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VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY IN HO CHI MINH CITY University of Natural Science ITEC A STUDY ON DEVELOPING OF LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY AND ITS UNETHICAL BEHAVIOUR Group’s TALENT Name of members DO NGUYEN KIEU ANH (1258002) CONG THI NHU NGUYEN (1258044) NGUYEN NGOC TUYEN (1258091) LE QUY VINH (1258095) Advisor: NGUYEN HUU ĐANG KHOA

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VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY IN HO CHI MINH CITY

University of Natural Science

ITEC

A STUDY ON DEVELOPING OF LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY AND ITS

UNETHICAL BEHAVIOUR

Group’s TALENT

Name of members

DO NGUYEN KIEU ANH (1258002)

CONG THI NHU NGUYEN (1258044)

NGUYEN NGOC TUYEN (1258091)

LE QUY VINH (1258095)

Advisor: NGUYEN HUU ĐANG KHOA

Ho Chi Minh city, Viet Nam

2013

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................1

1.1 Research background...............................................................................................1

1.1.1 Overview of livestock industry................................................................................1

1.2 Rationale for the study.............................................................................................3

1.3 Research question.....................................................................................................3

CHAPTER II: METHODOLOGY..................................................................................4

2.1 Data collection...........................................................................................................4

2.1.1 Developing of livestock industry and its influence with environment..................4

2.1.2 People need to eat meat..........................................................................................5

2.2 Research modal.........................................................................................................6

CHAPTER III: FINDINGS & RESULTS.......................................................................6

3.1 Environment factor..................................................................................................6

3.1.1 Natural resources...................................................................................................6

3.1.2 Wasting water to provide for livestock................................................................7

3.1.3 Wasting land for livestock industry.....................................................................8

3.1.4 Energy.....................................................................................................................9

3.1.5 Pollution air..........................................................................................................10

3.1.6 Interaction between environment and livestock industry................................11

3.2 People.......................................................................................................................13

3.2.1 Amount of meat that people needed...................................................................14

3.2.2 Needed having a job and investing of government...........................................15

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CHAPTER IV:

DISCUSSION,RECOMMENDATION,CONCLUSION&LIMITATION

4.1 Discussion................................................................................................................17

4.2 Recommendation....................................................................................................17

4.2.1 Land improvement and enviromental...............................................................17

4.2.2 Stop the killing of animals...................................................................................17

4.2.3 The government should do for the livestock industry......................................18

4.2.4 Measures and opinions of people for the livestock industry............................20

4.3 Conclusion...............................................................................................................22

4.4 Limitation and future research.............................................................................24

LIST OF TABLES

Table 1: Greenhouse Gases and Global warming potentials........................................................11

Table 1:U.S direct investment in Brazil : bench mark statistics .......................................16

LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1:Be organic Vegan to Save World’s Water ...........................................................8

Figure 2:Energy cost of meat production..........................................................................10

Figure 3:Arctic and Antarctic Ice Mealts..........................................................................12

Figure 4:Sea-Level Rise Projections.................................................................................12

Figure 5: Why does a salad cost more than a big Mac ?Error: Reference source not

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CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Research background

Overview of livestock industry.

Livestock sector is not an act major role in the national economy, said general, but

breeding has a role in agriculture, and social life.

  a. For the national economy. 

The value of livestock products accounting for 1.4% of gross domestic product (Gross 

Domestic Product - GDP) of the world (2005). Annual growth rate of world's livestock

sector (1995 - 2005) is 2.2%. 

b. For agriculture. 

The value of livestock products accounted for 40% of the total value of agricultural

products. In industrialized countries, the value of the livestock sector accounts for 50-

60% of value of agricultural products. Products of livestock sector contributed 17% of the

value of exports of the agricultural sector. The livestock sector has provided fertilizers for

cultivation. 

c. For the life.

The livestock sector has provided the kind of animal products have high

nutritional value for humans. 

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The livestock sector provides 17% of the demand human power (477 Kcal /

person / day). 

The livestock sector provides 33% of the demand protein for men

(25g/person/day). 

Science of Animal Husbandry Association of Vietnam. 

The livestock sector is a source of additional nutrients for the 944 million people

with impaired nutrition. 

d. For society  .

