Do Vegetarian Spend Healthier and Happier Life than Meat-Eater

Introduction

The research study conducted in order to analyze different aspects of the food that people eat. The research study is mainly based on the facts of the book “The Omnivore's Dilemma” written by Micheal Pollan. Indeed, humans can survive on a vegetarian diet and meet their nutritional needs if given access to a variety of plant-based proteins (legumes and nuts), grains, and vegetables. In addition, because plant foods contain fiber but do not contain any cholesterol, nor as much saturated fat as most animal foods, the American Dietetic Association recognized the role of a plant-based diet in preventing illnesses common to Americans, such as obesity, heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, and certain cancers. Animal-based foods related to issues of both nutritional excess (diseases of industrialized nations) and deficiency (hunger in some less industrialized countries). A serious health crisis exists worldwide, as millions of people die annually of hunger-related causes in part as a result of inequitable food distribution. The United States alone to produce enough plants to feed the hungry worldwide, but it inefficiently uses most of its crops, particularly grain and soy, to fatten farmed animals (Barnard, et. al, 255-263).

Environmentalists have noted that confined animal feeding operations and all the plant crops required to feed tens of billions of farmed animals worldwide (fish included) cause pollution and use significantly higher amounts of resources such as soil, water, land, and energy than do the components of a plant-based diet. Studies from organizations such as the World Watch Institute and the United Nations have linked animal agribusiness and meat consumption to the most devastating modern environmental issues, such as deforestation, erosion, water scarcity and pollution, air pollution, extinction, disease epidemics, and global warming. The United Nations concluded that a meat-based diet is a significant contributor to global warming because raising livestock generates close to 20 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, proving even more damaging than the transportation sector (Stahler, 10-12). So, the objective of this research to understand and find out whether people find vegetables as the source of healthier and happier life or not.

Problem Statement

Human beings are created naturally live on plants, fruits and water- all of them are fresh food. As the improvement of life condition, our food had changed a lot, many kinds for choice. Therefore, it becomes difficult to define, which life is healthier and better. Vegetarian claim that they are spent happier and healthier life than meat eater and vice versa. So in this study, we try to find out that whether vegetarian are healthier or meat-eater.

Research question

Do vegetarian spend healthier and happier life than meat-eater?

Significance of the study

The significance of the study is to analyze different aspects of vegetarian and meat-eater that associated with the lives of the human beings. The food plays a crucial role and considered being the main source of life. The research study will discuss the food thoroughly and will undertake different factors that affect the lives in many ways. The book “The ...