What are two non-health reasons for persons becoming vegetarians?!
What are two non-health reasons for persons becoming vegetarians?
Answers:
1. becoming vegetarian saves the enviorment
2. becoming vegetarian saves 95 lives a year.
check out the source link for more reasons.
Source(s):
http://www.goveg.com
truly??? to save animals...... I personally love animals and i hate to think that people are killing them out there just to give us wut we want!!! (well not me but ppl who do eat meat)
you could do it to help stop starvation...http://goveg.com/worldhunger.asp... or if thats not a reason in itself, you can do it for the animals that are being killed
Animal welfare, religious/philosophical reasons (such as buddhism for example), TASTE - I don't care what anyone says, eating slimy, half-cooked, nasty chicken does not taste good. It's nauseating. And all the gristly bits and fat that's in meat (yuck). And when you're eating chicken and those little grey stretchy things appear in the flesh. It's awful.
Ethics & Economics. It costs less to feed a person without MEAT! ! ! The worldwide mistreatment of animals for food consumption is unethical in it's practices.
Well there are more than two....
but here goes...
1. Disagreeing with the way that animals are treated in the factory farms. See goveg.com for more info
2. Not liking the taste of flesh
3. Some people believe that humans are not biologically meant to eat flesh. Because we dont have pointy teeth, and our bowls are too long to properly digest meat.
I am sure that there are more....
but I cant remeber them all....
save the world's environment and the animals and the humans. gee, everybody wins!
Religion
Ethics
Sometimes, both occur together.
Disassociation with Animal Cruelty.
Thats all i need, no need for a second reason for me.
Although there are many other reasons that other people may consider... religion, environment ( animals take more ground than arables per meal ), cost.
1. religion
2. Ethical
My reason for becoming a vegetarian because I was finding it harder and harder to justify to myself why it was okay to eat a cow or a pig or a chicken, but not a horse or a dog or a parrot. Ya know? When you step back and really look at it with an open mind... there's a lot of things that really dont' make sense about our society. I got tired of mindlessly believing the "because it is" mentality. I'm an answer seeker. No matter what I do, I have to know WHY. I can't explain WHY it's okay to eat certain animals and not others... so I stopped eating all of them.
That's just my personal reason... I'm sure others have their own as well.
@ Fashion Fantasia
It doesn't save any animals: for a start the meat industry is booming at the moment; secondly if enough people went veggie to actually affect the industry at all, and the demand for meat decreased, it would mean animals which were surplus to requirement. You're kidding yourself if you think that would mean they'd live happily ever after, as they couldn't be sold no one would want to keep them, and they'd still be slaughtered.
Think about it, the second farmers couldn't sell their livestock, the second they couldn't make a profit, they wouldn't keep them any more. Keeping animals isn't cheap, and to keep them, without profit, would be hugely expensive to any farmer. How many do you reckon would be prepared to make that kind of loss?
Now, what'd happen then? Maybe a few wild pigs or goats would stay alive, but for the most part it would be impossible to release them into the wild. The vast majority would have to be slaughtered.
I quote "If no one were allowed to farm animals, farms would grow crops instead. The first thing to go would be all the animals. Once the rural landscape were rid of cattle, sheep, and the like, fields would get larger, for the convenience of the combine harvesters, and hedgerows would go. Wild animals like rabbits would now be a more major pest. No farmer would want animals eating the plants, and so the war on such animals would intensify. Grown in the fields would be domesticate species of food crops, and so the number of plant species would decline."
The bottom line is vegetarianism doesn't save any animal's lives, it just disassociates people from their deaths.
@ Dipti
Not keeping animals wouldn't be able to solve world hunger, even though more food could be grown on that land. I don't care what Peta and GoVeg says, they're wrong.
The thing is there is already enough food to feed the world several times over, and huge amounts go to waste every day. The reason world hunger exists is that the people in famine struck countries can't afford to buy the food.
Of course, I hear you say, that's rubbish because it food were going to waste we would just give it to them on the cheap at no loss to ourselves! But no, because giving a country free food would destroy their economy. You have to understand that in LEDCs (Less Economically Developed Countries) the food industry is the major industry, employing the most people.
If there was suddenly loads of free food around, yea there'd be no hunger, but people would stop buying food from their own food industry, which would promptly go bankrupt, with the loss of jobs for millions of people and the worlds poorest countries would promptly get poorer with the loss of their biggest employer and money maker.
Because of this, food companies would have to charge the proper price to sell any food in these countries to avoid making them even poorer, and again they can't afford said food and starve.
@ Kble
Domestication is one of the best things that can happen to animals. If the golden eagle tasted any good you can bet your life it wouldn't be nearly extinct.