The livestock sector employers of 1.3 billion people (the traditional livestock sector 

does not require farmers skilled high art). The livestock sector has secured life 

for 987 million poor people (this means 30% of the world's poor. Worldwide there are

about 2735 million poor, earning less than 3 U.S. $ / day). As the demand for livestock

products on a increase and a change in taste, it is projected guess: Production of meat in

the world will increase from 229 million tons (1991/2001) to 465 million ton (2050)

and milk production worldwide will increase from 580 million tons (1991/2001) to 1043

million ton (2050).

( According to the Journal of Animal Husbandry No. 4 – 2010 Digitized by LRC - Thai Nguyen University,

http://www.lrc-tnu.edu.vn)

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1.2 Rationale for the study:

But we have the last published findings from the United Nations in 2006 and new

researchings told us that the livestock industry causes greenhouse gas emissions

more than all the world’s transportation sectors combined —airplanes, trains,

cars, motorcycles, etc., altogether. Updated calculations tell us that the livestock

industry is responsible for at least 50% of global warming. 

“Our analysis shows that livestock and their by production actually account

for at least 32,564-million tons of CO2 per year, or 51 percent of annual

worldwide GHG emissions.” 4 

                                                                      —World Watch Institute 

The livestock industry causes a large part of the world’s soil erosion. It is a

leading driver of desertification, biodiversity loss, and water waste, and water

pollution, despite water becoming scarcer each day due to global warming.

Moreover, the livestock sector inefficiently drains our fossil-fuel and food-grain

resources. In short, we throw away 12 times more grain, at least 10 times more

water and eight times more fossil-fuel energy to produce a portion of beef

compared to a nutritionally similar or even greater amount of vegan food. 

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Henning Steinfeld, chairman of the Division of Policy Document Livestock and

Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Food said that :

"Livestock are one of the most significant contributions to cause problems serious

environmental problems today. urgent action is needed to remedy this situation. "

1.3 Research question:

Is developping of the livestock industry direct ratio to the damage of environment ?

Is developing of the livestock industry an unethical thing basically ? why ?

CHAPTER 2

METHODOLOGY

2.1 Data collections:

By using seconding data about developing of livestock industry and its influence with

environment , connection between developing of livestock industry and people's needs

about eating meat in prestigious reports , we want to find out the answer for the research

question.

2.1.1 Developing of livestock industry and its influence with environment.

“Livestock are one of the most significant contributors to today’s most serious

environmental problems. Urgent action is required to remedy the situation.” 

—Dr. Henning Steinfeld, Chief of Livestock Information and Policy Branch, FAO, UN.

“Livestock is the main driver of deforestation. 

Livestock is the largest single source of water pollution.

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Livestock produces more greenhouse gases than all 

worldwide transportation combined.” 

—Livestock’s Long Shadow .

2.1.2 people need to eat meat

-Eating meat is natural. Most of us believe that eating meat is natural because humans

have hunted and consumed animals for thousands of years. Factually, we used to eat meat

as part of a complex diet for at least 2 million years.

- American livestock industry killed about 10 billion animals each year, and that's not to

mention 10 billion fish and other marine animals are killed every year. About 19.011

animals each minute, or 317 animals per second. While you read these lines, nearly 60.00

the animals are killed.

"Why we love dogs, eat pigs, and wear cows”

Melanie Joy,Ph.D.

Eating meat is essential. We can not survive without meat. Although we know that we

can live without eating meat. Another myth that meat is necessary for our health, even

when there is ample evidence to prove the opposite. The study recommends that eating

meat is bad for health, meat consumption related to the development of a number of

major diseases in the modern industrial world so the livestock industry is developing

more and more irrespective of its unethiccal and illogical thing .

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2.2 Research modal :

CHAPTER III

FINDING AND RESULT

3.1 Environment factor.

3.1.1 Natural resources.

The EARTH is a beautiful planet with plentiful natural resources as fertility land , water ,

pure air…these condition is good for producing the five cereals , vegetables as food for

human but we use environment resources to produce grain to provide for livestock

industry and the result that we are got is meat , respond to eating meat of human but we

have hunger in some where in the world and meat isn't sure good for human's

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health, according to some trust worthy reports are we short of food ? How many people

in the world are hungry ? 1.02 billion people in every five seconds, a child dies of

hungry. Grain currently fed to livestock is enough to feed nearly two - billion people

—Julie Gellatley and Tony Hardle 

Ninety percent all of soy, 80% all of corn and 70% all of grain grown in AMERICA

are fed to fatten livestock, while this could feed at least 800-million hungry people. We

have hungry people; we have children dying every few seconds because we use too much

land, too much water, too much food for livestock instead of on humans. 

