What do you think of vegetarianism?

Answer 1

i think it's wonderful that people at this advanced day and age are finally beginning to reallise that killing animals for no real reason is a pointless and cruel thing to do, we can actually make the choice not to. I'm a vegetarian and i don' like to preach to others about what they should eat, it's for them to reallise individually, but i really do think it's the most civillised and peaceful choice a person can make about their diet. Since becoming a veggie, i have no regrets. I eat a huge variety of really healthy meals and my conscience is so much clearer. It's one of the best choices i've ever made. So what do i think of vegetarianism? I love it!

Answer 2

I think vegetarianism is the easiest way these days to avoid eating masses of chemicals, saturated fats, salt, additives, and weird horrible things like pig lips. I've never heard of mechanically recovered carrots. I do think though that a lot of people and restaurants and supermarkets/convenience food manufacturers have a strange idea of what a vegetarian diet is- it's not about replacing meat with cheese, or pies full of strange brown fake meat (although well done those people for making the effort). A veggie diet embraces a wide spectrum of foods- veg/nuts/seeds/wholegrains/some cheese and dairy/tofu/pulses, and this has to be better than eating for example a chicken breast from a chicken that's spent it's life standing up to it's knees in chicken sewage. Meat eaters- if you ever get chicken and there's a pink mark on the skin, sort of like an old burn, that's an ammonia burn and is caused by the poor bird standing in chicken sewage, and I know that envisaging a chicken stood in this putrid liquid is different from imaging your dinner stood in it, but that's what it is. If you eat meat, which it is your choice to do, make sure that the meat you're eating has been ethically cared for. Go to a butcher- you'll never find out from a supermarket.

Answer 3

If you look at the dental structure of human beings you will accept that by natures selection we are vegetarians. I am a vegetarian by birth and follow the same without much problem. Vegetarian food gives all the necessary needs of the body. Only you have to know where and what you should eat.

Answer 4

Does it mean no wearing of leather apparel as these are made from animals, and a rejection of leather goods etc as part of the interior design of some homes? I think its okay especially now that vegetarians can gain nutrients from soya and tofu which replaces cow's milk and poultry. Problematic occasionally when eating out.

Answer 5

Each to his or her own. People should be able to follow the diet they wish, and neither vegetarian, vegan or meat eaters should dictate, condemn or force the others to follow their particular way.

Although I don't eat a lot of meat, and I do have vegetarian days or meals, I don't feel I could be totally vegetarian or vegan, but I respect wishes of those who are.

I've had meat eaters telling me I should eat more meat and vegetarians dictating that I shouldn't eat it at all. I like to choose.

Answer 6

Re. "Most of the vegetarians I have met have been preachy and self-righteous" --

-- you mean, the ones you've met who you actually know to be vegetarians. Few of the ones I know have much reason to talk about it. Obviously, you tend to mention it when discussing what pizza topping to get, but, beyond that -- what are these people doing? Showing off their lunches? I don't get the ones that need to blither about it.

(When not on the Yahoo! Answers "Vegetarian & Vegan" section, I mean...)

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What do you think of vegetarianism?

Answer 9

It's absolutely fine for those who decide to take that route.
When I go to a vegetarian restaurant, and ask for the meat option, what will I be offered?
I answered a question, the other day, in reply to a question about why vegetarians don't eat eggs. My response (a bit flippant) suggested that the answer lay in the question.
I was getting "thumbs up".
Later, I added the thought that I love vegetarian food because it goes well with meat. Within a couple of minutes I had twice the number of thumbs down !! Sensitive? Or what?
Dentition? Why do we have canine teeth which are only useful to meat eaters? Why are our front teeth so well adapted for cutting meat?

Answer 10

I have been a vegetarian on and off at various points of my life. I enjoy it a lot now although it takes a greater amount of effort to get all the proper proteins in your diet.

Overall, I do not think it contributes to a more healthy diet. ie, it does not seem to me that eating meat, birds, and fish are actually detrimental to your health. And boy do they taste good. (if God wanted us to be vegetarian then why did He make animals taste so good).

That being said the most amazing meals I've had were prepared by Macrobiotic cooks who knew what they were doing. They somehow filled me with energy that no other meals do.

The reason to be a vegetarian stems from the desire to reduce the suffering of animals. The litmus test I use when looking at a menu (or shopping) is to imagine that someone was offering me the animal as a choice, or some vegetarian dish. I will always say "let the animal live, I'll eat the tofu". Why kill animals if you don't have to? And you really don't have to; it is just an easy and tasty way to eat.

Lastly I would say if you choose to eat meat, then make it a land animal. The fisheries around the world are collapsing due to over fishing at an alarming rate. We will drive many species extinct and create vast deserts of lifeless ocean unless we dramatically reduce our catches. I love spicy tuna handrolls, but will never eat another fish in my life in the hopes that my grandkids can still choose to have one.