What should I do to get people to stop eating animals?

Question

I want to stop people from eating animals and eat something like fruit and stuff

Answer 1

In my case, I happen to enjoy how they taste. That's hard to compete against.

Good luck with your quest.

Answer 2

start eating the people eating the animals

Answer 3

You can't stop everyone from eating animals. God put animals on the earth as a source of food. It is not wrong to eat them the same way animals eat other animals. I do belive however that torturing and killing animals for fun IS wrong.

Answer 4

You won't stop anyone but yourself from eating meat...as for me...I love cow, pig, goat, chicken, turkey, deer, moose....etc...

You eat what you want, but don't think you have the right to change me or anyone else, 'cause you don't.

Answer 5

i will never stop eating meat....eyes on the side of the head = prey and eyes in front = predator.....but i think what u are doing is noble and i suggest leading by example but not being arrogant or pushy about it

Answer 6

Why? Even people are food for some animals. It is nature. You are obviously not a naturalist.

Answer 7

Education is key. Go to peta.com (or maybe it's org.) where they have many videos showing how our meat and poultry are raised and 'harvested'. Many people can't even watch all the way through some of them because they are so disturbing. The general public is blind to the conditions in which these animals are raised and treated. It's no wonder there isn't more bacterial outbreaks.

You can just type in slaughter houses and you'll find some. Also, 'fur farms' can render some extremely disturbing videos as well as wool harvesting.

I will try to check back later tonight or tomorrow and if you need, I can provide you with some links.

Once anyone with any compassion for animals sees how things are run 'behind the scenes', it will at least give them pause. Kudos to you!

Answer 8

I EAT MEAT, IT'S A TREAT, ANIMALS IS WHAT I EAT

Answer 9

First off... If you tell people to eat fruit and stuff they will immediately stop listening. Nobody wants to eat stuff. Try understanding why people eat meat...tradition, taste, habit, protein needs etc... Then try introducing them to delicious vegetarian meals that satisfy those reasons. Don't jump right into tofu, carnivores have an automatic aversion to it. Show your friends/dinner guests how filling and satisfying a vegetarian meal can be. Start small have them try to make one vegetarian meal a week then two etc. The weight loss benefits of vegetarian diets can also be a huge incentive for certain people. Remember forcing your views on people does not work.

Answer 10

Show them this(move the com back one,I can't post links because it says "error 999)...

http://youtube. com/watch?v=GhxKnys7Ryw

-Half of the water used in the U.S. is used for animal agriculture.

-Every year in the US an area the size of Connecticut is lost to topsoil erosion--85% of this erosion is associated with livestock production.

-Livestock already consume half the world's grain, and their numbers are still growing almost exponentially.

-Every kilogram of beef we consume, according to research by the agronomists David Pimental and Robert Goodland, requires around 100,000 litres of water.

-Approximately 1.3 billion cattle populate the earth at any one time. They exist artificially in these vast numbers to satisfy the excessive human demand for the meat and by-products they provide. Their combined weight exceeds that of the entire human population. By sheer numbers, their consequent appetite for the world's resources, have made them a primary cause for the destruction of the environment.

-In the US, feedlot cattle yield one pound of meat for every 16 pounds of feed. It takes an average of 2,500 gallons of water to produce a single pound of meat. According to Newsweek, "The water that goes into a 1,000 pound steer could float a destroyer." In contrast, it takes only 25 gallons of water to produce one pound of wheat. Feeding the average meat-eating American requires 3-1/4 acres of land per year.

-Feeding a person who eats no food derived from animals requires only 1/6 acre per year. - Studies by North Carolina State University estimate that half of the some 2,500 open hog manure cesspools (euphemistically termed "lagoons"), now needed as part of hog productions there, are leaking contaminants such as nitrate--a chemical linked to blue-baby syndrome--into the ground water.

-Worldwide demand for fish, along with advances in fishing methods--sonar, driftnets, floating refrigerated fish packing factories--is bringing ocean species, one after another, to the brink of extinction. In the Nov., '95 edition of Scientific American, Carl Safina writes, "For the past two decades, the fishing industry has had increasingly to face the result of extracting [fish] faster than fish populations [can] reproduce." Research reveals that the intended cure--aquaculture (fish farming)--actually hastens the trend toward fish extinction, while disrupting delicate coastal ecosystems at the same time.

-A scientist, reporting in the industry publication Confinement, calculated in 1976 that the planet's entire petroleum reserves would be exhausted in 13 years if the whole world were to take on the diet and technological methods of farming used in the US.

-If tomorrow people in the US made a radical change away from their meat-centered diets, an area of land the size of all of Texas and most of Oklahoma could be returned to forest.

-It is estimated that livestock production accounts for twice the amount of pollution in the US as that produced by industrial sources.

