Why are you a vegetarian?

Question

Other than the reason of feeling sorry for the animals.

Answer 1

21 REASONS FOR BEING A VEGETARIAN....

Avoiding meat is one of the best and simplest ways to cut down your fat consumption. Modern farm animals are deliberately fattened up to increase profits. Eating fatty meat increases your chances of having a heart attack or developing cancer.
Every minute of every working day, thousands of animals are killed in slaughter-houses. Pain and misery are common. In the US alone, 500,000 animals are killed for meat every hour.
There are millions of cases of food poisoning recorded every year. The vast majority are caused by eating meat.
Meat contains absolutely nothing - no proteins, vitamins or minerals - that the human body cannot obtain perfectly happily from a vegetarian diet.
African countries - where millions are starving to death - export grain to the developed world so that animals can be fattened for our dining tables.
'Meat' can include the tail, head, feet, rectum and spinal cord of an animal.
A sausage can contain ground up intestines. How can anyone be sure that the intestines are empty when they are ground up? Do you really want to eat the content of a pig's intestines?
If we eat the plants we grow instead of feeding them to animals, the world's food shortage will disappear virtually overnight. Remember that 100 acres of land will produce enough beef for 20 people but enough wheat to feed 240 people.
Every day, tens of millions of one-day-old male chicks are killed because they will not be able to lay eggs. There are no rules about how this mass slaughter takes place. Some are crushed or suffocated to death. Many are used for fertiliser or fed to other animals.
Animals who die for your dinner table die alone, in terror, in sadness and in pain. The killing is merciless and inhumane.
It's must easier to become (and stay) slim if you are a vegetarian. (By 'slim', I do not mean 'abnormally slender' or 'underweight' but rather, an absense of excess weight!)
Half the rainforests in the world have been destroyed to clear ground to graze cattle to make beefburgers. The burning of the forests contributes 20% of all green-house gases. Roughtly 1,000 species a year become extinct because of the destruction of the rainforests. Approximately 60 million people a year die of starvation. All those lives could be saved because those people could eat grain used to fatten cattle and other farm animals - if Americans ate 10% less meat.
The world's fresh water shortage is being made worse by animal farming. And meat producers are the biggest polluters of water. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce one pound of meat. If the US meat industry wasn't supported by the taxpayer paying a large proportion of its water costs, then hamburger meat would cost $35 a pound.
If you eat meat, you are consuming hormones that were fed to the animals. No one knows what effect those hormones will have on your health. In some parts of the world, as many as one on four hamburgers contain growth hormones that were originally given to cattle.
The following diseases are commoner among meat eaters: anaemia, appendicitis, arthritis, breast cancer, cancer of the colon, cancer of the prostrate, constipation, diabetes, gallstones, gout, high blood pressure, indigestion, obesity, piles, strokes and varicose veins. Lifelong vegetarians visit hospital 22% less often than meat eaters and for shorter stays. Vegetarians have a 20% lower blood cholestrol level than meat eaters and this reduces heart attack and cancer risks considerably.
Some farmers use tranquillisers to keep animals calm. Other routinely use antibiotics to starve off infection. When you eat meat you are eating those drugs. In America, 55% of all antibiotics are fed to animals and the percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin went up from 14% in 1960 to 91% in 1988.
In a lifetime, the average meat eater will consumer 36 pigs, 36 sheep and 750 chickens and turkeys. Do you want that much carnage on your conscience?
Animals suffer from pain and fear just as much as you do. How would you like to spend your last hours locked in a truck, packed into a cage with hundreds of other terrified animal and then cruelly pushed into a blood soaked death chamber. Anyone who eats meat condones and supports the way animals are treated.
Animals which are a year old are often far more rational - and capable of logical thought - than six week old babies. Pigs and sheep are far more intelligent than small children. Eating dead animals is barbaric.
Vegetarians are fitter than meat eaters. many of the world's most successful athletes are vegetarian.

Answer 2

Vegetarian

Answer 3

I'm a vegetarian because I don't agree with the way animals are kept and confined and then slaughtered without really living a life. If I know where the animal came from and know that it wasn't treated poorly, I'll eat it. But otherwise, I feel like I'm living a more healthy and happier life without meat.

Answer 4

I'm not quite there, but I'm becoming one for religious reasons. Being a vegetarian is a better option for Jews if you don't have easy access to Kosher food. Buddhists (generally) and Hindus are vegetarians also.

If you want organic food, organic meat and dairy products are very expensive.

Answer 5

Well, besides compassion for the animals, I'm a veggie for health reasons.
My family history (on both sides) is chock-full of atrocities that stem from horrible eating habits. While some of it is hereditary, the majority of it is preventable. I want to live past my 65th birthday, thank you. I made the change in order to live a full, healthy life.
I also converted for religious purposes. While Catholics are not known to adopt this lifestyle, per se, I just feel that I owe it to God to take care of the marvelous body He has given me. It is His temple and I need to respect it. My mother always told me that our bodies are just on loan from God - a temporary spot that hold our soul. While it is amazing and very self-sufficient in many ways, it still needs to be maintained.

Answer 6

I would like all those of you who have answered and the one who has put up this question to please go through this debate (da link is given below) if you'll really wanna know whether 'Non-Vegetarian Food Is Permitted Or Prohibited For A Human Being?’ Please take some time to read the whole thing fto find the right answer for yourself, Thank you.


http://www.irf.net/non_veg_part_I.doc

Answer 7

Health and environmental reasons. You can save more water by not eating a pound of beef that not showering for 6 months. Vegetables are no fat, no cholesterol. Lots of reasons to be veg, even if compassion isn't one of them.

Answer 8

Because I didn't like the thought that I was eating something that had thought and felt.

And also because i just don't like the taste much.

Answer 9

cause when i used to eat meat all i think about is a dead roadkill carcass, just rotting away and stinkin and flies all over it. yup. thats what your eating for dinner! no thanks i'll pass on that. besides, im healthier without the meat. dont have to worry about all those extra diseases and infections you could catch from tainted meat.

Answer 10

I dont like the taste of meat.