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It is said that everyone should adopt a vegetarian diet because it can bring people a lot of advantages. Some people who disagree with this statement say that life without meat would be a disaster.

However, from my point of view, I do support the opinion of adopting a vegetarian diet for three main reasons below.

Firstly, a vegetarian diet can give people a healthy body. According to a large amount of resources, a vegetarian diet is helpful to reduce the risk of many diseases, such as heart disease, Hypertension, stroke and so on.

Meat is the main source of fat as well as cholesterol. Eating too much meat may result in increased fat and high cholesterol, which can narrow the arteries, including those that carry blood into heart and other organs, like brain, kidneys, etc.
Heart disease is the leading killer in the USA, the largest meat consumer in the world.
Medical researchers who tracked 50,000 volunteers aged 16 and 89 from Germany, the UK and the USA over a five-year period found that vegetarian diets are the best way for longevity, making people be more energetic and healthy.

Additionally, meat-eaters may argue that animals are below humans in the food chain; it is completely natural for us to kill them for food. Nevertheless, I think animals are our friends not our food. Animals, like humans, are citizens of earth, they has the equal right to live in the earth to human beings. We should learn to live with them peacefully.
Voltaire said: will we dare to kill the animals if they can speak.
Mahatma Gandhi said: The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be measured by the way in which its animals are treated.

I think many people choose to eat meat because they don’t know the cruel process of animal products.
In order to remain continuous milk production, the cows in New Zealand have to give birth to a calf every year, but the newborn calves are forced to separate from their mothers in a few minutes after birth because their mothers’ milk are not for them, but for humans!
Over 2 million only four-day old calves are sent to the slaughter house despite they haven’t eaten or drunk anything; they don’t remember how their mothers look like.
Please bear it in mind that a life has left the world when you are drinking milk!
Just imagine how many lives we can save if we choose a vegetarian diet:
5 cows, 20 pigs, 30 sheep, 760 chickens, 46 turkeys, 15 ducks, 7 rabbits, 2 geese and half a ton of fish.

Furthermore, vegetarian diets can make you more confident and happier.
On the one hand, you will have more time to prepare vegetarian meals for yourself and family members which can enhance the relationship.
On the other hand, you will enjoy a simple and casual dressing style, and it can also save you a lot of money because you don’t need to buy expensive animal productions, like leather jackets, shoes or cashmere sweater.
Moreover, vegetarians usually have a regular and organized life style can make you look younger and sharper so they you don’t even put any makeup.