Will going vegetarian help animals?!
Answers: I want to go vegetarian but then I think "if it's only one person it won't really help." which makes me sad. will me going vegetarian make a difference?
It seems as if this question got asked twice. In any case here is my answer to that same question just posted minutes ago.
Yes you are making a huge difference. Listening to the little imps on your shoulder only make it harder to care through your daily acts of compassion.
Though vegetarians in the US only make up about 3 percent of the population there is about every conceivable convenience food to cater to this very powerful market, everything to veggie burgers, dogs, sausages, deli slices, setein, tofu, soy/rice/oat/hemp/almond milks to even vegan shoes, dyes, beers, lipsticks, as well as dog and cat food and biscuits.
If we were not making a difference at all do you honestly believe there would be so many successful veg*n products out there. You see what veg*ns lack in # 's we more than make up for in unity becoming loyal customers to food companies who make ethically products.
In my town I have the luxury of having a vegetarian restaurant called Roots. I kid you not when I eat out I eat there about 70-80% of the time. Most people would alternate about a dozen restaurants. So by making the risky but ethical choice to open and run an environmentally and ethically responsible food venue they are rewarded by life long customers.
As for helping animals according to
http://www.goveg.com/vegetarian101.asp
over 100 animals a year are saved by not eating meat. And over a lifetime this # really becomes staggering.
Some have postulated that no animals are actually being saved only not breed when the demand is reduced. Though there is more than a grain of truth to this what is not accounted for is the transformation of the veg*n him or herself. Such a person is much more likely to save animals that would for example be euthanized.
I have a dog and a cat both on vegan diets. I plan to rescue a domestic bunny someone let lose and feed him to a vegan diet. Many would either not bother to rescue such animals or worse rescue them and then feed them 100's of other animals over their lifetimes making their kind gesture of a rescue hypocritical in my opinion.
I also believe by reducing the demand some animals may actually be allowed to subsist longer and may even die of natural causes. There have been cases of cattle farmers converting to animal rights activists. What would such a farmer who changed their mind do with his cattle. Surely he or she would not slaughter them.
"In 1997, while attending our first national animal advocacy conference in Washington DC, we were surprised to find that one of the speakers was a former cattle rancher. His name was Howard Lyman, and not only was he now a vegan, but he had publicly renounced the exploitation of animals and dedicated the rest of his life to sharing with the world the lessons he had learned about ethical eating, environmental sanity, and peaceful grassroots activism."
http://www.abolitionist-online.com/07l_l...
Also because of my transformation I have a more compassionate relationship with animals. Many animals recognize that I do not see them as something to be owned and objectified, that I indeed see them as equals. By doing so many animals I have come into contact with seem to be more joyful, friendly and trusting.
As you can see helping animals by becoming a veg*n is more in depth issue than many would like to have it portrayed. But if you are looking for results, & I hate to sound corny but its true, all you need to do is look within.
Agape (Spiritual Love)
yes! it will save 500 animals per yeaer
Make a difference for what? Your health? Not really. Your emotions? Perhaps.
People don't have pointed teeth to only eat vegetables - we have both kinds of teeth - we are omnivores.
Cows have only flat teeth and only eat grass. Fish have only pointed teeth and only eat other fish.
Grow up.
In some ways.
yes!! it really will. You being vego means other people will be under that little bit more pressure to be vego to. Plus think of all the animals you didnt eat :) If it makes you feel better I'm vego, so that more saved animals!!
Thats kind of like saying "I wont vote for ZZZ because the lady next door will cancel my vote when she votes for YYY." Every vegetarian counts. Think of how much meat and poultry
is consumed by just one person in a lifetime. And the conditions under which they have to live before being slaughtered. Even chickens are forced to live in 12"x12" cages until they are large enough to go to market. Its awful.
And it will only get worse as our population grows and demands their meat. Bite the bullet and go for it.
Going vegetarian will directly help animals, as simply you are not adding to the demand for meat, then less animals should be killed, also if you are spreading the message to not eat meat, then the demand will further decrease, also simply changing from buying nonfree range, to free range/organic meat, means you are not buying meat from animals that have been cruelly treated, in conditions such as little light,space, and being fed food that causes them to grow disproportionately
YES it will. It will make a great difference. Why worry about what other people do? You'll be happy enough to say your NOT supporting the killing of animals.. Stop worrying about you being only one person... there are many vegetarians out there and more people are deciding to be one everyday. That's how it starts, one person at a time.
Being veg also has great health benefits. I haven't gotten sick ever since I've became veg, which was alittle over a year ago.
well, yes it might help but i am also a vegetarian and i do it because i dont feel comfortable eating animals.
GO VEG! you wont be only one person. because there is already lots of vegetarians, and im sure your not the only one thinking about going veg in the future. so im sure if you go veg it will help the animals! i say do it.
YEAH! a lot!
Yes, it will. It won't help any of the animals that are alive now but it will lessen the amount of animals bred in the future. It's like voting. One vote doesn't mean a hill of beans but a bunch of one votes makes a difference.
Asking the same question more than once in a short period of time will, however, have no effect on the animals.
I know people who are hunters. They insist that if part of the deer population is not thinned they will become so populace that many will starve because of the competition for food in the wild. Over the centuries, we have upset the status quo so many times by our interference in nature that I am surprised we have lasted so long. Become a vegetarian because you believe it to be a viable life style change, not to save the animal kingdom.
totally you are saving more than 500 animals a year and your expanding your life to an extra 7 years
so yes it would be helping
Yes, It definitely will. Even one person can make a difference.
Have you ever heard the allegory about the boy and the beach filled with starfish? You may not be able to make a difference to ALL the animals, but you will make a difference to SOME. And you will make a difference to YOU.
I do a fair amount of activism, and even if I can just convince people to eat less meat, the effect is cumulative. Many of the vegetarian products on the market today are purchased by omnivores who are trying to reduce meat consumption. If two people cut their meat consumption in half, that's like one person going veg.
The number of animals saved is closer to 100 per year, most of them chickens. But it's still a difference, and it means fewer animals bred, etc.
no cause the animals would die anyway!