No, I am not. I hate red meat but I like eggs and chicken. I am against killing animals too, but I can't help eating them.
No, I am not. I hate red meat but I like eggs and chicken. I am against killing animals too, but I can't help eating them.
When I was younger me and my brother would swap food so he had my meat and I had the vegetables, because I hated meat so much. Needless to say I am now vegetarian.
However, personally, I'm not that fussed about the animal. that would involve me some sort of caring side.
Hmm, I've been through various stages of vegetarianism since I was 10 (1992). Most of the time I was a piscatarian (ridiculous word - it's just a media term), but then I became a lacto-ovo vegetarian, and then a vegan (for a little over two years). At the moment, I eat fish but no other animals/animal products.
I don't eat animals for ethical reasons. I don't want to eat something that has been bred to die, something that just spends its entire life in a field. I think that kind of sucks. I'd be a bit annoyed if I just stood around in a field all day, and my one trip out of said field proved to be a bit of a one-way experience. That's how I justify eating fish, although I still feel pretty bad about it. I won't eat anything that has been farmed, though.
I don't eat dairy because I don't think it's healthy. Those animals are all pumped full of hormones and antibiotics. Plus, I'm pretty unsure of milk. I don't know of any other animal that drinks milk past infancy - seems a bit weird to me.
What are the point of sheep, cows etc if not to herd and eat them? I'm being serious here.
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Emma is like, the reflection of myself. I'm the same exact way, except I do like nuts. xDOriginally Posted by Spiffing Cheese
I've been a vegetarian (ovo-lacto) for two years, and I'm probably the most ridiculous vegetarian ever. It's rare that I try anything new, I like bland food, and I hate nuts. And I don't think I benefit at all from better health, seeing as I don't take any of the vitamins I should and I eat way too much junk food. xD And I dread to think how little iron there is in my diet. ;D Eggs are probably the only thing with a lot of iron in that I eat.
The same point humans are alive. What's the point of humans? No point in my opinion.
I would never be a vegetarian. It's crap. I don't see how someone can get so worked up just because you're eating a cow, I mean really. Why else are they alive? It's called the food chain. You're supposed to eat the cows.
*soda
Yeah, there isn't much point. They've been bred from wild variants to be utterly stupid, with several of their natural instincts completely wiped out. Doesn't stop me feeling sorry for them, though.
I would like to be a vegetarian in some ways, because of all the animals they kill just to feed us all, but on the other hand, humans are hunters (sadly, we hsould be the hunted, but thats another story) and for some of us eating meat is just normal, to survive, because its nice.Although i really only like Chicken, i hate beef and pork and fish and lamb!!!
To all the vegans and vegetarians out there i say:
Well done!
My reasons for not eating meat (excluding fish and free range meat, the later of which I can never find, so I actually haven't had any):
1) Factory farming practices are deplorable. Disgusting. Cruel. Awful. Anyone who knows how most of our meat is produced and thinks that's fine... Wow. That's pretty telling. This is my main reason for avoiding meat.
2) The amount of meat humans are currently eating is hurting our bodies. Humans are supposed to be eating 2 - 3 servings of meat (or nuts) a day. A serving is about the size of a deck of cards: two to three ounces. We're eating eight to sixteen ounce steaks for dinner, plus a bologna sandwich, sausage for breakfast... Heck, even just the giant steak is too much. Meat is only good for us in small amounts because it's difficult to digest, and actually stagnates and rots in our systems before we excrete it. And even in small amounts how good it is for you is arguable. The only thing you can't really get without meat is certain amino acids, which can be found elsewhere.
3) The amount of meat humans are currently eating is hurting other's bodies. If Americans reduced our meat consumption by 10% (still above the daily recommended amount) we would free up enough farm land to feed sixty million hungry people.
4) The amount of meat humans are currently eating is hurting our environment. Animal poop is fertilizer, right? Well very little of it is actually used for that. Most of it just stays where the cows are at, getting packed down, and in a number of places it's contaminating fresh water. Also, the amount of water consumed by the farm animals is drying up natural aquifers (underground water sources) inland. Once those are dry, they don't refill, and often cave in. Not only are these natural resources gone then, but they sometimes cause a house to fall into a hole or some such thing.
Uh... That's the basics anyway. I don't think it's cruel to eat animals, just cruel to be uncaring gluttons. Sadness.
I could make you all guilty by involving starving Africans, and that clearly you're all too spoilt, but I don't actually think like that. I'd just be using it to make you feel bad
EDIT: Just to make it clear.
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I could make you all guilty by involving starving Africans, and that clearly you're all too spoilt, but I don't actually think like that. I'd just be using it to make you feel badThe demand for meat isn't great enough that the supply would remain static if the demand were decreased. Animals and people are suffering because of your brand of ignorance.
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Whether or not you actually believe it doesn't make it any less of an ignorant thing to say, and you said you don't actually think like that, not that you don't believe it's accurate.
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