Should I become a Vegetarian?!
Should I become a Vegetarian?
I eat meat. Not so much that its almost unbelievable.But i still dont feel right eating meat.Like pig i love the animal and love the foods that come from pig.what should i do????
Answers:
become a vegetarian and if you can't stand it you can resort back to eating meat. good luck
just eat fish or chicken occassionly.
No because you will look like nicole richie and she looks like crap.
Baked fish is good too.
Also chickens and cows are stupid...they are made for food! I never saw a cheese burger or chicken mcnugget tree.
Being a vegetarian might not be healthy or easy if you want to become vegan, only because you lose a lot of nutrients. I personally wouldn't suggest it, but f you really feel wrong eating meat, you could at least try being vegetarian for a while, and not mention it to anyone, then if you find you just can't do it, you can go back to eating meat. Or, you could just eat a little bitof "pig" as you call it every once in a while.
become a vegitarian, but learn how to remain healthy while on a vegans diet. research the topic and recruit more people to do the same. {~_^}
no
No you should eat a vegetarian
if you really like meat then dont become a vegitarian and if your uncmfertable become a vegitarian
Keep eating meat! It is our God-given right. I love cows and chickens and pigs, but I don't get my boundaries crossed. Animals were put on this earth so that we could eat eat them. I have even had a chicken as a pet before (although we never ate her), but that will not stop me from eating meat. Don't be a pansy!
Before you make any major dietary changes consult with your doctor. If that is not possible read as much as you can about being a vegetarian. If you have any food allergies make sure you descibe them to you doctor or other health professional.
It all has to do with your personal feelings about it. You have to feel strongly enough about the animal or the food here. If it makes you sick to try to eat a sausage link that is a good indication that you should go ahead and stop eating it. Be smart about stopping eating meat. There are many benefits to your health, becoming a vegetarian but you have to get your protein and iron from another source such as beans.
If you decide to become a vegetarian make sure this is something you want...I was a vegetarian for a year...for some health reasons I had to start eating meat again... now I feel like I have to have my meat literally burnt for it to taste right...I used to like medium to rare now I have to have it soooo well done...It always feels like I'm sucking blood right from it (not good)...I've always liked chicken...I always felt its cleaner then all the other meats other than fish...
It is totally up to you. You have to come to terms with your own moral convictions and make your decisions based off of them.
I would say go veg, but I know you really have to be ready to make that decision. Diets are hard enough to follow if you want to drop a few pounds; vegetarianism is a lifestyle that takes real dedication. You can't *cheat* on vegetarianism, and you can't *treat yourself* to some bacon or decide for Christmas that you deserve it.
Sure, I hope you cross over.... and when you are ready, I am sure you will. Until then, keep educating yourself on the wrongs of the meat industry and the benefits of being veg. Start collecting recipes and maybe incorporating them into your normal diet. Having meat-free days throughout the week can only help save more cute little pigs.
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EDIT- You can also substitute some things you wont miss. My mom uses Morning Star Farms fake chicken strips in her salads because they are a lot healthier and she is on the nutrisystem diet. As I said, every little bit helps the cause, and maybe it will help if you decide to go veg in the future.
Well if you feel that bad for the animal, don't eat it. Now this is coming from a vegetarian so of course that's what I'm gonna say, but it's really up to you.
Changing eating habits is not an easy thing to do.
Do not become a vegetarian for the wrong reasons like alot of people do.
Most vegetarians will say they don't eat meat beacuase of the poor animal...I don't think that's a very good reason.
Our bodies need meat...as I said in another Q we are omnivores that means our bodies NEED both meat and veggies.
People will argue that intelligent people like Einstein were vegetarians...but they don't tell you that he was a meat eater all his life and suffered from a form of IBS when he got older and meat irritated him.
If you want to be vegetarian to be healthier this also is not the case....like i said our bodies NEED both no matter what type of propaganda vegetarians try to feed you.
Talk with your doctor or a nutritionist first to see if these eating habits are right for you.
There is nothing wrong with being a vegetarian but we do need meat.
Too much meat can also be a bad thing.
