Are you vegetarian? if yes why?!
Are you vegetarian? if yes why?
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Of course I am! Why else would I be in this section? I became vegetarian after doing a college project on animal testing. While on sites like peta.org, I came across external links about factory farming and the benefits of giving up meat. I'll give you a link to a website that may answer your question, but if you are squeamish please do not go on it.
http://www.factoryfarming.com
After reading that, ask yourself if you'd want to be put through what millions of animals go through. What if animals ruled the world and we were pumped with drugs, seperated from our young to be killed for meat? Would you like that? They are not 'just animals', but individuals with real personalities and feelings. The pain they feel is the pain we feel. We are no different to them, some animals, like pigs, are smarter than us! Studies have shown this!
That didn't convince you? Well, us vegetarians are less at risk for so many diseases like cancer, ect. Plus, we live longer than carnivores.
I went vegetarian also because it saves the environment. Rainforests are being destroyed to raise cattle and other 'meat animals'.
If I've converted you, and you want to get onto a good start, go to goveg.com and find your own reasons for becoming vegetarian. You can order a free vegetarian starter pack and cookbook. Keep the website in your favorites so that you can come back to it for some delicious cruelty-free recipes!
Trust me, you enjoy your food a whole lot more when you're not eating an animals dead body.
Here are another few websites with every recipe in its vegetarian version (they taste the same, if not nicer!)
www.vegcooking.com
www.vegweb.com
Try the vegetarian diet for a week or so, and see how you like it!
yes
nope - there are necessary nutrients in meats that our bodies need
Yes.
We have no right to kill others for our food. Jiyo aur Jine do!!!
Yes, because we are humans and we know that we should not kill other life for our life.
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Praveen Kumar
ya bcuz of 2 reasons-
1)b cuz of religion(HINDU)
2)i dont like killing someone to enjoyit as my food
Because it makes my body feel much heathier and I have learned alot about what we eat and how it affects our health in many ways physcally and mentally.Alot of the foods we eat have no nutritional value and can shorten your life. And I have not been a vegitarian for long yet it has made an enormous difference in my life.
yes and no
Off course eats vegetable and so vegetarian
But not only vegetables also meats
So mixed
i couldn't bare the thought of a lesser creature's blood being
spilled to satisfy my own gluttony and i decided there's no form
of acceptable killing of any animal.i've been vegetarian 25 years,
i don't miss eating meat at all.
Of course not. I am far too intelligent to be a tree hugging liberal communist extremist.
I ALWAYS have some form of dead animal at every meal.
no. I enjoy the flavour and texture of meat too much to be a vegetarian.
And please, if there are any vegetarians reading this, it's not a bad taste comment, so I'd appreciate not being marked down for giving a valid answer to an open question...
No, i am not vegetarian, because i know that non veg is made for us by GOD. and it is very necessary for our body.
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I'm not and should be shot.
Because our body system is not designed to eat meat beginning from the dental structure-composition;
our intestines are way too long thus allowing the ingested meat food to decay for lond period inside our body and in the process add toxins into our systems.
AND because it is inhuman to slaughter animals for food.
Yeah, I am. You heard of trophic levels and the law of transfer of energy.It states that when energy is transferred from one organism to anothere only 10% energy is tranferred. So, if you take some food in the earlier part of the food chain, you naturally get more energy. Also, veg. food is easier to digest.
i eat only vegetarian food because i love animals and if i imagine them being killed so that they can reach my plate as a meal, i feel very bad for them.
i am vegetetarian because my parents are vegetarian. I have seen that when parents are vegetarian 90 % chances are there that their children will be vegetarian.
Razwan, you said "yes and no"
If you consume flesh, you are not vegetarian, pure and simple. Let's not confuse the masses, shall we? A vegetarian abstains from eating all flesh. If you eat flesh from any animal and in any amount, you are not a vegetarian.
I am a vegan because of 1) cruelty 2) famine 3) environment. We are the most powerful creatures on Earth, and God gave us dominion over animals. Dominion does not mean tyranny, it does not mean exploitation, it does not mean greed. We are to TAKE CARE OF all creatures great and small. We are to treat animals with MOST KINDNESS, because against us they are defenseless. I mean us with guns, because mano a mano we're toast.
