If your a vegetarian please say why? :)?

Question

And if you wear leather ect?

Im not one before people ask but I dont understand why vegetarians wear leather?

Answer 1

I'm a vegetarian for animal rights reasons mainly. Also, the idea of eating flesh is sort of disgusting to me.

The hardest part of being a vegetarian is finding non-leather belts that aren't so ugly. But I do manage to find them. I just bought a non-leather belt two days ago but a size too large so I had to punch an extra hole.

I don't wear fur/leather products unless it was totally by accident (like I read the label wrong on shoes).

Hope that's a bit informative

Answer 2

I became vegetarian more than 20 years ago when my mother developed breast cancer and started learning all about microbiotic cooking. Even back then there was concern about the way we grow and cook food. I also read "Slaughter of the Innocent" and other books which detailed all the garbage coroporate farms put into their animals. So it is all about health to me. I don't wear leather, but I am not opposed to it--just not something I like.

Answer 3

I was a vegetarian 4 years ago and than i become a vegan.The reason i become a vegetarian and now an a vegan is for a number of different reasons.

1. The fact that you are eating something that was alive.
2. I was getting sick from eating meat and dairy products.
3. I saw and read how they kill the animals
(cows,chickens,pigs...).
4. Most of my family and friends are either vegetarians or
vegans.

And i don't wear anything that is made from real leather.Only if it is made from fake leather.The same goes for fur.I don't wear real fur.Only if it is made from fake fur.

Answer 4

The main thing that caused me to choose a vegitarian diet was An Inconvenient Truth. The huge demands for meat and meat production put an incredible amount of stress on the environment. There is also the inhumane treatment that amimals face exactly because of the huge demands for inexpensive meat. They are living, feeling, and thinking beings, but are being treated as mere comodity items.

If all chickens and cows and pigs, etc, were raised free range on small family farms this would not even be an issue for me. I don't think eating meat is necessarily wrong in itself.

Answer 5

I was raised as a vegetarian so I guess it was a lot easier for me.

You are right, a lot of vegetarians do wear leather. But we are still doing our bit. It is better to do something rather than nothing.

Answer 6

I'm vegetarian for the animals, although I certainly don't mind that it's beneficial for my health & would have probably have gone veg for the environment, which is a compelling motivation. I don't wear leather although I know a couple vegetarians & even vegans who do. I believe that fur only looks good on its original owners, but I don't mind "wearing" the fur that our companion critters leave on my clothes.

Answer 7

Like most vegetarians, its for health reasons, not political.

I do wear leather.

Answer 8

Animals, health, environment... why not?

No, I don't wear leather. The only vegetarians that would be okay with wearing leather are those who do it for health aspects and not animal welfare.

Answer 9

In a nutshell, I am a vegetarian because animals are treated unethically, and the raising of animals for human consumption puts a huge strain on the environment.

In addition, I do it for health reasons. I don't want to ingest all the hormones, chemicals, etc. that animals are given.

You are what you eat, and I don't want to eat pain, chemicals, and fear.

Answer 10

I'm vegetarian, vegan, and I dont wear leather or any other animals product.
Why? Knowing that animals (very great majority of them without any doubt) can suffer and feel pleasure, it appears right to me and logical to take into account their interests. If I put out of balance my gustatory pleasure to eat a piece of meat with the suffering caused by the breeding and the setting with died of the victims necessary to the production of this meat, it appears indefensible to me to continue eating or using animals products in my life.