They just have to act differently.

~Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi5YPAo

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Undercover investigations have consistently revealed that farm workers, laboring under what Human Rights Watch describes as “systematic human rights violations,” have often let their frustrations loose on farmed animals or simply succumbed to the demands of supervisors to keep slaughter lines moving at all costs and without second thoughts. Some workers clearly are sadistic in the literal sense of that term.

~Jonathan Safran Foer

Vs

Is it ethical to eat animal meat?

A living organism that feeds

on organic matter, typically

having specialized sense

organs and nervous system

and able to respond to

stimuli: a living organism

other than a human being.

-Oxford Online Dictionary

Categorical Imperative 1st Formula

• Dumping of Toxic Animal by Product and maintain healthy environment • Survive without eating animal meat (Kitten, Puppy, Cow) • Barbaric Cruelty towards Animals

1) Is it Universally Conceivable? (No contradictions)

2) Never do it!

2) Is it universally willable?

3) Duty to act on Maxim. 3) Sometimes act on Maxim.