If you are a vegetarian just to be nice to animals then why do you eat their food?!
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Actually, they're eating OUR food.
We are destroying our soils and our water to grow grain that is unfit for human consumption in order to use it to fatten animals. However, most animals we eat for meat (the main exception being chickens) are not meant to eat grain, they're meant to eat grass. Feeding cattle and other ruminants grain gives them heartburn and can eventually kill them through acidosis. Of course, most of them don't live long enough to die from it, but I bet you didn't know that every time you eat a hamburger that came from a feedlot you're eating a diseased cow.
Wouldn't it make more sense to grow grain to feed ourselves and feed the animals grass, like nature intended? Humans can't eat grass.
http://www.eatwild.com/
Animals generally don't eat the same foods we do. The corn and soybeans that is raised for animals could not be fed/sold to animals. Also, It takes a lot less resources to produce vegetable based foods versus meat protein (pound for pound.) This is why many people become vegetarians, because it takes less resources to produce vegetarian food, thus creating less of a strain on the environment
because I take great joy out of being evil to celery, bwa haa haa...j/k :)
Ok, for real? I've got to eat something to stay alive. As it turns out, I can be totally happy and healthy not eating animal products. Meat animals take up a whole lot more farming space, taking it away from crop growing :)
that don't make any sense. to be "nice" to animals???? who said? and i ain't eating any of their food, they might eat the same foods as i do sometimes but it's survival instincts, i get my food to feed ME, and it's not i-will-feed-everyone-except-me. that's not how living things work.
You can always grow more wheat, corn, vegetables, or fruit. an animal on the other hand, is not a plant.They do not re-grow themselves. So to eat a banana that can be grown is a lot different from being responsible for a death just because you want your hamburger.
Vegan
Wow, good point, I never thought of it that way, everyone has to eat vegetables though, veg or not. But in theory, it is a pretty good argument. :)
Not vegetarian.
That's actually not what we do. Food grown to feed livestock is not the same food grown to fee humans. Most grain that is fed to animals is unfit for human consumption.
Because you're not putting the animals through so much pain in the slaughtering process. (i'm a vegetarian)
cos im not really that nice MUHHAHAHHHA
there's plenty to go around.
That's a good point.
I love meat myself :D I don't eat any vegetables and I'm allergic to fruit. I would suck as a vegetarian lol
good question, lol.
vegetarian