I have because I thought it was wrong to eat all the innocent animals but then I just told myself "I won't eat innocent animals anymore I'm just going to eat the guilty ones". But really I went vegetarian for a few months. I can't live without chicken or burgers. I need my proteins and I'm not drinking a protein shake.
2007-10-19 07:37:11 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
You obviously _can_ live without animal protein, you simply choose not to because you like the taste more than you care about what the animals are put through so that you could eat them.
I went vegetarian at 17. I'm 35 now and will never switch back. It wasn't easy but it was easier on me than it is on the billions of animals raised in factory farms and slaughtered.
2007-10-19 09:16:57 · answer #1 · answered by Krista 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am an ovo-lacto vegetarian, I've been one for about 4 years now...I've never had a problem with my protein. I'm healthy and getting healthier...and guess what? I'm a vegetarian!
My reasoning is not because I wanted to "try" it. My reasoning is because the pain I felt when I saw animals being tortured just for my belly hit me hard. I never fully understood what went on in a slaughterhouse. And when I did I felt like a murderer...no joke.
Cows, pigs, turkeys, chickens, and all other animals are beings that have a heart, and soul, and love. I always ask myself, "If people can get away with "murdering" an animal, then why can't they get away with murdering a human?" The ony difference between the two is that animals don't have voices that can tell you how much you are hurting them and how much they don't want to be killed for your next meal.
And people really don't understand that vegetarians really are healthier than "meat-eaters" and that this world would be fine if people stopped killing animals.
2007-10-20 03:32:13 · answer #2 · answered by Na 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I chose to become a vegetarian at the age of four because I thought it was wrong to eat animals! I am almost 14 now, and I am still a vegetarian. I would never go back now. There are a lot of other ways to get protein besides meat. But hey, whatever works for you.
2007-10-19 19:49:18 · answer #3 · answered by Judy 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As soon as I was old enough to understand where meat comes from, it seemed wrong to eat it, but I was told that *everybody* has to eat meat or they'll "get sick & die." I wasn't yet old enough to realize that parents can be mistaken.
I've been lacto-vegetarian for over 20 years & only drink a protein shake if I happen to be in the mood for one (on a hot summer day, for example). It's not difficult to get more than enough protein from a plant-based diet without even giving it much thought.
BTW, how do you know which animals are "guilty"? I doubt if any animals living in factory farms are guilty of anything & even the "worst" creatures I've ever met, personality-wise, weren't "evil" (or, "guilty") but had mental/emotional/behavioral disturbances, probably from improper breeding (animal "mills") and/or mistreatment. Also, none of them belonged to any species that are usually consumed in the U.S.
2007-10-20 00:56:35 · answer #4 · answered by Catkin 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You CAN live without chicken or burgers and you CAN get plenty of protein without meat or protein shakes. You CHOOSE not to. Bully for you, but at least admit that your tastebuds are more important to you than the innocent animals.
2007-10-19 15:36:10 · answer #5 · answered by mockingbird 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I'm vegan. You can get plenty of protein on a vegetarian diet. Listen to the podcasts at CompassionateCooks.com. The host, Colleen, gives practical, sensible advice about vegetarianism.
2007-10-19 14:45:01 · answer #6 · answered by Denise_H22 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My sister has been a vegetarian for about 11 years now. I personally could never do that. I love steak, ribs, and chicken too much. I feel weird if I don't eat meat at some point in the day.
The last meat product my sister had was chicken nuggets from McDonalds. :)
2007-10-19 14:46:06 · answer #7 · answered by Skelli 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Been Vegetarian for 17 years and not looking back.
Protien can be found in legumes, nuts, just as good as the protien found in meat, if you eat the right variety.
But hey.. to each his own!!
2007-10-19 18:39:33 · answer #8 · answered by Shelly P. Tofu, E.M.T. 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i've been vegetarian for nearly 16 years mostly because i don't like the intensive farming that meat production involves, i don't think even the 'guilty' critters deserve that. i never have had a protein problem, but have discovered that my cravings for processed meat products is usually satisfied with something salty and greasy. peanuts, crisps and humous. junk food with out the dead things in it. no harm in trying.
2007-10-19 15:50:49 · answer #9 · answered by trixiepipworth 1 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Why don't you just give an answer to the person who told you that and not blame all vegetarians for something said by one person?
2007-10-19 14:50:11 · answer #10 · answered by majnun99 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