Why are people vegetarian?!
Animals eat other animals it is nature, our bilogical cousins eat other animals as well. What is the big deal with meat.
Answers: What is the big deal with eating meat. If it is the chemicals people complain about, eat organic meat or game meat.
Animals eat other animals it is nature, our bilogical cousins eat other animals as well. What is the big deal with meat.
There are far too many reasons to go into here but if you really are interested then email me and I'll send you some information.
If by biological cousins, you mean apes then they are in fact mainly vegetarian, with the exception of eating the occasional insect. You say that animals eat other animals, and yes you're right but I don't really think humans are very animal-like anymore. If we were, we'd still be walking around naked, throwing our faeces at eachother. If you think it's natural for humans to eat meat then go and run after a deer, catch it, kill it with your bare hands and try and bite into it's hide with your teeth... even if you did get this far which is very unlikely, then eating raw meat would probably make you ill. If you can't do this then you can't exactly argue from the point of nature because naturally speaking, humans, with our limited physical capabilities (teeth, long intestines which are meant for vegetation, not raw meat), would naturally be seen as vegetarians, unless we start eating bugs like our biological cousins.
Also murder is seen as natural... people have been killing eachother throughout the centuries. Monkeys and apes are even known to kill eachother. This doesn't mean it's right to do so. Personally, I think more of compassion than I do my tastebuds. If you want to eat meat then go ahead but please don't assume that it's natural for everyone to do so.
As far as i know... meat contains alot of proteins ...and alot of that can cause cancer
eating veggies can give you more a long life and healthy body than eating meat.
For some ppl it is for biblical reasons. For other ppl It's because of mad cow disease and because of what the animals are injected with or how they are killed. Mad cow disease is also found in deer and chicken and other animals but it's called something else. Meat isn't healthy for you and humans were never meant to eat it. Even the organic meat or game meat is bad. They all have diseases. The animals are also being fed their own manure with their food. That is what caused mad cow disease. Also pigs are the worst thing you could eat. Just to let you know they rot from the inside out, which is abnormal. and that's because they clean the earth (eat their own poop and other gross things) and are filled with some really bad stuff and diseases. So if you eat a pig you're eating everything they ate. and you can't cook the bad stuff out.
Some people just chose to be vegetarians or vegans.
Or they were grossed out by what's being stuffed into sausages.
Vegetarians differ in their own personal reasons.
Some people simply don't like it or the way it makes them feel.
Others have moral issues with eating the poor animals.
Some people believe that God doesn't want us to (note how God shortened mans life from 900 years to 120 years when He said it wasn't sinful to eat meat) ((Look in Genesis)) It isn't a sin, but there was a reason God didn't want man to eat meat in the beginning, and science is proving that now!
Some have seen the boatloads of information on how bad it is for you and choose not to eat meat. You can get all your essential proteins and amino acids without it, God made nature to give us the correct balance WiThOuT meat.
And humans are NOT animals. Society would like you to belive that but, we are human. God made us to be different than the animals.
Because they don't like eating things that had eyeballs.
Because they want to be. People need to worry about themselves. If you want to eat meat great. They don't. Why are you so worried about it?
we have highly developed minds, we know the difference between right and wrong. we know its wrong to kill our neighbor, because we know its wrong to take a life into our hands. "we can't play god" we know its wrong to kill animals and mistreat them, but you do it anyways. vegetarians dont.
I don't eat animals because I love them, and I don't want to support how they're treated and killed for food. To me, my cats and dogs are the same as pigs and chickens. It also kind of makes me sick thinking of putting something dead into my body. That's why I'm a vegetarian. =]
well im not a vegetarian, but some vegetarians love animals, some think its healthier not to eat meat, all have their own different reasons.
I am vegetarian for a number of health and ecological reasons, and I love animals. I don't try to convert meat eaters. Everyone needs to make their own decisions in life. I do not think I am more enlightened or moral than folks who eat meat. This is a great thread; some really funny answers, LOL :D
My own personal reason for not eating meat: The meat industry is cruel.
I don't think animals are the same as humans, but I still feel they can experience pain, loneliness, boredom and fear. The vast majority of meat isn't hunted anymore. Animals are raised for food in horrible conditions where they are subjected to many forms of abuse. Then they are taken to slaughter where they are routinely not properly stunned and have their bodies disassembled while they are still awake and breathing.
