Why Go Vegitarian?!
Answers: I'm just curious if someone could explain to me why it is they prefer a vegetarian way of life and omit meat all together. To me I don't think I could give up my steak as I love it and my chicken too! Don't get all offended over my question I am just naturally curious!
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I wonder the same thing. Meat is just too awesome to give up!!
Eating vegetables makes your life longer. It also prevents you from having diseases. You may not notice it early but if you go on a vegetarian life, you'd be happy in the future and thanks yourself for having engaged in the vegetarian life.
My grandpa whois a vegetarian, is now 70 yrs. old and can still walk very fast and can do cartwheels. He is also a ballroom dance instructor in America. And I believe it's the vegetables that keeps him healthy!
There's nothing wrong about eating vegetables and meat but minimize meat and maximize veggies!
Some people went veggie because meat foods started killing them with high blood pressure and heart conditions. Veggies are healthier food.
For me its because i don't want to sponsor cruelty to animals. I see farms first hand most days ( I own an arable farm so live in amongst dairy, sheep and beef farmers )
I couldn't possible support the captive rearing and death for a diet when meat eating is totally unecessary.
I understand you "love steak", thats your choice. So to me you are saying that your taste buds are worth more than the lives of animals.
By buying meat people are condoning death, i wouldn't want to be part of that.
to save an animals life
Ever heard of factory farms? Watch Meet Your Meat, or Earthlings. Animals feel the same pain as humans do. There is no need to cause them the great amount of suffering that is happening to them. Also, veggies are much healthier! Seriously, get educated on it and then you will know why a lot of vegans/vegetarians are the way they are.
Vegetarian is extremely healthy because meat can cause cholestral.
I don't believe in harming or killing animals for food. It's just immoral to me, even though my religion says that animals were put on earth to eat.
I just love animals too much for them to be my dinner.
Why not?
There are many reasons for being a vegetarian... health, animal rights, religious, environmental, etc.
I became a vegetarian because my family has a history of heart disease (especially very high cholesterol). I donated blood and got a report back that my cholesterol was 100 points above normal (180-200 is normal). I'm 22, so I didn't want to spend the rest of my life taking meds, so I decided to fix the underlying problem instead of just treating the symptoms. I was only a vegetarian for 2 or 3 months before all of my lab results were normal. I've been a vegetarian for about 5 months now, and I don't plan on ever stopping.
Not too long ago, I didn't think I could give up hot wings and steak either. But I slowly cut meat out of my diet a little at a time. The first week I stopped eating beef, the next week it was pork, etc. until I wasn't eating any meat at all, and now I'm better off for it. My decision was easy to make... because I knew making the wrong choice would eventually lead to a heart attack.
Hope this helps.
Making the switch to a vegetarian diet is a personal decision that is made based upon your beliefs. There are many reasons why people choose to be vegetarian. It could be for ethical reasons, environmental concerns, health concerns or religious beliefs.
For example, I am against animal suffering and therefore made the decision to cut meat out of my diet because of the way animals are treated during slaughter. Granted, this is not the best choice I could've made. The best choice would be to become vegan and this would totally 100% disassociate myself from the cruelty and suffering that takes place in slaughterhouses. I think about being vegan often and plan to accomplish this goal in the near future.
Vegetables are good for you, meat causes health problems, vegetarians typically live longer and are thinner, and eating poor animals makes a lot of people feel bad.
I love being vegetarian. Finding recipes is not always the easiest, but i love creating different dishes and it makes life interesting and i can feel good about not eating anything that lives and breathes and feels pain.
Well, there are two ways you can look at this. (Ok, so there are other ways but I'm going to tell you the two mainstream ones.) These go for both sides. First there is the rude and crude way-(What ever side they are on.) is better because we A.)Do it better. B.)Just plain rock C.)Just a plain-How can you eat that? And the list goes on.... Then there is the mature side- Its a choice, no big deal. I have freedom and you have the freedom to choose what you eat to. And other ways of kindly saying, why you are whatever you are. (P.S. Trust me, soy meat tastes just like real meat if you find a brand you like.)
Honestly the older I get and the more I see how different I look and am energy wise to people my own age. It has to be genetics partly but my diet and lifestyle must be the main factor. I look about age 25-27 and am actually 34. My health is perfect and that includes cholesterol and my weight though big for me is tiny to what I see in others (5'3" 115lbs 53kg approx.)
So, besides the joy as a woman in extending my youth and feeling good there are other reasons I feel good about my diet and lifestyle.
The steak and chicken has been raised in such miserable conditions and the cow died in fear knowing it was to be killed.
Maybe you might care about the way the animals are treated?The way their lives are treated?
Consider, SARS, H5N1,BSE - get educated if you dont know what animals are being fed and how they are treated causes these viruses in humans.
AIDS is thought to come from monkey meat caught and killed and eaten in Africa and jumped and mutated to humans.
Maybe you are spiritual and understand energy and could have a concept of the negativity trapped in the dead animals body due to the horror it experienced at its death?
Maybe the hormones and bacteria in the meat will concern you?How chicken is injected with water to plump it up?
How the waste from these animals affects the environment?
How much plant based food it takes to feed one cow when the meat of that cow feeds so few? - people are starving in the world.
These are some reasons - I suggest you get educated - some or all of these would be a good reason to go vegetarian.
I hope you consider it!
EDIT:
apologies if saying to 'get educated' offends you !- I am actually a teacher myself and have lived around the world and am a fan of education and broadening the mind - thats all!
Michael ... your self-righteous, sanctimony is showing again ... REGARDING your following quote . . .
"I couldn't possible support the captive rearing and death for a diet when meat eating is totally unecessary.
I understand you "love steak", thats your choice. So to me you are saying that your taste buds are worth more than the lives of animals.
By buying meat people are condoning death, i wouldn't want to be part of that."
You have written quite publicaly that you have sold 3000 bales of hay to those who feed it to cattle for slaughter. If you really "cared" you would find suitable alternatives for crops. As an analogy . . . You are like the company who sold the gas to the Nazi camps . . .and then say you didn't have anything to do with the extermination of human beings.
The UK has one of the finest extension services in the world, and if they can revolutionize the farming habits of entire countries they certainly can help you become more than the moral fraud that you are now.
I'm coming to understand that those who may have judged you more harshly early on . . . may be right . . . you may well likely be a "codpiece" . . . and an empty one at that.
IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: You only find "vegetarians of convenience" like Michael in most modern cultures. Vegetarianism/Veganism as practiced in ancient cultures are part of a spiritual path and hence have more integrity than you will find on this forum.
For a look at how vegetarianism is transforming it's self-understanding in a modern culture google "Flexitarian Diets". It's a good thing for the person as well as the environment with none of the self-righteous BS.