Are you a vegetarian?

Answer 1

Meat processed today does not come from the happy little farms that most paintings portray. The meat of today is loaded full of antibiotics and hormones. The antibiotics used are necessary to keep the animals alive in conditions that would normally kill them. The hormones are to make the animal grow up extremely fast for food production. Hormones also make chicken and turkey breasts get huge as well.

Recently, there have been studies conducted to find the impact of antibiotics and hormones that we get from eating the animals. After all, whatever the cow eats or gets treated with will, eventually, ends up in you. A link has been found between more resistant, mutant bacterial strains and the over use of antibiotics in our society. Scientists think that because we get doses of antibiotics in our meat, we are becoming susceptible to bacteria and the mutant strains that antibiotics can no longer cure. There has also been a link found between eating hormonally treated meat and little girls going through puberty at much younger ages. It is not uncommon to see 10 year old girls starting to menstruate. A ten year old is much too young to have her body be ready for pregnancy.

You must also understand that there are too many slaughterhouses to be regulated consistently by the government. The animals are kept in huge rooms full of feces and dead animals. Many chicken cages are stacked on top of each other so that the chickens in the lower levels have excrement covering their bodies. Any animal that dies from sickness or disease gets ground up and fed to the other animals. In essence, we are eating cannibalistic cows, chicken, etc.

The animals in slaughterhouses are treated inhumanely. Chickens get their beaks cut off by a red hot blade to keep them from pecking at themselves or other birds. Male chickens are considered useless, so they throw them into large garbage bags. Some suffocate and die in the process. The bag full of baby chicks is then ground up to make food to feed the rest of the animals on the farm. Milk cows are artificially inseminated over and over again so that they keep producing milk. Their male calves are taken away from them right away, locked into stalls where they are suspended and unable to move, and never see the light of day all to make veal. A dairy cow under natural circumstances will live to be 20+ years, but because giving birth is exhausting to the body, they only live to be 4 years old. When they die, they are used for meat. Baby pigs get their teeth cut off and male pigs get their testicles removed, all without anesthesia. Many die in the process from the pain. Sows are artificially inseminated and strapped down and forced to lie on their sides for the rest of their lives so that they may suckle an endless amount of piglets. They end up with grotesque bed sores from not ever being able to move.

Also, meat production is slowly killing our planet. There is a 7,000 square mile "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico that no longer supports life due to too much nitrogen from animal manure and feed-crop fertilizer. Cattle-ranching is the #1 reason for Amazon forest depletion. Raising animals for food consumes more than half of all water used in the US alone.

One person becoming a vegetarian will save 100 animals a year. Hope this helped.

Answer 2

I have been a vegetarian for 5 years and a vegan for 6 months.

Answer 3

Yes and all you pigs out their saying that you never will be, maybe I should just explain to you what this disgusting meat that looks like ****(poop) really is: It makes you fat,its the reason for the obesity in America ,animals are abused so that you pigs can stuff your faces! And while you sit here being the followers you are and saying that vegatarians aren't sane I have something to tell you lower people, I am 12 years old and I am more enlightened then you!
Note to person who asked question: If your a vegatarian then I am sorry all these pigs are stupid .If you are not then Oh well.

Answer 4

yes. i'm studying philosophy and ethics, and honestly i couldn't justify eating meat anymore.

nurseme0w: sounds more like unable to think about issues.
-do you think that people should not cause any more suffering than is necessary?
-do you think that people do not need to eat meat to survive?
-do you think that eating meat causes suffering in the animals?

if you answered yes to all these questions, and its diffidult to see how any person with any thinking ability could answer "no" to even one, then you are admitting that you are causing unnecessary suffering. "not causing unnecessary suffering" is the most basic ethical belief possible, its very hard to ever argue that we should cause unnecessary suffering and still claim to be a moral person. people that are not vegetarians either lack the very basic thinking ability required to connect the three points above, believe the disproven ideas that humans need to eat meat or that animals do not feel pain, are totally amoral, or are knowingly acting immorally.

Answer 5

no but i only eat chicken but i tried being vegetarian for 3 months and got too skinny cuzz my metabolism is very high if my metabolism wasn't high i would have been vegetarian along time ago

Answer 6

Raw vegan and just to put in my 2 cents the american population is fat from over consumption of hydrogenated fats and oils, high fructose content in every single processed food and drinks, "enriched flour" and hormone laced animal flesh. I do enjoy it when people love the way they choose that what lifes about.

Cashews and greens

Answer 7

I'm a piskatarian, that means I don't eat meat, but I eat fish (not shellfish because I don't like it).
I think it's really unfair that some people (nurseme0w) call veggies insane, that's disrespecting our beliefs, I mean I wouldn't call them a cold blooded killer who only thinks of their own satisfaction and not the welfare of the animal that they're eating, would I? And I bet you waste half the animal aswell (offal)!!

Answer 8

I'm a semi-vegetarian. No red meat/pork/beef.

Answer 9

Yes I am, I have been for at least 12 years now.

Answer 10

No , I love fish, but absolutely love all kinds of veggies too!