I'm a Christian and even though God didn't make animals to be eaten, he gave us permission to do so after the flood. So I don't think just the eating of animals is immoral in a general sense. But the way it's done in modern times is just sick.
I also know that being a vegetarian is healthy. I didn't get into a vegetarian diet to be healthier, but if it wasn't healthy I wouldn't have started.
Here's some books that you might be interested in, that explain various reasons to be a vegetarian:
http://www.amazon.com/Slaughterhouse-Sho...
http://www.amazon.com/Diet-New-America-J...
http://www.amazon.com/Skinny-*****-Kim-B...
Didn't you get any answers when you searched this? I don't think eating meat is necessarily wrong, I just think the meat industry has become too cruel.
Some people just dont like the idea that what they are eating was once alive. Or that it was killed so they could eat it.
Health Reasons:
Vegetarian, leaning heavy on the side of vegan with a few indulgences, will promote proper blood ph. Animal products will make the blood more acidic, while plant based diets will produce a more alkaline enviornment promoting proper ph balance. I have read in several studies that cancer can not live in an alkaline enviornment, as well as tumors and other diseases that plag Americans. Truth or not?
I don't know, but feeling better and having more energy is certainly worth it to me.
Also consultation with my physician said to me: the only vitamin you will not get from a vegan diet is B12.
Vegetarian heavy on the side of vegan for 4 years.
I feel absolutely awful thinking about taking another creatures life away. And by the way. It's not like we were born vegetarian. We've eaten meat before. We've just changed our ways. Deal with it.
I see a wide variety of answers to your question here and many of them are quite good but one that I haven't seen is the simple fact that our body wasn't designed to digest meat. Meat just rots in our bodies and comes out smelling really terrible. Our teeth are not designed to tear flesh either.
I believe that animals have a right to a natural life free of torture, abuse, suffering and murder. I know full well that Nature designed some animals to eat others, but Nature also endowed me with the ability to thrive on a plant-based diet and the ability to make decisions based on my ethical considerations. I also know that the way livestock is raised today is incredibly damaging to the environment and, by choosing a plant-based diet based as much as possible on lcally-produced food, I am reducing my carbon footprint and refusing to support industries that are filthy and wasteful. Other animals who eat animals do so without getting cardiovascular disease or cancer, but humans have all kinds of unhealthy side effects from consuming animals. "Diseases of affluence" are heavily correlated with the consumption of animal foods, so I feel that I am doing something good for my health as well. Eating organic meat or game does nothing to address this issue and still requires that an animal has to die to support me.
cuz their dumb
it isnt **** all to do with chemicals it to do with Innocent animals being torched and murder for peoples taste bud, it wrong. if it wasnt wrong than people wouldnt get Cancer and heart disease from eating it. and not all animals eat other animals, if we were meant to eat other animals then we would have a month full of canines(which we dont) and no other animal on the face of this ******* planet kill animals for food the was we do, they dont produce it in mass amounts and sell it for as much as possible. the only kill it when the need food and the dont chuck half of it out. and at least those animals were free before that
im vegatarian for health reasons. i lost like 10 pounds once i stopped eating meat! =]
well some peopel don't aprove of the way the animals are keped or kiled (like me)
or it could be against there religion or moral code
These loons think it will "improve" their chances of getting into Heaven! *laughter*
They tend to think,
"The Ten Commandments? Those are way TOO hard! This vegetarianism/veganism seems a lot easier and it's 'close' enough."
The irony involved is that most vegetarians have NO problem with the KILLING of an unborn child! *shakes head* Perhaps it depends on how you define "meat." *laughter* For example, they will piss and moan about how a cow is slaughtered and the pain IT can feel but have NO sympathy for the child whom a "doctor" guts from his/her unconcerned and conceited mother.
SOME of these people like to complain that meat companies are "inhumane" about how they slaughter these animals. Well, you can make the case that the "humanity" is directly related to the cost, i.e. it is more expensive to be more humane, and these companies need to make some money and keep costs low.
Hitler would have explained to you that bullets, while more humane perhaps, are expensive!
Humans are the only species aware of their own mortality. And have the ability to make moral choices.
Vegetarians anthropomorphise. ie they think that animals' lives are morally equal to ours, so meat is murder.
In practice, vegetarians are simple, kind hearted teenage girls who love pretty lambs and ride ponies. Apart from one of my friends (but he takes drugs so he is probably confused).
A normal vegetarian would run over three people to save one chickens life.
I have no problem with eating meat.