What's the point in being a vegitarian? (I wanna be one)?

Question

I don't really like meat already but I still sorta like chicken but if I turned to being a vegitarian would it help animals at ALL?? I have one problem, my dad makes stuffed green peppers and I love them and I really love salads...they usually have chicken when ordering them...is there any way to help me stop eating the green peppers and salads with chicken?? and does being vegitarian help at ALL?? lol thanx soo much

Answer 1

theres many points to being a vegitarian. every vegitarian saves lotssss of animals every year, and you may feel like just you wont make a difference, but you will. also, its much healthier for you to not eat meat, it may be somewhat hard to adjust to at first but if you dont eat much meat to begin with then all you need to do is be sure to get plenty of the things you need, like protien and some others. eat tofu, and lots of veggies. no meat in your diet lowers the chance of heart disease and you can benifit from it in many other ways.

as for the stuffed peppers and salads, you can still eat them! you can simply ask the resturaunts to not add the chicken to salads, or many other foods for that matter. if you're at home and can prepare the food yourself or have someone do it for you, there are plenty of fake meats to substitute real meat with. for the peppers, ask your dad to use a fake meat instead. fake meat sounds wierd, but its really good. its made out of wheat or soy usually. and tofu can be added to almost anything, and its very good for you. i like to add fake chicken to salads, stir-fries, and sandwiches. also theres veggie burgers, fake chicken patties and nuggets, and fake deli meats, hot dogs, and bacon. most of them taste very similar to real meat.

good luck!

also, peta can be a bit exaggerated with some things, but the things there are BASICALLY the way things are for animals. its a great way to learn about how the food you're eating got there. its a little disturbing, but theres no use avoiding the truth.

Answer 2

I'm whats considered a pesca-vegetarian, which is, as aforementioned, somebody who eats dairy products, seafood, but no other meat.  My reasons for not eating "land" meat are several.

      

1) The land animals we eat, such as cows, chickens, turkeys, pigs, are oftentimes raised in ultra-efficient feedlots that sacrifice an animal's mental and physical health for an increase in profits.  For example, it is quite well known that calves (which are slaughtered to make veal), are kept chained in confining rectangles which don't even allow the animals to turn around.  Thus, they waste away in their own excrement while being a constant diet of antibiotics in order to ensure they don't die from being in their own excrement.  Cows are also more commonly fed grains (most notably corn) which they have not evolved to eat.  Cows are supposed to graze.  On grass.  The lack of "proper food" in their diet further contributes to digestion problems.  

       Birds are also prey to such "feedlot" practices.  Hens are kept in small cages placed in long rows, doing nothing but eating and laying eggs for all their lives.  They are also de-beaked to prevent them from hurting each other( I do not know if this is a painful process in itself).  Male chickens are thrown away, either being suffocated, crushed, or otherwise dispatched by some other method that reflects their economic uselessness.   One of the lesser known plights is that of the turkey.  Yes, the turkey is big- but that doesn't spare it a miserable life defined by the parameters of a cage.  Turkeys are most notably grown so large and top heavy that they have to be artificially inseminated.  The fact of the matter is, the animals kept on feedlots are so unhealthy that if they are not harvested when they are, they inevitably get some sort of disease (such as cancer).

           How is it meat is so cheap?  As nations become more prosperous, we are more and more used to higher living standards.  Ask somebody who didn't have a lot of money decades ago, and they'll tell you that they likely did not have meat very often.  It has simply become subsidized in order to keep the costs down- so people can blissfully and ignorantly enjoy it.  Its said that if the entire world became vegetarian, world hunger would end.  That is because raising a cow, chicken, or pig takes a lot of grain.  Supposedly for the amount of grain required to feed a cow, 8 grain eating people can be fed.  Or is it 16?  Chickens are about 4 times, from what I can remember.  

