Should everyone be vegetarian?!
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The real problem is global overpopulation. So realistically, the people who should ge veg are those who plan to have or who already have children as their contribution to environmental destruction will continue after they die through the lives of their kids. It's best if everyone in the developed world goes veg because we have per capita higher impacts on the environment than those in the developing world do (who incidentally eat much less meat). And anybody who plans to continue eating meat should do their utmost to convince all their friends and family to go veg because it will offset the harm from their diet and if only relatively few people are eating animals then it isn't really a problem.
However many hunter gatherers, subsistence farmers, and people in small fishing communities cannot survive on plant foods alone. Unless we are prepared to give them food for free, we can't expect them to risk their health by adopting a restrictive diet where they won't have access to adequate nutrients. I for one would be happy to see my taxes being spent in such a way.
vegan biologist
I find it very interesting that most of the "yes" answers to this question have mostly thumbs up, while the "no" answers have mostly thumbs down, in light of the fact that vegetarians in this section almost always deny trying to push their views onto people. And they can't figure out why people think vegetarians are hypocrites!
No, "everyone" should not be vegetarian. People should eat whatever they want, and the vegetarians should stop trying to dictate their "morals" onto everybody else.
If it's a question of "should", wouldn't it be "vegan" that everybody "should" be?
In terms of health, I think that the most important thing is not to eat overly-processed foods.
In terms of humanity, I don't have a problem with the quick, respectful and humane killing of wild animals, such as what indigenous peoples have done down through the years, or the harvesting of eggs from a backyard operation where you know that the hens are happy, or the eating of honey from a wild beehive. (I'm crossing a bit into contradicting the vegan, rather than the vegetarian, position there.)
In terms of the environment, the indigenous peoples are not the ones who are contributing to pollution the way that industrialised society does. The biggest polluters are the ones who "should" change.
I could never do it.. Well where to start, my sister took that route years ago and now she gets sick if she eats meat and is stuck with that choice. Having a big variety builds your immune system so you can eat a wide range of food or maybe not get sick if you drank some river water or something. If I were to go that route I would go to raw food. Its the most healthy thing you can do it can add years to your life and something most people don't know is calcium is very bad for you but that is still being argued about. Most ppl. will say it gives you strong bones but according to some new studies it just turns to a rock like thing in your bones and dries out when you get old, so that is why elderly people fall down and break a hip or something and pineal gland in your brain is where your dreams and most believe your connection to the world, god, your 3rd eye, ect. happens. Well its a tiny part but all your blood flows through it like your heart and the calcium turns it to rock stopping it from working and raw food is the only way I know to fix it. like So if you want to know about raw food look up david wolfe. If you want to spare the cows, ect. don't eat meat, or if you don't care and love a steak dinner with your girl instead of a front yard sandwich like me, well worry about it when or if it effects your health.
google: raw food, david wolfe, pineal glands functions
No, but at least everyone should not eat dairy. It is scientifically proven facts regarding the close association between milk products and many kinds of cancer, asthma, infections, allergies, auto-immune disease, inflammation, arthritis, weight gain, many childhood diseases, and many other metabolic and clinical disorders.
You can see the effects of dairy consumption on rural babies and children in Nepal where approximately 90% exhibited continuous, voluminous nasal discharge and respiratory infections. And both children and adults suffer maldigestion of varying intensities, leading to malabsorption and malnutrition.
Scientific research has shown that 50% of all babies suffering from iron-deficiency anemia have become anemic because of dairy-related malabsorption. The dairy industry wants to keep this alarming information silent. People have been watching and hearing the dairy industry's commercials for TOO long, and the gimmicks finally sunk in.
The FDA accepts industry research. The dairy industry conducts and funds almost all its research on its milk and other dairy products. If that isn't a conflict of interest, shifty, and questionable, I don't know what is. Industry researchers can selective publish only the scientific literature that are biased and/or possibility skewed overall toward commercial ends showing certain hypotheses with those that favor them, the dairy industry. Any scientific research that show negative outcomes, the industry tends to not publish in order to protect their special interest. The FDA is protecting Big Businesses like the dairy industry's industry dollars. The people heading FDA have financial ties with these Big BUsinesses like agricultural industry, biotech industry and the dairy industry. Also, the lobbyists (legislators, constituents, or advocacy groups) paid for by the dairy industry are influencing decisions/legislation on behalf of special interest. The obvious conflict of interests is unconscionable.
