What is the point of being a vegatarian?!
-don't like meat
-want an easier way to lose weight
-want to eat a lot, not exercise, and still look good (MY REASON)
-feel bad for animals
-raised vegetarian
-their spouse is vegetarian
-do it because it's a trend (some teens subconsciously fall under this one)
-care for the environment
etc
Answers: some:
-don't like meat
-want an easier way to lose weight
-want to eat a lot, not exercise, and still look good (MY REASON)
-feel bad for animals
-raised vegetarian
-their spouse is vegetarian
-do it because it's a trend (some teens subconsciously fall under this one)
-care for the environment
etc
So you can begin to help to save the lives of poor defenseless animals *weep*. It'sa little harsh just eating them
Well, the point is that they dont want to eat meat for one reason or another, so,they erm..... dont. No biggie.
It saves a lot of animals from cruel suffering and isn't that reason enough?
There are many reasons.
mine being not wanting to support the meat industry.
Even though your question is very short, it still managed to seem derogatory.
Perhaps you can prove me wrong with insightful additional comments ?
It's different things to different people. To you, clearly, there is no point in being a vegetarian. That's fine, you must do what you think is right.
For me the point of being a vegan is to minimise my contribution to animal suffering and exploitation. That's my reason, it isn't everybody's. For some the point is health. For others it may be a dislike of meat.
People become vegetarian for different reasons... health concerns, environmental protection, and reducing animal cruelty like this: http://www.meat.org/
1: to reduce global food pressures (it takes 7kg of grain to produce 1kg of beef): http://www.theage.com.au/news/environmen...
2: to reduce the risk of digestive cancers: http://www.aicr.org/site/PageServer?page...
3: to reduce water wastage: http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/...
4: to eliminate cruelty to animals: http://www.farmsanctuary.org/issues/fact...
5: to limit the extinction rates of endemic species which are threatened by the clearing of natural habitats for farmland: http://www.terranature.org/extinctBirds....
6: to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions: http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006...
some would say it's better for us. it's certainly better for the animals
Whats the point of consuming dead barnyard critters? Would you eat a dog, a cat, or a parrot? So why a cow, a pig, or a chicken
1. Ethics
2. Environmental
3. Health
Have you ever seen how you get your meat to your dinner plate i shall tell you they tie the feet around the ankles of cows they pull it up so she is upside down she is trying to wriggle free but she cant while she is alive they slit her throat upwards from the chest and heavy pools of blood gushers from her throat,chest and nose and the cow is screaming that's why we become non meat eaters it is cruel and barbaric to kill a defenceless creature instead of her dying of old age,
How about visiting, goveg.com
Everyone has their own persona reasons, I find it cruel and inhumane the way that they abuse the animals before killing them. They don't follow policy and the government allows things that if you knew, you would get sick. If you want more info read book, research on your own, don't take advice from random people on yahoo.
if it bugs you or you dont want to be one dont think about it. simple as. just because you might not be one doesnt mean other people doing it is wrong. if you think were pathetic because we worry about animals then il answer it this way. vegetarians help save water because of the irrigation costs involved with rearing animals. so there because of us you and your children might be able to have a drink of water before we all drown from global warming.
You give the animals the voice they dont have by cutting out meat and not supporting the meat industry.
And for me, health reasons are also involved. Allergic to beef, lactose intolerent...etc..
ethical reasons
i'm 100% positive that a lot of folks would not be as avid meat eaters as they are if they saw firsthand the suffering and cruelty that goes into farming and killing these animals
health
because of growing demand for food a lot more chemicals are put into both plant and animal foodstuffs, and animals are fed/injected growth hormones to grow faster/fatter etc... not too healthy... plus most meat already contains much unhealthy stuff that isn't present in vegetables
um what's the point of eating meat?????
because i don't want to eat something that was tortured, abused, and suffered just so i can eat what everyone else eats and have an overabundance of it available everywhere... it's not necessary. i also don't really want heart disease, diabetes, cancers, etc. from eating too much meat that was produced under high stress and pain.
There's lots of points. For some people, their faith dictates it and they would never consider meat an option.
For some people, their health is the point. Vegetarians have lower risk of heart attack, stroke, hypertension, elevated cholesterol, type II diabetes, obesity, kidney disease and certain types of cancer. As a group, vegetarians live 6-10 years longer. Many people have been steered toward a vegetarian diet by their doctors after suffering some of these conditions, and other seek to stave off the diseases of affluence by adopting a plant-centric diet while they are still healthy.
For some, animal welfare or animal rights are the point. The way we've raised animals for food has drifted further and further away from anything natural over the past several decades. We raise many food animals in confinement, feed them foods that their bodies were not made to digest, pump them full of chemicals in an effort to ward off problems caused by close quarters and bad diet, then truck them off to slaughter at the end of a short and brutal life. Some veg*ns simply don't want to participate in that, so they don't.
For others, the point is that intensive animal agriculture is environmentally unsustainable. Factory farming is responsible for more contribution to global climate change than all forms of transportation combined. Switching from a meat-eating diet to a vegan diet has been likened to trading in your SUV for a bicycle. Meat production is also a monumental waste of resources and contributes to hunger on a global basis. It takes thousands of gallons of water and 8-16 pounds of grain protein to produce a single pound of beef protein. If more of the world's arable land was given over to growing food for humans to eat instead of food for livestock, we could support a much larger population and waste far less water.
For me, the point is that, when you combine all of these things and throw in a bit of comparative anatomy and some unfortunate political realities, there is simply no good point to not being a veg*n.
What is the point of being a vegetarian?
To be able to point at other omni's and tell them how much better you are then they are.
so you have a reason to put dank into your food
...some cannot eat meat for medical reasons or they just simply do not like the taste of meat, regardless of what they feel about animals...that is what true vegetarianism consists of, unlike that "vegan" extremism, which wants to not only eliminate all meat AND any animal byproducts (dairy), they want to control the lives of every individual based on their own convoluted ideals of protecting "animal rights" at the expense of human ones..
EDIT: for all the "compassionate" vegans feeling pity towards tasty animals, there is no such thing as an "ethical killing method" there are only clean and dirty ways of slaughter...would it be preferred we eat these livestock in the wild like your precious animals do?