VEGETARIANISM

Vegetarianism,I define as eating and  following a diet which subsumes fruits, vegetables, cereal grains, nuts, and seeds, with or without  or eggs.The American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada have stated that at all stages of life, a properly planned vegetarian diet is "healthful, nutritionally adequate, and provides health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases".It is the key to good physical and mental health.

• So why do I prefer Vegetarianism??

I personally feel that by consuming animal products we cause an ill treatment to the animal community.Moreover  our teeth, jaws, digestive system support a diet that emphasizes plant foods.Vegetarianism is natural for man.Some people embraced vegetarianism later in their life,par example,George Bernard Shaw (the well-known writer) ate meat for a quarter century of his life.When he was twenty-five,he became a vegetarian. He wrote that it was the poet Shelly "who opened my eyes to the savagery of my diet." He quoted two lines from Shelly's book "Never again may blood of bird or beast stain with its venomous stream a human feast!"Shaw lived a strict vegetarian till he died at the age of 95 . He said, "Meat is poison to the system. . . . Animals are fellow creatures. I feel a strong sense of kinship with them. It is beneficial to one's health not to be carnivorous." Shaw was not only a vegetarian but never used alcohol in his diet, though he was married to a non-vegetarian.

• Jainism and vegetarianism

Jainism is an ancient religion of India.Jains are vegetarians because they believe in nonviolence. Violence means to kill. If one does not take proper care of one's body and mind, one is committing violence of self.  Thus vegetarianism helps to avoid violence of self.

• How are we different from carnivores?

Carnivores (meat-eating)	Herbivores (plant-eating)	Humans
Have claws for killing	Have no claws	Have no claws
Sharp front teeth for tearing meat	No sharp front teeth	No sharp teeth
Stomach acid is twenty times strong	Weak acid in stomach	Weak acid in stomach
Perspire through tongue	Perspire through skin	Perspire through skin

In general, vegetarians perk up from fatigue faster, are more efficient, and have better health, than non-vegetarians.

• Killing and non vegetarianism

Scads of animals are killed for non-vegetarian food every year while in most cases, plants don't have to be killed for obtaining vegetarian food. Some people think that they cannot get enough protein from vegetarian food. This is not true. Vegetarian food can furnish all necessary nutrients.PETA provides many diet charts by way of helping people to resort to vegetarianism

• Vegetarianism and celebrities

Here is a list of celebrities and great personalities who were/are strict veggies:
Abdul Kalam Dr., President of India and Space Scientist 
Albert Einstein, renowned scientist 
Bryan Adams, singer and songwriter
Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer and philosopher
Michael Jackson, singer and The King of Pop
Nikola Tesla, physicist and inventor
Pamela Anderson, actress
Rabindranath Tagore, Eastern Indian philosopher 
Shania Twain, Canadian country singer
The list continues..............