Why are you vegetarian ?

Question

i am vegetarian because of the effects factory farming can have on human health i.e most factory animals are fed antibiotics which stay in the body and consequently the meat so if i eat a lot of of meat i could become immune to the benefits of antibiotics which would be a problem should i ever become ill. another worry i have is that animals kept too close together or on concrete or steel floors can contract a whole load of diseases and though a lot of them can't be passed from animals too humans some can.

i do eat fish, this is because (though i'm not 100% certain and need to read up on it) fish can't be forced into tiny cages like farm animals can and i don't think they would need to feed the fish antibiotics if they aren't at risk of contracting diseases like animals do when they are kept in crowded conditions.

thats my essay over, please tell me why you don't eat meat because i'm curious.

Answer 1

Because I don't like the idea of my tummy being a grave yeard for decaying dead animals.

BTW: Farm rased fish is fed antibiotics and kept in over crowded conditions. Fish is not vegetarian, but if your going to eat it catch your own and kill it yourself.

Answer 2

I am vegan for the reasons you outline, which easily apply to milk products as well (though not so much eggs... I have different reasons for not eating those.)

I am also vegan because I don't believe it's OK to harm animals for food.  It's unneccesary to inflict suffering on a sentient creature when out dietary needs can be met without doing so.

I am also vegan because of the negative effects that intensive animal agriculture has on the environment.  I wouldn't buy a Hummer, so why would I want to eat the equivalent of one?

I am also vegan because I don't think a small handful of corporations should have such a stranglehold on what Americans eat.  Eating a whole food-based vegan diet makes it really easy to avoid Big Food.

Incidentally, you are not a vegetarian, you are a pescetarian.  Vegetarians simply do not eat dead animals, no matter the rationale, and that is something that has never changed in the 160+ years since members of the original Vegetarian Society coined the word.  Your decision to eat fish is your own and I don't judge that, but calling fish a vegetarian food makes it confusing for those who aren't familiar with veg*nism and makes it difficult for those of us who don't want to be fed dead animals.

Also, fish absolutely ARE farmed and farmed fish absolutely ARE given medications and absolutely DO spread disease to wild fish populations.  Fish farming is not a fish- or eco-friendly practice.

Answer 3

Animals have rights, that's why I don't eat meat. All animals are conscious beings, we all experience the world from our own point of view and we all fear our own demise, therefore the value we have as animals comes from within, the value we place on our own life. All animals are entitled to their life, freedom and freedom from suffering, these are birth-rights and by paying for animals to be bred, abused and murdered, you are taking those rights away. Fish suffer, too. Being pulled from the depths at such a rapid pace causes damaging decompression, resulting in burst eyeballs and organs pertruding out of the body in many cases. Of course, they are all murdered before their natural death for something as petty as food, which is wrong too. Dairy cows and egg laying hens suffer as much as those meant primary for the slaughterhouse. They end up on the killing floor, as well, and are abused all their life beforehand, even those in 'free-range' and 'organic' systems. It's all rather cruel and uneccesary. That's why I don't eat meat or animal products or contribute to the denial of animals' rights in any way in my lifestyle.

Answer 4

You're not a vegetarian.

I'm vegan because animals are not ours to use for any kind of consumption.

Answer 5

because all i eat is potato chips, and i guess that's a vegetable.

Answer 6

Well, your basically saying that you don't eat meat because of health issues, and how chemicals and antibiotics can do serious stuff to your body. That's true, but actually, alot of people don't eat meat cause they simply can't, with the thought that theyre putting into their mouths something that used to be alive just like them, only now dead and processed into food.

For example, one of my friends just think its sad how companies rally up poor animals in the masses and have them slaughtered gruesomely and their bodies are turned into your lunch, it's (to him and perhaps many) an animal holocaust. Many animals (such as ones for fast food) spent their entire lives in a small bin forced to eat stuff that'll make them fatter and bigger, then killed. That's also a huge reason why hippies don't eat meat.

It can also regard religion, since some people hate the idea of killing God's creations for food and there you go, vegetarians.

So yeah, hope that cured your curiosity.

Answer 7

I don't eat meat often because its high in colorie

Answer 8

Because of animal rights. I hated the thought that an animal had died for my satisfaction...