-Livestock in the US produce 130 times the excrement of the entire US population. Since farm animals today spend much or all of their lives in factory sheds or feedlots, their waste no longer serves to fertilize pastures a little at a time. One poultry researcher, according to United Poultry Concerns literature, explains: "A one-million-hen complex will produce 125 tons of wet manure a day." To responsibly store, disperse, or degrade this amount of animal waste is simply not possible. Much of the waste inevitably is flushed into rivers and streams.

-Methane is one of the four greenhouse gasses that contributes to the environmental trend known as global warming. The 1.3 billion cattle in the world produce one fifth of all the methane emitted into the atmosphere.

-.Agricultural engineers have compared the energy costs of producing poultry, pork and other meats with the energy costs of producing a number of plant foods. It was found that even the least efficient plant food was nearly 10 times as efficient in returning food energy as the most energy efficient animal food.

-Since so much fossil fuel is needed to produce it, beef could be considered a petroleum product. With factory housing, irrigation, trucking, and refrigeration, as well as petrochemical fertilizer production requiring vast amounts of energy, approximately one gallon of gasoline goes into every pound of grain-fed beef.

-The direct and hidden costs of soil erosion and runoff in the US, mostly attributable to cattle and feed crop production, is estimated at $44 billion a year.

- Each pound of feedlot beef can be equated with 35 pounds of eroded topsoil.

-A nationwide switch to a pure vegetarian diet would allow us to cut our oil imports by 60%.

-Compared to a vegan diet, three days of a typical American diet requires as much water as you use for showering all year (assuming you shower every day).

-An acre of land can produce 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but only 165 pounds of beef.

-In the U.S., 260 million acres of forest have been destroyed for use as agricultural land to support our meat diet (over 1 acre per person).

-Since 1967, the rate of deforestation has been one acre every five seconds.

-Trees are being cut down at an alarming rate in the US, as well as around the world, for meat production. For every one acre cleared for urban development, seven acres are cleared to graze animals or grow feed for them.

Answer 11

kill all the animals off yourself so people won't be able to eat them.

Answer 12

sorry u cant stop people.  no matter how u hate animals being killed u cant just force people to change their diet.  how would u feel if somebody started forcing u to eat meat?

i do feel for u i hate animals getting killed for us but the best u can do is to encourage people to try vegetarianism.

Answer 13

I hear you, I'm against Deer hunting.  I do eat Chicken, Cow, Fish and little pig at times as much as I would love to be vegetarian I can't cause I need meat to survive and be strong since I'm into boxing.  I don't think hunting will ever stop at least not in this life time.

Answer 14

worry about yourself

Answer 15

This is not going to happen, at least not as long as I am alive.  I intend to continue eating tasty animals until the day I die and encourage everyone else to do the same.

Just out of curiosity, who put you in charge of what I eat?

Answer 16

Hey, the more meat you don't eat, the more for me.

Answer 17

Absolutely nothing!  It's not your place to interfere with an individuals food preference in what they should or should not be eating.  To each their own.  Trying to force your objective viewpoints onto others will not work, and will only serve as being hostile.  It's a losing battle.  I would suggest you eat your fruit and stuff and enjoy the taste, and let the others do the same.  While some are vegetarians, others are not, and you can't change the world and the people in the world.  

I personally enjoy a slab of BBQ ribs, a T-bone steak, fried chicken, and a baked ham.  Not to mention lobster and salmon.  Why you may not, I do.  And I don't begrudge you your food selections. Since you don't eat meat, then do you know what that means?  More for me!  Thank you friend.  Enjoy your grapes!

Answer 18

Just try not to be judgmental.  If you say 'I'm a vegetarian' I might be interested.  If you say 'you're a Killer, because you eat meat', I'm just gonna walk away from you.

And don't be in such a hurry!  Sudden, universal, vegetarianism would kill more animals than it would save.  Think of the traditional 'food' animals that would be left alive-to starve, kill each other, or be 'euthanized' by some patronizing humans.

It's just one of the more unattractive aspects of the life cycle. Face it...some animals eat meat-and are the healthier for it. Many, like most felines, would die, or be left blind or weak, without meat to eat.

However, vegetarianism is a healthy, economic alternative diet for humans-but hardly a morally superior one.  More people would become interested through a shared meal or recipe...than a sermon.

Answer 19

I am a vegetarian and I would never inflict my views on other people. That is a decision you made and you cannot force others to be like you. Not eating meat is a choice I made, but I still make meat for my family because vegetarianism is not their choice . What you are saying is very naive. Good Luck

Answer 20

You can't just like I can't get you to take up the sport of hunting (something I detest anyway).

Live you life the way YOU believe it should be lead and be an example but don't force your beliefs on others.

Answer 21

P.E.T.A.

People for the Eating of Tasty Animals

If you want me to stop eating meat, overcook it.  Medium Rare baby!