—Gary L. Francione, Professor of Law, Rutgers University Law School, USA,Vegan 

3.1.2 Wasting water to provide for livestock

Livestock industry is the Greatest Water Guzzler ,

“We must reconsider our agricultural practices and how we manage our water resources,

with agriculture and livestock raising accounting for 70% of fresh water use and up to

80% of deforestation.” 

—Ban Ki-moon 

While 1.1-billion people lack access to safe drinking water, we waste 3.8 trillion tons

of precious clean water each year for livestock production. We have [over] six-billion

people in this world and the sources of groundwater for wells, which supports half of our

world population, are dying, drying up. And the top ten global river systems are drying or

ebbing away. And three-billion people are short of water. 

Dead zones are a serious threat to the ocean’s ecosystems , are caused primarily by

fertilizer runoff from agriculture that is mainly used for animal feed. 

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Figure 1

Data Source: Marcia Kreith, Water Inputs in California Food Production,

Water Education Foundation, September, 1991 (chart E3 p28) 

3.1.3 Wasting land for livestock industry

We have only 30% of land that covers the Earth. Of that precious 30%, one-third of it is

used, not for our true survival, but for livestock pasture or growing tons of grain for

animal feed—all to produce a few pieces of meat. The clearing of land for livestock has

created instability and serious soil degradation.

Eighty percent of cleared Amazon forest is designated as a cattle grazing area to prepare

the animals for slaughter, and the remainder is planted as soy crops used also largely for

animal feed. 

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Every year, we cut down forests as big as England just to raise animals. That’s why our

planet’s heating up and then many places are having problems with floods and drought. 

A rainforest area the size of a football field is destroyed every second to produce just 250

hamburgers.( john robbins ,http://whitt.ca/soapbox/vegetarian.html.).

3.1.4 Energy :

The Energy Cost of livestock industry

Livestock industry use energy excessively.To produce one kilogram of beef consumes

169 mega joules (169-million watts) of energy, or enough energy to drive an average

European car for 250 kilometers! One six-ounce beef steak costs 16 times as much fossil

fuel energy as one vegan meal containing three kinds of vegetables and rice.This thing

will exhaust fossil fuel energy of the world .

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Figure 2

Data Source: Gidon Eshel and Pamela A. Martin, 

“Diet, Energy, and Global Warming”, Earth Interaction, Vol 10 (2006), paper No. 9. 

3.1.5 Pollution air

Livestock industry is the greatest methane emitter , discharge greenhouse gases, and other

toxic gases as

Livestock has been recalculated as to generate possibly more than 50% of total global

emissions —more than 50% is from the livestock industry. It is more than the world's

transportation sectors combined

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Greenhouse Gases and Global Warming Potentials – Table 1

Greenhouse gases CO 2

(carbon dioxide)

CH 4

(methane)

N 2 O

(nitrous oxide)

Global Warming Potentials (GWP) * 1 25* 298*

Pre-industrial atmospheric concentration 280 ppm 0.715 ppm 0.270 ppm

Atmospheric concentration in 2005 379 ppm 1.774 ppm 0.319 ppm

Percentile contribution from livestock industry ** 9% 37% 65%

“ Averaged over 100 years, methane and nitrous oxide are 25 and 298 times

respectively more potent than carbon dioxide in global warming potentials.

Averaged over 20 years, methane is 72 times more potent. (One part per

million (ppm) denotes one part per 1,000,000 parts.) (IPCC, Fourth Assessment

Report )”

3.1.6  Interaction between environment and livestock industry

Livestock industry developing is based on advantaged environment .

we use land , water , energy resources to serve for livestock industry

We have meat for human from developing of livestock industry but the cost we have to pay is so

expensive

Wasting grain make hungers on some where in the world

Wasting energy exhausting fossil fuel

Wasting and polluting water , land

Discharge methane ,greenhouse gases, and other toxic gases , make global

warming with occurrences .

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Arctic and Antarctic Ice Melts ( Figure 3 ) 

Credit: National Snow and Ice Data center, http://nsidc.org/ arcticseaicenews/index.html 

Sea-Level Rise Projections ( Figure 4 )

Credit: IPCC, Fourth Assessment Report, 111, figure 1.

