Why should we all be vegetarian?

Question

Why should all of us start being vegetarian? Why?

Answer 1

BECAUSE BUNNIES AND LAMBS HAVE FEELINGS AND ARE TOO CUTE TO BE KILLED!

*burst into tears*

Me? Emotionally attached to baby animals? Never...

Answer 2

Here's 50 reasons on this link......Or 50 good FACTS!

http://philipngcc.homestead.com

Answer 3

Because animals have souls just like human beings. They have feelings, aspirations, desires. Pigs are ranked 4th in the animal kingdom in terms of higher intelligence i.e. immediately after human beings, monkeys/apes and dolphins.

Just because animals are weaker shouldn't be the basis for human beings to kill them for food. I might still tolerate fish-eating and game-animals as their meat can be justified in terms of human food chain. Raising animals in a slaughterhouse is a different story. It should blow your conscience. Go and watch some of those animal slaughter videos.

Answer 4

We shouldn't our world would die if everyone suddenly turned vegan or vegatarian but you SHOULD be buying organic products and not supporting factory farmed products. Go on youtube, search "meet your meat". See if it affects you.

Answer 5

We shouldn't. It ruins the food chain. We stop eating the cows/birds/pigs, they eat more plants along with us, too much is taken in place of what can return, and they decrease.

We can either run out of food, or we'll have trouble breathing because there isn't any plants that take the co2 and replace it with oxygen for us.

Also, some eat bugs as well. The bugs are needed to make nitrogen. The usual type of animals that we eat aren't carnivorous, so the carnivours will just have more of them to eat. Then, those top dog eaters will populate more, and before long, they'll die out from eating too much that can't be returned. So all in all, they're all gonna die. Plants, animals, humans, ozone layer.

Answer 6

cruelty to animals, Research has shown that vegetarians are 50 percent less likely to develop heart disease, and they have 40 percent of the cancer rate of meat-eaters. Plus, meat-eaters are nine times more likely to be obese than vegans are, reduce global warming.

Answer 7

Because if we were all vegetarian we could make a greater environmental difference. If each person even simply reduced their meat intake the positive effects would be phenomenal. Reducing green house gases, fossil fuel consumption, deforestation, water and energy resources, and reducing animal cruelty. Every contribution counts. The more people contribute the greater the possitive change will be. They are some good reasons to become vegetarian or vegan. Everyone is entitled to their own choice, but I truly wish that everyone was veg*n.

oil gas:

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/0...

for an equivilant veggie meal, beef consumes 16 times more oil & produces 24 times more CO2

solid waste:

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/0...

1 cow can produce 14.6 tonnes of solid waste per year

water:

http://www.chooseveg.com/images/WaterUsa...

1pd or beef requires 32 times more water than 1pd of wheat.

green house gasses/global warming:

http://earthtrends.wri.org/images/GHG_em...

(agriculture produces more green house gases than transportation, that's not including the CO2 due to deforestation)

deforestation:

http://www.mongabay.com/images/rainfores...

http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/a...

agriculture is the leading cause of rainforest deforestation.

Answer 8

Eating is an individual choice.

My first thought is, 'Who said that we *all* should be?'.

Some people are - some are not.  

It is a healthy choice - but some people are not going to make that choice.

It isn't something that I am going to hold against another.  People will or won't for reasons of their own.

Answer 9

Hey there, there is this amazing book by  Pamela Rice, "101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian". I think she's a vegan, but I'm not sure.

She really did her research, she has like every other sentence cited. I'm dubious of lists that state "facts" and don't give references, so I love this book.

This link has links to her older lists (shorter than the book obliviously) in PDF format:-)

http://www.vivavegie.org/vv101/

Answer 10

hmm..........so the world can be over populated with animals.

sarcasm

Answer 11

We shouldn't vegetarianism is  a personal choice of which I applaud. However it is dangerous for people with certain blood types, every blood type has different needs including different amounts of proteins and sugars. Certain people can just not give up animals and that's not their fault. I say I applaud the people who give it up or at least try and cut back because slaughterhouses are extremely polutant and I kinda feel bad the way most slaughterhouses treat the animals before they are killed. If people must eat meat it's much nicer to either hunt yourself or try buying free range.