Why are people vegetarians? (Please read for details)?!
Why are people vegetarians? (Please read for details)?
I was wondering what the main reasons people become vegetarian were, besides religious belifs?
Is it that they "aren't" slaughtered humanely? I know that it's not necessarily healthier, because whether you eat meat or not, you can still be healthy...and yes, there is proof for both sides.
What are some other reasons?
2 months ago
If you can give me a site with a .gov or . edu that would be good too. I'm trying to find reliable sources. I've been to multiple slaughter houses and all...so I know exactly what goes on.
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2 months ago
If you can give me a site with a .gov or . edu that would be good too. I'm trying to find reliable sources. I've been to multiple slaughter houses and all...so I know exactly what goes on.
God you people make me sick. I'm a rancher and damn proud of it. First, as far as "pumping them full of antibotics" is a joke. Ask yourself this question, when you are sick do you take some medicine to get better? If you answered yes, then you just "pumped yourself full of antibotics. So try again with that bullshit line of inhumane.
Second, there sure is alot of talk about "have you ever seen how they are killed?". You freaking people talk like you have actually toured the packing plants and witnessed how it is all done. For one, the animal doensn't even know it's coming and most importantly, the source of where you get your information... PETA. They are one of the the biggest radical freak organization's around. They lie and try and do everything in there power to make farmer's, rancher's and so on down the line like we are in the wrong. They sabatoge and show fake footage of thing's and try and make people believe that every single place does thing's that way. We have the safest food in the world.
I will continue with my business of ranching and doing it the safe way, producing safe product's for this country and other countries to enjoy. And one last thing, this is what PETA stands for me.
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I don't know maybe because they don't want to eat anything that was previously alive whether it was killed humanely or not.
This will give you some answers
http://www.brown.edu/student_services/he...
it depends on the person.
it's not necessarily healthier? interesting for myself it is, when i changed my diet to vegetarian alot of my health issues did cease and decrease.
i disagree that part that it's not healthier.
vegetarianism isn't a bias on religion, humanity sometimes it's just a choice.
Maybe they don't like the taste
I'm a vegetarian for health reasons, but I don't want to argue it with you.
My sister eats a vegetarian diet. She'll tell you that she gave up meat because of the inhumane methods used to raise and slaughter animals used for food. She also claims that a vegetarian diet is healthier since she believes that humans weren't really designed to be meat eaters. Giving up meat was not that big a deal for her since she never really liked meat that much anyway.
My cousin is also a vegetarian and cites many of the same reasons as my sister. She also felt that too much food that could feed impoverished and starving humans is expended on producing meat that can only feed a few (lots of grain is needed to produce a pound of meat.) She was willing to eat meat before she became a vegetarian, but she also wasn't a huge fan of meat so she didn't miss it that much.
I'm not a vegetarian, but both my sister and cousin have been vegetarian for over 30 years.
A lot of animals are not slaughtered humanely. It is a production line and so time is profit even though they are inspected time to time.
Another reason is that the food market is being pumped with so many growth hormones and other chemicals, to make the cattle grow faster, to produce more milk etc etc.
These growth hormones do not suddenly stop when the animal is slaughtered.......... they are being passed into the food chain.
Also, the meat in the supermarkets, it does no resemble an animal. What the meat would have looked like if it were in a field holds no resemblance. Therefore would someone kill and eat a cow, pig, chicken or lamb if they were in a field.
Fish, well its not just the fish that are caught. Crustaceans and anything else ids caught in the nets. Unwanted, squashed, damaged and dead, these are just discarded as waste.
I am not against people eating meat, our teeth were designed to eat meat. I am vegi through my choice and having respect for the animal.
If your thinking about going vegetarian...dont you could drop dead from mal nutition! IM serious it'd not healthy god told us to eat meat so ...ya but people who are vegetarians or vegans
will never be 100% healthy its your choice but i dont hate vegetarians i have alot of vegetarian friends but its not the rihgt path for me why are you asking us this though its your life choice you shouldnt leave it in the hands of someone you dont even know!
Living beings suffer enough without me adding to their suffering by supporting an industry that shoots them full of hormones and antibiotics, crams them into small stalls/coops, and then shortens their lives tortuously. The grain that is used to support the beef industry alone could support all of the starving people on the planet, so it's not only about the suffering of animals but for people, too.
It's about compassion as the bottom line.
I have slowly become a vegetarian... I stopped eating red meat (beef) because it takes 2 weeks for it to fully digest, the thought of it sitting inside for 2 weeks...eeewww... and when I ate it, it felt heavy. I went to just white meat like chicken and turkey... then I saw a video and saw how they were treated and how much crap the inject into them... did you know that it takes a chick to become a chicken, I think it was 48 weeks to mature but with all that crap it was 24 weeks. Some of these chickens can't even walk it terrible... So then... I have noticed that I did not eat a lot of meat anyways... I don't miss it at all.
It's actually very simple. Have you ever seen footage of a slaughterhouse, that show how animals are treated? Go to peta.com. I'm a vegetarian simply because I want to respect all living beings. To me, it doesn't make sense to eat an animal. It's dead flesh on your plate.. not too appetizing. It's all about R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
Would you eat your pet? What's the difference? Don't eat cows.
There are may different reasons for a person to be a vegetarian.
1)Ethics and Morals: Some vegetarians do not beleive that an another living creature should have to die to keep them alive. The raising and slaughter of animals in factory farms is inhumane.
2)Health: Many vegetarians believe that it is much healthier. Even the American heart Association agrees that a vegetarian diet has less fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol. The AHA also states that a vegetarian diet is healthy. Also according to the American cancer society greater consumption of vegetables and fruits has been linked to a lower risk of lung, oral, esophageal, stomach, and colon cancer.
3)Enviroment: Animal agriculture's dependence on higher yields accelerates topsoil erosion on our farmlands, rendering land less productive for crop cultivation, and forcing the conversion of wilderness to grazing and farm lands. Animal waste from massive feedlots and factory farms is a leading cause of pollution in our groundwater and rivers. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has linked animal agriculture to a number of other environmental problems, including: contamination of aquatic ecosystems, soil, and drinking water by manure, pesticides, and fertilizers; acid rain from ammonia emissions; greenhouse gas production; and depletion of aquifers for irrigation.
Just a few of the reasons that people are vegetarian, some people are vegetarian for some of those reason, others for all, and still some for totally different reasons all together.
this is why
watch the video
i am a vegetarian
http://www.goveg.com/feat/chewonthis/...
My reasons for being a veggie and then a vegan have pretty much already been stated by others, but I did want to say that you might want to check the archives of a nutrition or medical journal to find the information you're looking for; I can almost promise you won't find it in a .gov document. Being that the meat industry is so large and well-funded, it would be political suicide for a government institution to lash out against it.
well i am agnostic so being vegan is not for religious reasons. i live as i do because i want to work towards getting rid of specieism (sp?). i would never eat a dog or drink a dog's milk. i wouldn't want a dog tested on in a lab or brutally forced to train in a circus routine. therefore i don't want any other animal to have to go through those things. i believe that they all should live out their lives as they were naturally meant to; happy, healthy and as close to nature as possible. veganism helps this cause.
EDIT: and for the guy underneath me, i don't get information from PETA. i don't like peta. though they do some good, they do more bad for our cause.