What's your main reason for being a vegetarian?

Question

For me it's because I love animals. How about you?

Answer 1

I love animals. After witnessing on videos the horrors that animals suffer, I couldn't stand to eat another morsel. I thought it would be hard since I've only been a vegetarian for three weeks, but I'm loving every minute of it. As an animal lover and pet owner, I feel good knowing that I have made my stand against animal cruelty.

I love myself. Meat is an unnecessary food. Consuming animal flesh is a contributor to sickness. People argue with me all the time, telling me that the meat is there for a reason, that I'm wasting my money buying only organic foods and that I'm going to die anyway. "Why does it matter? You're gonna die eventually!"

Here's the difference: I don't want to die with a terminal sickness. I don't want my kidneys or other vital organ to suddenly fail on me because of all the junk and processed foods I had put in it.

I choose health, vitality and animal freedom.

Answer 2

I am an ethical vegan! I couldn't stand eating little dead bodies, and after I went vegetarian I learned about factory farming and that is my reason for never going back to being omni. Plus there are all of the health benefits and all the cool stuff that you get exposed to by trying new vegan recipes and stuff. But again, it's mostly the animal loving.

Answer 3

I love animals.... but I got the point in my life that one day meat just didnot taste good at all. I started slowly one day a week and increased. I tried to cut all meat out but I dont eat vegs for that.Also i discovered i cannot eat soy. So that limits me. So instead I eat very little meat some day none at all. But you just have to find what works for you.

Answer 4

I'm only a quasi-veggie. I mean, things like chicken or beef broth are OK. And little bites of seafood or meats. But my reason is I just hate gnawing on meat chunks like beef stew or chicken legs or ribs. Cavemen gnawed on bones. So I like the taste, I just hate chewing it.

Answer 5

Girl, I love them to. But everytime I try not to eat meat, I see a Hamburger!!!
Sorry, little animals. I still love you.

Hey, I just thought of something. Even if we don't eat them, They're still dead. So why waste them and let the other, live animals see them-or worse, eat them?

Answer 6

because I love animals, and because I educated myself about how unsanitary, unhealthy, and gross meat is. Full of parasites and other scary things

Answer 7

I love animals and they are tortured just to fill our stomachs.

Answer 8

i love animals and all (who doesn't) but i really don't eat it cause i just don't like the taste. and the thought of eating flesh is pretty gross too.

Answer 9

Cause meat tastes gross and its wrong to unnessarily kill animals.

Answer 10

me cuz

Most of the products listed below ARE physically tested on animals. By purchasing these products, you are funding animal testing!
THIS IS A PARTIAL LIST OF PRODUCTS THAT "ARE" TESTED ON ANIMALS:


Clorox (ArmorAll, Brita, Formula 409, Fresh Step, Glad, Liquid Plumber,
Pine-Sol, Soft Scrub, S.O.S., Tilex)
Colgate-Palmolive Co. (Ajax, Fab, Hills Pet Nutrition, Mennen, Palmolive,
SoftSoap, Speed Stick)
Coty (Adidas, Davidoff, Glow, The Healing Garden, JOOP!, Jovan, Kenneth
Cole, Lancaster, Marc Jacob, Rimmel, Stetson)
Cover Girl (Procter & Gamble)
Del Laboratories (CornSilk, LaCross, Naturistics, New York Color,
Sally Hansen)
Dial Corporation (Purex, Renuzit)
Gillette Co. (Braun, Duracell)
Helene Curtis Industries (Finesse, Salon Selectives, Thermasilk, Unilever)
Johnson & Johnson (Aveeno, Clean & Clear, Neutrogena, ROC)
Kimberly-Clark Corp. (Cottonelle, Huggies, Kleenex, Kotex, Pull-Ups, Scott
Paper)
Lever Bros. (Unilever)
Cacharel, Giorgio Armani, Helena
Rubinstein, Lancme, Matrix Essentials, Maybelline, Ralph Lauren
Fragrances, Redken, Soft Sheen, Vichy)
L'oreal
Max Factor (Procter & Gamble)
Mead
Melaleuca
Mennen Co. (Colgate-Palmolive)
Nalgene Bottles
Neoteric Cosmetics
New Dana Perfumes
Noxell (Procter & Gamble)
Olay Co./Oil of Olay (Procter & Gamble)
Oral-B (Gillette Company)
Pantene (Procter & Gamble)
Pfizer (BenGay, Desitin, Listerine, Lubriderm, Plax, Visine)
Physique (Procter & Gamble)
Playtex Products (Baby Magic, Banana Boat, Ogilvie)
Procter & Gamble Co. (Clairol, Cover Girl, Crest, Giorgio, Iams, Max Factor,
Physique, Tide)
Richardson-Vicks (Procter & Gamble)
Sally Hansen (Del Laboratories)
Schering-Plough (Bain de Soleil, Coppertone, Dr. Scholls)
S.C. Johnson (Drano, Edge, Fantastik, Glade, OFF!, Oust, Pledge, Scrubbing
Bubbles, Shout, Skintimate, Windex, Ziploc)
SoftSoap Enterprises (Colgate-Palmolive)
Suave (Unilever)
3M (Post-It, Scotch)
Unilever (Axe, Calvin Klein, Dove, Helene Curtis, Lever Bros., Suave)

