Why be a vegitarian?

Question

If it is so natural, healthy, and in our nature to eat meat.

And tasty!

Answer 1

Well, I suspect you are not actually looking for an answer, but rather just looking to feel superior while you look down at all the strange people. Nevertheless, I'll answer.

Eating meat is not natural. Humans are not natural omnivores, though we have evolutionarily developed the ability to digest meat in times of great strife. I gather that since we are on computers, most of us are not starving. Humans do no posses the speed, teeth, claws, or instincts to take down wild game and eat them whole and raw. We were not designed for this purpose.

Eating meat is also not healthy. In moderate amounts, certain meats are not harmful to your body, sure enough. However, most people (especially in the US) eat far too much meat. Most meats are very high in saturated fat and cholesterol. There have been sweeping studies done by organizations such as the UN, the World Health Organization, and many private scientific organizations that have shown conclusively that a plant-based diet dramatically lowers the risk of heart disease, osteoporosis, diabetes, and most cancers.

Also, the statement "meat is tasty" is stupid. Meat, like many other foods, is only as good as it's preparation. If you use the same spices and cooking techniques on tofu, it is just as good or better. I am willing to be that biting into a living deer wouldn't be very tasty.

Answer 2

Because there are so many yummy things to eat that don't require anything to have to give up it's life for me to have a meal.

Because I love dogs and cats and hamsters and guinea pigs and koala bears and all of the cute fuzzy animals that everyone loves. And then one day I realized that if I truly loved animals, why do I make a distinction between the ones that I pet and snuggle and love and take care of.... and the ones that I put on my plate?

Why was I thinking of some animals as part of my family and other animals as part of my dinner?

The more I investigated into the facts about the horror filled lives that the average farm animal endures, the more I realized that, for ME atleast, to continue to eat meat was the ultimate hypocrisy.
In a way, eating meat started to give me a low self image.
The way I felt was...What kind of a lowlife am I to keep eating meat when I know all that I know about factory farming!?

Sure...Meat tastes great. I'll be the first one to admit it.
It's delicious!
But the guilt I began to feel about eating it wasn't worth a mouthful of flavor that disappears in just a few seconds.

And meat is not natural, healthy, or in our nature to eat.

If you are walking down a path in the woods and you see a cute little squirrel eating a nut in a meadow full of flowers...what is your first instinct?
Is it to pounce on the squirrel, ripping at it with your teeth and eating it's flesh and entrails?
My guess is that your answer will definitely be No.
But if you were a true carnivore, that IS what your natural instinct would be.
Now try that same scenario, but replace the squirrel with an apple, or a patch of raspberries.
Do you see my point?
Your first instinct would be to eat the apple.

It sure as hell wouldn't be a carnivores first instinct to eat the apple!

That's my 2 cents, anyways.
I hope that you were looking for a real answer, and not just baiting vegetarians so that you could have something to sneer at and give a bunch of thumbs down to.

Let it also be known that I could care less what everyone else eats, and never push my dietary preferences on anyone.

You asked, so I'm just telling you my reason for going vegetarian.

Cheers,

Christina http://myspace.com/mikepattonisgod

Answer 3

Meat is not as healthy, to start with. Second our nature is to be able to eat what is available to us, if we are in an environment where we might survive better eating meat, than our bodies allow us to eat meat, if we are in an environment where we might survive better eating veggies, our bodies allow us to eat veggies. The fact is that if you want to go on what our bodies are meant for, vegetarianism is much closer than eating meat twice a day like so many do. And as far as tastier, give up meat for a month and then tell me which is tastier.

Answer 4

I agree. It is in our nature to eat meat. If vegetarianism & veganism is so natural, then they wouldn't need to take vitamin supplements to stay healthy.

The human digestive tract processes meat more efficiently than most plant foods. (The exception may be starches.) The evidence seems to point the the fact that humans evolved eating meat supplemented with plants herbs, berries and some starchy tubers.

I agree that the modern American diet sucks and is unhealthy, but I think that is because we eat too many processed foods, trans fats, carbohydrates/sugars and starches.

Answer 5

For me, It isn't anything moral or political.I just got grossed out at an early age. When I was a kid eating chicken, I thought it was a synonym of (is that the right word?) of chicken on a farm, when my big sister gleefully informed me I was indeed eating an actual chicken from a farm. Of course, I didn't belive her and asked mumma, who nodded her head and horrified me. Then my little sister started rocking the chicken like a baby. Now I come from the kind of family where you damn well better eat whats put in front of you or else. So grossed out for years, my big sister always going "moooo moooo" every time I had to eat hamburger, I decided dead animal flesh was gross. That's all there was to it. as soon as I turned 15, no more meat, and back then it wasn't in style and there was no morning star farms.

Answer 6

Because it isn't natural or healthy to eat meat. Especially when you consider what industrialists do to the animals between birth and their horrifying death at the slaughterhouse.

Being vegan is the right thing to do, at least for me. Now, run along, now, go, get gone.

Answer 7

Why be a vegitarian?

Because it's there.

If it is so natural, healthy, and in our nature to eat meat.

According to you, not according to me or my wife who has a Master's Degree in Nutrition.

Run along now.

Answer 8

Some feel it is a healthier lifestyle, some do it for religious reasons, and others are concerned about animals, like members of PETA

Answer 9

Yes good question.. doubt you will get good unbiased answers (including this one).
for a very small minority of people who can, from mostly western 1st and 2nd world countries,. it is a choice, nothing more, regardless of reason or motivation
for the rest of the majority of the world, it is a necessity for religious, health and mostly economic reasons (nothing else to eat)
As or the science, many doctors, scientists and nutritionists choose not to be vegetarian. that should tell you the reliability of the arguments from both sides on the scientific level.

Answer 10

well its not natural, healthy, in our nature or tasty, so thats pretty much all of your arguments gone.