Should people eat a vegetarian diet?

                    There are manifold reasons why people prefer vegetarian diet. The driving forces behind this preference can be due to person’s cultural background or may be due to health. There are beliefs that meat can be a major source of so many diseases as most of the animals these days are injected with steroids and drugs to produce more meat which can cause cancer. Moreover, a vegetarian diet also reduces the risk of obesity and heart diseases in this current stress-driven society.

                    The major population in India prefers vegetarian diet due to some spiritual beliefs. In the spiritual world, it is considered that like human-being animals too possess a sense of consciousness within them. For those people the definition of universal brotherhood means nonviolence to both humans and animals. It is considered that those people who eat meat, are not able to feel the pain associated with the animal when they are slaughtered to feed the diet of a non-vegetarian. That is the major reason why people of some culture avoid non-vegetarian diet. Some people even abstain from meat for the purpose of some animal rights movement. Though I am not a blind follower of some culture but I personally feel a person should not use the products that are borne out of afflictions on animals.

                   A reduced risk of obesity and heart-disease is also one of the major reasons for selecting vegetarian diet over non-vegetarian. Meat is considered to contain high amount of cholesterol. Due to high cholesterol content maintaining a better physical figure become a tough task. Vegetables also contains lesser preservative in comparison to meat and they mostly have raw intake. Majority of the vegetables have higher fiber content which improves the digestive capacity of a person leading to less risk of constipation and gastritis. Though some people may argue that vegetarian people may lack some nutrient which can only be availed from meat, but I think there are substitutes for these nutrients. For example, there are certain protein supplement like pulses, nuts, tofu etc. which provide the equivalent nutrients as that of meat.

               In conclusion, though I am not against non-vegetarian diet, but still I would prefer vegetarian diet because of my personal ethics and also because they are healthier. They improve the life expectancy of a people. I feel vegetables are supposed to contain more energy as they are the primary source of the food chain.  A vegetarian diet has also helped me to have control over my anger and emotions. This statement seems to have a biased opinion but it has also been scientifically proved.