There is no credible body of evidence to support the industry's assertions - so instead of making illegal claims they are asking cleverly-disguised questions: "Got Milk? Got Strong Bones?" And the "natural" conclusion pops instantly into our minds. Incessant brainwashing coupled with physical addiction made us extremely opposed to the "holy cow" of dairy calcium's benefit to bone health.
Objectively speaking? No.
Health: From what I understand, occasional meat eaters tend to be as healthy as vegetarians, and fish eaters even healthier. Overly processed foods are generally a bigger problem.
Ethics: Ethics and morality are completely made up concepts. An entirely grey area with no universal rights and wrongs, only popular opinions.
Environment: Well, it probably would be better for the environment, but going back to ethical reasons... that's not something anyone HAS to care about.
Logic: If you think that kicking kittens is wrong, then it doesn't make any sense for you to think that murdering and eating a calf is alright. But again, you don't have to care.
Subjectively speaking? Yes.
In my ideal world, cruelty would not exist and people would make sense. And killing animals just because you like the taste of meat is cruel. (Killing an animal in self defense or because you have no other decent sources of food is a different story, of course.)
Unbelievable, all the thumbs down to people just stating simple facts!!! Sorry ladies, it's true, the human body was designed to eat meat.
Besides, if there were no cattle ranches or chicken farms, where do you think all your organic fertilizer would come from?
Should everyone be vegetarian?
At least one day a week
Paul McCartney - Meat Free Monday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3QkSA1p7…
No , if you want to be non vegetarian theres no harm in it ..... But if dont like eating animals then remain or become a vegetarian.
maybe because its all natural. and alot of diseases wouldnt even come into play because if everyone ate healthy there would be WAY less sick people.
Common sense
Yes I think everyone should be a vegetarian and leave all the animals alone. My opinion!
No. Everyone should be vegan <3
OMG Dion. How is giving a thumbs up to the answers I agree with 'Pushing my beliefs on others'? Get a grip.
yes everyone should be vegetarian.
if the whole human race were veggies,there will no doubt be a breakaway group that will call themselves Meaties..and just eat meat just to justify themselves
its better to be vegetarian but everyone can't be
no every one can't be a vegetarian.
vegetarian to live longer
yeah.
if everyone became a Vegan, then carrots, broccoli, cabbage, etc., etc., would become endangered. Also, due to the fact that nobody is eating them the cows, chickens, pigs, deer, and other wildlife with become overpopulated. With this new found power, the animals may rise up against us humans and take control of Earth forcing us into slavery.
Meat eaters save LIVES.
Not necessarily. Meat is a good source of many proteins and vitamins that are hard to get elsewhere naturally. Humans have evolved to be omnivorous.
If you're asking morally should everyone be a vegetarian, it depends on what you're stipulations for the mean your eating are.
...should everyone listen to Bach?..or be a member of the Republican party? .... of course not .......then why "should everyone be vegetarian"? ................all do respect...........:)....
different strokes for different folks ......
no. not everybody cares about animals. people become vegetarian to live longer or for other health reasons.
the RSPCA animal cruelty workers are not all vegetarian either.
Humans evolved with two distinct diets; meat and starvation. Fruits, veggies and nuts were barely available 40 days a year. Our bodies can handle whatever we throw at them, but we were designed as meat eating predators.
Mother nature gave me the teeth of an omnivore.
Therefore, I AM an omnivore, not a vegetarian.
Its just stupid to go against Mother Nature.
no, its not necessary for everyone to be vegetarian. its your choice weather you want to be vegetarian or non vegetarian
i wouldnt give up my love for meat for my life. id kill a wild animal and eat it like one too. right there.
we were meant to be mamals. dinosaurs ate plants. cavemen ate dinosaurs.
myself
...absolutely NOT ! ...I love animals ! I think "they" are so delicious (especially with lots of vegetables !)
Absolutely not. Humans are omnivorous that is how we as a race have survived for so long.