My family all eat meat and I only know about 5 other vegetarians (my best friend Martha, her step-dad Phil and a handful of people through school) so it is fairly difficult eating out and eating at other people's houses. But I wouldn't stop for the world. I did stop for a period as a friend tempted me with a Tuna Salad when I was about 12...:P! But all in all I've been vegetarian for about a year and a half and people have just said 'Oh, she'll grow out of it. It'll never last.' and I am absolutly determined to prove them wrong. So I suppose I'd say I was vegetarian due to Martha for which I'm really greatful, but the more I look into it, the more I find to strengthen my beliefs. It has been proven that vegetarianism reduces the risks of cancer and isn't bad for you at all and can infact provide all the nutrition needed for all stages of life. But these are just pluses, I'm only vegetarian because of my beliefs that killing any living thing is wrong and if convicted murderers have rights (including TV in their cell and Internet access from their jail in my country) then an innocent lamb CERTAINLY does.

I don't eat fish because fish die in the most horrible way. They suffocate. Irregradless of Professor James D. Rose's theory that 'fish cannot feel pain as they lack the appropraite neocortex in the brain', it is still a death, and no human being should have the right to kill anything. I mean, we can survive without meat, all vegetarians -high fives ;) :D- are all living proof of that, so there really is no excuse.

But in short! :P!

I am a vegetarian because-

It is wrong to kill innocent creatures

All animals feel pain and have the ability to form relationships and feel pain etc, just like humans.

I can survive without it and the possible lack of iron/protein is resolvable though suppliment pills/foods like cheese and eggs.

Animals are just too fluffy and cute to eat.

Answer 9

When I was about 12, I started having a lot of digestive problems.  I'll spare you the gory details.  Like anybody in that situation, I tried randomly eliminating certain foods for a while, to see if it would help.  Eliminating red meat and dairy is what helped the most.

Later, around age 17, I stopped eating white meat also, because to me it became more about "why should we eat a diet that requires animals to undergo the pain of being killed, when that isn't at all necessary for a tasty and healthy diet?".

I'm now 32, and both of those are still important to me, but I also find myself thinking about the amount of arable land per person on the planet, and how much is necessary.  I'll admit, I don't know the latter.  But as our population increases, and our cities spread out, arable acres per person is decreasing.  I don't know if it's in 1 year or 1000, but at some point we won't have enough land to grow the amount of food that's required to feed everybody.  But you can generally get more meals per acre by raising crops to feed directly to people than by raising animals for their meat, since obviously not every ounce of a cow's food intake goes towards producing meat (most of it goes towards making bone, fur, p**p, motion, heat, etc.)

So in a nutshell, my body is freaky but a vegetarian diet is also kinder and more sustainable.

Answer 10

i love animals too much when i was 11 i saw a video showing them killing the pig because it was a runt they shot it in the head with a nail gun i couldn't stand to eat meat after that it was on my birthday too some of my "friends" showed it to me cause they know i love animals then they laughed at me when i cried then they said i wouldn't last a week as a vegetarian so i've been a vegetarian for two yeas

Answer 11

If we were kind and benevolent to animals, would not we be the same to the people around us?  We treat animals with disrespect.  The slaughterhouses are the worst horror movie ever.  We as humans learned how to disrespect mammals and foul, have no regard for their lives, their offspring.  In turn we treat humans the same way.  We put them in cattle cars, drive them to ovens.  Where did we learn this?

I have been to two different type of slaughterhouse the last one I was in such horror I screamed out.  That was the last day I ever put any mammal or bird in my mouth.

You are right in believe what is happening from the f***s of these automation farms.  They are ruining our soil and ground water.  The out gassing is causing pollution, more pollution than automobiles.  

So at least I am not causing an animal to die for my sake.  I need some time to become a full vegan, I eat fish and tuna.  Also the wholesale slaughter of whole schools of fish are wrong.  All these creatures feel pain.

Man is such a horrible creature, and I am one of them.

Answer 12

I don't eat red meat because its high in fat/calories.  I want to stay thin :)

Answer 13

Even when I used to eat meat I didn't like it. I'm lacto-ovo vegetarian. Organic is safer than the other products, right?