Does anyone else get sick of vegetarians....?

Question

imposing their views upon us and branding us 'murderers' for eating meat?

Well done, you think you are saving animals!.... but really your not, your jus saving the good food for us!

Answer 1

Henry, I have reported you to Yahoo! and I have also reported you to an internet watchdog group. Making remarks like you made are taken serious and can be considered a hate crime.

Answer 2

I'm actually vegan myself, but I get tired of it for different reasons - there are better ways to get your views across without being abrasive, judgmental, etc. The vast majority of the veg*ans I've known in real life are either very quiet about it, or positive and informative, but sometimes we're judged based on the minority. I'd like to see vegetarianism and veganism as a whole rid itself of the negativity towards meat-eaters - both sides would do well to remember most of us were meat-eaters before anyway, we're not a different species! It would help if meat-eaters would be less negative towards us as well - both sides are perpetuating the cycle here. You realize your question is as antagonistic towards us as you're claiming we are towards you, right?

And though refusing to eat a hamburger once isn't going to save an animal, many vegetarians refusing many times is going to decrease demand for that product, which will cause less animals do be killed for meat in the long run. I would still refuse meat even if I had no impact anyway based on principle - because I'm not going to disagree with a practice (killing) and then enjoy and thus support the results of it...that would be quite hypocritical.

Answer 3

You know if you want to see comments that praise your choice to eat meat the vegetarian and vegan section isn't the best place to come!

I am a vegan but I would never call anyone who chose to be an omnivore evil.I know some vegetarians and vegans do but they are the minority.

On the other hand many omnivores criticise our decision to NOT eat meat so I guess what goes around comes around.

Answer 4

Thank Heavens for the occasional mature answer on this because the rest of you (both sides) sound like you are in the playground.
Since becoming veggie 8 years ago, (meat replacement products help when you have eaten meat for most of your life, and miss the taste/texture!), I have never criticised anybody's choice to eat meat.
I have found however, that a significant percentage of my meat-eating friends/family and sometimes complete strangers find me fair game to have a pop at. The majority don't, I would never tar them all with the same brush, which seems to be quite popular on this page!
Each to their own.

Answer 5

It's great to hear this. I live in a country where vegetarians aren't even heard of! Interestingly, I've noticed diet preferences can have something to do with one's blood-type. Many A positives are naturally repelled by eating flesh and love fruit and veg whereas O positives thrive on all different kinds of meat, no matter how disgusting, be it brains/eyes or intestines...

Answer 6

Well done. I guess this was to get people all wound up. Clever. Mature. Bah.

I'm vegetarian, but I let other people eat what they want. I get sick fed up with meat eaters getting on to me for NOT eating meat. And saying that its natural to eat meat. Well sorry, I thought we had choice. I'm not eating meat through choice. Respect my choice, I'll respect yours.

Thank you.

Answer 7

Everybody has the right to eat what they want or dont want regardless of their reasons! If a man decides he wants to sit at home in front of day time talk shows beating it back like it owes him money who are to say he can’t?! If someone wants to get down and dirty with a nice thick steak, who are we to say their a lesser person than us?! If someone wants to eat only food which didn’t at one point have a face then they should get on and do that! But come on your not going to change everyone so don’t moan when people eat meat! Each to their own!!!!! In closing eat what you want to eat when you want to eat it, WHO ARE HURTING BY DOING SO???? Only you if you choose to get wound up about it!

NH

Answer 8

I am a veggi.

I hate being a veggi now. Have been for so long that I am so bored and fed up of being labelled. However, it is my choice not to eat animals or their by-products. As it is your choice to eat meat.

The only thing that bothers me about eating meat, is that people do not really see or know what it is they are eating. Meat is too processed and manufactured. People don't kill their own meat, there is the detachment from the food.

I respect many of my friends who kill humanely the food that they will eat. In a strange way, they are almost in-touch with the animal. They observe it, they see it, they kill it and they eat it. They respect the animal.

Answer 9

Ashley, despite the fact I don't think you are for real and are in fact a caricatured vulcan troll, how can you possibly accuse Henry of 'hate crimes' for writing that when on another question you have stated that anybody that eats meat is 'a murderer' (libel) and 'immoral'? People in glass houses and all that...

Answer 10

They mean well but I dont like anyone elses views forced onto me. I have 2 vegetarian friends that have converted 2 other of my friends. When they start telling me things I listen and Im polite but I just tell them I like the taste. But I have used less products tested on animals since I spoke to them as it seems cruel to me that some animal foods have been tested on animals by cutting there muscles out. So I dont feed my dog that.
But do my actions then mean that this dog suffered for nothing? I hope not.
But also you have to think if an animal died of natural causes would it be right or wrong to eat it? would it be a waste if it didnt get eatten.
I know if a situation like ALIVE happened id want my friends to eat my dead body so they could live.

Answer 11

What a ridiculous thing to say, i don't preach to anyone just answer the questions that are asked like many other veggie/vegans. yes there r activist out there n to be honest i dnt like that myself eat what u wana eat, dnt get me wrong i would much prefer the world to be vegan but that is not the case and never will be but what gets on my nerves is meat eaters like you who posted this who can't handle the fact that there is vegans out there in the world, you can give your opinion about us but when we give are opinion it is so wrong n we need to shut up, well just accept the fact we don't appreciate the thought of eating innocent animals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!