Why choose vegetarianism?

And they did it more unified and efficient than any human colony ever would :sunny:

 

somewhere in that deep dark well of fear and anxiety of a heart that one has there is an actual loving propensity that exsists. if you u are fortunate enough to not totally become desensified from a lifetime of eating dead carcusesand still are able to access certain this loving propensity, than u will know that its very real, and worth inquiring about and seeking out. Now if u have come to the comclusion that its best to not cause unneccesry distress to other people in order to gain anything, than surely it shouldnt be very difficult to try to consider that all living entities humans, animals - birds, beasts, aquatics, insects and any other living entity deserves a certain level of respect. This is kind of a basic principle that our parents or guardians or instructors, and so many walks of life teach of "treat others how u wanna be treated". - great! Okay sounds logical.. better not cause trouble to n e one else because i dont want trouble caused to me. so why do people think this principle only applies to humans? - because of a misunderstanding of how things work. If peace is to be a reality than its a no brainer that peace extends to all living entities. And if u understand the selfish self centered nature of the conditioned human mind than it makes total sense that they will kill another living entity to cook it and season it and begin eatin it for the sake of satisfying the senses. But that doesnt make it okay. peeps need to check what they feel and no inside and not be scared to think for themselves.

 

Ants are awesome anyway. They work systematically together almost as a one huge strand. It's not like ants don't have free will, they just live for the benefit and growth of their empire and that's really something humans could learn from. So outta here with your anti-ant demeanor!

 

i was a vegetarian for a few years, and i couldn't gain the weight i wanted (body building). i chose eating meat instead of taking supplements because its more natural and healthier.

its too bad about the forest though, that sux
i cant afford food from the local organic places so i usually just go to my local supermarket, but if i had a choice i would choose the more environmentally friendly food.

 

I find it difficult to eat meat, but I do because my family does. I try to make it more pleasant by thinking to myself that unlike animals, we humans have an agenda. We have to be pro-human first, and it's actually a privilege to the animals that they get to serve our cause by being our food.

 

yeah, what a privilege....

 

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I actually prefer packaged, almost astronaut food. I live with a chef, though. Meat's not bad if you can trick your mind into thinking it's not a bad thing. I mean, isn't it good for a cow to have a purpose? We think it's important to have a purpose. A goal. Cows have no other great cause. But if a cow can become part of the human cause, isn't that a good thing?

 

If a cow is free to roam the fields and have a family I'm not against eating it after it's lived a meaningful life. It's 6 good years and just one bad day.

 

Most animals that are raised for food have the shittiest lives. It is just too sad.
i cannot stand it.

 

Agreed.

 

I'm thinking about giving up meat completely. I only eat it a few times a week so I end up cooking a lot of vegetarian meals anyway, but lately when I do eat meat I take like 2 bites and get really grossed out.

morally speaking I dont have a problem with eating meat - its just the nature of things. But I do have a problem with factory farming and I can't really afford to eat locally and humanely raised meat.

 

All I am doing is talking about my difficulties in eating meat in a thread about choosing veganism. It's totally pertinent. I'm not treading on the "trolling line" no matter how much you happened to dislike what I have to say. So go ahead and use your awe-inspiring mod power to ban me for a day or whatever just for talking like everybody else. It's not like it hasn't happened before around here.

 

Since I cook so many vegetarian meals I think it would be am easy enough transition. Even when I cook with meat its rarely the centerpiece of the meal, I usually just add meat to meals that can easily be cooked without..like adding meatballs to tomato sauce or chicken to stir fry.

I guess my biggest concern would be making up for nutrients most commonly found in meat, like protein and iron.

 

Beans can replace meat for a lot of stuff too, including iron.