Why are more Americans not vegetarians?!
Why are more Americans not vegetarians?
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maybe because meat taste sooooo good
Because they choose not to be and we live in a country where we're free!!!!
because MEAT is better!!! pork, beef, chicken, i'll eat it all!!!
Sad, but true: People like meat.
May God bless you.
because every1 loves meat i love meat i mean who dosent i will never be a vegetarian
Cause WE have Mcdonalds, Taco Bell, Burger King, Arbys (mmm), Lucy's (near ma house), Burger Planet, Fat Burger, Jack in The Box, El Pollo Loco, KFC (mmmmm;cole slaw), Wendy, Carols Jr., Taco Mexico, patato chips, market places, albertsons, wal green, super value..etc.
Because God put animals here for a reason....for us to eat.
I think it's just cultural inertia and the innate desire to conform. For all we parrot about being "free", the fact is that no one is truly free until he or she is mentally secure in him/herself. The vast majority of people are afraid of their peers, friends, family and others who will inevitably criticize them for going vegetarian. Meat-eating is so ingrained into our culture, most people don't stop to think twice.
Because vegetables are expensive. Healthy food is expensive. With rising gas prices everything raises in price. If you go to a restaurant a burger is usually cheaper than a salad or a chicken sandwich is cheaper than a pasta dinner. Even at the grocery store shopping for bread, the white bread is always cheaper than the whole wheat bread. Soda is cheaper than juice. In a country where a vast number of people live paycheck to paycheck, food is also a place people need to bargain shop. Fresh vegetables can rot quickly. Many of the other foods they can choose from are non-parishable or can freeze easier than a lot of veggies.
If God didn't want us to eat cows he wouldn't have made them out of meat.
because they are a meat eating country!
They are big on take away foods with greasy meats..
its like australians with BBQ's
or china with beef
See I really don't know what goes on in other countries as far as this is concerned, but I have a couple ideas as to why it is like this in America.
Here we are brainwashed into thinking that Meat is completely healthy for you, and that being a vegetarian or a vegan will make you sick for a couple of reasons... Lack of Iron or protein or whatever else. The fact is, this so called "lack of protein" is grossly exaggerated. In Fact, it is pretty much impossible to be protein deficient unless you are not eating anything all day. Also, again I really don't know much about other countries, But I know here that the majority of the American food industry relies on the consumption of meat and dairy.
because we are the fast food nation
because we can afford to eat meat...and it taste good too
I think because America started out as a farming society. And so they needed to eat a lot of protein so farmers can work the land.
Well that culture is diminishing and America's taste buds is still growing. Its food is getting spicier (garlic didn't take off until the 1940's). Hopefully it'll start getting more creative with vegetables and eat less meat.
Because Americans somehow believe that they are above all and at the top of the food chain. They think meat was put here for us to eat, but the next person who says that to me, I will say "look, there's some poop, you wanna eat that too?"
only a non vegetarian should be answering your question, you vegans and vegies need to eat some meat now and again!!! meat makes you feel better.
Well, the people who colonized America ate meat. So the majority of people in this country have raised their children as meat eaters. While people do have an innate sense of right and wrong, it's heavily predjudiced by the actions of their parents. From racism to one's taste in TV to politics, our parents shape us greatly. Beyond that, meat tastes good. I've been a meat eater and a vegetarian, and it requires far less talent to consistently make tasty meat dishes than it does with vegetarian or vegan foods. Even when a person is interested in becoming a vegetarian, it's difficult. Most restraunts have been established by people who conform to the above principles, especially in smaller cities, and it's hard for someone used to a wide range of choices to suddenly be confined to the side salad on a menu. Someone who eats out often has to adapt quickly, otherwise it's easier to return to their meat eating ways. And if all that wasn't enough, there's the ever present peer pressure. It's not only the people who answer this question as if a desire to not stuff your mouth with dead flesh suddenly makes you a card carrying member of PETA on their way to spraypaint someone in a fur coat. It's subtle things, like going to your Mother-in-law's house for dinner and finding out that she doesn't understand why chicken broth makes a dish non-vegetarian even if it doesn't have chunks of meat, or the fact that we are raised not only to rely on meat but on convenience foods like Jell-O or Twinkies, which you gradually learn all contain meat by-products. Further messing up the issue are fellow vegetarians, who don't neccesarily have the same standards as you (i.e., people who consider fish to not be meat, or people who won't eat food cooked in pans that have touched meat, you can go either way). It's just looked down on, it's inconvenient, it's expensive, and for the majority of Americans it's an adjustment it's really easier to just not make.
good question. I was reading an article the other day that said that over 70 percent of people were obese, 80 percent had chronic health issues, such as diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, etc. but that only 2.8 percent of americans were vegetarian. I would love to know the health stats of those 2.8 veggies, wouldn't you? Bet they are much better than the others! Giving you a star
Because they prefer to live the last 1/3 of their life's with preventable diseases. It's an American past time. If you break this tradition your probably just terrorist. Or intelligent. you know... Whatever.
I heard recently that a eauropean country (not sure which one) is giving deductions on health insurance to vegetarians. I think we as a group should start requesting cheaper insurance policies.
Because they were not raised that way , because they are not educated on the inhumane treatment of animals , because they are not educated on the health benefits of not eating meat, because the dairy industry spends millions on propaganda and giving free milk and cheese to the schools , because the beef and pork industry spends millions advertising and no one regulates there claims with tricky wording ..and last because they have to GIVE something up and get nothing in return .. that is the most unfortunate reason ..
Because they are victim of meat propaganda.
F-U-C-K MEAT EATERS
ARE BASTARDS ARE FAT AND STUPID
GO TO HELL AND DIE!
P.s americans are FAT