What is the point...?

Question

What is the point of being vegetarian or vegan? I don't see any point in it. I don't understand why it is so bad to eat meat especially animal products.

Answer 1

i agree 100 percent

Answer 2

You wouldn't see a point unless you're a vegetarian. I decided to become a vegetarian because I don't want animals to die for my taste buds. I don't care if the whole word ate meat, they're eating the animals not me.

Answer 3

people are veggie for diffenrt reasons.

For me, its because i do not want to contribute to the process of pain, cruelty, torture and death that the meat industry includes.

If you don't see the point in that, fair enough but i suspect you are in denial about what happens to get that cow onto your plate.

Not being part of the same group as "rome " nor "harry" are also valid reasons. Trolls feeding of a troll. Such productive lives you lead !

You are the same person who says people are not vegan because thier cars have glues in them mad of animals, right ?

Perhaps you need something else to do with your life ? Continually criticising something you don't believe in with illogical extreme arguments doesn't really cut it as doing something useful with your life.

Answer 4

I'm not vegetarian, but how does the way somebody eats hurt you? Maybe their just squeamish thinking what happened to the animal.

Answer 5

Veg*ans believe it is wrong and unnecessary to kill animals for food. We are appalled at the treatment of animals who are bred, born, mutilated, and killed--10 billion every year in the U.S. alone (about 50 billion worldwide). We are appalled at the conditions in slaughterhouses not just for the animals, but for the humans who work there. We are appalled at what we hear about how animal waste pollutes the groundwater and the air. We are appalled that 70 percent of all grains and soybeans grown in this country go to feed animals who become food.

If you're being serious, and you're not just doing this to needle us, I would be perfectly happy to point you to a few websites that will tell you exactly why people are vegetarian or vegan.

Answer 6

Then maybe you should watch this:

http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=meet_your_meat&Player=wm

And if that does not answer your question then you are a truly heartless person who will never understand our point.


P.S. Harry D. that was filmed in America and you are right about the date but it surely does happen all around we just don't have all the time in the world to catch them every time they do it. And frankly, I don't really give a damn where or how often it is happening. The fact that it happens and it can happen just gives me the chills.

Answer 7

See http://goveg.com/theissues.asp and http://www.meat.org for lots of reasons to go vegetarian or vegan. Hope this helps.

Answer 8

There are a lot of points, actually. Which one would you like? Vegetarians have lower instances of heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, prostate cancer, colon cancer and kidney stones. And they live longer.

Vegetarianism is far more environmentally friendly and a far more efficient use of natural resources. It takes 16 pounds of edible grain protein to produce one pound of beef protein. Factor in the thousands of gallons of water it takes and the methane and carbon dioxide output of a cow and it becomes nonsensical to raise animals for food. And that's just from an environmental standpoint. When you factor in the economic issues that lead some people in this world to suffer from famine while rich Westerners gorge ourselves on wasteful meat, it moves past nonsensical to unthinkable.

Many people of course are vegetarians for ethical reasons. Every animal has a place in the food chain and that is as Nature intended. Humans are different because we can make our decision of what to eat from an ethical standpoint. Those of us who believe that it's simply wrong to eat meat believe as we do not only because we know that we need not kill innocent animals to feed ourselves, but because we know that we need not contribute to the torture and lifelong suffering of factory-farmed animals in order to nourish ourselves.

For some people, the point is as simple as not liking it.

Answer 9

Have you ever seen the movie Meet you Meat? I rest my case.

Answer 10

It would require some research on your part... I'm tired of explaining it all to people who are too lazy to do any background research on their own...