Carrot for all veggies.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2005300000-2007420157,00.html
Tuesday September 11 2007, The Sun.
Summary:
A British insurance company has offered to lower the insurance costs for the increasing number of British vegetarians. This comes forth from the observation that vegetarians are supposedly healthier and supposedly would claim less money from their insurance companies.
The company involved is ‘Animal Friends Insurance’, which is a non profit organisation. They offer a six percent discount to all of Britain’s three million vegetarians.
The claim of vegetarians being healthier is based upon medical evidence, one example suggesting a 40% risk decrease for certain types of cancer in people who do not eat meat comapred to people who do.
Comments:
For starters, vegetarianism isn’t all perfect either. The vegetarian will have to take certain vitamin supplements in order to avoid a defficiency of certain vitamins (and descreased health). The quality of the supplements needed by veganists to supply certain essentail nutrients is variable and long term effects of these supplements (of variable quality) are unknown.More importantly how do they intend to make sure only VEGETARIAN clients sign up, follow them around while grocery sh
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Paying less insurance costs when being a vegetarian is for these people likely better and it will be fear due 'non-vegetarians'. But I agree with the statement that its not easy to know that only Vegetarian clients sign up. This is very hard to find out and there are always people that abuse this kind of facilities. There must be another way for equeal treatment for these two people with different habbits.
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