People make fun of me because im a veggie?!?!
Answers: okay so im almost 17, ive been a vegetarian for like 4 years.my family and my boyfriend are fine with it..Its just lately people are like 'its not in the bible' etc etc..it really pisses me off what can i do?? decent answers please =]
Poor veggers are being pissed off by dearest carcass eaters. Indeed deluded by societal norm.
They will thumb down even you voice out in V&V section. They are everywhere, lol! But at least God had created you to voice out on behalf of poor animals. Blessed are the merciful.
"Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ... Christians whose eyes are fixed on the awfulness of crucifixion are in a special position to understand the awfulness of innocent suffering. The Cross of Christ is God's absolute identification with the weak, the powerless, and the vulnerable, but most of all with unprotected, undefended, innocent suffering."
Jesus' message is one of love and compassion, yet there is nothing loving or compassionate about factory farms and slaughterhouses, where billions of animals live miserable lives and die violent, bloody deaths. Jesus mandates kindness, mercy, compassion, and love for all God's creation. He would be appalled by the degree of suffering we inflict on animals to indulge our acquired taste for their flesh.
Christians have a choice. When we sit down to eat, we can add to the level of violence, misery, and death in the world, or we can respect His creation with a vegetarian diet.
The Garden of Eden, God's perfect world, was vegetarian (Gen. 1:29-30). Immediately, God calls this ideal and non-exploitative relationship "good" (Gen. 1:31). There follow many years of fallen humanity, when people held slaves, waged war, ate animals and committed various other violent acts. But the prophets tell us that the peaceable kingdom will be nonviolent and vegetarian; even the lion will lie down with the lamb (e.g., Isaiah 11). Jesus is the Prince of Peace, who ushers in this new age of nonviolence. When Christians pray, "Your will be done, on Earth as it is in heaven," the one prayer given to us by Jesus, this obligates us to change our lives, to make choices that are as merciful and loving as possible. There will be no factory farms and slaughterhouses in heaven.
God created every animal with the capacity for pain and suffering. But on today's factory farms, animals are dehorned, debeaked, and castrated without anesthesia. To maximize profits, they are crowded together in the least space possible, and are genetically bred, so that most suffer lameness, crippling leg deformities, or bone breaks, because their legs can't keep up with their scientifically enhanced bodies. Finally, they are trucked without food or water, through all weather extremes, to a frightening and hellish death.
A vegetarian diet is good for your health and spares animals unimaginable suffering and violence. Remember: As we do to the least, so we do to Him.
Read also… Benedict XVI Condemns Factory Farming
http://www.goveg.com/f-popebenedictxvi.a...
There are more things coming on your way, why should you wait until everyone else to make the "changes" before you? Be an exemplary, lol!
Are you contented now?
Actually it's good to be a vegetarian. It's a choice to do so of course and it's not necessary but still good.
Do you feel Ashamed of being a veggie? If not, don't be influenced by what people are telling you. This may not be in Bible, but this is your personal choice to be veg, so if you respect your decision to become a veg, don't mind what people are telling you or are thinking about you. Try only to make them respect your decision, and also, this is only the attitude of many people, there is no need for you to be frustrated or angry or be affected by their reaction. Don't take them at heart, and it will be no problem.
What has the bible got to do with anything? I am not a veggie but it is your lifestyle and nobody elses. If they don't like it, tell them to get lost
There's nothing wrong with that. From what I heard those veggie are healthy and lived longer than others. Ignore what others said. What do you think 'Adam' & 'Eve' eat? animals? I think not.
That whole "its not in the Bible" thing is such a pathetic argument, I cannot imagine. If anybody said that to me, I'd probably laugh at them and ask, "So what?"
Reminds me of Ned Flanders praying after his left-handed store went out of business and saying, "I did everything the Bible told me to do! Even the stuff that contradicted the other stuff!!!!"
Join the real world. Put as much distance as possible between yourself and people who say things like that. They're all usually moral hypocrites with absolutely no appreciation of how fabricated and contradictory the Bible really is.
