Any Vegetarians and what is the reason behind it?

Question

I have recentley gone vegetarian, but sometimes i wonder it is not immoral but natural to eat meat because even herbivores eat ants by mistake that are in the plants they eat.

Who is Vegetarian and fo how long

Answer 1

just to let u know never ever ever become a vegetarian  theres no reason for it its not good for ur body ether.

Answer 2

I was a veggie (for 5-6 years) now I'm a pescetarian.  I prefer this diet because I hate the way animals are mistreated and suffers for the sake of a burger, I don't like the thought of eating something that was sentient and had a personality and I don't like the taste of meat.  Plus it's a lot healthier :)

Answer 3

50-something and I have been veggie for 20 years.  I don't like the way we treat farmed animals.  I have considered organic meats but doubt I will move away from vegetarianism

Answer 4

I have been a veggie for years and it came about for lots of reasons.I was feeling too full from eating meat-based meals,i realised that i loved animals too much to want to eat their flesh, i learnt that one way to keep your cholesterol level down was to cut out meat. It just sort of happened on it's own. I don't deny that  bacon cooking smells great, but i won't eat meat again.

Answer 5

Veggie for 3 yrs, cos I believe it is unhealthy and unethical to snack on the flesh of other beings, Peace M.

Answer 6

Being a vegetarian is healthier. There is less consumption of risk factors for diseases. I'm not a vegetarian but my dad has been one ever since i can remember. Plus some of that vegetarian food tastes great. Like morning star. I dont see the point in being a vegetarian to eat fake chicken though.

Answer 7

Who cares what you do

but reflect

Jesus followed the Jewish food restrictions..

he really was a free loader..accepting the gifts of his faithful So he eat meat every meal..

blessed and multiplied the fishes at his preaching  

Answer 8

The human race probably acquired a big brain due to our meat eating early history.  The bones of long dead humans and their eaten animals found here in UK tell of a massive meat eating culture of about 24,000 years or so ago.  Way before the last ice-age of about 15,000 years back.

The meat eating folk were huge, and by their bones well over six feet tall.  They ate a diet very heavy in meat, including horse, cattle [wild] and other animals too.

A recent dig by Time-Team at Woodhenge, the adjacent site to Stonehenge, tells how our ancestors would take their pigs to Woodhenge at the Winter Solstice and shoot them using bow and arrows with flint arrow heads.  The place is littered with thousands of flint arrow heads and pig bones.

So, next time you tuck into that pork crackling with your Christmas Turkey, you'll know why?  Yup, it's the ancestors inside of you, they want pig.

What vegetarianism allows, is for a much larger population and this has certainly been the case in India where the majority of people are Hindu and strictly vegetarian.  Fact is India became a major exporter of food.  How?  If you keep herds of cattle, which the Indians don't, at best you can only manage 2.5 cows per acre and that's on verdant green pasture as is only available here in UK and Ireland.

The same amount of land - 1 acre - will produce enough veg to feed dozens of people for a whole year.

Answer 9

I don't believe it's immoral at all to eat meat.  I think the immoral part is probably how most meat is "farmed" these days and the unethical ways in which animals are treated.  However, we are naturally predatory so if we could just hunt meat like normal predators do it'd probably be ethically-sound.

Anywho, the importance of being vegetarian is really the health aspect.  It is much healthier to eat lots of vegetables and fruits than it is to eat tons of meat.  Although I believe in a balanced diet including animal protein (I'm not a vegetarian, sorry) I have noticed that most vegetarians and vegans are healthier and livelier.  That's gotta be for a reason!

Answer 10

I have been a vegetarian for 9 years and I always hated the texture of meat and the smell of most.  My advise is to eat what you want, not to make a statement, whether the fact that you like meat or not, just do what makes you happy!

Answer 11

i became a vegetarian at age 10. i'm not really sure what my reason was. i had known where meat came from for years, and had no problem with it. i just started thinking about being vegetarian one day. a couple years later, my parents told me i had wanted to be vegetarian when i was 7. they said i needed to start eating other foods like eggs and different proteins first, and that we'd discuss it again when i was ten. i had completely forgotten!

Answer 12

I'm vegetarian and have been for probabaly about 10 years, but just because i don't really like the taste or texture of meat.