Alex: Will eventually in the future all people be vegetarians?

Question

Animals are getting so many diseases and sicknesses and it is depleating our resources. Also for a forever future kind of question what food will we eat in the future?
Any ideas? Just take a vitamin pill and live on pizza I hope.

Answer 1

I hope so! It's not just animal diseases - eating meat is implicated pretty heavily in a lot of serious people diseases as well. Vegetarians have fewer heart attacks and cancer, for example.

The idea that humans NEED meat is totally bogus. Very few people in India eat meat, for example, and that has been true for many centuries. And India would be much worse off if they had to support a population of meat-eaters in their overcrowded country.

There's also the environmental devastation caused by eating meat. It's much more efficient to eat those beans and grains yourself instead of feeding them to an animal, then slaughtering and eating the animal. Vegetarians conserve scarce water resounces, reduce pesticide use, and generally are much gentler on the planet, themselves - and animals.

If the world's population keeps increasing, it may eventually turn out to be a choice between efficient vegetarianism or meat-eating by the rich and mass starvation among the poor.

Answer 2

I sure hope so. It would solve a lot of the world's problems if people did not eat meat. Less land taken for grazing. Less pig manure from factory farms causing huge problems. Less outright horrendous cruelty.

Who said you couldn't get a great diet and be a vegetarian? Lots of famous vegetarians who are healthy and outspoken about the benefits of being veggie. Me included (well, not famous). Lots of great nutritious protein substitutes on the market today. Veggie bacon is great, has no fat and no pork chemicals and no piggies.

Except for people in extreme climates like the Inuit who have not got the options and must survive using animals...they just do it more respectfully.

An added note: Humans are OMNIVORES which means that they are able to eat and digest plant and animal...doesn't mean that they have to have both!!

Answer 3

I highly doubt everyone will end up vegetarians. In fact, I expect the percentage of people who are vegetarians to drop in the future. The main reason for this is that before long we will be able to grow solid meat in vats without having to kill an animal's mind to get it, thereby eliminating the ethical aspect of vegetarianism.

Eventually, of course, we will replace our biological bodies with mechanical ones, and after that we probably won't eat at all. So on the long term, our main diet will be nothing (unless you count energy, and even then we might have zero point energy power).

Answer 4

ONE - animals are not getting as many diseases as they did in the past.

TWO - we are not "depleting our resources" - with modern farming techniques, we grow more food and raise more livestock on far less land than we used to.

No, the world will not be vegan in the future. Humans were meant to eat veggies AND meat. Meat contains the full squence of protiens and amino acids which our bodies need. It is extremely difficult to get those essentials on an all vegetable diet. So stop holding your breath.

Love, Jack.

Answer 5

I don't think so. I doubt that all people will become vegetarians, because homo sapience is basically an omnivorous, so it has to eat meat too. What kind of meat? Maybe a chemical one, but meat and not only vegetables (which could be artificial as well)
A vitamin pill? Unlikely; I think people always will like to feel the food, not only to feed.

Answer 6

I think nothing will change much from how it is now, i mean yea, food has evolved so much that we can get a complete meal in mins. but i think the pill idea may never come. i mean, people actually enjoy eating, the whole idea of chewin your food an savoring the taste in your mouth before swallowing, who would want to give that up? And i love to eat meat lol Don't think i ccould survive without it! (sorry to the vegetarians i may have insulted)

Answer 7

Humans are omnivores, meaning that our diet requires both meat and plant. Herbivores eat just plants (say squrilles, some dinosaurs, cows) and carnivores eat only meat ( many predators like sharks, lions).

Our recources are not being significantly depleted by sick animals, it may seem like it by news reports but it is a bogus idea. Thuroughly cooking your food kills all the bacteria and makes it safe to eat.

Answer 8

This isn't Star Trek with a food pill

Answer 9

insects are much faster and easier to raise than animals, they do not have diseases and contain more protein.
I think that the generations to come will feed on insects and vegetables.

Answer 10

with all the genetically modified food,we can just make our own new animals,and eat those!!! although i will not be eating gm anything,i'd rather eat good old mud covererd foods,like boiled potatoes,etc!!!