If you feel bad about the animal your eating just think about the omnivores in the animal kingdom that eat plants and other animals....they do it to survive...they may not think like we do but their bodies know what they need to eat.
whatever you decide to do
Kali Tiki!
quit eating meat, it's good for you
Continue to eat them if you love them they were put here for a reason, and our fine dining is it. Beef I believe is a healthier alternative than pig though, and the right cut of meat is also very healthy such as top round and top sirloin not as good as the New York Strip or Fillet Mignon but same cholesterol as the same portion of even chicken and the protein good for ya
IMO, just don't. Contrary to popular beleif amongst many vegans and vegitarians, you CAN love animals and eat meat and by not eating it, it is not helping animals any either because they are still going to be farmed and slaughtered for food as they are created to do.. Some animals are made for a certain purpose and that is to feed other animals INCLUDING humans. Don;t let your reasons for making such a life style change be that you were made to feel bad about it. Animals eat other animals, it is the way the world works. If the reason is you feel bad about the way that factory farms treat the animals or whatever then just buy from smaller farms where you know that the animals are able to roam and arent just kept in tiny cages. At least you know that they are treated well and it is also going to be healthier in the long run.
Do what you want at your own free will, wether it be eating meat or not, just make sure deep down its not because someone delibrately made you feel bad about it or fed you bull ****. Sometimes, you got to look at it logically, its the way the world works. animals eat animals. But there are alternatives where you can still eat meat and go about it in a better way.
And god, PLEASE whatever you do, don't listen to anyone who uses anything that PETA says as proof lol
Totally! I'm actually trying to become vegetarian right now too! I think you should become a vegetarian because eating meat is pretty much murder. Look at all those beautiful animals in the world, but why were they born if they're just gonna grow up and be murdered. Its just wrong. Everyone is always saying that people are supposed to eat animals but I don't believe them because it is wrong to eat something that walks on 4 legs.
REMEMBER:
MEAT IS MURDER!
Do like I did. I don't eat intelligent animals. That would include pork and chicken. Cows are unlikely to feel pain (nobody argue with me on this, there's been research on that). Most people (like florida man) think chickens are dumb, but they are almost as smart as dogs (smarter by some definitions, probably smarter than Florida Man)
Anyway, I get all my protien and some meat-specific vitamins from cows and I don't feel bad because I believe that nothing is feeling pain.
HEY FLORIDA MAN! If you hate vegitarians so much why are you answering in the vegitarian section? Your a total moron. You don't have any idea what your talking about.
don't become vegetarian. If you don't want to eat beef, don't do it, eat pork.
you cant ask other ppl uve gotta want to become one yourself
Only become a vegetarian if you are really willing to give a lot up for animals. Or, you could become a half time vegetaraian where you only eat meat like once every week.
If a vegetarian diet is very carefully planned, and that may require either fortified foods or supplements, it can be AS healthy as a good meat eating diet. I think there are a couple of benefits, but they come from eating a wide range of fruit and veg and being health conscious as vegans have to be, not omitting meat, and thus those benefits can be go without actually going veggie. Needless to say a uncarefully planned vegetarian, or especially vegan, diet can lack many essential nutrients and be very bad for your health.
There are many benefits to a diet containing meat. Many vegetarians claim that meat is unhealthy. This is a blatant fallacy.
It is well established that eating meat improves the quality of nutrition, strengthens the immune system, promotes normal growth and development, is beneficial for day-to-day health, energy and well-being, and helps ensure optimal learning and academic performance.
A long term study found that children who eat more meat are less likely to have deficiencies than those who eat little or no meat. Kids who don’t eat meat ― and especially if they restrict other foods, as many girls are doing ― are more likely to feel tired, apathetic, unable to concentrate, are sick more often, more frequently depressed, and are the most likely to be malnourished and have stunted growth. Meat and other animal-source foods are the building blocks of healthy growth that have made America’s and Europe's youngsters the tallest, strongest and healthiest in the world.
Meat is an important source of quality nutrients, heme iron, protein, zinc and B-complex vitamins. It provides high-quality protein important for kids’ healthy growth and development.
The iron in meat (heme iron) is of high quality and well absorbed by the body, unlike nonheme iron from plants which is not well absorbed. More than 90 percent of iron consumed may be wasted when taken without some heme iron from animal sources. Substances found to inhibit nonheme iron absorption include phytates in cereals, nuts and legumes, and polyphenolics in vegetables. Symptoms of iron deficiency include fatigue, headache, irritability and decreased work performance. For young children, it can lead to impairment in general intelligence, language, motor performance and school readiness. Girls especially need iron after puberty due to blood losses, or if pregnant. Yet studies show 75 percent of teenage girls get less iron than recommended.
Meat, poultry and eggs are also good sources of absorbable zinc, a trace mineral vital for strengthening the immune system and normal growth. Deficiencies link to decreased attention, poorer problem solving and short-term memory, weakened immune system, and the inability to fight infection. While nuts and legumes contain zinc, plant fibre contains phytates that bind it into a nonabsorbable compound.
Found almost exclusively in animal products, Vitamin B12 is necessary for forming new cells. A deficiency can cause anaemia and permanent nerve damage and paralysis. The Vitimin B12 in plants isn't even bioavailable, meaning our body can't use it.
