This causes excess nitrogen in the blood that creates a host of long-term health problems. To increase one's risk of getting degenerative disease means decreasing one's chance to live a naturally-long, healthy life. Huzas and other peoples with large centenarian populations maintain lifestyles that require little or no meat. Personal Finance Personal Finance Health Care Cost. Being healthier from a vegetarian diet means spending less on health care.
Vegetarian food tends to cost less than meat-based items.
Ethics Love of Animals. I love animals myself. I have no desire to kill them or cause them harm, just as I have no desire to have someone kill or harm me. Stance Against Factory Farming. I cannot make a statement about the inhumanity of factory farming if I, myself, eat animals.