Vegetarians: why do you not like meat?!
Answers: Why should I become one?
Being a vegetarian has many benefits.
* you can avoid a lot of fat
* animals are killed inhumanely in slaughter houses
* the vast majority of food poisoning cases are caused by meat
* meat contains nothing that a person cannot obtain without eating meat
* African countries - where millions are starving to death - export grain to the developed world so that animals can be fattened for our dining tables.
* "meat" can include the head tail rectum and spinal cord of an animal
* a sausage can contain ground up intestines
* If we eat the plants we grow instead of feeding them to animals, the world's food shortage will disappear virtually overnight. Remember that 100 acres of land will produce enough beef for 20 people but enough wheat to feed 240 people.
* Every day, tens of millions of one-day-old male chicks are killed because they will not be able to lay eggs. There are no rules about how this mass slaughter takes place. Some are crushed or suffocated to death. Many are used for fertiliser or fed to other animals.
*Animals who die for your dinner table die alone, in terror, in sadness and in pain. The killing is merciless and inhumane.
* It's much easier to loose weight and stay slim
* Half the rainforests in the world have been destroyed to clear ground to graze cattle to make beefburgers. The burning of the forests contributes 20% of all green-house gases. Roughtly 1,000 species a year become extinct because of the destruction of the rainforests. Approximately 60 million people a year die of starvation. All those lives could be saved because those people could eat grain used to fatten cattle and other farm animals - if Americans ate 10% less meat.
* the worlds fresh water shortage is made worse by animal farming.
*if you eat meat you are eating hormones fed to the animals taht you ate. there is no telling the potential damage this can do to your over all health and well being.
* some farmers use tranqulizers to keep animals calm. When you eat them you are eating these drugs.
* In a lifetime, the average meat eater will consumer 36 pigs, 36 sheep and 750 chickens and turkeys
* Animals suffer from pain and fear just as much as you do. How would you like to spend your last hours locked in a truck, packed into a cage with hundreds of other terrified animal and then cruelly pushed into a blood soaked death chamber. Anyone who eats meat condones and supports the way animals are treated.
* eating dead animals is barbaric
* vegetarians are often more fit then meat eaters. Many sucessful atheletes are vegetarian
* in every package of chicken there is some poop
* it reduces the risk of heart disease
* no animal deserves to die for your taste buds
* vegetarians live longer healthier happier lives
* vegetarians have lower incidence of diabetes, kidney disease and gallstones.
* your body is designed for a vegetarian diet.
* You'll be in good company - Pythagoras, Socrates, Leonardo de Vinci, Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw, Madonna, Lamina Novratilova, Tina Turner, Vanessa Williams and Paul McCartney to name a few, were or are vegetarians
* There's more choice. The range of vegetables, fruits, grains and nuts far exceeds the joints of meat in variety. Why have boring beef and chicken cuts every day when you can explore a nourishing world of colour, texture and taste.
*It is said that vegetarians are calmer and more spiritual than meat eaters. Try it out and see for yourself.
BECOME A VEGETARIAN! IT HAS MANY PLUSSES!
There are so many different reasons that people become vegetarians, i cant even begin to explain in an answer. If your serious about making a life change and becoming a veggie i suggest going to the library and taking about a few books about it before making a decision. Not a reader? Watch these videos, please:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZl60_rBo...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjanhKqV...
Most vegetarians don't choose to be vegetarian because thy don't like the taste/texture of meat. There are various reasons that people choose to go vegetarian, and I believe the prime ones are for ethical reasons (animal welfare or animal rights) or health reasons.
There are a few religions that prohibit the consumption of animals or promote vegetarianism, but this isn't the majority of vegetarians.
As to the molars issue, molars are used for grinding food (any food), and are actually more extensively used in herbivores. Most carnivorous animals can and do swallow bites of their food whole without chewing. I think he was referring to canine teeth, which are called such because they are so prominent in dogs. Many animals, herbivorous, omnivorous, and carnivorous alike have canine teeth. Some other apes have very prominent canine teeth (in males) as a way of showing aggression, even though they're not much functional use. In other words, having these teeth don't mean the animal is carnivorous, including humans.
I'm vegan, and my reasons for being so was originally animal welfare. I didn't like the way animals are treated in factory farms, but I thought if an animal was treated well enough (and I was convinced of that), that I would be ok with eating their milk or eggs (but not flesh, since that necessarily means their death). However, I've since taken an abolitionist point of view, which is that using animals as a means to an economic end is unethical regardless of how "humane" the living conditions. Health reasons are also motivating in staying vegan, and what with problems in climate change, it seems like more and more people are choosing to be vegetarian for environmental reasons (it consumes much of the U.S.'s water and fossil fuel, and the large-scale animal agriculture we have is a large contributor to air and water pollution).
But all in all, if you want to become vegetarian or are thinking about it, you'll need to find your own reasons. Some people just have a gut feeling about it and flesh out (forgive the pun...) the reasons later.
A nice community of vegetarians and vegans is:
http://vegweb.com/index.php?action=forum
Good luck.
karma,
if you want love and kindness, you should learn to give love and kindness.
I used to like meat very much. And then my vegan journey began...
It all started when I saw the show "Dirty Jobs" on the Discovery Channel. I watched one episode where they had to determine the sex of the baby chickens. All the male babies were thrown into a garbage bag and then they closed the bag to suffocate them. In another episode Mike Row, the host, had to cut off a pigs tail (the pig never got anesthetized). I was haunted by the screams the pig made. I shouldn't even tell you about the castration, branding, and de-horning of cattle (sickening).
