by Owen Mckimm
Could you eliminate meat from your diet?
Succulent sausages,
juicy steaks, and
tender chicken legs—could you
give all these
tasty treats
up? More and more people in the US are doing just that. There are millions more
vegetarians in the US now than there were a decade ago, and the number just keeps _(1)_. Why have so many made the _(2)_ from being
carnivores to
veggies?
The biggest reason is an
increasing objection to killing animals. More than half a million animals are killed for meat every hour in the US
alone, and many people consider this _(3)_ and
wasteful. Facebook's creator and one of vegetarianism's latest
converts, Mark Zuckerberg, has recently _(4)_ to eat only animals that he's killed himself in order to
show new
respect for animal life.
Since the world is going _(5)_, vegetarians have become the new
poster children for saving the environment. Land that is used for
farming sheep and cows now could be used far more _(6)_ to grow important crops like wheat. It is _(7)_ that the meat industry produces even more
greenhouse gases than all the traffic in the world
combined.
While giving up meat may be good news for the planet, can the same be said for the people who _(8)_ cut meat from their
diets? According to most medical studies, the answer is yes. Vegetarians enjoy healthier hearts, a lower _(9)_ of cancer and
diabetes, and lower
cholesterol. In fact,
former world-class athlete Carl Lewis, who won nine Olympic gold
medals in
track and field,
claims that his best year of _(10)_
went hand in hand with his decision to start eating a
vegan diet. One thing is
for certain—when World Vegetarian Day
comes around on October 1, there will be more people
advocating going veggie than ever before.
(A) cruel (B) risk (C) green (D) leap (E) competing (F) completely (G) pledged (H) growing (I) estimated (J) productively
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