Evidence is mounting that osteoporosis and associated hip fracture may be linked to high animal protein intake. The best way of avoiding this is to go vegetarian. What a lot of gall. Gall stones are composed of cholesterol, bile pigments and calcium salts and can be extremely painful. A study in 1985 found that non-vegetarians are almost twice as likely to develop them as vegetarians.
Meat eats the rainforest.
Tropical rainforest destruction is a huge environmental problem. The forests of the world are being felled, partly as a result of loggers and our expanding human population, but also to create pasture lands to rear livestock. Millions of acres of life-sustaining forest continue to be felled to create cattle ranches and to grow feed for livestock. Vegetarianism reduces methane. Methane gas is one of the key gases that is polluting the atmosphere.