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    Should We All Become Vegetarian

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    The document discusses the pros and cons of becoming vegetarian. While eating meat has long been part of human evolution and provides nutrients, being vegetarian could help address world hunger by using grains currently fed to livestock to feed humans instead. However, much grazing land is only suitable for livestock, and meat is a more efficient iron source. Ultimately, there is no single solution and individual lifestyles and food choices should be respected.

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    The document discusses the pros and cons of becoming vegetarian. While eating meat has long been part of human evolution and provides nutrients, being vegetarian could help address world hunger by using grains currently fed to livestock to feed humans instead. However, much grazing land is only suitable for livestock, and meat is a more efficient iron source. Ultimately, there is no single solution and individual lifestyles and food choices should be respected.

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    The document discusses the pros and cons of becoming vegetarian. While eating meat has long been part of human evolution and provides nutrients, being vegetarian could help address world hunger by using grains currently fed to livestock to feed humans instead. However, much grazing land is only suitable for livestock, and meat is a more efficient iron source. Ultimately, there is no single solution and individual lifestyles and food choices should be respected.

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    Should We All Become Vegetarian

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    Wagner Oña
    The document discusses the pros and cons of becoming vegetarian. While eating meat has long been part of human evolution and provides nutrients, being vegetarian could help address world hunger by using grains currently fed to livestock to feed humans instead. However, much grazing land is only suitable for livestock, and meat is a more efficient iron source. Ultimately, there is no single solution and individual lifestyles and food choices should be respected.

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    Should we all become vegetarian?


    Eating meat has been an essential part of human evolution for 2.3 million years, it
    provided a dense form of nutrients and protein, and it still does until now. Meat is the
    most convenient protein source available and most of the people eat it. However we do
    need to consider what being a meat eater means, we need to consider how much energy
    is lost at each link in a food chain, and the energy that was once originally stored by the
    autotrophic plants is dissipated across the good chain. The more links that there is the
    more unusable energy.
    Being a vegetarian has many advantages on top of being a meat eater. Other than not
    being cruel and killing animals for food, a vegetarian diet can help worlds hunger. Over 10
    pounds of plant protein are used to produce one pound of beef protein. If these grains
    were fed to humans instead of animals more food would be available for the millions of
    people in hunger. The grain that is fed to animals reared for human consumption and
    loses 90 percent of energy from the original grain. The 760 million tons of grain fed to
    animals every year could cover the global food shortages 14 times, this is what is
    estimated.
    In my opinion I think that being a vegetarian can reduce the amount of people that suffer
    from hunger, as we can see that 1 hectare produces potatoes for 22 people but 1 beef for
    1 person, but if we consider what meat has we can see this the other way. Raising beef is
    often the most efficient way to produce food for humans. About 85 percent of US grazing
    land are not suitable for raising crops that humans can eat. Meat also provides a better
    source iron than a vegetarian diet. As the body absorbs 15 to 35 percent of the heme iron
    in meat, but only absorbs 2 to 20 percent in non-heme found in vegetarian sources.
    Becoming a vegan will not be the solution for world hunger, they are not hungry because
    people in wealthy countries eat too much meat, but because one of the main problems is
    economics and distribution, according to the food and agriculture organization of UN.
    In conclusion I do not think that we all should become vegetarians, it may sound healthier
    and as studies have shown that it can produce food for many people who are suffering for
    malnutrition the answer would not be for we all to become vegans, as studies also have
    showed that meat provide better source of iron, it is more efficient to produce and
    currently the world produces enough food for everybody, but many people do not have
    access to it. And finally everybody has a different lifestyle that includes different foods in
    their life.

    Wagner Ona

    Sources:
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    http://vegetarian.procon.org/
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    vegetarian/

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