        

I eat seafood because it often gets to live in the ocean or sea before being caught and killed (as it occurs in nature, animals get naturally picked off some point doing their lives by predation, disease, the elements, etc.).   As I feel I am not causing a lot of unnecessary grief to a sea animal that has lived in the ocean and has had the misfortune of being caught, unlike what I would be doing by supporting the meat industry's practices, my qualms are a bit assuaged.  Who knows?  In time, I may find that eating seafood is unacceptable.  

However, I do not depend on seafood for all my protein.  It is not very well known, but the amount of mercury in our oceans (and the animals living in the oceans) can be cause for concern- especially for pregnant women.  Mercury has long since proved to be deadly, and eating large amounts of fish (especially predatory fish), results in a transfer and accumulation of possibly dangerous quantities of mercury.  I get my protein from kidney beans, bean sprouts, and tofu.   You do NOT need to eat animal meat in order to get your protein.  Society has simply geared itself in such a way that protein is most readily available in meat.    

There is much more I can say on this- such as how Gorillas ( pretty strong for those who think eating a lot of meat is necessary for bulking up) only eat vegetables, or how humans have not evolved to eat gratuitous amounts of meat because they used to have to literally CHASE it and tire it out to get it.  

    For those who say not eating meat will not do a difference, that is not true.  That seems tantamount to saying "My vote won't matter just because it's only one."   While seemingly true when taken LITERALLY, you have to remember that the ranks of vegetarians and vegans are growing.  If each person would eat less or no meat, then suppliers would find themselves ordering less, and meat factories very well might find themselves slaughtering less.  

  For now, I hope this has dispelled some of the notions associated with not eating meat.

Answer 3

You can stuff peppers with other things than meat, and you cal always ask them to hold the chicken on your salad.

Vegetarians save around 95 animal lives a year. So of course it helps!!

Answer 4

There are a few points in being a Vegetarian.  The two that I find most important are spiritual reasons and to save animals.  Yes, it will help the animals because more and more people will stop buying meat.  You have to sacrifice certain foods you love , but to me it's worth it.

Answer 5

im veg all the way!

it saves animals, the environment, earth. i was a huge fan

of shrimp, but because its living i couldnt eat it, it was hard

but im so much happier with boca burgers, soy nuggets,

faux fish. they are really good and healthy substitutes.

vegetarian doesnt mean you can eat meat once a month or

once a year, no meat, poultry, fish, nothing that used to live. if

you eat an animal after deciding to go veg you are going

to feel really guilty afterwards, trust me.

you wouldnt even believe what they do to the animals once

they are taken to the slaughter homes. ive done 2 reports on

animal cruelty and i had to gather information, the sites ive

been to are so horrific, i couldnt even stand listening to the

pigs screaming, did you know they hang cows upside down

and cut their throats, and some of them are still alive? even

if they are still alive they will continue cutting layers of meat

off their body. and to pigs, they cut off the testicles and rip

out their teeth, no painkillers either. and to chicken, they put

them into boiling hot water and pluck their feathers off, its

so horrible.

plus you have a less chance of getting heart disease, mad cow

disease, all that stuff.

and to anyone that is against vegetarianism, we werent made

to eat meat, if you check the human body system we were

made as herbivores, and herbivores do not eat dead flesh.

we dont have sharp fangs to cut meat with, and it doesnt take

us a few minutes to digest it, it takes us up to 6 hours to

digest meat. if we stop eating meat we can have a more green

environment, and no we wont over popullate. we die someday

but there is the FOOD CHAIN. there are other animals that

are going to continue to eat other animals. thats the way it is.

educate yourself, this site isnt scary so dont worry about it.

Answer 6

Being Vegan or Vegetarian is a healthier lifestyle and yeah...you're supporting a cause (that animals deserve to live and not be bred to feed humans)...BUT--

Do you think that being a Vegan or Vegetarian will actually stop the world from raising animals for food ? NO...

It will always go on and there is so much meat in the stores for sale...you may as well put it to good use. It's a shame if meat spoils before it sells. That's bad...the poor animal's life was wasted for no reason. So...maybe eating meat isn't such a bad thing ? You need it for iron levels in your blood...and other things, but you can get that elsewhere, too.

