International Vegetarian Day (or International Vegetarian Festival) is a festival that originated in India. 1986. Originally called "World Meat-Free Day", it is scheduled for165438+1October 25th every year! It has gradually developed into a worldwide festival. On this day, many slaughterhouses around the world stopped slaughtering, and canteens, hospitals and prisons will provide vegetarian food. More than 9.5 million people responded to this campaign that year.
Environmentalists, eating vegetarian food can save a lot of energy, reduce environmental pollution and help protect the environment, because raising carnivores requires a lot of energy (almost 10 times of meat itself). In addition, animal protectionists believe that the slaughter of livestock or wild animals is a cruel atrocity and runs counter to human civilization. Studies have found that the struggle of animals before death will promote the production of toxic secretions in their bodies, which are harmful to consumers.
Festival significance
Good for the environment
You can help reduce waste and air pollution. Farms in Utah, USA, raise 2.5 million pigs every year, producing more waste than the whole city of Los Angeles. This is just one of the farms. Every year, farms all over the country produce 2 billion tons of feces, which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers to be one of 65,438+00 pollutants.
This does not include methane gas released by cattle, pigs and poultry (this gas will cause greenhouse effect); Ammonia gas in urine; Natural gas discharged from feces; Toxic chemicals in pesticides; Waste gas emitted by machinery and equipment for processing animal feed on farms.
The significance of vegetarianism
Einstein said: "Our task is to liberate ourselves, which requires expanding our circle of sympathy, embracing all living things and embracing beautiful nature. Nothing can be more beneficial to human health and increase the chances of survival on earth than vegetarianism. "