Reasons for ur vegetarianism
thinkingthingirl
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Ok so we have all been asked the following questions
'omg like what do you eat?'
'So why are you a vegetarian'
and my personal favourtite response from those who i tell about my vegetarianism
'dude i COULD NEVER be a vegetarian'.
Sometimes i answer with seriousness but other times i am really sarcastic when answering.
So what reasons do you give. personally i believe every animal and fishy have the right to a life. And if u can survive without then why not.
'omg like what do you eat?'
'So why are you a vegetarian'
and my personal favourtite response from those who i tell about my vegetarianism
'dude i COULD NEVER be a vegetarian'.
Sometimes i answer with seriousness but other times i am really sarcastic when answering.
So what reasons do you give. personally i believe every animal and fishy have the right to a life. And if u can survive without then why not.
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I got a tapeworm from eating some pork.0
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Like the bumper sticker says: "I'm vegetarian because I want to suck less." It's mainly about reducing animal suffering for me.0
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I just say that I made a personal decision based on my values in life and my desire for good health. If they ask further questions or seem really interested in the whole subject, I go into more detail. But usually I get the glazed eye and a nod or a mumbled 'oh'.
You can lead a 'carnivore' to healthy eating but you can't make him/her partake of it.0 -
I still haven't really figured out why I don't like eating meat. I think its partially taste and partially just can't bring myself to think about eating an animal. I always just tell people I don't like the taste though.0
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I don't like the way animals are kept/abused/treated, whatever word you wanna use....I don't think animals are ours to eat.
I don't see a difference in pigs, cats, rats, horses, birds etc....All living things feel pain and I don't think it should be at the hands of humans. What gives us the right to choose that it's ok to eat pig flesh but cat flesh is not? I don't want any part of it.0 -
I agree with you completely tattoedtwin. Animals are abused and filled with abnormal chemicals. Also the flood of stress chemicals in their bodies probably affect the humans that eat them. Vegetarian for me. And it is a more sustainable diet in a 7 billion people world0
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I have a texture issue...with meat and a few other foods.
I made a bet that I could eat 1/2 a burger. I took a bite and I felt the chewy animal meat squishing through my teeth and it felt disgusting. Then I thought about the animal I was eating....and I spit it out.
I don't have a problem with other people eating meat....although sometimes I stop and think that the animal was alive at one point, and it bums me out.
I've never had a hamburger, chicken, fish, ribs, steak, etc.0 -
You can lead a 'carnivore' to healthy eating but you can't make him/her partake of it.
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Change of subject slightly but has anyone seen the PETA superbowl add that came out ages ago. Just a bunch of women rubbing vegetables over them 0
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I started for health reasons. I turned a blind eye to the treatment of animals in the food industry because I am just one person. I don't agree with their treatment and I do agree that it is truly sickening. Axe murderers are treated better. Now, being vegetarian/working towards that goal it makes me feel better to know that my little voice might encourage others to a more healthy lifestyle and in turn less needless suffering of animals.0
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I know it sounds a little 'Silence of the Lambs'ish but when I was a little girl my father had a pen of pigs in our backyard. I fed them everyday, chased them around when they broke out to dig up the yard looking for roots and grubs, and even named them. Then came the day in the fall when my father butchered the pigs in our backyard and I had to listen to them die. I've never eaten meat since.
So when people ask why I'm a vegetarian, I ask them why they eat flesh.0 -
That would do it.I know it sounds a little 'Silence of the Lambs'ish but when I was a little girl my father had a pen of pigs in our backyard. I fed them everyday, chased them around when they broke out to dig up the yard looking for roots and grubs, and even named them. Then came the day in the fall when my father butchered the pigs in our backyard and I had to listen to them die. I've never eaten meat since.
So when people ask why I'm a vegetarian, I ask them why they eat flesh.
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my mom had breast cancer and my dad had heart disease. i have decided to eliminate anything unhealthy, meat is full of hormones and antibiotics, i don't like the sneakiness of the USDA and i dont like the animal conditions.0
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lol I just love that! Going to be using that.
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I can relate to that. I really beleived in the good part of the world and thought there was no evil until I saw my grandfather chop off a chickens head. I was certain they like all other food grew in the garden. And I can recall my dad having killed a deer and he hung it from my swing set. I was told I pet the deer and talked to it and I have memories of it. I can't tell you if they are real memories or if they are from my being told the story. There are pictures in our family pictures of the deer hanging on the swing set and I feel like I can remember petting its nose and talking to it. I have always just had a soft spot for animals and most clearly beleive it is wrong to kill them or eat them.0
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I became vegetarian primarily from concern of sustainability. But animal treatment in the whole meat industry really is horrid.0
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Ok so we have all been asked the following questions
'omg like what do you eat?'
'So why are you a vegetarian'
and my personal favourtite response from those who i tell about my vegetarianism
'dude i COULD NEVER be a vegetarian'.
Sometimes i answer with seriousness but other times i am really sarcastic when answering.