Those men that hunt deer and other wild animals (for food) are ridiculous because there is so much available (already dead) in the store and they shouldn't kill animals in nature. They should eat what's in the store so it won't go to waste.

Besides, it is very expensive to take a deer carcase to be processed and stuffed.

I love animals so much and if I think about it too much...it creeps me out to know this poor creature used to have a life.  But I was just raised from a small child to eat meat and seafood and I do love steak, hamburger and seafood is my favorite. Poor crabs...losing their legs for our pleasure !!!  

Downright shameful !!!  But it tastes soooo good....sorry !

Answer 7

well first off WE ARE NOT MEANT TO EAT MEAT!! becuase if we were we would have claws  sharp teeth and  be able to eat them raw  ..news flash we can't!

Answer 8

its your choice, but i wouldnt become a vegetarian. theres too much flavor, iron and  protein in their meat.  However, its certainly very healthy. good luck, and if you do become a vegetarian, have fun with it, and try tons of new foods, and for the salad you can replace the chicken with different types of beans (they have protein).

Answer 9

Ok some ppl think its wrong to eat animals but its not

God fed the 10,000 with fish and bread. He put animals on earth to feed us and animals balanced out the circle of life just like everyother thing on earth. If we all became vegitarians the balance would go wayyyy wrong.

And no it wont help the animals. Everything has to die remember that. And humans come before animals. We are at the top of the food chain.

Everything has balance and purpose.

Pigs, fish, cows were put on earth to feed us and produce food and mile ext.

Dogs cats lions, tiger ext are put here for reasons too not to provide us ith food but to represent wonders of god and nature.

and i would recomend try eating fish its pretty good besides your body needs protien once again, balance.

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Answer 10

Intellect...Awareness...Conscience...

Nevertheless, if the current uptrend is continue (and other factors remain unchanged), 43.2% of world population  will be vegetarians by the year 2019. (Even some survey & researches predicted the figure would be much higher)

This is where the world is leading to.

Answer 11

i think all it does is put your health at risk because your body needs protien (aka)meat

Answer 12

the point is to save animals

duhh

Answer 13

The point is to eat healthier. Everyone says save animals, but those animals are just going to be breed and slaughtered anyway... Not eating them only makes more unused rotten meat in the world. lol... You could be a pesco-vegetarian, and eat veggies and fish and dairy.. There is not just vegetarians. or vegans. There are lots of sub-classes.. I do not eat red meat, but I eat chicken pork and fish. but I am not a "vegetarian" because people get mad and offensive about the term.

Answer 14

The point of being a vegtarian is based on your personal goals, the ones you have set for yourself. Only you can truly answer that.

But I am just wondering how you can want to be a vegetarian when you don't seem to know much about it at all. "I want to be a lawyer...What's a lawyer?". Sounds very weird.

Vegetarians don't contribute to the animal for food industry. That's about it. You will many hear wild claims about "saving 100 animals a year" or that it is "healthier". These  are myths spread around by pro-vegetarian groups who want to promote the lifestyle. Nothing wrong with that. But some of it is just not true.

You will also hear several comments about it being unhealthy, about how difficult it will be etc etc. These too are myths spread by those who oppose the lifestyle or don't understand it.

Meat is not bad if it is a part of a balanced healthy diet. Being a vegetarian is not unhealthy either if again , the diet is balanced and healthy. Both would do even better if coupled with an exercise or activity regimen. Neither diet is automatically healthy.

if you want to be a vegetarian, fine then be one.  But make sure you still eat a well balanced diet with the proper nutrients that your body needs. A "vegetarian diet" of junk food is just as unhealthy as an omni diet with similar foods.

the label should be describing how you lead your life not dictate on how you should live your life.

Answer 15

Being a vegetarian has its draw backs like not getting the nutrtion that you need. You can be part vegetarian by just eating chicken and no other meat. Being a vegetarian can be unhealthy so make sure you give your body what it needs, tofu is what most vegitarians eat cause it gives them the nutrion that they need. good luck. please answer my question http://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylc=...