why do other people don't eat meat?

Answer 1

They would rather be healthy. Beings meant to eat meat have huge teeth like tigers. Others are meant to be vegetarians.

Answer 2

some people become vegetarian or vegans for health reasons. others it is a different story they might think that killing an animal and eating it is morally wrong or in humane. To some they might feel sorry for the animals dieing and then being eaten. i personally try not to think about those facts. because being someone who eats meat i do like it and i do not like to think about the animal it once was while i am eating it for two reasons; 1 being because it might make me spew and 2 being it would make me sad. see now i feel bad already. bye thx for the 2 points.

Answer 3

Some people choose not to eat meat for mainly one of three reasons or all of the three reasons--morals, health, and environment/the world. Morals, of course, deals with the inhumane way that animals are treated. Every living creature deserves to be free and live a full and happy life. Before anyone brings up "animals eat other animals," I will just say right now that animals also reproduce with their siblings, but humans generally do not. What I am trying to say is we, as humans, are the more intelligent and evolved group of the animals and should be able to reason what is right and what is wrong. We also do not have carnivorous teeth. The second reason, health, involves wishing to stay away from the diseases that flesh carries. It is just a heart attack waiting to happen. The hormones and chemicals that are in your food that you do not even know about are affecting your health greatly. There are foods where one can achieve as much if not more protein than meat holds. Eating meat is also bad for the environment. The more land that is needed for farms, the more the rainforests are chopped down. I might also add that the grain used to feed the farmed animals COULD be used to feed the starving people of the world. There are so many reasons, and I only touched on them. If you desire to know more, there are many factual websites about what is going in your body each time you consume meat and what it is doing to our planet.


P.S.: Amanda J, just because we have been "eating animals since forever," doesn't mean that it was or is right. Keep in mind that the people that owned slaves before civil rights thought that since they have been "keeping slaves since forever," there was no reason to stop. Minds change as we become more developed and understand more of the world and what is right. If there is no room for change, there is no room for a future. I would also like to add that I am one of those people drinking those soy lattes, and I am quite proud :).


To everyone else flaming me: I am not trying to force you to convert, so don't get all uptight. I was just explaining why most people are vegetarians and why I am a vegetarian. It doesn't matter who owned or sold slaves, the point is that it was wrong and laws were changed because of that fact. Also, I understand the point about animals dieing painfully in the wild, but humans also have a risk of dieing by nature as well. I think most people would choose the risk of getting attacked by a bear when they are camping rather than living in hell in a cramped up cage, being pumped with chemicals, electricially shocked, having their throats slit, having broken limbs from not having the freedom and ability to move...or worse yet...watching and knowing that their child is going through that. Maybe that's just me. If you believe the myth that "animals are put quietly to sleep" before they're on your dinner plate, think again. Here is where your food is truely coming from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcn7sVpi2WQ


Watch and learn before you think that what they go through is painless or even minor pain.

Answer 4

I eat meat...but know a vegan...she doesn't like the way the animals are killed. Sometimes it's inhumane. Personally I think that since we've been eating animals since...forever...that there's no reason to stop now. The same people who don't eat meat because of what the pig or chicken steps in or eats, are the people who live in a home that wreaks of bleach and their kids can't play on the swingset at the park because little Johnny over there was playing in the sand and then got on the swing before their kid did. And who knows what's in that sand...they're the ones who sit in starbucks talking philosophy junk and drink their soy decaf latte and get in the way of my caramel macchiato. but really it has alot to do with how they want to be perceived. But you form your own opinion and keep mine in the back of your mind :)

Answer 5

I used to be a vegetarian for five years because:

There is plenty to eat without killing animals; it just isn't necessary.

When I had my first son, I began to eat meat. I still am leary about meat just because I know chickens pick and wallow in its own feces and urine. And pork has tapeworms and I never know if it is cooked enough. And beef can be eating other meat unnaturally.

Answer 6

I don't eat meat becuase I don't like it...not becuase I want to save the animals which by the way God put on this earth for us to eat.

Answer 7

I personally don't eat meat, because I feel it is morally wrong.

Answer 8

Because they are just Fat penguins that think that they will get skinny from not eating meat,lol
(no afense vegys)

Answer 9

i dont eat meat because animals are living things but they dont have a voice to tell people to stop killing them so i like to be their voice and not eat them

Answer 10

I don't want animals to die so that I may eat!!! I think that meat tastes vile too!!!