for vegetarians, why dont you eat meat?

Question

please give me valid reasons for i am going to write a persuasive essay telling that meat should not be eaten.. and if possible, please cite some references...

Answer 1

Meat is an animal product and all animal products which cause harm or kill the animal is forbidden. The simple explanation to this is that we should let all living things live saying so many might ask arent plants living things Yes they are but to survive we have to eat them. So eatables should not hurt living things in other words live and let live

Answer 2

The only reason one would want to be a vegetarian is because they WANT to become vitamin deficient and become aeniemic.

Vegetarianism is unhealthy compared to a real balanced diet. However it is healthier than the common american diet of fat(fast) foods that make you a lard ***. That is kind of sad, a diet that causes health problems in the long run is healthier than the average diet. What makes vegetarianism unhealthy is that most vegetarians jump into it without knowing how and what do eat to get the proper nutrients, and many must take supplemental pills for proper sources of Iron and other vitamins. If you intend to lift weights you also deny yourself the only source of naturally occuring creatine, only found in certain meats.

The post above is grossly misleading and typical vegetarian bs. The reason why humans have a longer digestive tract is to digest vegetables. This does not preclude eating meat. It simply allows the additional option of vegetables that comes with bieng an OMNIVORE. Shorter tracks can't break down vegetables as easily. Vegetarians often erroneously cite this yet want you to overlook the dangers of a vegetarian diet. Deit deficiencies which are irreversible.

Any cite of PETA (a group known to fund animal rights terrorists, AND they kill 2/3 of the animals they take in and are against ALL medical testing and for TOTAL animal liberation holds no weight).
You can easily do a google search or do a FOIL request for PETA's tax returns to see this.

Answer 3

The way I see it... the meat industry practises cruelty when breeding, raising and slaughtering animals (I wont go into detail- you could research that on the Peta website if you want). I'm not going to give them my money. By not eating meat, I will not generate any more demand for their product.

It's not about whether or not we are "designed" to eat meat- I don't care about that- the way it is produced makes me angry enough that I will never buy it.

And to be fair, I wouldn't eat it even if it was done humanely because I dont think I need it to survive, and killing any living creature for food would be a last resort survival instinct for me. I wouldn't do it myself, so I'd rather not just get someone else to do it- if I would feel guilty about killing something, I should also feel guilty about having somebody else do it on my behalf.

I think these are the main reasons, and my vegetarian friends all see it in much the same way. Hope that helps.

Answer 4

One reason is that I feel sorry for animals, but that came only after I'd already become a vegetarian.
The real reason is hard to explain... It's kind of metaphysical. If the animal is killed and it's gone, there is nothing in the way of the wind... Silly, eh?

By the way, I do eat meat sometimes when I'm offered some or my body tells me to have some (once or twice a month).

Answer 5

Do you need any views to oppose this?

I think we should eat meat. In fact, I will not eat a vegitarian meal. I have to have some sort of meat in it for it to be deemed a meal.

We are omnivores. Our bodies are designed to eat both meat and vegitation. Our ancient ancestors honed social and pack skills while hunting for meat. Our brains developed from eating fish, rich in Omega 3. We first developed tools to hunt, hunted bigger and tougher animals and therefore evolved into more intelligent creatures.

If we were meant to be vegetarian, we would be just like the gorillas, naked, living in jungles, eating vegetables, but not really evolving at all.

Answer 6

This is from a website that briefly describes a couple of reasons why I am still a vegetarian:

Throughout the world, forests are being destroyed to support the meat-eating habits of the "developed" nations. Between 1960 and 1985, nearly 40 percent of all Central American rain forests were destroyed to create pasture for beef cattle. More than four million acres of cropland are lost to erosion in the United States every year. Of this staggering topsoil loss, 85 percent is directly associated with livestock raising, i.e., over-grazing. Much of the excrement from "food" animals (which amounts to 20 times as much fecal matter as human waste) flows unfiltered into our lakes and streams. (4)
Raising animals for food is an extremely inefficient way to feed a growing human population. The U.S. livestock population consumes enough grain and soybeans to feed more than five times the entire U.S. population. One acre of pasture produces an average of 165 pounds of beef; the same acre can produce 20,000 pounds of potatoes. If Americans reduced their meat consumption by only 10 percent, it would free 12 million tons of grain annually for human consumption. That alone would be enough to adequately feed each of the 60 million people who starve to death each year.

Answer 7

I'm not a vegetarian. But I do like vegetarian recipes. For once, let the preaching go; drop the debates and just let this be a site for Vegans and friends, and the free and uncluttered exchange of recipes and ideas of that genre.
As far as fur and skins for clothing, well, if we were meant to wear clothes, we would have been born wearing them.

Answer 8

If you look at the digestive system of a human, it is designed to not eat meat. The intestines are longer and larger to provide enough time for the body process and absorb all of the nutrients and vitamins from the vegetables and such. When we eat meat, we absorb much more fat then we should because our bodies are not designed to eat it. Look at the digestive system of a carnivore and you will see that the intestines are much shorter so it does not have the time to absorb all the fats and such from the meat. Check into Albert Einstein's theory of vegetarianism.

Answer 9

I believe it is healthier. I don not think we are made to eat flesh. Meat eating didn't happen until the Great Flood. At that point we were allowed to eat flesh. Our bodies did not change only our diets.A huge perecentage of Health problems are diet related.
http://www.hacres.com/home/home.asp

Answer 10

Well : www.link.20fr.com

I was ignorantly born into a "non-vegan" world, and I was sick to have ever even lashed out at vegans when I was non-vegan... I was really GROSS.... there is a brain function perhaps.

MEAT is MURDER, unless you are eating cadavers or something that are "donated" in from your old grandmother or something ~ and in such a case, well that would most likely be UNHEALTHY.

there is a notion of ETHICS which I now am only beginning to understand, that before I could not even see the door opening of....