What are your opinions on a VEGETARIAN diet?

Question

Is it healthy and what about the moral, spiritual reasons for vegetarianism. What do you folks think?

Answer 1

A vegetarian diet provides everything your body needs. Meat is rotting flesh from the moment the animal is killed so it actually putrifies as your body tries to digest it.
Morally, a vegetarian diet is natural when you consider how animals are treated.
Spiritually, meat eating is unacceptable. Vegetables and fruits are offered with love before eating.
I have been a vegetarian for many years and am very healthy.

Answer 2

A vegetarian diet is a healthy diet. You don't have to worry about protein. The most dangerous thing with protein is having too much. It is almost impossible to create a diet with insufficient protein. So, having got that fallacy out of the way, we can then move on the the benefits. Our system is designed to live primarily on fruit. If we consume plenty of fruit, we will always be healthy. Green-leaved vegetable are great too, and we should also eat nuts and seeds. Nothing else is required. I became vegetarian almost 10 years ago, and since I gave up meat, I haven't had a single stomach problem. Meat contains all the hormones and chemicals from vaccinations and unnatural food, as well as the chemicals which the brain issues just before death, and these are very bad for the body and the spirit.
Spiritually, we should not eat any living being, and not doing so gives one a sense of satifaction. All the pro-meat publicity is propaganda circulated by meat marketing boards. We do not need meat to live a healthy life.

Answer 3

A Vegeteraian diet if done properly which includes alot of fruit.. is one of the best diets!
Actually I don't really like that word diet. I rather say eating style! I am a vegetarian!
The main thing for vegetarians if they don't eat
enough fruit they'll get sick! Fruit has some enzymes similar to meat these enzymes aid the digestion. Fruit has no chlorestrol side effects.
Perhaps vegetarians should be called Fruitatarians, but the word Fruity is often used
to refer to gays! Why I haven't a clue! So best
stick with the word Vegetarian although vegetables are very important fruit is most import. As for the Spiritual reasons they are varied.. I don't have any for me! I wouldn't kill
an animal even if I was starving.. so I really got
no right to eat meat. I never cared much for meat anyhow! I know meat eaters think that's weird but so what? I do drink milk and eat cheese, and use cream.. no animal had to be
killed for these!

Answer 4

My opinion at the moment is very open as I have only been going out with a vegetarian for about 6 weeks. I my self am a meat eater, however I don't tend to eat meat every day and I am very interested by the vegetarian diet ( not to be converted ) as I very much doubt that I could give up smoked Salmon and scrambled eggs on toast or a rib eye steak ( the kind that moo's and almost walks off your plate ). I love to cook and have been thinking up recipes day. Having looked extensivly on the net I have come to the conclusion that you ( veggies ) really need to get some better recipes as the ones i have found are sooooo Boring! I have resorted to making my own up drawing from all the vegetables that I love and removing the meat and poultry parts to various dishes. Someone please put some recipes that a meat eater can at least share with his girl friend as there is no way that I will cook seperate meals for each of us.

P.s. She says that she is happy to cook meat for me ( not that she has yet ) but do you think it is wrong. Because I felt a bit awkward when she offered.

Answer 5

There are no moral issues involved in vegetarianism !
Just a matter of common sense ! Non-vegetarian food was resorted to in ancient days for reasons of survival (sensible enough!), but sticking on it (?), well it is individual choice ! The human body is structured for a vegetarian diet only.
So obviously, spiritual growth can happen at a faster pace only with a health-physical body-compatible-diet. In fact, it is not just a vegetable diet, but live food that fully supports health and spirituality !

Answer 6

Hi,
I wouldn't become a vegetarian because I love meat.I know it is healthy especially when your meeting all the dietary guidelines everyday. I haven't
any moral or spiritual reasons for not becoming a vegetarian if I choose too someday in the future.What is important is how and what you feel about yourself being a vegetarian.I hope that you do not let your parents,other family members and friends influence your decision.It is definitely a decision that
you have made for yourself.Just like you shouldn't influence other peoples decision to eat meat and not to become a vegetarian.
Your life is your own.Please make all your decisions with careful thought and wisdom.I hope this advice helps you.Remember to be your own person,as long as you are not hurting other people in the long run.take -care and good-luck on anything that you decide to do with the rest of your life.Thanks for a good educated question.