So I went online and tried to research meat processing more. What I found was horrifying! I never realized that diseased parts of animals get into the food supply but it happens more often than not. And if the meat is disease free it's because they animal was pumped up so full of antibiotics so that they could remain alive to be slaughtered.
I heard about "factory farms" for the first time. The advent of these cost-effective farms was only about 60 years ago. Basically they are farms where animals are kept in tiny cages, enclosures, etc. They live in feces-ridden, sunlight-deprived, diseased conditions where neglect is commonplace. Most factory farms have tens of thousands of animals at any one time and they usually only have one or two veterinarians (certainly not enough for all those animals).
The USDA only has 7,000 meat inspectors in the whole country (America). And when the inspector does come they rarely walk through the ranks of sickened creatures, they do view them from a distance though, but, they always call ahead to kindly let the farm know they will be showing up in the next day or two.
The meat and dairy industries today are mostly made up of these factory farms and they give so much money to the government that they are allowed to advertise to kids in schools. In the 1970s and early 1980s McDonalds coloring books were distributed in most of the schools and they showed hamburgers growing out of the ground and their healthy eating choices section included soft-serve ice cream, hamburgers, and white meat chicken nuggets.
It's just terrible how these industries are manipulating people.
So that's why I don't eat meat.
I never really liked pork except bacon and pork chops, one day I found out from a friend who went to work at a pig farm that they picked up the baby pigs and chopped their testicles off and threw them across the room, that guy quit his first day there because of that and he is no animal lover but couldn't be a part of that.
Never really liked beef unless it was very thin, and I kept seeing these cows in a field everyday coming home from work. They were on my mind every time I ate beef, then one day I saw a couple of cows in a truck while I was eating a burger, I looked at them, looked at the burger and threw it away. Haven't touch it since.
I never liked any seafood except tuna casserole.
I still like the taste of chicken and turkey but after I saw how they are raised and killed it made me sick to eat them.
You should become one if you want to, some people do it for health reasons and others for the animals.
The animals live in extremely horrible conditions, I sometimes still can't believe what I have found out that happens to them. If you care about animals, watch Meet Your Meat and/or Earthlings. Then see if you still want to eat them. Good luck to ya:)
the only reason why i think you should or would become a vegetarian is if you want to maintain a natural, clean and healthy life style and you feel there are alternate ways to get and obtain food than just by killing animals and hurting them immensly. i think living as a vegetarian is a decent way of living not only does it give you proper healthy inteligent mind but it makes you feel good , clean and fresh about yourself
im not exactly a vegetarian but i dont like to eat a lot of meat i do eat veggies most of the time but occasional i do eat chicken and fish; those are the only meats i can eat
yeesh!!! u vegetarians have good points, but that wont make me a vegetarian! i even watched a video about animal slaughter, but that didnt do squat either. i prefer to work out my teeth.
it taste like dead animals
only become one if you want too
All the answers here list great reasons to be vegan or vegetarian. You should think about how you feel, and become one because of reasons that are important to you.
If you wonder about the treatment of the animals (whether or not it feels wrong for you to eat their flesh), watch the videos here:
meat.org
cellulite accumulates from animal fat, including dairy.
**i don't mean "cellulite" as in all fat, other things like legumes have fat too, but cellulite is the cottage cheesy-like fat that is not natural nor healthy in excess.
I'll keep is short n sweet:
1. Cruelty to Animals
2. Health
3. World Hunger
4. Worker Rights
5. Government Negligence
6. The environment
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You shouldn't become one just because of what someone else says..
you should learn about where your food comes from, how its reared and prepared.
Then decide for yourself if that meets your moral requirements for the way animals are treated.
If it does, tuck in.
If not, remove your support for the way animals are reared by excluding meat from your diet.
The same would be true of anything you buy. If you buy a pair of jeans costing $2, ask yourself where, how and by whom they are made. If you are happy with that, carry on, if not, don't buy them.
I don't eat meat because I don't believe that animals should have to suffer and die for my tastebuds. Humans can and do thrive on a plant-based diet, so killing animals for food is completely unnecessary in the developed world. If you have internet access, you have access to all the cruelty-free foods you could possibly need. I also don't eat meat because intensive animal agriculture is a scourge on the environment. Switching from a meat-centered diet to a vegetarian diet has been compared to switching from driving an SUV to a compact; switching to veganism, like switching from an SUV to a bike. I don't eat meat because it wastes resources - it takes pounds and pounds of grain protein and thousands of gallons of water to produce a pound of beef. I don't eat meat because too many thousands of irreplaceable acres of tropical rainforest are lost each year to cattle grazing and most of that meat is sent to America for fast food hamburgers. I don't eat meat because I don't believe it's healthy to do so. Vegetarians have a lower risk of heart attack and stroke, lower blood pressure and cholesterol, less chance of obesity and diabetes, lower risk of certain types of cancer, less chance of developing kidney disease and, statistically, we live 6-10 years longer. I can't honestly think of a good reason why people should be eating meat, especially not in the ridiculous quantities that Americans eat it.
If you want more thorough discussions of the downsides of eating meat, I recommend John Robbins's "The Food Revolution" or his older classic, "Diet for a New America." Howard Lyman's books "Mad Cowboy" and "No More Bull" are good, too.
I like meat. I just like it alive as in an animal. Instead of eating a burnt, dead animal.
you shouldn't because we were made to eat meat. thats why we have molars.
you don't trun into a vegetarian because you do not like meat. It is for relligious purposes. Some vegetarians think that it is
a sin to eat animals.