I quote "In the wild, a sheep would have to look for food, compete for it, jockey for position in the herd, look out for predators, guard its offspring, and it one day would die because of some accident, perhaps a fall, some nasty illness, or it would become weak and have its throat ripped out by the local predators. By striking contrast, the life of a farmed sheep is rather different. A farmed sheep has complete protection from predators; all the food of exactly its favourite kind at its feet all day every day, for which it does not have to compete; no competition for mates; no need to guard offspring; free health care; free haircuts; it is very unlikely to die in childbirth, and unlikely to die a nasty death. True, half a ewe’s offspring are taken away and killed. However, in the wild, a ewe would lose most of its offspring anyway, and in nastier circumstances. By the standards of the natural wild, a sheep’s life is about as cushy as a life could possibly be."
This is true, animals in the wild invariably die violent deaths. the closest an animal will get to dying of old age is being picked by a predator because it it old and therefore an easier to target. Farmed animals invariably lead happier, healthier, less stressful lives than those in the wild.
As for the question of taste, that isn't really a good reason because everyone likes different things. If you don't like eating half cooked chicken cook it properly.
Personally I love the fatty bits and the gristle. Hell, I even eat the cartilage and tendons on the end of the bones. Crunchy.
@ sherryn
Yes, it does cost less to feed someone without meat. It also costs less if you live a life where you never go out, but I hear few people saying that'd be a good idea. If people can afford meat cost is really quite irrelevant.
Most animals are not treated like Peta says they are. The practises Peta shows are quite rare and quite illegal, definately not standard practise as Peta says. In theory the places they show on their videos should be shut down or prosecuted or whatever you do in America, although I doubt they would be.
@ Schandelle
I'll only answer your third point as the others have all been answered already.
No sensible vegans can contest that we were deigned to eat meat. Even most vegan scientists agree that human's are designed to eat meat, that is not in question.
That we do not have claws, talons, or incisors to hunt proves nothing. When early hominids ate meat they scavenged it, as vultures do, using their fingers to get the sinews and meat other animals couldn't. It was only after that that they began to hunt the meat themselves, and only much later they began to cook it. It is interesting that even now if someone was brought up eating raw meat he would have no problem with it.
The last few million years of human evolution have revolved completely around tools. We used advanced stone tools long before we began to hunt our own meat, and as such there was no need for evolution to bestow us with large claws or teeth to kill prey.
Simple research into human biology reveals how we are meant to eat meat. For one thing, our body produces hydrochloric acid and meat splitting enzymes that herbivores don't produce and are solely used for the digestion of meat. There are adaptations to our teeth (not incisors, rather the size of the jaw), stomach and intestines which have made a human being very adept at meat digestion. There is nothing wrong with the way our body digests meat, and we are so adept at eating it no scientists are of any doubt we've evolved to eat it.
In contrast, there are many reasons we aren't naturally herbivores. We cannot naturally get all the nutrients we need without animal products naturally. Vitamin B12 cannot be got, even now, without animal products or supplements, and a lack of it can cause anaemia and impending death. 60% of vegans even now have some level of B12 deficiency, as opposed to no meat eaters, which says something about how well adapted we are to a vegan diet.
All other nutrients can be got naturally. That owes to that vegetables can now be sold all year round, even out of season, and can be flown into the country from all over the world. In bygone times people could only eat the relatively small range of plants that grew in their ecosystem, and only when they were in season. Thus many more nutrients would have been unavailable and still more unavailable for most of he year. Until very recently it would have been impossible for a vegan human to live naturally without dying very quickly.
Now, meat makes up for all these lost nutrients very nicely, and it really shows how we aren't naturally vegans, as until very recently it was impossible to live like that.
@ Jennifer M
People eat cows and pigs because they produce better/more/cheaper/tastier meat than horses, dogs or parrots.
If it makes you feel an better I've eaten horse (and ostrich, and kangaroo, and frogs, and snails, and sharks, and the list goes on quite a long way) and most meats can be bought somewhere if you're willing to buy them. Horse isn't that great though taste-wise, come to mention it.
Humans aren't true predators,
Meat is basically carrion mass-
produced through mechanization.
Eating eggs would place me on
the same level with a snake,
dingo or hyena.
No other animal in all of taxonomy
would think of taking milk from another
species to feed on. A house cat will
drink dairy but only because you place
it in front of it.
Unless a person runs it down and
kills it with bare hands it's basically
scavenging just like a buzzard or
vulture.
Ending World Hunger!
It takes 22 pounds of grain to produce 1 pound of edible meat
Ending Global Thirst
It takes 5000 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of edible beef.
(much of this we're taking from India causing draughts)
Ending Global Destruction
The UN has stated the factory farm industry is responsible for Global Warming, mass polution of lakes and rivers, top soil erosion.
As everyone has stated - maltreatment of innocent creatures.
The list goes on and on.