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Making Sinking Land and Climate Refugees 

A report from the International Organization for Migration stated that there may be

200-million, or even up to one-billion people who will be climate refugees by 2050,

or within our lifetime. These are people who must leave their island or coastal homes

due to rising sea levels or permafrost melts that cause entire communities or nations

to sink and collapse. Weather Conditions become extreme  Frequency of Natural

Disasters are increased.we have to face with  serious results from developing

livestock industry , with a dangerous future

3.2 People

This aim of this part was discussing about effecting of people to the Livestock Industry

lead to its unethical behaviours.

. For a long time ago , people understood that meat was very important for healthy so

they needed to eat meat during the living . However , people did not compare between

benefits and harms that effected straight to their life day by day .

. Moreover , needed of people having a job and investing of government to Livestock

Industry that promotes Livestock Industry developed quickly.

These findings gave us the general view of Livestock Industry its unethical behaviours

by its effecting to environment such as water pollution , damaging land, and air pollution

by CO2 and CH4 .

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3.2.1 Amount of meat that people needed.

According to Suzanne Robin, Demand Media : “Most people need around 0.8 grams

of protein per day per 2.2 pounds of body weight, according to registered dietitian Reed

Mangels. Consuming around 46 grams of protein per day if you're female and 56 grams

per day if you're male will meet your protein needs, whether you get your protein from

meat or from plant sources. A 3-ounce portion of meat contains 21 to 24 grams of

protein. Three 3-ounce meat servings per day would supply all your protein needs, but

this much meat could include a large amount of saturated fat, which could increase your

risk of heart disease.”

According to the researching above , 50,1 grams is the average meat that person

needs to eat per day . It means that person needs to eat about 18.286 grams per year .

Additionally ,“ World population grew to 7.06 billion in mid-2012 after having passed

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the 7 billion mark in 2011. Developing countries accounted for 97 percent of this growth

because of the dual effects of high birth rates and young populations. Conversely, in the

developed countries the annual number of births barely exceeds deaths because of low

birth rates and much older populations. By 2025, it is likely that deaths will exceed births

in the developed countries, the first time this will have happened in history” by Carl

Haub. Therefore , we can count the amount of meat is 127.800.000.000 kilograms that

people need to use per year . There are a large amount of meat that needs for using of

people so livestock industries have to develop more and more to provide enough meat for

using of people .

3.2.2 Needed having a job and investing of government.

People needed having a job .

There were a lot of reasons for people needed having a job . Some main reasons for

having a job: First , because of their living . They have to earn money to take care of their

children such as paying tuition for their children , purchasing a lot of things that they

need to buy. Another reason is that people would like to get experiences from work or get

funs when they are working . Second , people would like to be rich so they would like to

do business to get more money . They can buy a big house , nice car , and a lot of

beautiful things . However , when they do business they don’t think about what they do

carefully . Livestock industry is one of several problems that are unethical behavior .

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Investing of government.

Table 2

From table 2- US . direct investment in Brazil . We can see a large of amount investing

money that increases from 1984 to 1996. This shows for us know livestock industries will

be developed more and more in the future. That means livestock industries need more

and more resources from environment such as water , land, and air that will be

destroyed .While people also need water , land , and air to live so people are wasting

resources but they probably don’t know. The challenge for environment and life are to

increase the productivity of major livestock species to address the food needs of the

world. Traditional livestock systems will continue to evolve towards more intensive

integrated farming modes that improve efficiency. Because of investing of government

that promotes the livestock industries are developping . They are killing living of people

indirectly.

To sum up , investing of government to livestock industries is unethical activity.

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CHAPTER 4

DISCUSSION, RECOMMENDATION, CONCLUSION AND LIMITATION

4.1 Discussion:

Development of the livestock industry bring harm too big to people, it is the need to take

measures to minimize its effects, but human culture has long been accustomed to eating

meat. Therefore, the solution will meet the consensus or no consensus huge.

4.2 Recommendation

4.2.1 Land Improvement and Environmental

If everyone, all farmers and all land on our planet are switching to organic farming, then

immediately 40% of carbon dioxide will be absorbed.

 Switch to organic farming will restore fertility to the soil has been degraded by

conventional farming methods. Topsoil will be retained and better tolerance to flooding.

