英语口语-素食主义者

A:Hey, dude! What are you looking at?

B:Hey,nice to meet you!I am reading a magazine about vegetarians.Are you a vegetarian?

A:Yes I am!

C:Why?

A:First,Health concerns:

A vegetarian diet can be a balanced diet filled with nutritious vegetables which can be alkaline-forming and health-building. Harvard researched the eating habits of 110,000 adults for over 20 years found that a one 3-ounce serving of red meat daily was associated with a 13 percent greater chance of dying over the course of the study. A vegetarian diet can reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease.

Second,Spiritual reasons: Commitment to non-violent food; not supporting the killing and suffering of animals. Hinduism and Buddhism hold vegetarianism as an ideal way to promote nonviolence and spiritual fulfillment. Seventh Day Adventists and Jains are vegetarians. Seventh Day Adventists are among the healthiest people in the world today.

Third,Personal choice:

Sometimes for no explainable reason, a person just finds that they simply do not want to eat meat. Whenever they see it they have no interest in eating it so they never include it in their meals.

Finally,Food safety:

Close to 5,000 Americans die of food-borne diseases every year. Food poisoning is mostly from animal products. Factory farms, slaughterhouses, and meat packing plants are extremely unsanitary places.

B:I don't want to be a vegetarian. The main reason is because I like meat more than I like vegetable. There are some other reasons such as, I don't think vegetarian is health. It is hard to stay health as a vegetarian. You have to constantly reminding yourself to take the nutrition that is lacking from the vegetables. Another reason would be because I think it is not easy to be a vegetarian. Not every restaurants provide vegetarian meals. A lot of times, vegetarian end up stay home for most of their meals. Especially when you are traveling or out of the town, you don't always know where do they provide vegetarian meals. And are you a vegetarian?

C:Yes,there are some reasons that support me as a vegetarian.

First,Animal rights:

Animals raised for meat in factory farms live in truly abysmal conditions and are treated badly prior to and during slaughter. Also, the animals are often given drugs to make them grow bigger, producing more meat. This is not healthy to animals or humans. Animals have feelings and a personality just like humans!

Second,Environmental reasons:

Meat production is the creating destruction of our natural resources and causing pollution, producing more greenhouse gases than all the cars in the world. Read The Food Revolution by John Robbins to become enlightened on this subject. Also check out our article “Nice Cow –Baaad Cow Effects.”

Third,Political reasons: