For you vegetarians...Did you EVER try meat before?!
Some people are vegetarians because they feel bad for the animal...Animals die no matter what and the food chain is all about nature killing animals Animals themselves eat other animals.
Answers: Some people are vegetarians because they think it tastes gross..Did you ever try it before?
Some people are vegetarians because they feel bad for the animal...Animals die no matter what and the food chain is all about nature killing animals Animals themselves eat other animals.
yes I have tried it before.....
but then I came to my senses when I saw the http://meat.org/ video..... you should watch it.......
I became vegetarian when I turned 7, which was 5 years ago. Before that I liked chicken but not much else. But since then, other than dumb restaurants making mistakes, I've never had meat!
Sure, I ate meat for 22 years. Then I started learning about the myriad diseases that come from consuming the rotting flesh of dead animals. I've been vegan for 18 years now.
i used to love pepperonnis, but since about 6 years ago (im 15 now) ive never had any meat.and yes i know animals die, but thatys their nature, its not humans right to kill animals.
Yes, I was an omnivore for 11 years, have you ever seen a lion put a cow in a small cage, give it a third degree burn (branding) and than painfully and slowly slaughter it. Plz send youtube link if so.
That seems more like a statement than a question. I ate meat for a long time before I became vegetarian. My primary reason for being vegetarian is for the health benefits not because I think meat tastes gross. As for the vegetarians you mentioned who support ethical treatment of animals I don't think you can really argue with their decision. If they don't want to support the industry that breeds animals specifically to kill and eat and in the mean time raises them in cruel, unnatural conditions then I think that's the person's right not to support it.
yes. I ate meat for 13 years before I became a vegetarain.
yes i did used to eat meat, by when you see what animals have to go through torture just to satisfy meat eaters no sorry this is totally wrong animals shouldn't suffer in a bad way. for starters did you know they turn a cow upside down hanging on her back legs and while she is alive the murder that's what i call them slit her throat with a long bladed knife and she is wriggling to set free while the blood is pouring out to the floor that is barbaric practices.
Lion versus humans:
Lions
a) no choice of millons of different foods
b) no factory farming
c) no chemicals
d) no horrible years of confinement
e) no pollution caused due to factory/intensive farming
Human animals
...okay... you get my point, we have the greatest ability in choices, yet we chose the worst ones, for our own health, for the health and kindness involved for the animals, and for the planet at large!
I have accidently eaten meat. when I was little, but I have NO interest in it, I can if I want to, I can eat meat when I want to, But I chose not.
why do you care your not vegetarian ;(
I grew up eating meat; always struck me as kinda nasty. Now I have a choice. Now I choose not to eat it and I feel healthier than I ever did before. That said, if you do choose to eat meat, it's not my place to be judgmental. I simply hope that folks are responsible about what they consume, be it plant or animal.
No, I ate meat til about 3rd grade. I've tried it again a few times as an adult. I just don't like it, bottom line.
I became vegetarian when I was 12, so yes I have tried meat before.
Eating meat grossed me out. I couldn't accept the fact that I was eating the flesh of an animal that was once living.
I've eaten meat all my life, my parents loved red meat and so did I.
Then I had this....epiphany. I guess it would be very hard to explain to a meat-eater, exspecially since you appear to be a meat-lover. And one of my biggest reasons really would insult all meat-eaters, I think.
Enjoy your meat, your flesh, or whatever it is people call it nowadays.
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”. Mahatma Gandhi
I used to eat meat, but have now been veggie for 7 years. Yes, animals do die, but so do humans, and you don't see humans going around eating other humans. (atleast not too often....)
I have always found meat unappealing. If you saw the way animals are made to suffer when they are killed, you probably wouldn't eat meat anymore. I grew up in the country so you can't be ignorant to the facts unlike some people who remain blissfully unaware.
What right do we have to give any creature a death sentence.
yes i have .. i actually just stopped eating meat and dairy in november.. so ive been eating meat my whole life till now and im doing good.
I used to eat meat but don't anymore. I made it my new year resolution basically. The only meat I would eat was chicken. I wasn't fond of any kind of meat honestly.
I ate meat until I was almost 17 years old. Believe me, dude, I know what I'm "missing." Humans are not a part of the food chain - we have no natural predators of our own. We are biological omnivores, meaning we can eat both plant and animals. The difference between us and omnivorous members of the natural food chain is that we keep our food under brutal and torturous conditions, depriving it of a natural life before we kill it. The other difference is that we have the ability to apply ethics to our decisions. There is no dietary necessity for meat. There is no reason for brutality to nourish ourselves. We can thrive without it. Therefore, to me anyway, it's unethical. Intensive animal agriculture is also the world's leading contributor to global climate change and a monumental waste of resources.
Yes. Raised meat-eater. Although, I've only been a vegetarian for a few months...feels like forever :)
I just recently became a vegetarian and yes I've eaten meat my whole life. I am not an animal sympathizer, this is not why I became one. Something made me start thinking about eating meat and how gross it really is..not the taste....but the idea of eating it. Eating dead flesh of a nasty animal. And now with all the meat recalls and how the animals are so unhealthy when they are taken to slaughter. Some of them can't even walk...and they are sick and have sores all over them...that's absolutely disgusting. And to think this meat is what is packed in plastic wrap and served to our kids in school and in our stores. Gross. I am just disgusted and that's why I became a vegetarian.
people follow diets for different reasons.
so don't assume everyone's reason is the same. You don't know what the other person's experience may have been.
when i was 4 i had chicken nuggets because there was nothing else to eat at my friends house
and i once had this indian food thing asuming it was vegetarian but it had ground meat in ti and i spazzed
i liked the second one.. kinda... but i would go crazy for it.. and chicken nuggets. EWW
Most vegetarians and vegans grew up in meat-eating households. I was in my 30s when I went veg, and it was only partly because my body stopped being able to digest it. So, yeah, I've eaten meat before.
And yes, it's true animals eat other animals, but there's a big difference between a lioness hunting down a gazelle for the pride's dinner and humans breeding, mutilating, caging, and slaughtering animals by the billions. Or hadn't you noticed? There is nothing "natural" about the way most humans eat meat, what with all the hormones, antibiotics, and steroids pumped into them to make the grow faster and resist diseases that crop up when you cram too many beings into too small a space.
Yessir! I ate meat until I was 22. I do have to say it was good when prepared properly but then again so are tofu and veggies.
Animals do not die no matter what. It's all about supply and demand; the millions of vegetarians in the world are not buying meat which causes less animals to be killed than if every one was a dirty meat eater. Get a proper education!
You really need to do more research about the food chain and what is natural. Your argument is kind of funny though. And yea I've eaten meat , because I was brought up eating it. It wasn't til I got a little older that I realized what I was eating, and felt it was wrong. Look up factory farming and tell me how natural your meat is. A lot of animals eat meat to survive. Humans don't NEED meat to survive. You can't argue that.
I ate meat until I was 14. It is the thought of blood that really gets to me. I have not considered going back to eating meat since then.
I ate meat up until the age of 14, 28 years ago.
I'm sure it tasted nice, the taste is irrelavent to me.
"Animals die no matter what" - not true. Animals die because people buy meat. End of story. People who eat meat are DIRECTLY responsible for the death of animals. Accept that, or don't eat it, but please dont say "Animals die no matter what", that would be ignoring your participation in the meat industry.
"Food chain" - Well, your logic here is flawed too. There is nothing natural about the meat industry so you can't claim its natural. What exactly is natural about mass barns, caging, artificial insemination, artificial feeds, slaughter houses, processing meat and cooking it ? No animal in the wild does this so its hardly "natural"
"Animals eat other animals" - correct. But when did you last see lions raise Zebras in cages specifically to slaughter them ?
You cannot compare the human methods of raising and killing animals with nature.
Your comments are often used here. I really do think its a way of trying to absolve yourself of any decision in what to eat. Its like people are trying to convince themselves its "natural" so they don't have to think about what they are responsible for. Its not natural, you should have enough conviction in your decision about eating meat to admit that.