Why not buy food supplements to replace missing vitamins and minerals? Some people believe they can fill those gaps with pills, but they may be fooling themselves. Research consistently shows that real foods in a balanced diet are far superior to trying to make up deficiencies with supplements.
Lets not forget either that protein, while it is found in plants, is better quality in animal products.
Some people claim that meat is unhealthy because it contains saturated fat. So does margarine and olive oil, and they're vegan suitable (in fact the hydrogenated fats in Marge can be very bad, but that's another story). Besides, any excess calories in your diet, any excess sugar, starch or carbohydrates are stored in your body for later use. This is done by turning them into saturated fats.
Cholesterol too. Your body on average creates four to five times more cholesterol than the average person consumes, and compensates by creating more when less is consumed. Cholesterol isn't evil, it is essential; it makes up the waterproof linings of all our cells and without it we would die. Too much can be bad, but as with saturated fats there are more healthy ways of disposing of it, like regular exercise. Anyway, it isn't so much how much cholesterol you eat, but how well yur body handles it. A person who eats loads of dietary cholesterol and leads an unhealthy lifestyle can still have low cholesterol, and vice versa. Most people's bodies are able to take a large amount of cholesterol without getting atherosclerosis. For this reason that eating meat gives you heart disease is very misleading, and for the most part untrue. Of course, if you do have a problem eating loads isn't a good idea, but for most people there is nothing at all to worry about.
Yes, there are things in meat that there is some evidence can cause cancer in some people, but there are as many in plants too. Soy especially has some very potent carcinogens. Processing of soy protein results in the formation of toxic lysinoalanine and highly carcinogenic nitrosamines.
Soy phytoestrogens disrupt endocrine function and have the potential to cause infertility and to promote breast cancer in adult women. Also they are potent antithyroid agents that cause hypothyroidism and may cause thyroid cancer. In infants, consumption of soy formula has been linked to autoimmune thyroid disease.
Soy is bad for numerous other reasons, but that isn't the point, I'm just using it as a quick example relating to cancer not being exclusive to some animal products. The evidence that claims meat does cause cancer is patchy anyway.
Some people also claim that we aren't designed by evolution, to eat meat. They claim that our digestive system is quite long and that we produce amylase, a starch splitting catabolic enzyme, akin to herbivores and unlike carnivores. Apparently this clearly shows that we were designed to eat plants. Such people should go and look up 'omnivore' in a dictionary. They have also been known to cite other reasons we are like herbivores and unlike carnivores: that we suck water instead of lapping it, and that we perspire through our skin, such things have nothing at all to do with whether or not we were designed to eat meat, and nothing to do with how our body handles food. I might as well say that because we, like most carnivores and unlike most herbivores, have eyes that face forwards, we must be carnivorous. Of course, that's not true for precisely the same reason.
The fact is Humans are omnivores, with the ability to eat nearly everything. By preference, prehistoric people ate a high-protein, high-mineral diet based on meat and animal sources, whenever available. Their foods came mainly from three of the five food groups: meat, vegetables and fruits. As a result, big game mammoth hunters were tall and strong with massive bones. They grew six inches taller than their farming descendants in Europe, who ate mostly plant foods, and only in recent times regained most of this height upon again eating more meat, eggs and dairy foods. We are adapted to eat meat, and it is just as natural as eating plants.
Some also claim that the digestion of meat releases harmful byproducts into our system. This is true, however such are our adaptations to eating meat that our bodies are quite able to dispose of said products without any adverse effects.
So, in summary: it isn't healthier to avoid meat. You can be healthy without meat, but likely not as healthy as if you did, assuming you kept things like the wide range of fruit and veg that a veggie diet usually entails. Too much meat can be bad, but normal amounts are no problem at all. Any health benefits that come from a veggie diet come from a wide range of fruit and veg, and being health conscious, as veggies often are; that doesn't require you to not eat meat."
I don't think a vegeterian diet benefits anyone in any way better than a better meat eating diet could at all. If you have no ethical qualms, it's quite pointless. PETA will tell you otherwise, but they have very strong ethical opinions, and mould their 'evidence' around it. There is, for example, some evidence that vegans live longer and are at less risk from cancer and heart disease; however those studies show only a very marginal and insignificant difference and none of those studies have yet managed to identify meat as the only variable. Veggies are less likely to smoke, drink or eat junk food, and eat a wider range of fruit and veg, making the test results inaccurate and unreliable.
Also it doesn't save any animal's lives, as their sole reason for existance is to be killed for meat. Without the possibility of turning them into meat they'd be useless and killed anyway.
Just eat the meat and be happy.