Why do people go vegan and vegetarian????
Well, if the two things in the title are the same thing, don't bother telling me.
Now, to the real question!
Well, my question today is said in the title. THIS DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!!! Why would someone not eat meat at all, just for this unknown reason?
Or why would someone not eat anything at all from an animal?
What I'm trying to say is, some people will think I'm wrong, but it's okay to eat animals. But some people think it hurts the animals blah blah blah so they don't eat meat. The real thing im weirded out by is people who don't eat anything from an animal!!!
If you eat nothing from an animal, YOU ARE CRAZY! (my opinion....). Taking an egg from a chicken doesn't hurt them or anything! Or milking a cow!!!
WHY DO PEOPE DO THIS?
Now, to the real question!
Well, my question today is said in the title. THIS DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!!! Why would someone not eat meat at all, just for this unknown reason?
Or why would someone not eat anything at all from an animal?
What I'm trying to say is, some people will think I'm wrong, but it's okay to eat animals. But some people think it hurts the animals blah blah blah so they don't eat meat. The real thing im weirded out by is people who don't eat anything from an animal!!!
If you eat nothing from an animal, YOU ARE CRAZY! (my opinion....). Taking an egg from a chicken doesn't hurt them or anything! Or milking a cow!!!
WHY DO PEOPE DO THIS?
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Come on now, milk that's a bodily-fluid from cow-teats - think about it.... then think about taking a machete to the same animal and slicing a steak off it's rear.
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So people are just disgusted and grossed out by the thought of eating animals?
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In addition to avoiding animal products for ethical/moral reasons or from dislike/disgust, there is often a health issue for vegetarianism. (Less so for pure veganism - that almost always has an ethical component.)
The standard American diet is absolutely bad for you, and going vegetarian can be an easy way to cut out the really unhealthy stuff. Eating more fruits and vegetables is certainly good for you, and if you substitute fruits and veggies and legumes for a diet of fast-food hamburgers it's a net win for your body. Of course, eating a well-balanced vegetarian diet is kind of hard (grilled cheese sandwiches, mac'n'cheese, and pizza are NOT a healthy diet either) so you've got to pay attention and do lots of cooking yourself.
At that point, if you're not ethically opposed to meat, you can add back in healthy amounts of grass-fed, properly-treated meat and mercury-free fish and end up even healthier than a conscientious vegetarian. But it's all better than the standard American diet!
It's just people's points of view! Right?
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You think it'd be okay if one screwed their sister???
Primarily, pork carries trichinosis (spelling). It would have been very prudent for religious leaders to imply that it is ungodly to eat pork in order to prevent trichinosis in humans, especially since in the way way back, cooking meat thoroughly enough to ensure prevention of trichinosis wasn't as simple as turning the over to 275, setting the timer to 3 hours, and sitting back in the barkolounger a downing a couple 'a brewskies while the <insert favorite warrior group substitute> pummels the other team on the tele. . As religion is so oft to do, lying is ok if it results in behaviors that their leaders believe to be in their best interests. Kinda like veggies over extended claims regarding the evils of meat eating. What surprises me is that they continue to play the lie as though it were "God's" truth, instead of a cultural standard born of medical necessity thousands of years ago and couched in the moral authority of "God's" word.
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Gawd gave me teeth for grinding grain, and others for rending flesh. Gawd made me an omnivore, and I think I'll follow gawd's plan and let the kooks play their game, as long as they don't try to legally regulate me from eating meat.
A secondly reason I've read about is that pork is, for a dry middle eastern environment, a very uneconomical meat to produce, requiring more effort (cost) than sheep or cows., although they have no problem raising either sheep or cows or goats or chickens or ...
Clearly, neither Jews nor Muslims have some sort of valid moral authority regarding animals in general, since not long ago they killed them in their religious rituals...and still do don't they?
When I see an animal, I see somthing cute yes, but I also see it as a source of survival. I don't have a problem with people not eating meat, I DO have a problem with people who go around getting in your face for eating meat. I have met a few vegetarians who every day would tell me im "evil" because I hunt and eat meat. -_-
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I suggest you watch some videos or read some recent reports on animal products you eat and there production, you will be surprised. I was a rather ignorant meat eater ignoring its origin and after researching, reading, watching many programs, speaking to people I couldn't bear to eat meat anymore.
And just for you to know typically vegetarians eat dairy products, eggs and honeys. Vegans do not eat any animal products but some make exceptions for honey depending in the source and supplier.
Many vegetarians and vegans don't use animal products either such as leather, wool etc due to the unethical nature behind it in most cases.
Feel free to ask me any other questions if you would like to! :)
(I've attached you a picture of some battery hens, It is a pleasant picture compared with others and by all means reality)
Imperfect world = Earth
This is why.
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Vegetarian: *sees bacon*
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I worked for about a year in a meat packin' plant in Minnesota and what I seen goin' into th' burger grinder was horrid !
