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Humans have to eat.
We were made omnivores.
We eat meat.
We eat plants.
How we get it is just how we get it.
Sure i feel that this was cruel and all, but our bodies function off meat and plants. Humans who are Herbivore or just a Carnivore are not any healthier. All vegetarians are doing is saving a animals life that will die one day and feed the decomposers of the earth.

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Humans are omnivores. Automaton said,

"The fact is that in the world there's millions of vegetarians (hundreds of millions). Those millions have lessened the demand for meat, and in turn less meat has been produced. Sure, it hasn't done that much, but every movement starts off small."

how do you know its not because of other reasons such as disease ( plus you said you're self it was a small difference)? Have you noticed, anonymous (the hackers ) are getting on a freaking computer and are hacking internet servers on there own, for a cause? That has caused, companies to change there decisions and other actions, And they accomplished this in a matter of years. while Vegetarians have done very little in the decades they were here. Instead of not eating meat and depriving your body of the nutrition's it needs. Protest, you don't even need to give up eating meat, and it will have an impact and farms might change there methods of slaughtering to better and more humane ways instead of always focusing on the dollar.

For the sake of logic, do you think a couple million will make any difference to the farming industry when there's billions that still eat meat?
Really do you think they even care if a couple people don't eat meat, because there will always be a majority that does.

"All vegetarians are doing is saving a animals life that will die one day and feed the decomposers of the earth." ~Pin
Logically the simple answer is; better eat, then feed the worms.

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So your logic is since there are bigger problems in the world lets ignore all the other ones and only focus on the big shit.

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Also what really I'm trying to say is that If there's a more effective way to accomplish a goal by any means take it

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Vegetarians can't avoid disease by just avoiding to eat meat, spinach is the most radioactive vegetable used to test for radiation

TREAD softly in the garden and pluck that rose with care: flowers cry when cut, cucumbers squeal and even healthy fruit gurgles according to new acoustic research on the stressful life of plants.
The findings, released by the Institute for Applied Physics at the University of Bonn, could have important implications for farmers since, with the proper eavesdropping device, one can now distinguish between healthy and sick vegetables. Talking to plants, it seems, is not as rewarding as listening to them.

The Bonn scientists have developed laser-driven microphones that pick up sounds inaccessible to the human ear. When a leaf or a stem is sliced, the plant signals pain (or perhaps merely dismay) by releasing the gas ethylene over its entire surface.

Doctor Frank Kühnemann of Bonn University has been trapping the ethylene in a bell jar. The gas molecules are later bombarded with calibrated laser beams, which makes them vibrate. This produces a soundwave picked up by the microphones. “The more a plant is subjected to stress, the louder the signal we get on our microphone,” he said.

The Bonn scientists have tested a range of plants, always in rooms with controlled temperatures and simulated natural light. But they were most surprised by the reaction of the cucumber. The vegetable appeared to be in good shape, yet according to the acoustic measurements it was virtually shouting with agony.

A closer study showed that it had developed mildew, yet the symptoms were not visible. This finding is likely to make an impact on agriculture. “We can detect an infection the day after it has set in,” said Dr Kühnemann’s colleague Ralph Gaebler. “Farmers, looking at their plant in the field, have to wait eight or nine days until the mildew spots have visibly broken out before they notice the problem,” he said in an interview with Deutsche Welle radio station.

By eavesdropping on plants it should be possible to develop an early warning system to detect pests and disease. Knowing the stress level of fruit and vegetables can also be an aid in efficient storing and transporting. Acoustical evidence demonstrates that apples emit higher levels of ethylene, which causes neighbouring plants to wilt. As a result, the scientists urged fruit producers to store apples separately.

When ripe fruit is packed with unripe, a substantial amount of fruit often ends up rotting even when the shipments are separated by type. The scientists in Bonn have solved this mystery: differences in ripeness are often invisible, but can be detected acoustically in the form of ethylene. It should therefore be sufficient to measure fruit with laser microphones to separate it into batches of appropriate ripeness before loading it on to ships and trucks.

Wolfgang Praetorius, managing director of the German fruit importing company Fruchthansa, agreed. “If the relative ripeness of fruit can be worked out beforehand, it can be intelligently separated. Then we would know which batches to ship together and how long they would stay fresh.”

But the Bonn University team believes plants do more than chatter about aches and pains as if passing time in a doctor’s waiting room. The team also thinks plants warn each other about approaching danger. The “alarm signal” is a chemical message transmitted between individual plants: this too can be measured by the new equipment.