I think the best thing you can do is to explain your position and why you chose to become a vegetarian. Whatever your reasons, they are your own. Be prepared that people will not always agree with you. Like for example, if you told me that you became a vegetarian because of the poor animals and how mean it is to eat them, I'd be like "It says in the Bible that God put the animals on earth for us to eat and clothe with." sorry...but that's the answer I would give to that particular scenario. I get annoyed with vegetarians who rub that standpoint in my face while I'm eating my cheeseburger. Most people get annoyed with that.
If, however, your reason is for your health, to lose weight, yada yada...there are other options, and I hope you're taking a protein vitamin. Honestly, I think that the only good reason to become a vegetarian (in my own opinion, and this does not mean it's the only valid opinion)...is if you truly don't like or can't tolerate animal products. But whatever your position is, stand behind it all the way...no matter what anyone else's opinions are. For all they know...maybe you don't even believe in the Bible. OR maybe they're on crack...crack isn't in the Bible, either. Doesn't mean people didn't do it.
there is nothing wrong with being a vegetarian. The Bible does not command us to eat meat. There is nothing wrong with eating meat. There is nothing wrong with abstaining from eating meat. What the Bible tells us is that we should not force our convictions on this issue onto other people. Romans 14:2-3 tells us, "One man's faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him."
lifes no treat for those made of meat! I wish I was vegetarian, tried it once, and I couldn't stick to it. I admire vegetarians, though. And It is certainly a healthier diet, so I don't think you should pay much attention to people who critizize you, if you're happy with it, and the people closest to you are too, hey who cares
There are some Christians that promote a vegetarian diet. Check out the links below. Its too bad that people have decided to make fun of you because you are trying to be healthier, more compassionate towards other animals, and to reduce your environmental footprint.
Good luck.
Tell them that u don't criticize them for not being vegetarians and eating meat (poor animals) so why are they criticizing YOU when you are only choosing not to eat them! It's your choice! Tell
them that you don't eat meat just like many other people in our world! Other people don't eat dairy products, others don't eat veggies, others just don't eat!;p
p.s My grandfather is a vegetarian and his a butcher!;p
Why do they care if you don't eat meat? Are they really losing sleep over it? Tell them to get a life. Next time someone implies that it is dumb tell them you didn't realize what you ate affected the course of their daily life. The only vegetarians that are annoying are the ones that are like my sister that go out to eat with non vegetarians and loudly complain the whole time about the menu or buffet not having anything for her to eat and when we get our meat and start eating we have to hear her say how gross it looks and gags with every bite we take and can't enjoy our food. As long as you don't act like that then I don't see what their problem is.
Well, people who believe in god are not the most intelligent people... I've been vegetarian for 3 years and no one really gives me lip because i'm very healthy and I feel great about myself. The only people who are going to say anything negetive about it are the information deprived, religious, or just the jerks who have nothing better to do.
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What's wrong with being a vegetarian? And it's not in the Bible to ridicule people for eating only plants. I Corinthians 8:13 says "Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend (be offended by what I do), I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." Those Christians have no business ridiculing you because you are a vegetarian and, if they know God's Word, they are in sin because Paul said very plainly that Christians are not to do anything that would cause a non-Christian to hate Christ because of their example. You can say I said that too.
just ignore them, they are being so childish.
they need to grow up. its only food.
Is driving cars in the bible? Is trying to obtain a good education so that you may build your house on the side of a golf course in the bible? People will make fun of you for being different, it's just a fact of life and always has been. So what? Just be thankful that you are doing something that you know is good and don't worry about them.
you said they were making fun of you and then you said they quote the bible etc etc. which one is it?
Frankly, people make fun of other people all the time for many reasons. From bad hair (friendly teasing) to being overweight (insulting/insensitivity) to in your case, being a vegetarian etc. since your boyfriend, your family and most important, you, are fine with being a vegetarian, don't give it a second thought. To those that matter the most, your choice is fine so don't worry about it.
Well..."Pastorrabbi" Thumb-up!
Next time anyone says this "'its not in the bible' "
whip out your bible , turn to Genesis 1.29 and read it to them
"Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food."
Nothing about eating animals