The lacto-ovo vegetarian diet excludes meat and fish from the food we eat everyday and their derivatives, but admits only milk, eggs and their derivatives, provided that they're not produced in intensive breeding farms, but allow the animals to live with enough space to move on the ground, fed with their natural food.
The vegan diet, instead, excludes milk, eggs and honey and all their derivatives.

The 5 main reasons for which vegetarian diet is the best for me (I'm vegetarian too) are as follows:

1) Human beings are not really carnivore -

Man is not a real carnivore, but a fruits and seeds eater, adapted, during the prehistory, to eat meat and fish when nothing better was available.
Our teeth, in fact, are not made to eat crude meat and we must cook it. Moreover, meat must be absolutely fresh and healthy.
Really carnivore animals have much fitter teeth, claws and physical strength to hunt and kill preys. Nature never arranges things for nothing!

2) Vegetarian diet is the healthiest -

Meat, with its saturated triglycerides, causes obesity and gout; cholesterol (absent in all vegetable foods) causes arteriosclerosis and ictus; the toxins already present in the meat of dead animals and, above all, hormones, medicines and growth factors given bred animals are harmful for us, causing colon and stomach cancer and disturbs for our liver that should metabolize them.In fact, the populations following an exclusively carnivorous diet (Inuit , Asian nomadic communities) are the least long-lived (35-40 years).
On the contrary, the vegetarian populations (present in India and in China) are the most long-lived and they don't know the diseases listed above, or much less.

3) Vegetarian diet is the most complete -

The vegetarian diet is based on seeds and legumes, rich in all the proteins and fats we need (in the form of vegetable oils, like the precious olive oil); on cereals, fruits, berries and green vegetables for the carbohydrates, providing our body with energy, and with vitamins and mineral elements, necessary for our health.

4) Producing meat kills the world -

All the meat produced in the world is regularly consumed only by the richest Countries (about 1.5 billions people), while the others follows a largely vegetarian diet. This production needs about 50% of the whole cereals, 75% of soybeans and most fodder crops of the world. So, if all the 6.5 inhabitants of our planet would consume meat like the Europeans and the Americans (the most obese people of the world) we would need twice the fertile soils of our planet!
Hence, if all these vegetable products were directly consumed by local people, hunger and famine wouldn't exist.

Instead, the present meat production is fed by intensive farming, highly polluting for the massive use of pesticides and artificial fertilizers, depleting for soils and destructive for the natural forests logging to obtain new cultures and pastures.
Moreover, the yield of vegetable food given bred animals is really low: 1 Kg of meat needs minimum 4 Kg of vegetables for poultry and boars, 7-8 Kg for cattle.

Also industrial fishing is devastating the marine environments with its massive and not selective capture systems and it's not sustainable anymore.

5) Breeding farms like extermination camps -

Before their final execution for our unnecessary and unhealthy food, billions of animals are:

- bred crowded in very little space

- filled with hormones and medical drugs

- fed with unnatural food

- mutilated (castration; tail, beak and teeth cutting) and stressed.

- transported like merchandise in too small carriage vehicles and for too long travels.

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