Why are YOU vegetarian?

those fried fat foods are great, full of energy, the fat keeps you warm...lets you achieve HEAPS, its the laziness that makes them a bad choice

 

I want to become a vegetarian. But if I chose to it would be for the health benefits, and for the fact that you can gather more energy per acre than you can with herds. More resources for the same amount of space... it's just more effective.

 

I am a raw foodist, but I eat occasional squid and clams. Slightly cooked, about once every two weeks. I care little about saving resources because the attitudes of the world will never change, in time to stop the ticking time bomb that is what I learnt throughout my years at university. I do not feel compassion for clams, as they are much like a vegetable, they have little to no pain sensors and feel no emotions that consciousness feels like love etc. The squid I eat because it is an amazing protein and its packed with b12. I care little for squid because although they do feel pain, they will eventually die off anyways and/or be eaten by a shark and because they do not feel emotions at all similar to humans.

The main reasons I eat protein are because I tried to be completely raw vegan, but what I found after a month was a sudden loss daily energy and fatigue. My physics professor said protein is good for you because it helps your body heal from the electro-magnetic fields indivisible to the naked eye. I imagine when I live vicariously from my own food sources AND well away from many electro-magnetic fields, I will not eat animal protein much and feel fine.

 

If being vegetatian is better for your body, mind and spirit.
Do you cut out cigarettes and alcohol aswell? As these are also damaging.

What are your thoughts concerning this?

 

How exactly do you know they feel no pain??
And you shouldn't use b12 as an excuse as you can buy a bottle of b12 at the pharmacy.

 

Until someone inquires I usually don't really feel the need to use the term vegetarian....I don't really even consider myself one, although I do fall under the category by definition. It's been a long time since I've eaten meat, but when I am trekking (backpacking etc..) and I need to survive I'll either fish, hunt or find some bugs if I have to.

Really it just comes down to the fact that I feel if I don't have to eat meat out of non-necessity then there's no point in me eating it. To each their own, it's just what suits me.

Yeah, I'd be curious on that too regarding those who use it as the reason as to why their vegetarian.

 

I just quit smoking. And as for alcohol. I've never been a big drinker. I drink on occasion, but never in excess. It's been over a year since the last time I drank any kind of alcoholic beverage.
To expand on your question, I've also started an excersise program to get even healthier.

 

Fried foods weigh you down and make you sleepy. I don't know what the weather is like in NZ, but here there is no need for anymore heat. But I do agree with you that you can make up for most things with a little excersise.

 

Personally I have never smoked as I think its vile
I drink alcohol very rarely, but I am comfortable with it when I do as its just a glass of wine or whatever, which has actually been shown to be of benefit in some studies, and my body feels ok with it

 

When did I say I made any excuses? What do you get out of assuming that I do, besides anger and anger in me?

As for the squid - I figure either way they are going to die a pretty painful death considering that they are a major food source to many predators. I also have an interesting remark - if vegetarianism is about minimizing the pain of animals, what about the hundreds of individual fish that squid eat every month? Surely killing one squid seems to outweigh the negative impacts it has on each of those thousands of individual fish that suffer at their hands and that if minimizing pain is your premise to what you perceive my actions as negative to be, then kudos, I just saved a bunch of fish a shitload of pain! HAHA the IRONY.

To re-iterate for a final time what I explained earlier, the main reason I eat squid for protein is because it is the thing besides fish that makes me feel back to those buzzing high energy levels. I think that low energy levels is a sign of bad health, my number one reason for Raw Vegetarianism, 99% diet and considering how many individual fish squid consume in their lives after reaching maturity, my choice seems to save other animals from pain to the point that I am willing to say outdoes the pain I cause to the ONE individual squid per month. So Mrs. Morality....Check-Mate or shall I teach you not to shoot blanks again? Listen I aint here to mentally masterbate this debate, but what I do need to do is show that animal eating is beneficial to some and hurtful to others. This little thought experiment should be enough to open your eyes and if it isnt, live with it, it is the truth after all, aint it Mrs. Morality.

 

Why eat meat when there's something obviously much healthier and abundant our precious Earth continues to offer us--vegetables and fruit! That's what I'm talking about! Personally my philosophy has to do more with my health and how I physically/mentally feel than the sacrifices that are made (however, I've become emotionally impacted by what a helpless animal has to endure just to appease us helpless humans.)

 

i did it for animal rights. animals shouldn't be raised in horrible conditions for human consumption. they should be able to roam freely. i can see back in caveman times where we needed the nutrition but we have advanced far enough now to be able to live without eating meat. when i was in middle school, i lived directly across the street from a butcher and had to see and hear the pigs thursday night and hear nothing the next morning when the dump truck came to collect what was left.

 

I became a veggie for all the reasons that other people have already mentioned;

there is no lack of food anymore; we can survive without eating meat ...

I seen somewhere recently that was a quote saying that as long as we continue to eat meat as a race - we will continue to have wars ... which makes perfect sense to me

 

I stopped feeling like we rule ova the animals long ago. They're our brotehrs and sisters and we share the earth with them. It's magical to be able to see a cow and feel a friendship nd love for it ratehr than think how tasty it wud be. i feel the health wen i dnt eat meat. I feel more natural nd closer to the earth wen i eat fruit and vegetables espc ones which the tree or teyh soil has given me. Animal or human it makes no difference to me, we're all children of the earth...
fair be well i luv u all

 

I became a vegetarian primarily because of my support for animal rights. Other reasons include my health (keeps me in shape and it gives me more energy), as well as the fact that I just don't need it in my life. Eating meat always made me feel unhappy with myself, knowing that I was eating a product of animal slaughter simply because I liked the taste.

 

My family have been friends with this vegetarian family for years, and I've always been someone who hated food in general, skipped most meals, and was getting ridiculously thin. This summer they were staying with us and they cooked all the meals, ate every single one of them, loved them, and that converted me to become a vegetarian. I already shared vegetarian values such as how ridiculously inefficient meat production is, and the disgusting conditions they place some animals in - but given how much I hated eating, I thought being a vegetarian would be a million times harder. Since then I haven't skipped a single meal, loving it

-Matt

 

I turned vegetarian about 11 years ago, when my first dog (Whom i adopted from an animal shelter) passed away. I did it more as a rememberance for him. Haven't looked back ever since.

 

mainly for spiritual purposes..and my body feels so much better without the heavy meat hangin out in my belly.... "ANIMALS ARE OUR FRIENDS, AND WE CAN'T GO AROUND EATING OUR FRIENDS"!

 

Just doesn't seen natural to me. It's flesh. I feel because I am made of the same stuff, and of course wouldn't consider cannibalism, that it is just disgusting. Hard to explain I suppose.

Animal rights play a huge role in it also, although I still wouldn't eat it had it been morally fine, in terms of how the animal is kept. It makes me really ill thinking of the way these creatures get treated. I won't even start because I would rant for ages.

 

call me a heretic but i dont mind people eating ethically sourced meat if they want to. obviously ecology, animal rights etc etc. but for me we're animals too. i just do it as a symbol of peace and love to the world