Vegetarianism is wrong?

Question

Why would anyone be a vegetarion? It is natural for human beings to eat meat. And if they were right, then why isnt there any other animals that require meat becoming vegetarians? All vegetarians do is disrupt the food chain and it also pisses me off when they look down on "meat-eaters" for doing what naturally comes to them. Anyone agree

Answer 1

Why be a vegetarian?
Environment
1.Half of all the water consumed in the US is used by animal agriculture
2.For every 1 acre of land cleared for urban development,7 are cleared to grow feed for livestock or grazing land for livestock
3.The livestock population in the US create 140 times the excrement as the human population of the US
4.Food for a vegan for 1 year can be produced on only 1/6 of an acre of land, while it takes 3 1/4 acres of land to produce food for a meat-eater for one year.

Health
1.“It is the position of the American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada that appropriately planned vegetarian diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate and provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases.”

“Well-planned vegan and other types of vegetarian diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including during pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood and adolescence. Vegetarian diets offer a number of nutritional benefits, including lower levels of saturated fat, cholesterol, and animal protein as well as higher levels of carbohydrates, fiber, magnesium, potassium, folate, and antioxidants such as vitamins C and E and phytochemicals. Vegetarians have been reported to have lower body mass indices than nonvegetarians, as well as lower rates of death from ischemic heart disease; vegetarians also show lower blood cholesterol levels; lower blood pressure; and lower rates of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and prostate and colon cancer.“

World Hunger
1.Out of the 40 poorest countries,we buy grain from 38 of them to feed to animals so we can have meat
2.We feed more than 70 percent of the grains and cereals we grow to farmed animals, and almost all of those calories go into simply keeping the animals alive, not making them grow.
3.The world's cattle alone consume a quantity of food equal to the caloric needs of 8.7 billion people—more than the entire human population on Earth.
4.For every 16 pounds of food you put into livestock,you only get one pound back of edible flesh

Worker's Rights
1.The rate of repetitive stress injury for slaughterhouse employees is 35 times higher than it is for those with other manufacturing jobs.
2.The farmed-animal industry has also been condemned for exploiting children—kids in their early teens have even died while working in animal-processing plants, and Multinational Monitor magazine called Tyson Foods one of the world’s “Ten Worst Corporations” because it hires people in the U.S. who are too young to work legally.
3.Kids have even been killed while working in slaughterhouses in the United States—a 15-year-old died, and a 14-year-old was seriously hurt in separate incidents at Tyson’s animal-processing plants. “One teenager died and another suffered serious injuries because this company ignored the law,” the U.S. Labor Department noted. “It was illegal for either one of them to be employed in the kind of work Tyson’s hired them to do.”
4.Immigrant workers are easy prey for the meat industry. After they are brought to the U.S., they’re often so desperate to make money to send to their families back home that they’ll take any job without complaint. If they’re being treated unfairly, they don’t have any choice but to continue working for the farmed-animal industry, and if they become injured and can no longer work, they are often stuck in the U.S. with no job and no money to buy a bus ticket home.



US Beef Isn't Safe(I believe it isn't)
1.France, which has only a fraction of the U.S. cattle population, tests more cattle in a single week then the U.S. has tested in a decade
2.According to Europe's latest annual report, Europe is testing cattle at a rate of almost two thousand times that of the United States
3.Almost all fattening beef cattle, all dairy calves and all adult dairy cows raised conventionally are fed meat and bone meal in the United States
4.Under the 1997 feed regulations, the FDA specifically allowed the feeding of chicken litter to cattle to continue, even if the chickens had just been fed meat and bone meal made from cattle remains
5.The U.S. also is presently testing only 1 out of every 18,000 cows slaughtered
6.In fact, the USDA, which now tests only 1 percent of all slaughtered cows
7.The USDA is run by several lobbyists,Alisa Harrison,who is now spokesperson of the USDA,was the spokesperson for the National Cattleman’s Beef Association for 15 years,how can an industry meant to protect you be run by the industry they are supposed to protect you from?

We wouldn't require lions to stop eating meat because they wouldn't survive if they didn't eat meat,humans however,can live perfectly fine without meat.We don't disrupt the food chain,humans ar so far from the food chain,lions don't keep animals in cages and in factory famrs,neither do they shoot them up with hormones and sntibiotics.Eating meat doesn't naturally come to people,do you eat raw meat?Do you see a lion cooking his/her meat?Driving cars isn't natural,living in a house isn't natural,the internet isn't natural,shopuld we just cease in doing these things because they aren't "natural?"