Th' meat industry is th' most parsiminous bunch of cheap , tight miserable b*****s in existence ! You read up on how pigs is treated on th' "agrobizz" farms and I think you might consider swearin' off pork altogether !
I am a vegan and seem to be the only one so far to answer.
So here are my personal reasons for being so;
I became a vegan due to my concern for the welfare of animals.
It wasn't that I felt that I could stop this ill treatment but just that I did not want part of it.
You say that eggs and milk do not hurt animals but generally the male chickens and male cattle are killed because they do not give eggs or milk; the latter becoming veal, which if you look into you will discover to be one of the cruelest practices around.
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After many years of this diet it is inconceivable to me to eat meat or eggs etc.
Even though I am responsible for looking after some hens which live in idyllic conditions, I still just don't fancy eggs; the thought of eating animal produce just seems icky, so it's become a habit now rather than a moral standpoint.
There are the the other benefits such as it being a less planet consuming lifestyle, or that it's generally a healthly lifestyle but these did not figure into my reasons for adopting it.
I do not blame anyone for eating meat though and the smell of bacon is still a heavenly scent, (it is to most veggies.), but it is strange to have friends who will go misty eyed over a lamb in a field but will quite happily eat a lamb chop and ignore the fact that suffering was part of the production process.
So, whilst being a complete idiot, I do not consider this a crazy way to live.
Blah, blah, blah.
I hope that this helps.
FriendOfHumanity.
Not to mention the inefficiency of producing animal protein, the amount of land and water required not to mention the amount of waste it produced, basically eating meat is not very environmentally friendly.
I also don't meat because I think it is healthier not to, less saturated fat, not to mention the mad cow disease, growth hormones and antibiotics as a result of modern farming practices.
A great link regarding plants here: http://www.bodhipaksa.com/archives/plants-are-living-too-arent-vegetarians-inconsistent
2: Don't crops take up land space? Don't the tractors need fuel? Is that environmentally friendly?
3: How many people did you know that were infected by mad cow disease? How many people have been harmed by the antibiotics and hormones? I don't think people would give you harmful antibiotics for the meat that you need, unless they have mad human disease.
I'm sure as heck I didn't change you point of view, but, I just wanted to get my point out there.
2. You should do some research on food efficiency in the food chain. The amount of grain required to feed one cow is enough to feed ten people directly. Therefore, it is far more destructive of the environment to grow grain to feed to animals which are killed for food, than it would be to grow grain directly for human consumption.
3. The long term effects of unnecessary antibiotics are weil-understood. They don't have to cause harm to an individual directly; what they do is encourage the development of microorganisms which are resistant to those antibiotics in the future. Those, in turn, are far more likely to cause untreatable disease (since they aren't killed by the antibiotics).
Your points are naive, and show a misunderstanding of quantitative analysis.
I didn't want to reply to those others ones because you got me on them, but that last line doesn't make sense.
And I'm not to be a vegetarian, no matter what.
. Misuse of antibiotics should concern you.
2. One cow can feed many more than 10 people. (I know that the grain required is not for the cow's whole life.) And would you really like to eat corn instead of beef everytime you eat beef?
3. Are you one of those people who honestly think that antibiotics are bad!? Seriously, look at the name. The antibiotics keep the cow healthy, so you don't get sick. If you get weakened by the antibiotics from eating meat, you are eating way to much meat to start with.
I wrote, "About 50% of the world isn't vegetarian." You then asked, "What is the other 50%?" Stupidly, I thought I had written "is vegetarian." Let me try this again.
About 50% of the world's population is vegetarian (or vegan). The other 50% (which does include about 95% of the U.S.) are omnivores, eating both animal and plant products.
2. Did you read the information on trophic levels? The efficiency is about 10% on average. I wrote my text very poorly. It should have read, "The amount of grain required to feed one cow is enough to feed ten times as many people directly." Think about that. We wouldn't be growing corn if we weren't using it to feed livestock; we would be growing far more nutrient rich grains or other foods.
3. You need to do some more research, and you need to learn about "natural selection." Antibiotics are bad when they are given prophylatically, rather than to combat a specific infection. As I already said, which you didn't understand, the antibiotics in meat do not affect the consuming individual directly. What they do is to make future generations of microorganisms resistant to those antibiotics. Those future generations can go on to infect animals or/and people, such that they cannot be killed by antibiotics (that's what "resistant" means).
This means more than 95% of the world's population will probably want meat, and I doubt those percents have changed.
2. What about all the people just don't eat as much meat! (sorta sarcastic)
3. How many diseases do YOU know of that are going to go on for generations with infections? And how many of those come from cows and other animals? just think....
2. You still don't understand the quantitative data. Please go learn some basic ecological biology, including trophic levels, and "consumer efficiency", before continuing this. Otherwise you won't have anything sensible to contribute to this point.
3. You still don't understand natural selection and antibiotic resistance. Please go read up on the rise and spread of, for example, MSRA, before continuing this. Otherwise you won't have anything sensible to contribute to this point.