Why do veggies and vegans?!
Please keep in mind that I have nothing against those who do it becuase they don't like taste/texture or those that do it for health reasons (like high cholesterol), but only the ones who do it becuase they think they are saving the poor helpless animals and feel the need to flaunt their supposed moral superiority.
Also, I try to eat extra meat just to piss them off.
Answers: Let's hear some honest answers. I've had numerous vegetarians and vegans come tell me how evil I am while I'm trying to enjoy my food. They say crap like "OMG, Do you know how much that poor cow had to suffer?" My typical is response is: "No, but I know how much your going to suffer if you don't let me finish my steak in peace." The question is this: Why do these people feel they are morally superior becuase they don't eat meat? Do they actually think they are making any difference? Animals are here us to use and eat. I'm sick of hearing people ramble on about how we shouldn't kill animals for food. Stupid hippies...
Please keep in mind that I have nothing against those who do it becuase they don't like taste/texture or those that do it for health reasons (like high cholesterol), but only the ones who do it becuase they think they are saving the poor helpless animals and feel the need to flaunt their supposed moral superiority.
Also, I try to eat extra meat just to piss them off.
It's like asking why women have sand in their v*ginas. It's just the nature of things.
It's sad that you think someone is a hippie just because they don't want animals to suffer. Do you think Alec Baldwin and Joaquin Phoenix are also hippies? (They're both vegetarians for animal cruelty reasons).
The reason I eat a vegetarian diet isn't to feel superior to others, but to reduce animal suffering. I believe that it's important for all of us (vegetarians and vegans included) to recognize the fact that we ourselves are not ethically pure, and to not have a condescending or "holier than thou" attitude. I would never walk up to someone who's eating meat and start criticizing them.
At the same time, we should all try to not be offended when someone politely suggests to us that a commonly accepted practice is immoral. If everyone refrained from offering such criticism for fear of offending someone, then institutions such as slavery would have continued to exist down to today.
I think we all need to try to not view criticisms of widely accepted practices as personal attacks on ourselves, but instead rationally evaluate these criticisms with an open mind, just as we would have wanted earlier generations to rationally evaluate criticisms of slavery and segregation.
Edit: I wasn't trying to say that, and I apologize if that is how I came across. I'm saying that social change often means offending the people who are engaged in the criticized practices. It's only human nature for some of us to react to general criticisms as though they were personal attacks, but we should instead rationally evaluate the criticisms with an open mind.
Where the hell do you eat? In a vegetarian commune? There's no way that "numerous vegetarians and vegans" tell you that unless you go eat a burger at a vegetarian festival. Don't provoke and we won't bite!
When I was a meat eater I never heard such things from vegetarians...ever!
Stop being bitter and go eat your damn steak.
I'm a vegetarian... have been for 3 years. I have SOO many reasons not to eat meat, and suffrage of the animals is not one of them.
I'm not totally grossed out when my dad butchers our chickens for eating (even though I do cringe a little) and I don't really care that some animals were born just to be eaten later.
I think that everyone thinks whatever they do is right for some great reason of there's. But I don't believe that everyone should be just like me and not eat meat. Go ahead and eat your steak, I'll just have a salad. :)
Why would you say that about people that are not eatting meat for animal rights. Your wrong and you dont know what you are talking about.
I ve been a vegan for a long time. I have never said anything mean to someone who was eatting meat. And yeah the animals do go through a lot of suffering, and people like you that dont care about it, are heartless people. There are so many different things that everyone can eat, that will replace meat.
And just to let you know we are making a difference, cause every time i hear someone say what you just said makes me want to fight harder for the animals, just to piss them off!!!
If you would get off of your high horse and stop smelling your own sh*t, you'd realize that orange is not calling you a slave owner, but simply explaining the facts about criticism in our society (the way that it has and always will be). Why would ask a question and then close your mind to the answers, being petty and sniffing out reasons to take offense just so you don't have to listen to the question which you asked? That's just ridiculous.
