Why not eat meat?

Question

What is your reason for not eating meat? are you one of those people that still eats fish and cheese?
Let me know why you became a VEGIE and the best story or reason why will get an easy 10pts!

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that makes no sense at all, dont try to mak eit sound like physiologically we arent designed to eat meat. If we were so designed to eat vegetables why dont we have a diastima, or flat crunching molars like a cow, why dont we have a rumen, crop or functioning caecum. They say the only reason we are as smart as we are today is due to the fact that our ancestors ate meat, the proteins in meat allowed for the brain to develop, if it were not for that we may be as bright as chimps.
I see that argument you are trying to make, but dotn go that way with it.
Our dentition allows us to eat meat very well, our canines are designed for the purpose. Believe it or not, we digest meat betetr than we do most plant material, may I reind you of our appendix....
I also agree that killing animals is wrong, but that doesn mean we arent designed to eat them....obesity has to do with choices, too much meat will kill you, so will too much brocclli......

Truth Kills,
Why do we get sick, well for thousands of years before the discovery of fire we wouldn't be as susceptible to gastro infections like salmonella and others. However for the last many thousand sof years, humans have used fire to cook meats, therfore we were not exposed to any pathogens in meats, so we lost the ability to fight off these invaders.
Look at kids nowadays, they wash theri hand 22 times a day and enevr go otuside, but they go to scout camp for 2 days and sleep outside and end up sick as a dig for a week. Thats because if you dont prepare yourself for the infection, you can easily succumb to it. If we ate meat raw all the time we would have no problem, its evolution.
And the fact that our brains are as big as they are is whats allowing you to answer this question, so isnt that a stupid question? I dotn know it just seems ironic you would ask that!

Answer 1

Well, I guess I'm not *truly* a vegie, because I do think that a lot of animals are food (let's be honest - we are at the top of the food chain). However, I refuse to eat mass produced livestock. It really disgusts me how many unatural products are fed to these animals daily - and it is passed on to us. Of course, it's impossible to avoid them anyways, since mass agriculture is badly managed, and all those drugs end up back in our own water supply. When you think of how badly we treat our own waste products, think now how we treat the waste of livestock which outnumber humans in North America 3 to 1!!

There is also the issue of poverty. With the grain that produced 1 pound of beef, we could have fed 50 people a meal. You want to save water? You save more water by not eating that pound of beef than you would by not showering for a whole week!

The idea that we were not meant to eat meat is bull, and the example of meat being a cause of obesity is bull too. Many dogs will eat until the food is gone (sounds like a lot of us!) - you don't see fat animals in the wild because of supply and demand - they actually have to go and fight for their food!!! We just open a fridge. Sure, animal cruelty is not cool - BUT human cruelty is worse. Think of how many starving people could be fed if we stopped supporting livestock (of course, if someone actually goes out and shoots a deer, I don't see anything wrong with eating it, provided the entire body is used out of respect).

Go do some research, and find out who is subsidizing your meat eating. Wonder why it's so cheap? Me too!! Tell me why the government subsidizes this stupid commodity when the same people tell us that a vegetarian diet is healthy. Strange strange strange. We can only make a stand at the consumer level. You can scream as loud as you want - but if you don't buy it, they have to stop producing it.

Answer 2

The reason why I do not eat meat is not for health reasons. I could care less about my health. The reason is because I do not want to consume another creatures flesh. I've been a vegan for about 6 years now. The reason why I stopped eating meat was because my father took me with him when he was going to slaughter a sheep. I saw the animal die right in front of me. Can I ask you a question? If humans are supposed to be omnivores, than why can't we eat raw meat without getting sick? Why must we cook it before we can eat it?No other creature that eats meat needs to cook it first. And you said that researchers say that without our ancestors being meat eaters we never would have developed the kinds of brains we have. But what good have we done with our "advanced brains"? I don't think that any invention that has been created by human kind is fantastic except for the toilet and irrigation system. All these machines and cars and computers and guns aren't doing us good, all they are doing is bringing the planet closer to it's end. Sorry, I kind of went off topic, but anyways, that's why I don't eat meat.