So what reasons do you give. personally i believe every animal and fishy have the right to a life. And if u can survive without then why not.
1. Everything that's not from an animal. Sometimes I start naming things according to the alphabet. Most people quickly realize that I eat a whole lot more variety than they do.
2. Initially for health reasons, to fight against a terrible family medical history on both sides of my family. Since then, I have added ethical reasons to the mix. I do not believe that factory farming is what God meant when He gave us dominion over animals. And in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were vegans!
3. I didn't say you had to be a vegetarian.
Personally, I think people see being vegan as a judgement, almost like you think you are superior to them. It is the same with all aspects of life where you take the nontraditional path. Most of my adult life I have encountered people who question my decisions. I had unmedicated home births in an area of the country where the C-section rate is greater than 50%. (And everyone who discovered this bit of information needed to tell me that it was a good thing they didn't do that because they/their baby would have died.) I chose to breastfeed my babies for extended periods of time. I homeschool. And now <gasp> I'm vegan. Just another badge on my nontraditionalist uniform. So encountering people questioning what I do and why is pretty par for the course for me.
I take the position of "this is what has worked for me and my family." I can't tell someone else what their path should be. Although I might want to!
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In the beginning it was mainly about sustainability and health for me, after a month or so i noticed i felt much better not having animal corpses in my kitchen anymore.
My only vice now is fish from time to time, my eggs come from my inlaws and the milk from a retired friend of mine that has a small organic hobby farm.0 -
Thank you Food Inc, Forks Over Knives, and the paper I had to write on the food industry. Gosh its amazing what a little knowledge will do for you.
I mainly becam veggie for health reasons and sustainability. Both of my parents have health issues, high blood pressure and cholesterol etc. My mom also has Lupus, and Breast Cancer, so once I saw all the research linking animal products to degenerative diseases I was sold.
We started by giving up fast food, then any meat that wasn't naturally raised, and we focused on meat we could get locally from family farms and farmers markets. Then I decided that I didn't need meat at all and we were going so long without eating it anyway that I just stopped. My husband and daughter remain flexitarians, but they go weeks without meat at this point, so I don't imagine it will be long before they take the plunge with me.
I have only been vegetarian a few months and I feel fantastic. I sleep better, I wake up easier, I have more energy all day. I won't go back.0 -
I know it sounds a little 'Silence of the Lambs'ish but when I was a little girl my father had a pen of pigs in our backyard. I fed them everyday, chased them around when they broke out to dig up the yard looking for roots and grubs, and even named them. Then came the day in the fall when my father butchered the pigs in our backyard and I had to listen to them die. I've never eaten meat since.
So when people ask why I'm a vegetarian, I ask them why they eat flesh.
Im totally going to have to respond to people with that question!
I think that in todays society we have a choice. We have such a large variety of foods within easy access and there is no reason why we cant live without meat.
I dont preach to people and I dont judge other people for eating meat - to each their own and all that - but it never stops suprising me how many people seem to have an issue with me being a vegetarian!
At the end of the day I dont want to eat another living animal. As simple as that.0 -
I don't like the way animals are kept/abused/treated, whatever word you wanna use....I don't think animals are ours to eat.
I don't see a difference in pigs, cats, rats, horses, birds etc....All living things feel pain and I don't think it should be at the hands of humans. What gives us the right to choose that it's ok to eat pig flesh but cat flesh is not? I don't want any part of it.
Pretty much sums it up for me! 0 -
I don't like the way animals are kept/abused/treated, whatever word you wanna use....I don't think animals are ours to eat.
I don't see a difference in pigs, cats, rats, horses, birds etc....All living things feel pain and I don't think it should be at the hands of humans. What gives us the right to choose that it's ok to eat pig flesh but cat flesh is not? I don't want any part of it.
Pretty much sums it up for me!
For me too.
Hi I am Chrissi and a vegetarian since I don't know exactly how many years. I never really liked meat except Salami and some other things but when I walked past a slaughter house and moved out it got less and less.
I don't eat meat, fish or anything that has lived. I try to eat only cheese that is made with macrobiological LAB (don't know what it is called in english, sorry
) And I get only eggs from free running chicken.
For myself I just can't live with the thought that an animal has to suffer because of me. But I have to say my husband is a big meat eater. I am not going to change him and never will try to. If someone can live with the way animals are treated I don't think it is ok, but I am not going to force my opinion on anybody.
Sometimes I find it really hard to find something to eat when you are out for lunch etc. I have noticed that in some restaurants vegetarian means that there can still be fish or gelantine in it.0 -
Hi everyone!
I'm a vegetarian mostly for sustainability/environment reasons and because of the unethical treatment of animals. Personally, I do think it is normal for us to eat animals, but I just don't like what has become of the industry.0 -
I know it sounds a little 'Silence of the Lambs'ish but when I was a little girl my father had a pen of pigs in our backyard. I fed them everyday, chased them around when they broke out to dig up the yard looking for roots and grubs, and even named them. Then came the day in the fall when my father butchered the pigs in our backyard and I had to listen to them die. I've never eaten meat since.
