Do people honestly think they are saving animals?!
i mean i know peple do it for themselves, to make themselves feel good about not eating animals.
but i doubt they are going to save any.. heck ill eat that chicken wing that you dont eat.
some one prove me right or wrong.
im open minded, i really want to know if it saves animals or not.
Answers: i mean, im not sure, but i doubt that since one person goes vegan theyre gona be like "wait, dont kill that one chicken, some girl in canada just went vegitarian."
i mean i know peple do it for themselves, to make themselves feel good about not eating animals.
but i doubt they are going to save any.. heck ill eat that chicken wing that you dont eat.
some one prove me right or wrong.
im open minded, i really want to know if it saves animals or not.
The demand may have lessened a little, but I don't think it would be a significant amount.
I think it would come down to the companies that sell meat making that little bit of less money, because if a whole heap of people stopped buying meat, that would make the meat sales drop.
As it is a case of supply and demand, if the number of people eating meat falls then less animals will be slaughtered. However that does not mean there are more happy chickens running around the fields, it just means less chickens are reared.
If everyone went vegetarian/vegan many varieties of animals would become extinct and pigs, cows etc would just be seen occasionally in zoos.
Do you know anything about supply and demand? If the average person eats 96 animals a year, that's 96 fewer that are bred and killed because I don't eat them.
p.s. you have to be 13 to be here. You'll probably learn about supply and demand next year when you reach 6th grade.
If you don't eat meat , it won't save any animals . If everyone refused to eat meat , many animals would be saved .
You're not looking at the big picture. When enough people do it to cause a noticeable difference in sales of dead animals from the grocery store, it causes upstream ripples in the chain. The store contacts the meat packers and the meat packers contact the farmers, informing them that not as many animals are required. The farmers raise fewer animals. This takes years and thousands of vegetarians to happen, but it happens. Every thing begins with one person. In the same vein, one extra person buying a little more meat makes no difference either, but your gesture is spiteful and unhealthy. What are you trying to prove anyway? Do you buy extra apples too, because I don't buy apples? (I hate apples).
Do you vote? Do you think your ONE vote is going to make any difference as to who is elected? But would that stop you from voting?
Yes, people do. One in approximately 20-50 (depending on which statistic you use) Americans is vegetarian. That's a minimum of 3 million people who are potential buyers who have taken themselves out of the market. That's 300 million animals that were not raised. The budget of that market segment goes only to plant foods.
Secondly, are you really suggesting that meat eaters make up the shortfall for people who choose vegetarianism? As someone else mentioned, that's spiteful, and it's ignorant, especially when you consider that the majority of the world's vegetarians do so for religious reasons.
Third, the idea that domesticated animals will go 'extinct' is just plain silly. Cattle can still be raised for milk and chickens can still produce eggs for vegetarians. Pigs are used for their truffle-finding ability and for pets. Believe me, they're not going to go extinct because we won't raise them to be slaughtered.
They are saving animals. no directly but yes they are, by eating less meat you don't buy it, stores need less of it ,having the meat industries kill less animals.
i dont think they are. even if there were more vegitarians than meat eaters people would still sloughter for those meat eaters. anything for money. now i am a meat eater and some vegitarians might think dif. but i really dont think they are saving much
Of course it does. Why would you not think that it does? I mean, Have you ever seen a shortage of meat at the grocery. No. Well then, it's obvious there aren't people waiting in line at the market for the Tyson truck to arive. So here it is in a nut shell. As we can agree that what has been stated before is true, then we can also agree that the meat I used to buy is no longer being bought. There's no one at any store you've ever seen that has said, "I'm glad you didn't buy that meat. Now I can have some." So the meat that I used to buy goes to waste. Now, Who pays for the waste? The Grocery Store does. After knowing that they don't need as much meat over time... they cut back. Granted, I'm offering an exageration for point. When the grocery doesn't buy "my meat" then the mill isn't going to kill "my chickens." Why would they slaughter more than is in demand? They lose in that case and they are there for profit. Not good buisness. Take a hundred vegetarians that normally would be buying a couple hundred chickens from a store a month and you tell me... How can you not see the animals it saves?
Not everyone is veggie for animal love, you must remember....environmental reasons, dietary, humanitarian...these are all reasons people are veggie. I don't want to support those factory farms, I refuse to give them my money (but really animal products are in everything, asphalt, books...bleh..everything).
There are so many more vegetarians now then even 5 years ago so yes, I do think that we make a difference.
We are raised to think that "one person can not make a difference" but if not that one person then who? If I don't make a difference, then throwing out my garbage on the street wont make a difference either, but if everyone did, it would make a difference right?
If everyone took responsibility for their actions, them alone, at home, at work, at school, at play....and stopped worrying about what everyone is doing and judging them, the world would be a different place.
Do you make a difference in the lives of the people who love you?
I think that I make a difference. I don't ever need to defend myself because I am secure in my decisions. :) And being a veggie feels really, really, really good :)
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It's supply and demand. No, no chicken is going to be saved today because a new vegetarian was minted today. But if 10% of the meat-eating population went vegetarian (or, if all meat eaters cut down their meat consumption by 10%) there would be 10% less demand on the market for meat. Meat producers would respond to a shrinking market by producing 10% less meat - there is no profit in producing a product you can't sell. So yes, of course, the more people who go veg*n, the fewer animal that will be slaughtered. I assume your comment about eating the chicken wing I don't eat was facetious, but if you were serious, you have 21 years of chicken wings to catch up on. How many chickens do you think you'd have to kill to make up for all those chicken wings I haven't eaten in two decades? That right there should give you a visual of how many animals *weren't* raised and killed on my behalf.
its called supply and demand.
the less people demand for the product (the animal) the less the factories supply for consumers to purchase.
i recently heard that there are now 15% vegetarians/vegans in the entire world! compare 85% to 100%! thats a huge reduction in how many animals are being slain daily
honestly, r u a crule person?
people who kill animals support animal cruety.
have u heard of supply and demand?
u should have learned this is school.
if u buy more. the company makes more.
ive told 5 people eating meat was wrong and all of them decided to buy less meat. so if everyone bought less meat the company would stop making them.
well yea the more people go veg the the less meat they sell the average veg saves 100 animals a year
Of course.
As well some veg*ans volunteer a lot to help animals especially farm animals or join groups like peta2 and SHAC which directly save even more lives.
Not to mention we also help save our planet.
Also less meat, means less production.