Vegetarian is a practice or lifestyle in which you exclude animal products in your life. Vegetarian don’t use animal products as food, clothing or any other purpose. There are various kinds of vegetarians like Lacto Vegetarian (includes dairy product but no eggs), Ovo vegetarian (includes eggs but no dairy products) and lacto – ovo vegetarian (includes both dairy products and eggs). It is reported that about 0.1% to 1.4% of U.S. population are vegetarians. Vegetarianism is adopted on the basis of various reasons such as health, religion, ethical, environmental, economic, cultural, aesthetic, or other.

About 30% Hindus are vegetarian and completely denounce eating meat. In Buddhism also killing is prohibited. But there are two types of Buddhist, one who eat meat and the other who don’t. Especially Buddhist monk prohibits killing and observe strict vegetarianism. Jainism can be considered a complete vegetarian religion. All follower of Jainism are either Lacto-vegetarian or Vegans. They have a philosophy that you have to cause as little violence as you can. Animal right activist also are vegetarian because they are fighting against the violence and brutality that animal suffer in their life and during their slaughter. 

Vegetarianism is considered to be healthy and safe. A proper plan in diet will satisfy all nutritional need of the body. Various researches have conclusively proved that vegetarian has low risk of cancer, heart diseases and other various fatal diseases. Vegetarian diet helps in control of body weight and keeps control of cholesterol level. Here are few more points that might encourage you to become a vegetarian.

1. Vegans live longer healthier lives.
2. Excluding meat from the diet means you limit the amount of cholesterol you take resulting in healthier heart.
3. Modern animal farms use various antibiotics so that animal can grow fast and healthier. These antibodies might affect our body in a negative way.
4. Meat has no fiber content instead they have saturated fats, antibodies and toxins.
5. Human body itself is designed for herbivore diet. The long and winded intestine is a typical feature of grass eater.
6. There are so many diseases that gets transferred from animal to humans like Mad cow disease, H1N1, Swine flu and various worms like tape worm and round warm.
7. Meat eaters have a high chance of heart disease than the vegetarian.
8. Almost all food poisoning tends to start with meat.
9. If you want to be a killer than you are a meat eater. Remember that if you eat meat, you are directly or indirectly ordering a kill.
10. Meat eater frequently suffers from constipation because they lack the necessary fiber needed for proper digestion whereas vegetarian rarely deal with constipation.
11. Proteins from plants are more than enough for our body and you never have to eat meat. Plant protein is the safest way of obtaining protein.
12. If you avoid meat in your diet than you cut fat consumption consequently making your body healthy and check your body weight.
13. These are some diseases which are more common to meat eaters. Some of them are high blood pressure, constipation, prostate cancer, colon cancer, anemia, breast cancer, obesity, indigestion etc.
14. Many world class Athletes are vegetarians and they are doing very well.
15. Meat has no essential nutrients that cannot be produced from plants.
16. Trees are being cut to create land for meat production.
17. Vegetarian diet prevents diabetes.
18. Spinach produced in one acre of land produces 26 times more protein than it does for beef.