What are your reasons for being vegetarian?

Question

tell me your reasons. everyone´s are diferent!

Answer 1

For Animal Rights

Answer 2

ANIMAL WELFARE and Environment concern.

Answer 3

I initially became vegetarian because I didn't think it was right to kill other animals when you could survive perfectly well without meat.

Concerns over how battery hens are treated made me switch to free-range eggs, and the environmental impact of the dairy industry in my home country (New Zealand) made me begin to cut down on consumption of dairy products. I admired vegans because I thought they were "hard-core" but didn't really understand why they thought veganism was necessary.

I became vegan when I realised that the egg and dairy industries were just that: industries.

They view animals purely as production units: any animal that is not "productive" is killed.

This includes males chicks and calves, as well as animals that are too old/exhausted to continue "producing".

These discoveries lead me to decide that, for me to live in a way that was consistent with my own personal ethics, I had no choice but to become vegan. I thought it would be hard, but once I had made the decision there was no looking back... and it is so much easier than I thought it would be.

Simply put, becoming vegan was the best thing I have ever done in my life.

Answer 4

mine:

do u see animals running around killung humans killing them cooking them and eating them?

no you dont.

so why should humans go killings animals, killuing them, cooking the, eating them its just not fair.

Answer 5

Avoiding meat is one of the best and simplest ways to cut down your fat consumption. Modern farm animals are deliberately fattened up to increase profits. Eating fatty meat increases your chances of having a heart attack or developing cancer.



Every minute of every working day, thousands of animals are killed in slaughter-houses. Pain and misery are common. In the US alone, 500,000 animals are killed for meat every hour.



There are millions of cases of food poisoning recorded every year. The vast majority are caused by eating meat.



Meat contains absolutely nothing - no proteins, vitamins or minerals - that the human body cannot obtain perfectly happily from a vegetarian diet.



African countries - where millions are starving to death - export grain to the developed world so that animals can be fattened for our dining tables.

  

'Meat' can include the tail, head, feet, r****m and spinal cord of an animal.



A sausage can contain ground up intestines. How can anyone be sure that the intestines are empty when they are ground up? Do you really want to eat the content of a pig's intestines?



If we eat the plants we grow instead of feeding them to animals, the world's food shortage will disappear virtually overnight. Remember that 100 acres of land will produce enough beef for 20 people but enough wheat to feed 240 people.



Every day, tens of millions of one-day-old male chicks are killed because they will not be able to lay eggs. There are no rules about how this mass slaughter takes place. Some are crushed or suffocated to death. Many are used for fertiliser or fed to other animals.





Animals who die for your dinner table die alone, in terror, in sadness and in pain. The killing is merciless and inhumane.



It's must easier to become (and stay) slim if you are a vegetarian. (By 'slim', I do not mean 'abnormally slender' or 'underweight' but rather, an absense of excess weight!)



Half the rainforests in the world have been destroyed to clear ground to graze cattle to make beefburgers. The burning of the forests contributes 20% of all green-house gases. Roughtly 1,000 species a year become extinct because of the destruction of the rainforests. Approximately 60 million people a year die of starvation. All those lives could be saved because those people could eat grain used to fatten cattle and other farm animals - if Americans ate 10% less meat.



The world's fresh water shortage is being made worse by animal farming. And meat producers are the biggest polluters of water. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce one pound of meat. If the US meat industry wasn't supported by the taxpayer paying a large proportion of its water costs, then hamburger meat would cost $35 a pound.



If you eat meat, you are consuming hormones that were fed to the animals. No one knows what effect those hormones will have on your health. In some parts of the world, as many as one on four hamburgers contain growth hormones that were originally given to cattle.





The following diseases are commoner among meat eaters: anaemia, appendicitis, arthritis, breast cancer, cancer of the colon, cancer of the prostrate, constipation, diabetes, gallstones, gout, high blood pressure, indigestion, obesity, piles, strokes and varicose veins. Lifelong vegetarians visit hospital 22% less often than meat eaters and for shorter stays. Vegetarians have a 20% lower blood cholestrol level than meat eaters and this reduces heart attack and cancer risks considerably.



Some farmers use tranquillisers to keep animals calm. Other routinely use antibiotics to starve off infection. When you eat meat you are eating those drugs. In America, 55% of all antibiotics are fed to animals and the percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin went up from 14% in 1960 to 91% in 1988.

  

In a lifetime, the average meat eater will consumer 36 pigs, 36 sheep and 750 chickens and turkeys. Do you want that much carnage on your conscience?





Animals suffer from pain and fear just as much as you do. How would you like to spend your last hours locked in a truck, packed into a cage with hundreds of other terrified animal and then cruelly pushed into a blood soaked death chamber. Anyone who eats meat condones and supports the way animals are treated.



Animals which are a year old are often far more rational - and capable of logical thought - than six week old babies. Pigs and sheep are far more intelligent than small children. Eating dead animals is barbaric.



Vegetarians are fitter than meat eaters. many of the world's most successful athletes are vegetarian

Answer 6

My reasons for being vegetarian? I don't think it is within our right to take away animals lives, and the murder of any animal is just as bad as a human-what makes us any better than them? I think it's despicable that we put animals through so much pain and suffering just to have a nice taste in our mouth, and I certainly don't want to eat anything that's died for me.

Answer 7

Well it all started out one night I had made steaks for dinner, and i realized that meat is kinda gross, tasteless, and bland. I thought about becomming one for a few weeks then stumbled apon meetyourmeat.com :( Then i made the switch overnight! After lots and lots of research I found more and more resons to be one..why its good for you etc.  All Those things keep me going.

Answer 8

to be healthy enough to play my fovorite sports

Answer 9

I wouldn't be able to kill a cow or a chicken to just to eat it, so why should it be OK if I let someone else do it for me?

Answer 10

I love animals too much and can't stand to see them suffer or support abuse

Answer 11

my reason for being a vegetarian is mainly health. as i young adult i know that i am slightly overweight. becoming a lacto-vegetarian has helped me feel better in both body and mind. i get to sleep better knowing i haven't eaten something pumped with steroids and hung upside down until it was severed with a knife.(chicken)

Answer 12

Carnivore all the way.

Answer 13

my cousin - ever since we were little girls we always had to do whatever the other was doing. we tend to get bored quickly and move on to the next thing, but we've both stuck with this because we feel so much better.

Answer 14

1. The abuse and torcher of the animals disgusts and saddens me

2. I dont consider animals to be food

3. Being vegetarian/vegan helps the enviroment

4. A meatless diet ensures a a nice body, clear skin and shiny hair!

Answer 15

The reason I became a vegetarian was because I had had enough of meat. I started to get really sick of seeing all these dead animals in my freezer. To make matters worse, about 3 years before I became a vegetarian, I visited a real live market with every single animal you could imagine there and they were all being sold. I also did it for health reasons. Nowadays, animals we consume are fed with antibiotics, and other chemicals and we just unknowingly consume it. It's horrible! We may as well be test animals at a laboratory.

Since becoming a vegetarian for two years, it feels good. I've lost weight, become healthier because I eat more fruits and veggies. Some people are saying that they want to become vegetarian and all, but without willpower, they could never last and will be overcome with meat's "goodness".

That's my little rant at 12:40 in the morning! Good night! :D