What would it take for you (if anything), to become vegatarian

Question

I passed a trailerful of cattle on my way home from work today. The stock was on it's way to be slaughtered.

The gaps in the side were big enough to see their eyes. I suddenly felt very sad about the prospect of their imminent fate.

I've always enjoyed steak before but today made me rethink my diet.

Please don't answer if you are not going to take this question seriously.

Answer 1

I gave up eating meat years ago, not just the thought of the animal suffering as you saw but behind the scene suffering, poor living conditions, the administration of drugs like growth hormones and antibiotics and believe me, after you get over the withdrawal and the fat cravings ( which is proof to me of the adverse effects ) you will feel and look ten times better have more energy and less depression. I now keep off all dairy products for the same reason.

but you do need to have a sensible diet containing protein and the missing vitamins.

Answer 2

spelling correctly

Answer 3

I was veg for 15 years, mostly for economic reasons. I'd buy a piece of meat and end up with very little left after removing fat, veins etc.

Have been eating a little bacon recently as researched which meat is the best choice from an environmental view and pork is top, followed by chicken, sheep then beef (too much water needed).

Even when I ate meat before going veg for the 15 years, I would never eat any meat labelled as halal or kosher.

I've personally seen halal slaughter done in the UK and believe me it is not painless for the animal, despite the quotations from religious texts saying it is.

With kosher they seem to take more care over what they do, but again it is not cruelty free. Also according to Jewish dietary law only about half of an animal is permissible under the kosher rules. The rest of the meat is not discarded and enters the food chain and you could be eating it unwittingly. Hence another reason to eat pork products.

I think the slaughtering method could be changed, but that would hurt the profits of the meat trade, so they would then lobby government not to implement it, like a ban on battery farm cages for hens. Even now, I refuse to buy anything but free range eggs and am wary of ordering food like omelettes when dining out, unless the eggs are at least free-range.

You hit on a valid point. When people are confronted with animals being transported to slaughter, that's when they see the connection between the plastic wrapped meat on the shelf and the animal in the field. You never see what happens in between that, the meat trade sees to that.

My uncle used to keep a pig or two in the back garden. He used to kill it by cutting its head clean off with one blow of a razor sharp axe, I don't think it felt anything, as it was swift.

I was 5 years old, but not too distressed and the pig certainly had a better life than one on a modern intensive pig farm: (my uncles home smoked bacon and sausages....wow!).

If I had to kill my own meat, then I probably would go back to being veg.

Answer 4

watch videos of animals being slaughtered..............it'll absolutely kill you!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 5

The programme that was on recently about the treatment of chickens made me feel sick, i haven't eaten chicken since. I rarely eat meat as it is, generally my meat intake consists of Bernard matthews thin ham. But that put me off, any type of bird meat. It was disguisting!

Theres a humane way to strangle a goat?? or anything living for that matter, surely shooting it would be more humane!

Answer 6

$123,876.21 a year.

Answer 7

hmmm, ive lived on a farm all my life, and i feel ok that my father strangles the goats humanely

Answer 8

If I had to kill my own food I wouldn't eat meat.

Answer 9

I eat a varied diet including meat and I never really thought about the treatment of animals before. That is sad.

Answer 10

I'm afraid we'd have to run out of other animals to eat before I became a veggie.

Answer 11

One of my main diet is meat, so sorry, though I do not like beef that much besides Steak.

Normally i eat majority of time pork.

I think Disney should make a movie about a cow or pig before people starts to stop eating meat.

Answer 12

If people worried about seeing things like this, there would be no farmers so nobody to grow crops so we would all die out. Hope this is serious enough.

Answer 13

Funny that....steak on a plate comes from a cow that used to be living, and probably wasn't overly chuffed about the fact it was about to be slaughtered.  How do people seem to forget about this fact when they like/eat meat?

I love meat, and no amount of tearful cows will stop me eating it.  I've even spent time in African slaughter houses to no effect.

The only thing that would stop me eating meat would be if it cost like £30 for a steak in the supermarket, but even then I'd probably just buy a field and raise my own!

Answer 14

If I had to kill the animal myself!

Honest & Serious answer!

Answer 15

First of all, I would only become a veggie if there was no meat available at all.

Second, people are omnivorous. You only have to compare our anatomy to a herbivore to see the difference. (I know taste comes into it nowadays, but I don't care).

Third, grammar and spelling (sorry,but it's how I am):

"what (if anything) would it take for you to become vegetarian"

or "What would it take (if anything),..."

Answer 16

im a vegaterian. i stop eating meat becase of the way animals are treated and also because they way the animals are being treated is starting to affect our health too.

Answer 17

ive been a vegetarian a little over a year now.first,i love animals and used to play with cows,pigs on my grandparents farm,hard to eat anything u regard as capable of responding to u like a dog.my grandparents animals were like pets to me.also,trying to avoid family history of cardiovascular disease and cancer-meat,especially red meat,is implicated in various cancers. i feel healthier,i am at an average weight,not overweight as i was b4 and its not difficult.i dont miss meat.my husband is down to just poultry.i didnt badger him.he made the choice on his own.he may be a full veg in time,or maybe he wont,but he too grew up in farm country-hard to eat cows when u have bottle fed calves.i did it,but never felt comfortable eating meat-it reminded me of the baby animals i'd known.i feel more at peace now,the less harm i do in order to survive!

Answer 18

When i was younger i visited my grandad who was a fisherman who lived in Napoli, Italy when he caught a fish he'd gut it and leave it on a hook to let the blood drain .. ive never ate fish again

But i agree nothin would make me give up beef