ABSTRACT

In this study, we try to explore the concept of “Food and safety” in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on “Food and safety” and its relation with “health”. The research also analyzes many aspects of “Food and safety” and tries to gauge its effect on “health”. Finally, the research describes various factors, which are responsible for “Food and safety,” and tries to describe the overall effect of “Food and safety” on “health.”

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Table of contents

ABSTRACTII

INTRODUCTION1

PROBLEM STATEMENT2

RESEARCH QUESTION2

METHODOLOGY2

DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS3

The advantage of being a vegetarian3

Risks of being a pure non-vegetarian4

Vegetarianism and cancer protection5

Vegetarianism and lowered risk of developing heart diseases6

CONCLUSION7

WORKS CITED9

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. We have based this research study on the facts of the book “The Omnivore's Dilemma” written by Michael 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, 2009).

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, 2010). 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 ...