Wildlife species and ecosystem are also benefits. In most large-scale studies on methods

about organic farming is done in the UK, organic farms have more than 85% of plant

species compared with conventional farms. In which 71% of the trees are taller and

bigger, allowing many native animals in residence easily. 

Moreover, organic vegan farming will prevent chemical fertilizer wastewater stream

infection which is the cause of creating huge dead zones. 

4.2.2 Stop killing of animals

The government has issued a number of regulations and to remind people to live good,

moral life and in accordance with the law of love, such as do not kill, eat or do anything

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detrimental to the animals and the environment.

In order to cease all acts of murder, abuse of animals or humans. All acts of deforestation,

environmental damage, cut trees must stop. The leaders should be put into law the

benefits of peace for all, and, if possible, include more whole spiritual things, such as the

protection of genuine religious organizations, associations only benefit without harm.

Please share benefits together: Full Distribution clothes, food for the poor and animals.

Construction areas safe for both humans and animals - to protect all life: reforestation,

cleaning and protection of rivers, lakes and seas. We should reward for any associations

which do animal care and environmental protection meanwhile we also boycott alcohol,

drugs, meat and other animal products. End cruel tests on animals. Close the farm; Give

more bachelor or military prisoners to help people, planting vegetables or increasing

production. Encourage and support the cultivation of organic vegetables. Subsidize for

education and health.

If we don’t eat meat, we will use the agriculture products, cereals, to feed humans instead

of feeding more bred animals in the future. So we don’t have hunger anymore, and there

will be no more war because of hunger. The effect is immense.

 4.2.3 The government should do for the livestock industry

Livestock sector should promote the propagation and dissemination of legal education on

environmental protection in the field of animal husbandry in order to raise awareness of

environmental protection for organizations and individuals. We should also urgently

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complete system of state environmental management in the livestock sector, strengthen

inspection and supervision; complete system of legal documents on environmental

management school. The specific is responsible for compensation, shall restore the

environment in the case of livestock units polluting and damaging to the environment is

also important. This helps to definitely handle livestock facilities, slaughter and

processing of livestock and poultry environmental pollution.

The leaders should also have specific policies to encourage the application of pollution

prevention measures and the use of clean technologies in livestock as support building

infrastructure for livestock waste handling farms and industrial slaughterhouses. We

should also continue to promote the national target program on biogas development

together with the credit policy support for household, livestock unit construction of

biogas. Livestock waste treatment model has many advantages is the use of biogas

technology biogas and bio-EM should also be replicated. This form is called "green

farming" in order to reduce soil and water pollution, minimize the impact on greenhouse

gas emissions, reduce the use of fossil fuels.

Exemption or reduction of taxes, fees for the production of clean energy, renewable

energy from biogas and organizations and individuals to borrow money from the fund

environmental protection ... Besides, the need to accelerate the planned breeding areas,

slaughter in association with environmental protection.

We see environmental challenges for the development of animal husbandry as well as

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common challenges for all countries around the world. Thus, solving the problem of

environmental pollution for livestock operations is the path to the livestock industry,

"green", sustainable development in our country.

Figure 5

Data Source: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, “Health vs. Pork: Congress

Debates the Farm Bill, ”Good Medicine, Vol. XVI, 4 (Autumn

2007).www.pcrm.org/magazine/gm07autumn/health_pork.html

4.2.4 Measures and opinions of people for the livestock industry

The report concludes with a look at the different options to introduce more sustainable

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environmental and social practices for livestock systems.

‘’We want to protect the people on the sidelines who depend on a small number of

livestock for their livelihood," Mooney said. "On the other side, we want people to

participate in the livestock industry to closely review the report and determine what

improvements they can make."

One solution is for countries to adopt policies to provide incentives for better

management practices focus on land conservation and more efficient water and fertilizer

use, he said.

However, calculating the true cost of meat production is a difficult task, Mooney said.

Consider the piece of ham on your breakfast plate, and where it came from before landing

on your grocery shelf. First, take into account the amount of land used to feed pigs. Then

factor in all the water, soil and fertilizer used to grow rice and pig-related pollution

results.

Finally, consider that while the ham may have come from Denmark, where the pigs twice

the grain to feed the animals have the ability to develop in Brazil, where the tropical

forests continue to be cleared to grow soybeans, a major source of pigs.

