TASK#12 (Blog&Sound File)
TITLE: Becoming a vegetarian?
DEADLINE: 11 May at 24.00
INSTRUCTIONS:
As you know, millions of people are vegetarian. They are convinced that a vegetarian diet is good for them and for the environment.
Would you consider becoming a vegetarian?
Think of what you would gain and what you would have to give up. Do you think your health would be better? Would it mean having to spend more money? Would your social life suffer?
Think of the ethical side of it: being a vegetarian means not contributing to the killing of animals for food? Would that be important for you?
And there's also an environmental side to it: millions of square kilometres are used for animals to graze (specially cows). This enormous extension would be more productive if crops were planted to feed people not animal. Think of the enormous amount of methane (a green house gas much more powerful than carbon dioxide) produced by hundreds of millions of cows, etc.
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Would you consider becoming a vegetarian?
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Becoming a vegetarian?
This question makes me think a lot. It is a really important issue that nowadays everyone talks about: if it is better for your health, for the environment, the animals... But it is also a problem whom not the whole world ends up by giving a solution, because it is really difficult to turn into a vegetarian person.
First of all, you have to give up some kind of meals, that I'm sure they are part of your everyday-diet, as meat or other food related with animals. To stop eating those things is not only difficult for you, it is also for your mental health because your body is used to this type of food and it has to normalise with the change.
It is true that your body will thank you for this but sometimes it can react in a bad way. Not everybody has born to be a vegetarian. Some people just can't because their organism need some meals to continue their lifes and if they stop eating them, they develop infections or illnesses as anaemia.
Another point is the money. Not every supermarket sells vegetarian products, although now is easier to find them than in the past, they are still hard to find and when you do it, you discover they are more expensive than normal products. All of this is because not everyone consume them, so the people who sell vegetarian meals need to multiply the price.
The ethical side of it is there too. It is true that most of the animals are treated in a very bad way before they are killed to go to our stomach and this should be eradicated. At least, they should have their own space to live and be treated like real animals and not like guinea pigs.
For me there are lots of advantages of being a vegetarian but there are also some disadvantages. So maybe it is better to be one of them but for now I am going to continue with my normal diet but if you want to change it, it is a good option too. Someday I may change my opinion because it is true a vegetarian life is better for the environment, maybe is not the best for you but it is for the whole planet.
