CALLING ALL vegatarians?!?!?

Question

i am not trying to be rude(because im not a vegatarian i eat meat) but why did u become a vegatarian and when?? i am just curious

i have seen "supersize me" and i wanted to throw up i just stop eating fast food but i still eat meat

Answer 1

7 years ago. I watched a documentary (can't remember the name) about animal treatment in slaughterhouses. I became a vegetarian because I didn't like the way animals are treated in factory farms. I *stay* a vegetarian now because it's extremely healthy, it's sustainable (factory farming is not), and because I still don't like the way the animals are treated.

Answer 2

I committed to being a vegetarian three weeks ago. I had been arguing with myself for about a year (since I started eating only organic foods) because I knew that eating meat had health risks and I knew that animals were being treated cruelly. Did you know that there is scientific evidence that eating animal products, especially their flesh, greatly increases your chances of developing cancer and disease?

I did try at one point. I cut down on the organic chicken and completely eliminated the red meat. But no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't give up the chicken... it just tasted so darn good.

About a month ago, a friend mentioned a website called peta.org. I decided to check it out and was astonished and incredibly saddened at the sad lives these very animals live. They were being treated in such a vicious, inhumane way. As a pet lover and owner, I couldn't imagine hanging my cats, dog and/or chinchillas, slicing them across their throats and letting them bleed to death. Or grabbing them by their legs and smacking them against the wall until they were dead. It would be unethical and inhumane.

That's what's happening to these animals. I'm taking a stand against animal cruelty. Even if they started killing them in "better ways", I would still be a vegetarian.

Better health, more energy and vitality... the benefits are endless. I don't discriminate against those that currently eat meat or continue to eat meat despite the evidence, but I encourage everyone to at least consider the thought.

Answer 3

Religious reasons & Health : As a 7-th day Adventist I follow the guidelines of the clean and unclean meats. So when I learned even about the clean meats and how unhealthy I chose to just not eat any more meat. I did not see any rudeness in your question now if you're closed minded and not willing to accept our answers then keep that to yourself.

Also I'm going to alternative medicine field and most of the teachings are for a vegeterian lifestyle and the ones that allow meat have some pretty good guidelines to what to do when one does eat meat.

I confess I eat a little here and now. So I'm not a committed vegeterian.
Sometimes and not to justify myself I eat fish to get the Omega-3. Mind you there are alternatives to getting O-3 and O-6 but well...... I prefer eating that little fish once in awhile.

Answer 4

I gradually became a vegetarian when I was pregnant..
I used to eat meat,I wished I didn't but I thought I won't be able to just not to..until I got pregnant and I just didn't like eating meat of any kind..once a vegetarian you can not go back because when you stop eating meat you get disgusted with the idea of eating a-once- living thing..imagine eating a cat or a dog EUWW!! no difference!!

Answer 5

1. Putting rotting animal flesh in my mouth is less then appetizing. Once an an animal is slaughtered, the flesh starts to decompose right away. I'd rather not eat decomposing cooked flesh.
2. Meat eaters have a higher risk of some cancers and heart disease.
3. There is no reason to eat meat, we don't need it and why would someone feel good about something being killed for something they don't need? If you wouldn't kill your dog or cat, why is it acceptable to consume a dead cow or a dead chicken?

Answer 6

It is my right as a human being to choose what I eat. No if's but's or maybe's.
I also enjoy awarding other living organisms the right to choose the life they lead, including other humans, animals, plants, etc. For that reason I would never try to force anyone to become veg*n, but if asked I will gladly unload info.
I also know a great deal about the effects that the factory farming industry does to the environment of our only home: planet Earth. Factory farms pollute waterways more than all other industrial sources combined, cause 85% of all topsoil erosion, and produce 130 times the excrement of the entire human population, just to name a few reasons.
I also know a great deal about the human health benefits of being vegan. 100% of dieticians and nutritionists in the world will advise that heart disease and stroke are the leading causes of death in the western world, and both of these are most easily and rapidly averted by reducing intake of animal matter, and increasing intake of vegetable matter. In other words, go vegan and go vegan lol.
I also know about the human and animal rights violations that occur in the factory farming industry. for more information about the crimes committed by feedlots, transport companies, slaughter houses, and milking farms, read the book called "Fast Food Nation", by Eric Schlosser. Illegal immigrants from south and central america are enticed by hollow promises into the US by big corporations, placed in inhumane working conditions, and told they will be put in prison for being an alien unless they do exactly as asked. They are told to work 12 or more hour shifts slicing the throats of thousands of cattle, to dive into cylinders of blood to unclog the drain at the bottom, work with machines that kill or maim on average a few employees every month, and are paid only enough to just barely survive: a fraction of the minimum legal wage, most of which goes back to the corporation for residential rent charges. This means the employees are in almost constant excrutiating pain, both physical and emotional (psychological), and don't care at all about the rights of the animals that move through the factory at almost double the speed of any other country in the world, because they are being victimised themself.
The law is powerless to stop them, with federal laws preventing the FDA from being able to force companies to recall any animal product for any reason, even if there is a toxic, biological or even radioactive ingredient suspected to be in meat. If the company does a voluntary recall, It is always to little, too late. This has been the case in every occurance on record in the US.

I have been vegan 6 years, I am Australian, and unless something major changes globally to make meat safe, healthy, humane, environmentally friendly and financially worthwhile (you've noticed meat is more expensive than vegetables), I can't see myself touching it every again.

Answer 7

I became a vegetarian because I didn't like the way the animals were treated plus I just feel bad for the animals over all...In my opinon I don't know how someone could eat something that didn't do anything wrong at all but just to let you live. I became a vegetarian 4 years ago...

Answer 8

i was 12. because i didnt want to eat animals. Now at 35yrs I dont care as much about the animals but its too late to start eating meat, and it smells! My 6 yr old daughter has also decided that she does not want to eat a dead animal.

Answer 9

www.peta2.com or www.peta.com
watch MEET YOUR MEAT.

.. however this movie doesn't work for everyone, i made my aunt and mom watch this one & the one about animals being skinned alive and they both still eat meat and still wear leather and such....

i've been vegetarian for 3 years and 1 month & do it solely for the animals.

Answer 10

i do it for myself and for the animals, and it just feels right to eat fruits and veggs, 5 yrs ago
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