Are vegetarians attention seeking, or is the veggie lifestyle a healthy alternative?

Answer 1

I am not seeking attention-just paying better attention to my health. Meat is loaded with cholesterol, blood, pus, purines, growth hormones, steroids, antibiotics, and loads of other unhealthy things that my body doesnt need. I could care less what anyone thinks about what I eat, and I dont publicly declare my choices unless I am asked. I dont get why so many people stereotype vegetarians as skinny, sickly hippies, when its all just a matter of what we choose to give our bodies to digest. I prefer not to use mine as a graveyard for decaying animal flesh-that doesnt make me sickly, skinny, or strange. You are what you eat, and I dont fancy myself as a dead animal.

Answer 2

For me healthier lifestyle - my health has improved no end, I can't believe for most of my life I didn't give a second thought to what I was eating just as long as it filled me up I was happy! Now I do care and I've not only become vegan but I don't eat anything artificial - it's definitely a lifestyle choice.
If someone is doing something for attention it rarely lasts long, they'll move on to the next 'drama' so I don't think one can brand all vegetarians attention seeking!

Answer 3

I think some people do,do it to seek attention maybe because they want to follow a particuar trend or are at a particular phase in there life. Some others are vegetarian because of there religious beliefs and others dont like it for many different reasons. I personally don't like the texture of it in my mouth, and because i became a veggie many years a go, if i accidently eat it in other foods i can taste is straight away. It's almost as if animal fats coat the roof of my mouth. disgusting feeling.

Answer 4

I was raised vegetarian because it's part of my family's religion. I was taught that we should not eat the things that God tells us are unclean and that a vegetarian diet is the heathiest diet. We should treat our bodies like temples and not fill them with death. Imagine if church was full of decomposing carcasses, it wouldn't seem very respectful now would it? People were fine living on a vegetarian diet in the beginning, and God only told us we could eat meat because we needed it to survive. Now non-meat food is very plentiful and easy to come by so there is no need to consume dead animals. I have been vegetarian since birth and vegan for the past two years and I have never been sickly or too skinny. I've only started taking a multivitamin recently, because I needed a little extra to help me deal with the stress of college. I've never really recieved any sort of "attention" for being vegetarian.

Answer 5

It's not fair to ask this question as a means to classify all vegetarians everywhere.

Sure, some vegetarians are just attention-seeking, but it's not fair to say they ALL are--or vice versa. I believe it's a healthy lifestyle. To each his own.

Answer 6

What attention? Do you really believe that anyone cares what I choose to eat, with the possible (OK, probable) exception of my mother (who lives 1200 miles away, and therefore is irrelevant for these purposes)?

Anyone who pays attention to my eating habits needs a hobby -- or a boy/girl-friend.

In my view, vegetarianism is the healthiest alternative, period.

Answer 7

In order to answer this question fairly you would need to conduct a survey of all, or a selection of, vegetarians and carry out pyschological testing on them to see how many of them have attention seeking characteristics and how many are really normal and just despise the carniverous way! Then decide.

Answer 8

Science has proven that eating a diet free of animal proteins is the healthiet diet for preventing life-threateing diseases. It's not just a healthy alternative; it's the HEALTHIEST alternative. You just have to make sure you're eating right. You can't just eat salads and an apple and frickin veggie burger and think you're going to be getting all the nutrients you need.

Answer 9

Only those who are political ranters and ravers are attention seeking, although they at least have good intentions. {PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS DOESN'T MEAN THAT I DON'T AGREE WITH THEIR BELIEFS...}
It is a wonderfully healthy way to eat (see George Carlin about use of the word "lifestyle").
But some (including myself) become vegetarians for ethical reasons first, and the healthiness is viewed as a bonus.

Answer 10

attention seeking? haha why would you become a vegetarian for attention. not at all
I became a vegetarian for a healthier lifestyle and way of living and i dont regret it at all, consider it hey!