Are people born being a vegetarian,or it depends only on they're state of mind?!
Are people born being a vegetarian,or it depends only on they're state of mind?
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well when you are an infant and start eating solid foods you can't really control what your parents feed you because you don't understand what is meat and what is anything else, you just eat the food your parents give you. but i became a vegetarian at a very young age (around 4 or 5), so maybe you are born a vegetarian but dont realize it until you get older. in general, vegetarians and vegans tend to be more compassionate, caring people so if you are caring by nature there's a good chance you will be a vegetarian. i'm not saying people who eat meat cannot be nice people, but veggies definitely care more about animals.
its completely a choice. people are born being able to eat meat and etc. and they just choose not to. no one can just be born a vegiterian.
No one born anything. Parents may instill vegetarianism into their chidren from birth so that is what they consider normal and natural. They may try eating meat when they are exposed toother children eating it and may like it or not and eventually make a concoius decision to eat or not eat meat.
A person can be born into a vegetarian household and even born allergic to meats but vegetarianism is a personal choice. It is a decision made by a person based on information they have found regarding meats and animal by products that are concerning enough to decide to no longer consume those items people who eat nothing from a face are vegan and again have made that choice based on personal education. Hope this helped.
I think most vegetarians decided for themselves to be vegetarian.
But every now and then, you can find someone who has been
a vegetarian all their life. For example, the guy that wrote the
book "You Don't Need Meat", he claims that when he was a
child growing up he didn't eat meat and his mother was worried
that there was something wrong with him and took him to the
doctor. But he was just picky about what he ate and after he
grew up then he realized he was a vegetarian.
Hehe this might not be that answer you want but this is what I beleive (= it makes alot of sense just read it!
People are NOT born veggie. They are not able to consume things like meat at a very young age due to the lack of teeth and choking hazard. The same could be said for many other foods.
The proof can be found if you can get beyond your ethnocentric views of the world. Outside of US/Canada and Europe, vegetarianism does not exist. Places where it does, i.e. India, it is due to religious reasons. In the developing world people do not have the luxury to choose vegetarianism because they are trying to survive. The benefits of consuming meat far outweigh any personal preference that might lead to vegetarianism. I guarantee that if you went to a country where people are genuinely starving and offered them a stalk of celery or a steak they would choose the steak 99.99% percent of the time. The .01% would be due to the delusional state that starvation can lead to.
Nothing wrong with choosing to be a vegetarian, it can be a healthy choice and symbolic gesture for animal rights. In countries where food is for survival, not for hedonistic pleasure of a political statement, you will find only omnivores.
It depends on how you're raised. Some people are born into it, others make an ethical or dietary decision on their own. Most people I know decided to be a vegatarian because they love animals and/or find it a healthier choice. check out www.ppk.com
I grew up never eating meat, and was, I suppose, vegetarian in the womb -- my mother's a vegetarian too -- so people can be "born vegetarian."
-- but that seems to be quite the rarity in the western world (albeit slightly less so nowadays), and -- later on, it's your "state of mind." My siblings now all eat some amounts of seafood and poultry; one eats meat.
In places where there's a high rate of vegetarianism due to religious reasons, I expect you'd find a lot of people who might, at least, have an awfully hard time digesting meat given the lack of enzymes necessary to digest it; it seems reasonable to think that some degree of that might eventually become genetic -- but I don't know.
I think it depends on their state of mind. My son was a meat and potato guy until he checked out PETA's website and then decided to become a vegetarian because of the abuse of animals. If he hadn't of seen that website I'm sure he'd still be eating meat.
Well, I would say that it would have to be a state of mind. While some people are born into a vegetarian way of living, others don't decide until later that they want to go veggie. I would also think that someone who decided to become a vegetarian for the sake of animals would have been taught to think that way by their peers and guardians rather than having been born that way. Even people who say that they have never felt right about eating meat were probably taught to feel that way. Likewise, someone who decides to become veggie for health reasons or even NEEDS to be veggie for health reasons made themselves that way.
It depends on what you mean.
Many people are born into a vegetarian life style because of their religion (like Hinduism and Buddhism)
Others don't like the taste of meat.
Some believe animals should be treated a certain way. This can be caused by the influence of others but some can just hold that belief themselves seemingly from birth (like Joaquin Phoenix).
I personally think it is something learned/state of mind, since the default in Western society is to not be a vegetarian.
i wasn't born a vegetarian , bbut i was 1 for about 3 years. i'm presently not a vegetarian, i eat healthy, i may eat maybe 4 times a month, mainly seafood. i think it's a great choice to become a vegetarian.
I beg to differ with El Cupacabra. I am not a vegan for reason of "political statement." I just don't want to eat that stuff anymore.
However, I agree that the impoverished will choose the steak. Why? Because it has more calories. Retry the experiment, but make it more balanced, nutrition-wise - I don't think the results would be so skewed then. (Realize that hundreds and thousands of celery sticks would have been required to feed the cow).