Answer 2

That's a very sweeping statement. Not all vegetarians look down on meat eaters, if we did then we wouldn't have very many friends. It is also natural for humans to be omnivores. If we only ate meat we would quickly die. An omnivore is a creature that eats both vegetation and meat. If you only ate meat you would die, yet, you can live without it and be healthy.

People become vegetarian for the animals, for health, because of religion and for other reasons.

Animals aren't really in any position to get up one morning and decide 'I want to be a vegetarian'. It is a carnivore's instinct to eat meat, and, looking at their teeth, you can see it is natural for them to. Which is why they are not becoming vegetarians.

Vegetarians don't just 'disrupt the food chain'. They help save animals and also contribute to reducing global warming.

And vegetarians make their own choices. No one is in any position to attack them over their dietary preferences, and I would like to think that most vegetarians would follow that example. It is unfortunate that some don't, but that doesn't call for a reaction where their is war over eating habits.
I hope this has made things clearer.

Answer 3

I think that there are a lot of things that humans do that other animals don't do. That isn't a bad thing. I am not a vegetarian, however I completely understand why some people are. They are able to use the great big brain that nature gave us and are able to sustain their bodies without killing other animals. How can you say that it is wrong? Not all vegetarians look down on meat eaters, and it seems like maybe you are feeling a little defensive about the subject. If you are comfortable eating meat, then eat meat. If you are not comfortable eating meat then don't.

Answer 4

I believe everyone has the righ to choose what they put in their bodies. I don't look down on anyone who eats meat.

But to point out, we are not naturally meat eaters. Our bodies more closely resemble vegetarian animals(intestines, stomach acid, etc) If we were supposed to eat meat then the consumption of meat would not cause heart disease, clogged arteries, etc.

As for the food chain, we as humans are so far from the food chain that we wouldn't know it if we saw it. Last I checked there was no facotry farming on the food chain. We breed and produce our own animals for consumption, that is messing with the food chain. The food chain is a balance in nature. Energy --> Grass --> plant eaters --> carnivores, eliminating one group throws the others off. If people stop eatting meat nothing in nature changes because we do not take out of nature.

Answer 5

I am a vegetarian because i don't like the taste of meat. I don't think people who eat meat are better or worse than i am.

I should point out that one reason that vegetarians look down on meat eaters is because to some of us, you smell very bad.

This is because of a group of chemicals given off by the digestion of meat which includes Cadaverine and Putrescine. Cadaverine is that sweet smell rotting meat gives off when it just starts to turn. Putrescene is the stuff that makes you feel filthy just by walking near rotting meat.

Some people don't break down these chemicals very well and they are exuded through their pores. Carnivores can't pick up on it because they are used to the scent, but some vegetarians (like me) can pick up on it easily in the breath and body odor.

Answer 6

I agree with you in the sense that I think that SOME vegetarianism is a misguided attempt to do something laudable, ie preserve the earth and its creatures.

Yes, we humans are naturally omnivores, but a proper vegetarian diet is just fine. It is illogical to suggest that animals can make conscious decisions about their diet. Vegetarians can do a lot of good by refusing to participate in cruel practices like battery farming, and yes it is annoying when people look down on meat-eaters. But it's also annoying, I imagine, when we look down on vegetarians.

I think that a better solution would be to eat healthy foods that make the least impact on the environment. It makes more sense to me to buy responsibly farmed eggs from the farmer down the street than it does to eschew eggs for a vegan egg-substitute full of harmful chemicals and trucked across the country by polluting trucks, which ultimately harm the environment a lot more.

So I guess what I'm saying is this: veganism/vegetarianism is fine, and so is omnivorism. You just have to make sure that whatever you eat is local/minimally obtrusive to the environment, and if that's via veggies, that's fine.

But it IS possible to do it omnivorically:

What goes in my meat is pretty simple: grass, apples, flowers, carrots, beets, and other stuff that deer eat. And I know that it is killed humanely as possible because I kill it myself with one instant, clean shot. I process it myself. I usually hunt one deer per season, and what I cannot eat I donate to the local food bank. That is responsible meat-eating.