If you had some sense, you'd notice that most veggies don't do it out of moral superiority, they do it because they are against killing no matter what. I'd rather see an animal breathe than its muscle on my plate, but that's just me, and I respect people who believe the opposite just as much- I'm not going to be a hypocrite; I ate meat for 15 years of my life. It's just people like you who piss me off because you get offended at someone else's sense of compassion without even trying to understand it or respect it, then have the balls to shoot us down on the basis that you form the idea that all vegetarians walk around with their chins up and their underwear up to their chest. When it comes to respecting other people's decisions, I'm obviously morally superior than you. I just proved it. Eat your steak and piss off, because I'm not going to eat it. Get over it.
Okay, sweetie, before you start to stereotype, you should really hear what the other side has to say. You're doing some name-calling and all sorts of other things in your question.
Now, I've been a vegetarian for four years now, and as you so sweetly put it, I'm a hippie doing it for the sweet little animals. Personally, I don't think what I'm doing is helping them; they're still being chopped up and eaten, but I do take pride in knowing that I'm not a part of that.
For example, nonsmokers. Do you think they should just give up and smoke, because what the heck, everyone else does. (Which you might, if you smoke, but try to imagine it from some one else's point of view, hmm?)
The "morally superior" people that you suggest, I've met a few of them. I've had a few attack me as I munched on a veggie burger, actually. They're trying to get you to react so they can argue on how bad eating meat is, as you are doing to them on how not eating it won't help at all. However, I must say, I commend you on such a witty comeback. It made me laugh. :)
But yeah. Please don't attack every vegetarian because you've had a run-in with a few retarded ones. That's rather rude.
And for any vegetarian out there reading this, don't try to force your beliefs on people. I know you all hate it when some idiot thinks it's funny to wave a forkful of cow in your face, so try not to do the same with a carrot. It's just annoying, and like they said, it'll probably make the person eat even more meat, just to spite you. :)
This is rather sad.
So if they keep bothering you while you eat your steak, what happens? You said you were going to make them suffer?? I hope you didn't mean violence! Would this mean I could generalize and say- all omnivores who eat steak- are violent, rude and take more than their share on this earth?
Where do you live??
I've never been approached while eating food when I was an omnivore. Never! So i can not relate to this at all.
And I'm a vegan, I would never do that. to each their own, you have your beliefs, I have mine.
I hope that you can calm down one day- and realize, sticks and stone will break your bones, but words will never hurt you. Then you can continue eating in peace, regardless of what they say. :)
well, it is not about killing and eating animals anymore. It is because of the factory farming system that i became vegetarian. It is a cruel and unnatural way to raise animals. They are very deprived and suffer way more than they should. We used to respect the animals that we ate. We would treat them as something valuable, since they would provide us with food and nutrition. But now in the factory farming system, they are treated like meat machines and they have zero compassion for them, and that is not right.
since i learned about the factory farming system, i started only eating organic meat. Meat that is raised by hardworking farmers that actually deserve peopl's money more than tha animal factory system.
Then is started to get concerned about the environment. I learned how many resources are wasted to produce such huge ammounts of meat. for every pound of beef, the average of 2,500 gal of water are wasted. Their poop has methane gas, and it pollutes drinking water. It is a huge environmental problem that we could possibly make better by raising less animals for meat, since the average american already eats more meat than they actually should. Also, rainforests are torren down to create grazing areas and places to raise grain to feed cows. A huge ammount of energy is wasted from the trophic levels. and for every pound of beef, 10 pounds of grain had to be produced. We are having huge environmental problems right now.
i am not selfish enough to continue eating meat. i am conscious enough to think about the earth. Maybe it is not so unnatural to eat meat, but by now, i much rather prefer the vegetarian diet for the health benefits. i truly believe in my heart, that a vegetarian diet protects you from some longterm chronic diseases that might affect peopl later in life. All of my family members are omnivores, and i dont mind, but i always try to educate them on atleast eating organic meat. I never pressure them or harass them. After all, it is a noble thing to be vegetarian, why would i want to make myself bitter with it. i am totally happy and confident with it, i feel no need to prove anyting to anyone else. Because after all, they are going to do what makes them happy, and noone that doesnt have a good cause would actually do it, because they would feel deprived.
They don't think they are superior they just believe that they are doing the right thing, and they obviously are because there is nothing wrong with wanting animals to stay alive and not lead a terrible grusome death.