A Michigan minor-league baseball team's scheme to sell a big honkin' burger totaling 4,800 calories as a concession-stand promotion has drawn the ire of a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group that wants the burger to come with a warning about its deleterious health effects.
The West Michigan Whitecaps' new 4-pound burger features 5 beef patties, 5 slices of cheese, nearly a cup of chili plus salsa and corn chips, all bundled into an 8-inch bun. The concoction sells for $20. Anyone who eats one by him- or herself earns a t-shirt to mark the achievement. <
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which promotes vegetarianism as the most healthful diet, calls the burger a "dietary disaster" and has asked the ball team to warn customers that "Eating meat is associated with increased risk of heart disease, cancer, and death."
Source: Washington Post
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I am a Vegetarian By Choice, like many others on this beautiful planet. However, my reasons for being vegetarian have nothing to do with religion or compassion for animals. Well, I love animals but that I do not think is good enough reason to be a vegetarian. I love plants equally well and if love for animals would make me shun meat, then love for plants should make me shun veggies. And then what would I eat?
I think we vegetarian have to adopt another approach to get meat eaters give up meat - and that approach is environment. One must be a vegetarian for environmental reasons. Human beings were not designed to eat meat. And in their quest to eat meat, they are screwing up the environment and we will one day end up as fossils just as the great dinosaurs did more than 100 million years ago.
Mark my words. But then we may not be there to see the prediction come true if we continue to eat meat at 4800 calories per burger.
Even if you don't give a rat's ass about animal rights you still have loads of environmental reasons to go vegetarian. And are you aware that 70% of US grain production is fed to livestock?
Eating meat causes more suffering to plants than eating plants directly, since you need more plants to feed one person with meat compared to vegetarian food.
Check more facts here:
http://www.burningflags.com/VEGANVEGAN.html
And I think it's very immature to call someone a nazi just because they refer to scientifically proven links about health effects of eating meat.
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