While in Indonesia, as stated Coordinating Center for Energy Studies University of Atma Jaya Yogyakarta (UAJY) Prasasto Satwiko, vegetarian many considered to be related to a particular religious doctrine. Not to be viewed as a lifestyle.
The new vegetarians in developed countries now place as environmental and ethical reasons, he said Thursday (10 / 7). Environment is used as an excuse for the use of energy to produce meat very expensive and destructive nature.
While the ethics associated with humans should respect animals as fellow. In the frame of humanity, that animals should not be treated unjustly. The attitude of impunity, including killing animals brutally, will affect the behavior.
Lifestyle is not about people who smakan vegetables and fruit for not fond of eating or buying meat. "But the people who eat fruits and vegetables because they like and benefit," said Prasasto who is also a vegetarian.
The process of killing animals and humans familiarity to see the suffering of animals, especially animals, consumption of more or less impact on behavior. Reality proved more vegetarians can maintain emotional stability rather than people who eat meat.
Vegetarian lifestyle, delivered Prasasto, in recent years, has become a trend in developed countries such as Britain and New Zealand. However unique, New Zealand is a country exporting beef to many countries, including Indonesia. -kompas.com