Why are you a vegetarian?!
Answers: I always get asked this question and I am just wondering why you became one too. Thanks!
I've only recently become vegetarian--just a few weeks ago in fact.
I've always had a very hard time eating meat to begin with and I used to try really hard not to think about what I was eating as I've always been an avid animal lover. Most recently, I've been able to piece together too many things about farming and farm animals which has successfully disgusted me enough to never want to eat meat again. I thinik I had this "romanticized" notion of what farming is...people love the land and care for their animals etc....farmers work hard etc...but if you take a real good look, you'll see that it's not like that at all....not even a little. It is the goal of the CDN Beef industry to export 150 Million Tons of beef by 2012 or something like that--and when you think about the fact that that means a lot of animals getting killed..you see that figure in a far different light.
If someone wants something to really ponder, ponder why there is such a growing demand for organic products! Shouldn't farmed products be about as "organic" as one can get? I used to make fun of the entire organic market--thinking it all comes out of the ground--well, I don't do that anymore.
Anyways, I've many reasons why I've become a vegetarian which I'm happy to share.
1. I'm totally against the inhumanity and cruelty which farm animals are subjected to. It is completely unnecessary and worse than barbaric. If people treated a dog or cat that way, it would be illegal.
2. I'm not entirely sure anymore that it is correct for us, as educated, civilized individuals to cultivate animals for food --animals are so much more than that. I'm not sure if it's the cultivation or just how they're being cultivated that I'm against --I'm still working on this one.
3. I'm absolutely certain that we should not be cultivating animals to the level of excess in which we do so. Killing to fuel the greed of others is just plain wrong.
4. Meat isn't even meat anymore really, beef is full of estrogen/progesterone and a couple of steroids for good measure and many cows are being fed meat in addition to God knows whatever else they're feeding them, pork is supplemented with ractopamine hydrochloride and chickens are fed a convenient meal containing certain antibiotics which as a fringe benefit--increase their weights. Every one of these substances are not only harmful to the animals themselved but are also harmful to human health as well. These substances are being used to fuel one simple thing--greed...more weight means more money at slaughter time.
I will not eat meat unless I know it's 100% all-American meat. If meat is 100% all-American, chances are that the animals used for it were not treated cruelly.
Animals do not deserve to die for ME, I dont see myself dying for them so why should they die for me?? What makes me better than them?? I love animals when they are breathing thinking and when blood is pumping through them, not when they are some barbarian's plate.
After seeing a video on the Peta website I was completely grossed out that I've never been able to put a piece of meat in my mouth. The thought alone disgusts me and I just felt like crying when I saw all that animal cruelty. How can I eat a burger knowing how brutal that animal was slaughtered? Was grossed me the MOST was the chicken tho...they looked like skeletons because they didn't even have feathers...my bf become a vegetarian that day too & it hasn't been hard for 1 second.. :)
PLUS look @ all the health perks that comes with eating natural foods :) ur body will definetly thank you in the long run.
I LOVE ANIMALS and would love to be a veterinarian. I dont see how people can murder an animal or be cruel to them.............I really dont.
My parents were when I was born and I was raised that way. When I was old enough to choose for myself, I did some research and discovered what a healthy lifestyle it is. I love it!
live and let animals live. my religion never allowed me to eat meet or any non veg thing. if someone really wanna feel how does a animal feel when we use animal's body to eat then try to eat your own body part by cutting it. animals can't tell you how does they feel, might they don't have feelings, but they can feel pain like we human beings and let justify our name "human being" by giving up non veg.
I am a vegetarian. Both because I never liked meat much, and because I care for animals. Also cause it's healthy.
Vegan - it's too hard for me to be. I drink milk, I eat yogurt, honey, milk chocolate... I just do the best I can.
I have a variety of reasons: my health, the environmental effects of large scale ranching, a general feeling of disconnectedness with the meat i was eating... I have never been someone who thinks the act of eating meat in and of itself is necessarily immoral, but it absolutely is in the ways that we consume it in today’s world. just thinking about chickens packed in crates and methane in the atmosphere from cattle and general sustainability issues in an overpopulated world. Lets face it, its just not a natural thing to eat meat more than once every few weeks or so and the fact that we can, without ever even coming into contact with the animals we eat is rather bizarre and unnatural.
I chose to become a vegetarian at the age of four because I was totally repulsed by the idea of eating an animal. Now 10 years later, I still am, for the moral and it-grosses-me-out reasons. I would never go back now, I love it and it's healthy too.
Iam a vegan eating animals is nasty yuk
I became a vegetarian a year and half ago. I wanted to take horticulture but we only had agriculture so I decided to take that class so that I could grow and take care of plants.
My teacher made us watch all these gruesome videos of how pigs, cows, and chickens were raised, slaughtered, and packaged. After I saw that, I threw up in class all over the floor!
I went home and did crazy amounts of research online. I read so much stuff and watched so many videos and I couldnt believe my eyes. I became vegetarian that day and when I met my bf, he helped me out immensely as far as what to eat and recipes.
I discovered that TVP has just as much if not more protein in it than meat because it comes from soybeans and beans have protein.
Meat has hormones that are left over in it from when they inject hundreds of meds into the sick and dying animals because they were mistreated and the hormones can mess up a girl's period, her body weight, and can give her health problems.
Milk has those hormones in it too and that the human body cannot properly digest cow's milk and its poisonous to our body. Soymilk has calcium.