Answer 3

I am not stricktly a vegan, or any other vegetarian for that matter, but I do not eat meat everyday like the old and new food guide pyramid reccomends. Why? Well, for one thing, I prefer artificial protein (a.k.a plant protein, found in many nutrition and dieting bars) more often that natural protein (a.k.a meat protein), because I seem to be getting more vitamins and minerals that are included in the bar that I eat (EAS brand). Meat is okay, and I eat it occasionally, but often meat has more fat. I don't really eat steak, and if I eat beef, I eat ground beef, not chuck, because chuck is full of fat. There are meats out there, however, that are less than 5% fat. I don't know, I just find myself eating plant protein and sometimes meat protein (I do eat eggs and healthy peanut butter, cashew butter, and the works though)! Anyone planning on going on a strict high-protein diet should keep iin mind that protein can be stress on the kidneys, which can lead to kidney failure. To little, preferally natural protein (maybe both, I'm not sure), can lead to being Aneimic. It is reccomended that a dieter reads a book on the diet they are choosing before actually using that diet, but I'm not stictly on any diet, I just watch what I eat, drink lots of water, and eat healthy. Happy Eating!



~Greta

P.S. Omega Fatty Acids are very healthy, and are often found in fish, among other foods. I can't quite give you the exact result, but I believe the results have something to do with the heart. A mix of both natural and artificial may be a wise choice. To much, or too little of anything, can be harmful.

Answer 4

I'm a meat eater. But recently have decided to try a plant based diet for health & dieting reasons.

I started slowly by eating more & more veggies, proteins & fruits and smaller portions of meats at meals. Now I am up to 2 days per week that are totally meatless meals. I like it! The flavors of different foods seem to come alive when the fat from meats are not covering everything up.

I can see myself in the not so distant future continuing to eat fish & cheese. Fish for the omega health benefits and cheese for the protein.

I guess I'm not a vegetarian, but more a flexatarian. I can't quite give up chicken, turkey, & red meats but have taken a closer look at the veggie way of eating and like both.

Answer 5

I'm not a veggie, but my friend was. She didn't want to ingest animal products because she believed that it was harmful to her body. Her type of vegetarianism made her a true vegan.
Vegans do not eat meat of any kind and also do not eat eggs, dairy products, or processed foods containing these or other animal-derived ingredients such as gelatin. She also refrained from eating foods that were made using animal products that may not contain animal products in the finished process, such as sugar and some wines. There is some debate as to whether certain foods, such as honey, fit into a vegan diet, but she did eat honey. Since her reason for being a vegan wasn't related to animal rights, she did wear leather items. Her husband loved meat, and he had his own skillet for cooking it in.

Answer 6

I am not comepletely vegetarian. I used to be vegan, actually. I did it for animal rights. Farm-raised animals are cruely treated and injected with all sorts of hormones (unappetizing). I now eat fish, eggs, and cheese. It's now more of a habit than anything. I make conscious food choices, but I'll take a bite of somebody's filet mignon if it looks good. I try to be healthy and treat the earth with respect. A vegetarian liffestyle completes both of those criteria!

PS: I don't touch poultry with a 10 foot pole! They are treated terribly, and I don't trust anything that can make you sick if not cooked. Fowl is foul.

Answer 7

I became a vegetarian just because there is overwhelming evidence that eating too much fatty meat is very unhealthy. But after years of being a vegetarian, I found that a few pounds were creeping on my middle. So I started eating at least 8-10 oz. of fish and lean chicken a day, and quickly lost a lot of weight.

Answer 8

I personally do not eat meat because I'd rather not kill anything unneccessarily. That also means not eating something killed by someone else. It's one of those Buddhist things ... but the good thing about Buddhism is that if I decided to eat meat tomorrow it's no big deal. I don't have to worry about eternal hellfire... because the only rule I am breaking is my own.

Answer 9

Man can eat all kinds of foods which are allowed to us by our creature. The best way is to use mixed foods to maintain the a good health needs. If a person is allergic to some sort of foods like some get by eating fish and some sort of food together that is due to incompatibility.

Answer 10

I'm a vegan and I don't eat meat for several reasons:

My wife and I use to eat meat, then we started noticing how gross mass produced was.

We also stopped because we really care about animals and life. Anything that can suffer shouldn't that includes humans.

I heard it causes impotence in men, that's why viagra is selling so well.

Plus it's just not natural. If we were meant to eat meat then we wouldn't need a knife to cut it, we would have teeth like dogs and cats have. We wouldn't get so fat from it. If our bodies were meant to eat it, then our metabolism would be able to handle it. How many fat lions do you see? Or obese sharks?