"So many problems come down to individual consumers," said co-editor Fritz Schneider

of the College of Agriculture (SHL) Switzerland. "People will not stop eating meat, but I

always hope that people learn more, they alter their behavior. If they are informed that

they do not have the choice to help build a more equitable and sustainable world, they

can make better choices. "

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Livestock in a changing landscape is a collaboration of the Woods FAO, SHL, Institute

of Environment, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the Committee on

Scientific Problems of the Environment (SCOPE), the Middle Agricultural Research

Centre for International Development (CIRAD), and the Initiative for Livestock,

Environment and Development (LEAD).

Other editors of the report is Laurie E. Neville (Stanford University), Pierre Gerber

(FAO), Jeroen Dijkman (FAO), Shirley Tarawali (ILRI) and Cees de Haan (World

Bank). Initial funding for the project was to provide in 2004 and environmental benefits

of joint venture project from the Institute Woods.

4.3 Conclusion

Really need to bring the issue of industrial development to weigh livestock, and select the

most appropriate solution for each country, for the future of humanity.

Meat is the main product of human. People should also take meat to provide some

nutritive substance. However, it also caused harm to the environment and human. Don’t

eat meat help people to avoid some diseases such as cancer and heart disease. We have

many different reasons for fasting depending on ethnicity and culture and the vegetarian

for ethical problems because they did not want to cause suffering to animals, or the

struggle for animal rights. In addition, health problems is also a motivation for

vegetarians, some are feel an aversion to the taste of the meat. There are also a number of

vegetarian organizations to protect the ecosystem because they believe that livestock

production in the farms harm the environment. They also suggest that reducing meat

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consumption will significantly improve the situation of the global food but now, due to

researching of scientists, fasting not only to protect the animals, but also to protect the

humans. For by fasting that people escape to toxins from the body meats.

The fact that we can’t deny is that since humans appeared on the ground, people only eat

vegetables to nourish the body and to produce more descendants. Thanks vegetables

fostered many fishing knives from ancient proverb handed down to this day: "Poverty

and vegetables, pain medication", "Also pond spinach as same pot", "Do I miss home the,

remember son bitter melon, tomato pot tamarind ".

The folk in question proved humans appeared on earth is eating only vegetables

(vegetable) until the fire appeared, people learned to use fire to cook meat to eat to

appetite. However, the main food of the meal remains vegetables, especially those living

in the countryside. Thanks vegetables nourish the body has helped humans for

reproductive health and longevity.

Vietnamese private, non-permanent oil vegetarian but most of all meals, food is still

vegetables. In Vietnam before 1975 people employed by low-income workers have little

chance to eat meat, so that workers are less ill. After 1975, the number of Vietnamese

refugees to the United States due to high income, increase nutritional quality of meat. It is

the cause of high blood pressure, heart disease and cancer. An old American doctor

working in Fountain Valley Hospital has remarked: "When the Vietnamese arrived settle

in Orange is only about 1 or 2 percent cholesterol, but only 10 years later, the number of

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cholesterol was up to nearly 10%. If you want to reduce cholesterol should eat more

vegetables ".

4.4 Limitation and future research

You see, one small step from everyone in the right direction can result in a big leap in our

evolution as a human race. And that small step is very simple. It’s just: no killing.

Abiding by the principle of “Live and let live,” adhering to the universal law where we

grant life to beget life. Because like attracts like; that we all know. This, of course,

includes adopting a vegan diet. 

Humans are naturally more generous and peaceful in their heart; it’s just that we all have

been misinformed, misunderstood for a long, long, long time. We thought meat was good

for us, we thought dairy was good for us, we thought fish was good for us, we thought

eggs were good for us. It’s all wrong. It’s all the opposite. It all has been proven that

these things that we have been told that are good for us—like meat, fish, dairy, eggs,

whatever animal products are “good for us”—is all wrong. It’s the opposite of what is

good. It has been bringing us suffering, sickness and tremendous loss of finances from

tax payers for curing disease and related business. 

So, we have been misled, for a long, long time. Now, we have to do research. We have to

listen to the wise doctors and scientists. We have to see the result of their research: that

meat and animal products are really, really poisonous for us. We have to stop now,

especially stop for our children’s sake. We can’t keep poisoning our children anymore;

they are helpless. The poor children, they rely on us, they think we know better, but it’s

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not our fault either. We just need to turn around. 

We are hopeful in the future, when you become more compassionate, changes outlook to

animals, changing awareness about keeping the environment. We will take measures to

more effectively.

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