Answer 7

It works.

Purely put - meat stays in the intestines eight times longer than vegetable matter.. Meat has high fat and carcinogenic agents. This increases heart disease and cancer rates especially intestinal cancer - I don't know if you ever saw someone die from intestinal cancer but it ain't pretty. Heart disease is a prime killer of people and I think it may be number one for women. Not eating red meat will reduce artery blockage from fats and thus put you at lower risk of heart disease.

And as for morals - I'm not a believer of any kind nor do I subscribe to religious nonsense - but even in the Judeo-Christian bible - in Genesis, Adam and Eve were pure and did not have a omnivorous diet but were vegetarians - not until they committed "sin" did they turn on the animals and fall from grace. At first animals coexisted with man equally and were not afraid until Adam and Eve committed this initial sin. So if even the early Jews saw eating animals as bad or at least a sin from which they could not escape then it must way heavily on the soul.

If you really want to become vegetarian then go to a slaughterhouse and bask in its glory. Or hunt down an elk with a bow and shoot its heart. At least you'll understand the price of your dinner and if it is worth it. Now I don't judge you eating meat but just be aware of the reality at hand.

Answer 8

Just because you are vegetarian does not necessarily mean that you are lacking in nutrition. There are a number of foods and produce that you can obtain the nutritional value of meat and diary products from. And, there are number of different degrees of vegetarian. I know some vegetarians that anything but produce. I know some vegetarians that eat fish. I know some that drink milk and eat eggs.

Everyone has there own, personal, reason for not eating meat. The majority of them do it because they do not want to be responsible for the death of another living creature.

Answer 9

To make real spiritual advancement, there is no question that a vegetarian diet must be accepted, the unhealthy ingestion of dead animal flesh that is saturated with chemicals and preservatives is degrading.

The next reason for being vegetarian is to consider the amount of fear and suffering that animals experience in the slaughter industry. There are countless stories of how in fear cows cry, scream, and sometimes fall down dead while inside or even before they are taken into the slaughter house. Or how the veins of dead pigs are so big that it shows they have practically exploded from the fear the pig felt and the adrenalin that was produced while it was being led to slaughter.

This certainly causes an immense amount of violence to permeate the atmosphere, which goes out and falls back on us in some form. Furthermore, the adrenalin and fear in the animal also produces toxins which then permeate the body of these animals, which meat-eaters ingest.

People who consume such things cannot help but be effected by it. It causes tensions within them individually, which then spreads in their relations with others. Meat eating is not only unhealthy but is also unclean.

Another factor for being vegetarian is karma. As the second law of thermodynamics states, for every action there must be an equal and opposite reaction. On the universal scale this is called the law of karma, meaning what goes around comes around.

This affects every individual, as well as communities and countries. As the nation sows, so shall it reap. This is something we should take very seriously, especially in our attempt to bring peace, harmony, and unity into the world. If so much violence is produced by the killing of animals, where do you think the reactions to this violence goes? It comes back to us in so many ways, such as the form of neighborhood and community crime, and on up to world wars. Violence breeds violence. Therefore, this will continue unless we know how to change

In the process of bhakti-yoga, devotion goes beyond simple vegetarianism, and food becomes a means of spiritual progress. In the Bhagavad-gita Lord Krishna says, “All that you do, all that you eat, all that you offer and give away, as well as all austerities that you may perform, should be done as an offering unto Me.”

So offering what we eat to the Lord is an integral part of bhakti-yoga and makes the food blessed with spiritual potencies. Then such food is called prasadam, or the mercy of the Lord.


The Lord also describes what He accepts as offerings: “If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it.” Thus, we can see that the Lord accepts fruits, grains, and vegetarian foods. The Lord does not accept foods like meat, fish or eggs, but only those that are pure and naturally available without harming others.

So on the spiritual path eating food that is first offered to God is the ultimate perfection of a vegetarian diet. The Vedic literature explains that the purpose of human life is reawakening the soul’s original relationship with God, and accepting prasadam is the way to help us reach that goal.

For further discussion:-Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari ([e-mail])

Answer 10

I think Vegetarians are very strong people and the actual diet is ok and I think they lack one Amino Acid they should take in a pill supplement.

It is healthy and I am learning more about it each day.