I just have a question for vegetarians?

Question

I suppose this has been asked before but I missed it.
I really want a real answer.
Why do you not want to eat meat?
I realize some people can't eat certain things because they are allergic to it, is that it?
I was wondering what is most people's reason, that's all.

Answer 1

For me, it's Biology 101. Humans are not 'designed' for it. I was just doing research on eating for optimum athletic performance when a teenager and eating meat immediately clogs the system. Eating meat is like putting diesel fuel into your gasoline fuel car (which would be like pouring in some engine oil with your gasoline. You car will still run. But it won't run very well and smoke will billow out the exhaust. During my research I kept coming across more and more questions and this led me to eliminating every animal product and unnatural product from my diet. My performance went up immediately. My acne went a way. My recovery improved vastly. I felt like a cloud I never knew was there was lifted off my brain -- I was thinking ten time faster than usual. I had seemingly boundless energy. It's about 18 years later and I still feel the same way, so why would I want to go back.

My research of food just expands into other areas such as immunization, midwifery, medical practise, homeschooling, politics, back room political deals, industry secrets, hidden agandas... and the more you dig for answers the more you find out things. Once you go on the path of educating yourself, it never stops.

Answer 2

Because animals are treated so cruelly when they are being SLAUGHTERED . They aren't even on farms like most commercials portray them to be. They are in spaces where they can't even turn around. Plus when cows are have their throats slit and libs cut off they usually are fully conscious . Also little baby chicks have the front of their beaks cut off with a hot blade. A hen who lays eggs all her life , almost never get to fully spread her wings. These are just a few facts about how animals are so cruelly massacred . Usually people who are vegetarians become vegans. Which implies you don't eat meat , any animal by-products (milk,cheese,ice cream,etc), wear leather, wear wool , or eat anything with "natural meat flavoring" . There are great alternatives for what most people eat now, and the alternatives are a lot healthier. Some people say if you don't eat meat etc. you are malnourished. Well thats bull. You can still get the nutrients you need if your diet is planned carefully. You know what? After I spent 5 minutes of my life typing this, people are probably just gonna laugh , look the other way, or just stay the way they are. I'm sorry, I don't agree with that.

Answer 3

I don't eat meat for several reasons:
1. I don't agree with the system in the US of how the meat gets to our plate (factory farms, pumping them full of hormones, etc.) so I am using my purchasing power against it.
2. Eating meat pollutes almost as much as cars via methane gas released from cows, animal waste getting into the ground water...
3. Eating meat is an inefficient food source - for instance, 1 cow which will feed 10 people requires 20 acres of land/resources to grow and become food for 10 people. Those same 20 acres could grow vegetables to feed 100 people (theoretically).
4. There is a lot of evidence that a meat based diet is unhealthy.
5. I personally feel much healthier and have loads more energy since going veg.

Hope that helped!

Answer 4

I don't eat meat because of the disrespect the animal receives.. Factory farming is brutal... The slaughter is Brutal... Whatever the animal lives with and what ever it died with becomes a part of you.. I have also come to realize that I do not need meat for protein.. Meat is inefficient.. I have found natural sources of protein that are 10 to 15 times more absorb able than Meat..

Answer 5

I do not eat meat or any animal products because I have no reason to, none other than the fact I was raised eating these things and that's what I was used to. I can be perfectly healthy and get ALL of the protein AND vitamins that my body needs without any problem whatsoever.

When you need to raise meat and produce dairy and eggs for a country of 300 million, things get sloppy and the producers are ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY. They don't care about their customers, their employees or the animals.

All the reasons can be explained by this video
http://www.meat.org/
and this literature
http://www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan/

Answer 6

I initially started becoming a vegetarian because I never liked the taste of meat or the concept of killing an animal for it. I made the decision to do a one week test trial five years ago and havn't gone back since. During that time I researched many articles and attended many health seminars to find out that the biology of our stomach linning, length of our digestive tract, and the fact that our canine teeth are not true canines proves that humans where not designed to eat meat. I also learned through my own experience that vegetarianism was much healthier. I used to pass out a lot due to increased cholesterol (I was only 19 at the time) and an artery leading to my brain would dilate causing oxygen to stop flowing to my brain. Since I became a vegetarian I have much lower cholesterol and I have lost 20 lbs and am now in my ideal weight range. I have more energy and less risk of heart disease and colon cancer. You can see that I have many reasons supporting my lifestyle and I am happy with it. I would like for everyone to live as great of a lifestyle as me but I understand that each person makes their own decision. This is simply mine.

Answer 7

I've come up with a number of reasons.

I'm 24 now. When I was in 6th grade, I stopped eating meat -- I think probably because I think too much about my food, and maybe a bit to be different.

I was a vegetarian all through high school, and until I was about 20 years old.

I ended up in a relationship that left me with little control of my own life -- I was forced to eat meat on a regular basis.

When that relationship came to an end (actually, about a month before hand) I stopped eating meat again . . . my friends would bring me fun stuff when my ex was at work, so I didn't end up sick.

I still don't eat meat, and I probably never will. . . and it isn't because I think it's unhealthy, or nasty.

I love brats -- they're so yummy, and there's nothing on the face of the earth like my home-made chicken cordon-bleu. At any rate, I just can't bring myself to eat it . . . not even eggs (unless I don't cook them, and they look nothing like eggs, but . . . even then, if I think it's a dead baby chicken, even once, I can't touch it).

i think of all the nasty stuff that goes into brats, and what is done to bacon, and the chicken . . . I think of how many animals went to make a hamburger . . . and I just can't do it. On the same note, I eat few foods that are processed . . . if I eat pizza, I prefer to do home-made . . . (although, time doesn't always allow). If I do veggies, I prefer to do fresh . . . because I don't know how many rat poop pellets ended up in my can of peas before they put that lid on.

It's just nasty.

Answer 8

I am non-veg in view that my mother and father have been non-veg. However now after I learn a statement of LORD BUDHHA , i've nearly stopped eating non-veg. LORD BUDHA stated--- U have taken hundreds of thousands of rebirths on this planet. So generally these lambs or pigs or hen have been ur father, mom uncles or children. Why to consume flesh of ur moms and dads and so on.? Swami Ramdev explains -- When u get angry , u sweating, begin trembling and so forth, when u are afraid , u begin sweating , trembling and so forth. Why ? Because there r secretions of harmones etc. Within physique. So u can fully grasp how many dangerous secretions take location when an animal is killed . Eating this sort of flesh could be very dangerous for mental wellness. Now u see so many swine/cow/fowl -flu and so forth are spreading as a result of animals. Additionally Nature has no longer made us to devour non-veg. Considering a non-veg eating animal has very long intestine to digest it but v have small one. V shouldn't have teeths like tiger. All non-veg eater animals drink water through tongue however v drink like cow.

Answer 9

I believe that the human body was made to be Vegan, close to raw Vegan even.
The allowance of meat eating happen at The Flood, when all plant life was killed off. Now out bodies are the same ones, but our diets & foods have changed greatly. By eating as we where meant to we Thrive instead of having all the PROVEN aliments that eating animal products produce.

Dr. John McDougall has been a mainstay helping people with Heart & other health problems for years.
http://www.drmcdougall.com/

This site is the bibical aspect of being a Vegan
http://www.hacres.com/home/home.asp

Answer 10

For me its a combo of health reasons (high cholesterol runs in the family) and the way the animals are treated. For a more detailed explanation of both read the book. Diet for a New America by John Robbins.