Factory farming is a LIVING NIGHTMARE for animals, they are in fear all the time. Fear and depression and boredom and physical and mental suffering. Is this most kindness? Is this kindness of any kind? No. Why do we do it? Because 1) people have money to make (basically greed), and 2) people want to fill their bellies with meat.
The masses are yet uneducated about what goes on in factory farms. To quote the late Linda McCartney, "If factory farms had windows, everyone would be vegetarian."
The grain that's grown in America for livestock feed.... if we fed that grain to hungry people all over the world, WE'D ALL BE FED. STARVATION WOULD END.
Regarding the environment:
Cause of global warming: greenhouse effect
Primary cause of greenhouse effect: Carbon Dioxide from fossil fuels
Fossil fuels needed to produce a meat-centered diet vs. a meat-free diet: 50 times more
Percentage of US topsoil lost to date: 75%
Percentage of US topsoil loss directly related to livestock raising: 85%
Number of acres of US forest cleared for cropland to produce meat-centered diet: 260 million acres
Amount of meat US imports annually from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama: 200,000,000 pounds
Average per capita meat consumption in Costa Rica, El Salveador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama: Less than eaten by average US house cat
Area of tropical rainforest consumed in every quarter-pounder hamburger: 55 sq. ft.
Current rate of species extinction due to destruction of tropical rainforests for meat grazing and other uses: 1,000 species extinct per year
no. i use fish also
I have been a non-vegetarian, since childhood. Now, I have become a vegetarian, after much struggle. It was for ethical and religious reasons. It was a difficult decision for me to implement. When the desire pulled me back, I took meat for some time. But, soon thereafter, I went back to vegetarianism. All my other family members, including my wife and children, remain non-vegetarians. That makes the thing more difficult. Yet, I am now entrenched in vegetarianism.
I am a vegetarian because i won't like innocent lives to be killed as only for my food!!
I even am proud to be vegetarian because i have scientific base ,it has been proved that the veg are more energitic as they get a larger amount of food as compared to the non as per the ten percent law of environment,that ten percent of energy is lost from food with increasing trophic level in the food chain.
I am veg also because of my parents good training.
I want to be one.
no
Yes, because i love vegetarian food.
Yes, I am. I started in high school just to try it out. I had some friends going veg and I thought I'd give it a shot. To my great surprise, I enjoyed being this way and felt much better. I thought I'd miss a big hamburger, but nope. Luckily my parents are understanding. I've been this way for 17 years and I'll never go back.
yes The reasons r below
1,.low load 2 stomach
2 , low consumption of spices which is good for health
3 . veg foods makes u totally concentred on the thing u r doing currently.
4 . no deposition of fats as non veg items r ernriched with fats
5 ,. The benefits like vitamins & other nutrients r also available in veg
i am a vegetarian because i don't like people killing animals just so someone can eat something that tastes good. i mean we can eat salads and stuff that taste just as good and even better but we aren't killing any living creature.
I'm a vegan. Why? Because with all the awesome vegan food out there, who needs animals?
Yes- what they do to the poor animals in the slaughter house is just wrong! Other animals can live with out meat in their diets too, so why not us? I also want to be an environmentalist when I get older and not eating meat even for just a day or so a week helps. (The meat industry uses a lot of water) I saw in a video from www.meat.org that if you drink milk your supporting the veal industry. I totally made me want to go vegan. I thought about it for a while though and just decided have chickens and/or cows when I'm older so I can get milk and eggs w/o harming any animals.
I am vegetarian. The reasons are 1) that it's better for the environment. 2) because I don't need meat. 3) because what takes place at slaughter houses is horrific and is not humane and it doesn't need to happen. 4) because raising cows and other farm animals for food uses a lot of water that doesn't need to be wasted. 5) because cows produce a lot of methane which contributes to pollution. 6) because people do not have to eat meat (evidence includes teeth structure, digestion, and that we have to cook meat to eat it).
my friend and i made it our new years resolutions. 1 friend lased about 10 hours the other is still a vegitarian with me.