PROCTOR AND GAMBLE IS THE LARGEST DISTRIBUTOR OF PRODUCTS THAT ARE TESTED ON ANIMALS.




THERE ARE ALTERNATIVES TO ANIMAL RESEARCH!!!







Did you know that there are hundreds of agencies around the world spending your money shoving dogs into metal chambers and pumping in pesticides while the animals try in vain to escape the deadly poisons?
Or that researchers still swab burning chemicals into rabbits eyes and onto their shaved skin? Animals are routinely cut open, poisoned, and forced to live in barren steel cages for years, although studies show that because of vast physiological variations between species, human reactions to illnesses and drugs are completely different from those of other animals.

Today's non-animal research methods are humane, more accurate, less expensive, and less time-consuming than animal experiments, yet change comes slowly and many researchers are unwilling to switch to superior technological advances. Animal experimentation not only is preventing us from learning more relevant information, it continues to harm and kill animals and people every year. Hundreds of thousands of these animals are poisoned, blinded, and killed every year in outdated product tests for shampoos, household cleaners, cosmetics, hairspray, and other personal care and household items.

Although more than 500 companies have banned all animal tests forever, some corporations still force substances into animals stomachs and drip chemicals into rabbits eyes. These tests are not required by law, and they often produce inaccurate or misleading results even if a product has blinded an animal, it can still be marketed to you. Animals deserve rights, regardless of how they taste or how convenient it is to experiment on them. Like humans, animals are capable of suffering and have an interest in leading their own lives. These animals do not have a voice to speak out and stop this. WE DO!!!!!!!!


Just because a label on a product says "This finished product was not tested on animals" does not mean they did not test on animals at all. The "finished" part is very sneaky...this means a lot of times that they tested on animals for every step up to the final or "finished" product. Be very careful when it comes to this!







Just because a label on a product says "This finished product was not tested on animals" does not mean they did not test on animals at all. The "finished" part is very sneaky...this means a lot of times that they tested on animals for every step up to the final or "finished" product. Be very careful when it comes to this!

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SOME PRODUCTS THAT ARE "NOT" TESTED ON ANIMALS:



Almay (Revlon)
Arbonne International
Aveda
Avon
Bare Essentials
BeautiControl
"Beauty Without Cruelty"
BIO ESSENTIALS
Bobbi Brown
Bonne Bell
Botanics Skin Care
Burts Bees
Chanel
Clarins of Paris
Clinique
Crabtree & Evelyn
D'Lanerg Cosmetics
Dessert by Jessica Simpson
Dr. Bronner
Echo Bella Botanicals
Envi Shave Gel
Garden Botanika
Got2b
Hard Candy
Jane
Jason Hair Care
Jheri Redding (Conair)
John Paul Mitchell
Juicy
Kiehls
Kiss My Face
M.A.C. Cosmetics
Mary Kay
Merle Norman
Method (available at Target)
Nature's Gate
Nivea
Norelco
OPI Products
Origins (Estee Lauder)
Prescriptives
PROACTIVE
Pureology
Reckitt Benckiser
Seventh Generation Brand Products
Shuttle Lotion
Smashbox Cosmetics
St.Ives
Stila
Stuff Cosmetics by Hillary Duff
Trader Joe's Company
Townley Cosmetic Product Line
Urban Decay Cosmetic Line
Vo5 Nourishing Oasis

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and i luv animals so much i would DIE 4 them