Why dont vegetarians eat meat?

Question

i just want to know i'm not trying to be mean.

Answer 1

Hi,
Here is some of the reasoning behind why people become vegetarians.
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Health-
Meat-eating diets are at higher risk for kidney disease, some cancers, osteoporosis, obesity, heart disease and hypertension.

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The environment-
Annually, an acre of land can produce 40,000 pounds of potatoes, 50,000 pounds of tomatoes, or a paltry 250 pounds of beef.

If Americans would reduce meat consumption by just 10%, enough grain would be saved to feed the 60,000,000 people who die of hunger each year.

Mind you, businesses understand there is no money in feeding the world, but a great deal of damage is being done to the planet by the meat industry. Many groups feel as though a person cannot be an environmentalist without being a vegetarian, if that gives you an idea of the global impact of meat.

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Animal Suffering
For those of us who actually passed 7th grade biology and understand that while both are living, plants and animals are quite different, we choose not to eat animals. Animals possess a central nervous system that allows them to feel pain and a limbic area of the brain that allows them to feel emotions such as fear and sadness.

It is not simply a matter of people killing animals, but that the animals bread for our consumption live lives of constant torture and agony. Around eight billion animals are killed for food every year in the U.S. alone -- a number greater than the entire human population of the planet.

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Anyway, that is not everything, but only some pieces of the thoughts behind why some people choose not to eat animals.

Thanks
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Answer 2

This merely "kinda" solutions the question, yet i think of it ought to help. Fish is seen meat. some human beings do no longer because of the fact they are in a position to't eat Meat on Fridays for the time of Lent. inspite of the undeniable fact that, no longer eating that form of meat is approximately land animals merely; i think of it is because of the fact the Bible differentiates land meat from sea meat. If somebody says to me "i'm a vegetarian, yet I eat fish." I respond: "then you are no longer a vegetarian."

Answer 3

There are a few reasons I don't eat meat.

When I started being a veg. it was because I didn't like meat anymore. It grossed me out to think it was dead flesh. I never really liked the texture of meat, especially chicken. I hated preparing food in my home if I had to touch raw meat.

Another reason I'm a veg is because I eat waaaaaay healthier this way. I feel so much better and have more energy!

The last but of course not the least reason is because of the inhumane way most animals are treated that will be used for food. In my daily life I try to not even kill bugs, so this is important to me.

Answer 4

I can only speak for myself but I became a vegetarian when I answered two questions in my mind...Do I eat animals and take their life because I need to for survival or because I like they way they taste ? Second I wondered if they could talk so I could understand them (in English I mean ) and said do not hurt me or eat me... would I ? So that was it ... and I have been happier ever since for the past 35 years..

Answer 5

There are as many different answers to this question as their are fish in the sea.

The top reasons people are vegetarians:
- they want to eat healthier (cholesterol)
- many object to the mass factory farms and mistreatment
- others believe they are sentinent beings and shouldn't be eaten (which is different than just being alive)

TRUE vegetarians don't eat any meat - including fish and seafood. Sometimes you may hear someone being referred to as a pesca-vegetarian (eats fish). It's more like being semi-vegetarian.

Strict vegetarians consume no animal products at all.

Lacto-ovo vegetarians don't eat animal flesh but do eat eggs and dairy.

Vegans are strict vegetarians and may also abstain from using animal products like leather, honey, beeswax, char-bone processed sugar, carmine (a red color from bugs which is in everything from yogurt to makeup), Worsterchire sauce (made with fish), along with the normal refraining from dairy and eggs.

Good luck with your search!

Answer 6

Well Some vegetarians want to help animals not eat them. Others just want to eat healthy

Answer 7

im not a vegetarian but my friend-enemy is a vegetarian.she doesnt eat meat because shes indian.i dont no y but she said it was againist her religish(sp?)beliths(sp?)

-(im not good at spelling,prefer math more.)

Answer 8

Different reasons for most. For me, I have issues with the animal cruelty things. That aside, meat is unsanitary. Animals raised for food are fed an unnatural diet, kept in deplorable conditions, have diseases that are treated with antibiotics and steroids, and are given growth hormones to make them ready for slaughter faster. All of that ends up in the meat, including whatever disease the animal had. There is cholesterol, fat, urine, blood, pus, fecal matter, and a host of other nasty things in meat. I get everything I need from a plant and grain based diet, so I see no need to add in stuff that my body doesnt know what to do with, or for some animal to have to die, just so I can eat. Its just common sense, as for me. My veggies don't bleed or scream. I just give them a quick wash, and they are good to go.

Answer 9

some people don't eat meat because their body can't process it that well. people watching their cholesterol, fat intake. There are alot of health benefits to it. Other people choose not to eat meat because of the way the animals are slaughtered also different chemicals animals are injected with for various reasons!

Answer 10

people become veggies for different reasons. some do it because their religion requires it (7th Day Adventists, Buddhists, etc). other do it for their health- to lower their cholesterol, saturated fat, to lose weight, etc. and finally, people like me do it because we think it is cruel and inhumane to brutalize and kill animals and we don't want to support an industry that does that. we also find the idea of eating flesh disgusting.
thanks for being polite instead of criticizing us! =)