So when people ask why I'm a vegetarian, I ask them why they eat flesh.
my aunt and uncle raised lambs. We bottle fed them and then were told that was what was on the plate for dinner. = (0 -
- "omg like what do you eat"
"fruits, veggies, & anything as non-processed as possible. healthy."
- "so why are you vegan?"
"because I like myself & my body enough to not put junk in it" (total lie sometimes, ie: cookies)
&/or
"I don't believe in eating animals. We can survive without breeding & killing innocent animals. I like to believe that they would like to live a happy life as well."
- "dude i COULD NEVER be a vegan/vegetarian"
"well. it is difficult, but I hold strong to my beliefs."
The last one is definitely my personal favorite to hear too. Although I don't answer this way, my thoughts are always "I never said you had to be.."
I try to answer as nicely & informative as I can if they ask for details but when they try to preach to me about being a carnivore like them I do get a little agitated. I'm not preaching to them, I'd like them not to preach to me haha
If ever a heated discussion is brought up because of it & they say "Well I like to eat meat so I'm going to" or "Just don't preach your vegan-crazy lifestyle on me" I tend to answer "I didn't ask about being a Vegan. You did."
Because in all honesty, preaching sucks. I HATE IT. So I never do it. If people ask for advice or information, I give it to them but I don't go around saying "STOP EATING THAT COW!!!!" :P
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ive been a vegetarian since i was 3 because of a traumatizing pig roast experience...true story but that always gets a good reaction, then i say..what do you eat with your steak..green beans, potatoes, bread, salad..hrm..i can eat all of those so i add a vegi protien and bam...no difference except mine is healthiar 0
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Love this thread!
I think I've always known this would be the direction for me but never really had the confidence to stand up to all of those questions (or the textbook knowledge to back up what I've known intuitively since I was a kid). I can recall being very young and being given permission to walk in a separate aisle in the grocery store because the meat aisle made me too sad. I can recall (vividly) the nightmares I had after my mom bought a fur coat.
I have never liked the taste or feel of animal foods but thought I *should* eat it. When I was 18 and moved away to university I stopped eating beef and never went back. There was so much flack for it I didn't cut anything else out.
Over the last year or so I've been doing more and more research (and am studying holistic nutrition). Reading books like The China Study, Skinny *****, The Kind Diet and The Veganist have just cemented all of it for me. The ethical, compassionate side of me feels better as a human being not consuming animal products, the health and energy side of me have improved and so has my mood!
At first my husband was unimpressed but he did say he always knew it would come to this. For the last two weeks my devout meat eater has been following a veg diet! Much to his surprise, the digestion issues that have really become troublesome for him are gone. Hmmmm.....0 -
I love this thread! I've been vegetarian since October and vegan since the end of November. It was a great time to switch - I had to explain myself at every family meal and I had to prep food to take so I had something to eat!
I have dabbled with vegetarianism in the past, but always reverted to eating meat. In the past, I would eat vegetarian for a month to lose weight and when I didn't lose any weight, I would give in to temptation.
This time, I'm coming at it from both a health and an ethical angle - I choose not to eat animals or animal products because I don't want to be a part of the suffering that the food industry causes. I also don't want to live the unhealthy lives my parents live - heart disease, hypertension, cancer, etc. Widen the net and my family history includes more cancer, more heart disease, more hypertension, as well as diabetes and a few other nasty surprises.
For me, it's about walking lightly on the Earth in every way possible. I know I haven't been at this long. I know I have "dabbled" in the past. This time feels different, this time I have made a commitment to myself and to the animals.
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I became a vegetarian while reading that book about a plane crash and they started eating the dead. In the Andes I think. I was cutting up some pork for dinner and decided that looked like human flesh. This was about 30 years ago. Only had fish and chicken for awhile and then gave up those as well. About 15 years ago decided to have fish again but very seldom - no other meat. Now I only like to eat veges - tried meat as I don't mind the smell when cooking but the taste is yuk.0
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I love this thread! I've been vegetarian since October and vegan since the end of November. It was a great time to switch - I had to explain myself at every family meal and I had to prep food to take so I had something to eat!
I have dabbled with vegetarianism in the past, but always reverted to eating meat. In the past, I would eat vegetarian for a month to lose weight and when I didn't lose any weight, I would give in to temptation.
This time, I'm coming at it from both a health and an ethical angle - I choose not to eat animals or animal products because I don't want to be a part of the suffering that the food industry causes. I also don't want to live the unhealthy lives my parents live - heart disease, hypertension, cancer, etc. Widen the net and my family history includes more cancer, more heart disease, more hypertension, as well as diabetes and a few other nasty surprises.
For me, it's about walking lightly on the Earth in every way possible. I know I haven't been at this long. I know I have "dabbled" in the past. This time feels different, this time I have made a commitment to myself and to the animals.
Peace
Reply from KahuNZ
Sometimes family can be difficult - they don't think you can survive without meat.
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