Answer 7

You, clearly, are very ignorant.
Meat is not natural in the human diet. Do our teeth look more like a tiger's or a horse's?
And which one eats vegetation?

Vegetarianism isn't because the fact that eating meat is wrong (in many cases.) For me, I am one because of the meat industry. Because you posted this, its clear that you are unaware of what goes on to make your meat, and that is what me and so many other vegetarians are against.
The animals are viciously murdered. They're lives consist of nothing more than pain, suffer, a bar cage, and staring at a blank wall.
Imagine living every day of your life not being able to turn around, lift a limb, look into the face of the many children you'll be forced to produce, live in your feces and urine, watch those around you die from sickness... starvation... and the wounds which your carekeepers neglect, be beaten when you don't respond, have your throat slit moments before death and die not from the cut-- but from bloodloss, have your limbs hacked from your body while you're still concious, and finally escape this "wonderful" world to be tossed onto a McDonalds plate.

You have just imagined the lives of over 100,000 animals every single day.

I do not "look down" on meat eaters nor do I believe I am "better" than them. I do, however, sometimes pass a glance and wish that they understood where that hamburger came from. If so many people stopped supporting factory farms and the meat industry, perhaps they would improve the living conditions for their animals. For many vegetarians, that is the goal.

Every time you purchase a hamburger, you are paying a murderer's salary.

Please, do your research before you come to the conclusion that vegetarians are "looking for attention" or "confused."

Thank you. =]

Answer 8

I go vegitarian sometimes but I don't look on meat eaters
I think a person should have a right to eat meat or not

Answer 9

Well, vegetarians become vegetarians because they think the slaughtering of poor animals that once had a beating heart for meat is wrong. They are also vegetarians maybe because of their religion. In that case, it's not like they have a choice.

Answer 10

i am a vegetarian, and believe me when I say I could care less what you eat. It was my choice to cut meat out of my diet, I do not push my decision on any one else. You will not see me out side marching, throwing blood, drawing chalk out lines of cows on the side walk. I eat what I want and so can you.

Answer 11

I am a vegetarian--a vegan, BTW. But I don't look down on meat-eaters. I first became vegetarian out of spiritual conviction that the Bible is God's book to reach out to people with the truth about every human issue: life & death; food & sex; science & finances; and, overall, life's real purpose. There you find the Almighty assigning man his food: only vegetables, fruits, nuts, grains, etc.

The whole issue of vegetarianism wraps around a far bigger one: life, by design or chance?

I had the privilege to study medicine in my native country, and biochemistry was the one subject I loved the most. While studying it, I was fascinated to find out how the whole world of molecules and substances work. There I learned how different proteins from animal origin behave inside the body in contrast with those of vegetable origin. The difference is so crucial that it could literally mean the difference between chronic degeneration with inflammation, or plausible and steady regeneration. Their weight, arrangement, geometrical design, level of interaction with vital elements inside the cells, etc., are sooooo different.

To say that meat is the most complete food on earth, is to insult those biology teachers from different countries and at university level that have taken a closer look at the issue. They have come to understand that animal proteins, fats and CHs are far from being healthy. They not only cause inflammation, therefore disrupting the delicate synthesis of DNA material, but they upset every single physiological law that preserves the cells' kingdom.

Most of my patients with cardiovascular diseases and clogged arteries just improve so much when they remove all animal products from their diet. Only then their arteries have a chance to reverse the inflammatory process. The concentration of methionine decreases to give place to powerful tissue restorers like the amino acids Taurine and Cystein. And when they increase their fruits and vegetables consumption, they also see an increase in stamina and vigor.

I do believe we--humans--are vegetarians by design, and carnivorous or meat-eaters by cultural imposition. We're raised and accustomed to eat what we were served since childhood. Does that make it right? Has time the ability to turn right into wrong or wrong into right? Please, read the latest declarations on the topic from the proper governmental health authorities, and you'll be surprised as to how fast all these weakly founded half-truths and myths about food and diet is changing.

Just do your homework dispassionately, with an open mind, and study the foundations upon which you are establishing your convictions. Science changes drastically from one generation to another. God's Word has endured time, test, trials, and powers, but it has been a light to enlighten the path of genuine truth-seekers.