Be Vegetarian!

[BlitzPanzer12345 241]

Not personally, no. I just eat them to survive.

You know what a food chain is? We're not the only species that kill and eat other animals.

i know

but we overdo it

we have crozzed the limitz

[HodaBob 10]

To keep the ecosystem balanced some (at least a few in 10) should be non-vegs.

We can have people eating meat but with a small amount. 

[hhgb 2,655]

80% of Vegans/Vegeterians return to a normal diet at come point according to a study late last year.

[ThouShallNot 963]

Our ancestors killed and ate animals for food, so i don't see how it's any different today?  :huh:

[Batmode_ON 60]

I mean you can eat meat like Fish but not other animals.

Fish are living beings too! You might as well feed of yourself!

 

Anyway, i don't really care, meat is my favorite meal of the day, and you can't stop me! Ill eat lambs, goat, tigers, snakes, ox's, chicken and lots more, nom nom nom

 

 

 

 

 

Long live slaughtering the animals

[falcosenna1 8,320]

I can't live without meat. :p So no, I don't agree to be a vegetarian. :p

[fighter309 384]

I eat meat, but this guy has it all. I guess I have to reconsider this... 

 

[edit] Video removed for inappropriate stuff :L 

You can watch the video on youtube under the channel called: TheVeganAtheist

Edited March 21, 2015 by fighter309

[r_thegood0 6]

Meat Rules!

[Paratrix 68]

Although I have heard that being vegetarian has its benefits, having everyone become a vegetarian would completely devastate the world economy. Animal farms, fisheries, restaurants, grocery stores, meat packing companies, advertisements, kid food, etc. would all go out of business due to lack of demand. As a result, people would lose their jobs, causing their to be an international unemployment. Not just that, but companies that manufacture goods and materials used in farms, ships, restaurants, etc. would not have demand as well, causing their market to go down. Also, the number of livestock in the world is so great that they are a major factor in global warming. Letting them alone to reproduce would hurt the environment not just through temperature rises but also from grazing, introducing animals into unnatural habitats, etc. Also, the world is not prepared per say to feed everyone who goes vegetarian. Also, the policies concerning welfare, school lunches, etc. would not have the resources to change right away. This could stall schools, cafeterias, etc. As a result, people would go hungry. Also, there is a concern of a global drought that is taking place. I'm not sure if there is even enough water to grow all those vegetables.

 

So for those reasons, although I would love to go vegetarian, and for the fate of the world, I have no choice but to eat meat!

 

 

It wouldn't just happen suddenly, if the process happened over.. say 10 years - then it would work out just fine.

 

"I'm not sure if there is even enough water to grow all those vegetables."  

I hope that's a joke. - To produce 1kg of beef requires on average 15,000 litres of water whereas to produce 1kg potatoes requires only 290 litres of water.

"restaurants" 

It would not devastate restaurants at all, there are tons of vegetarian cafes and restaurants that are doing just fine. (If everyone turned vegetarian then there would be absolutely no demand for meat, so vegetarian restaurants would thrive.

 

 

Plants are also considered as living things. When you get their roots out it hearts them. 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                    

~HodaBob

 

 I'm not sure what you mean by it "hearts them" but if you meant "hurts" then... Plants are not sentient, they do not feel pain, nor do they have emotions. They're very different from animals.

 

But even Plants are considered as living things, you pull them away from their roots, pluck them from the branches, doesn't it hurt those trees? :huh:

 

Not sure if you're joking or not, but plants don't feel pain.

 

 

You can't live without protein, your body needs it. If you cut protein off, it will cause some serious diseases, including cancer. You say that you want to rescue animals, but don't forget that animals eat animals. That's the rule of the nature.

There are many ways to get protein without eating meat. I have been vegetarian my whole life and I've never had any serious diseases.

You say that eating animals is the rule of nature, but we do not need to eat other animals to survive.

 

 

It's still unhealthy, fish can't provide you with enough protein and other body needs that meat provides.

Also, that's what I don't understand in vegetarianism, you say you don't kill animals and eat them, but you eat fish. Fish are alive too, aren't they?

Vegetarians do not eat fish. I think eating fish is just as bad as eating any other animals. (Those who eat fish, but not other animals are called pescetarians)

 

 

But seriously, meat contains some important nutrients which vegetation does not contain, so for having a normally functioning organism you sometimes have to eat meat.

 

 

 

 There are millions of vegetarians on Earth including me, who are doing just fine.

 

Not personally, no. I just eat them to survive.

You know what a food chain is? We're not the only species that kill and eat other animals.

 

You don't need to eat meat to survive. Humans don't need to eat animals, so why should we put them through such suffering, just for our pleasure.

 

To keep the ecosystem balanced some (at least a few in 10) should be non-vegs.

 

The animals we eat are bred for the purpose of human consumption, if we stopped eating them then we would stop breeding them. It wouldn't affect the ecosystem.

 

Our ancestors killed and ate animals for food, so i don't see how it's any different today?   :huh:

sorry to bust your bubles folks but our ancestors ate pigs also, so theres no difference  :P

So they don't eat meat cuz they kill animals? well our ancestors have been killing animals for food for thousands of years, so i still don't understand vegeterians...

Just because something has been done before doesn't make it justifiable. We're now more civilised than we used to be and there's no excuse for continuing with our uncivilised ways. If it's ok to do something just because our ancestors did it then we would never have abolished slavery.

Edited March 22, 2015 by Paratrix

[LaLisa_My_Queen 271]

But some people don't eat some/most vegetables.

[ThouShallNot 963]

I eat meat and vegetables everyday b)

[7919zola 252]

^ A balanced diet is key for a healthy life.  ;)

Edited March 22, 2015 by 7919zola

[canadarules 1,938]

yes so eat as much slaughtered meat as possible kids :)

animals go through alot of trouble to feed you

[Paratrix 68]

^ A balanced diet is key for a healthy life.  ;)

But you don't need to eat meat to have a balanced diet.

[thunderousrailgunner 1,934]

Hunting Lion ,Tiger But Not Eat Ok .
Me 3/4 Vegetarian And 1/4 Chicken Eater .
You Say Plants Get Hurt When Plucking Their Roots .
Ok Without Them , Can You Be Alive And Post Like This Here ?

[pizzaslad 471]

Let's assume that suddenly not eating any animals doesn't have an affect on the ecosystem. So veges are our main food source right? What do you need to grow them? Land. If everyone has a vegetarian, the amount of land our crops grow on wouldn't be nearly as much. So we'd need to clear out more land. That means taking out any natural producers in the way so we can grow our own. Do you know what happens when you take a producer out of an ecosystem? BOOM it collapses. 

 

The  primary consumers now have nothing to eat, and they die. Same goes with secondary, tertiary and so on. All the animals are starving now. Yay. Decomposers will have a hard time cleaning up that mess. We've destroyed countless ecosystems all for our new food source. And think about how the animals died.Long, dragged out starvation. I'd prefer having my neck slashed.. (not saying the manor in which animals are slaughtered today are good, but with some changes it can become 'alright' if you get what I mean)

[Paratrix 68]

Hunting Lion ,Tiger But Not Eat Ok .

Me 3/4 Vegetarian And 1/4 Chicken Eater .

You Say Plants Get Hurt When Plucking Their Roots .

Ok Without Them , Can You Be Alive And Post Like This Here ?

Plants are not sentient, they do not feel pain. (He / she is wrong)

[ThouShallNot 963]

Let's assume that suddenly not eating any animals doesn't have an affect on the ecosystem. So veges are our main food source right? What do you need to grow them? Land. If everyone has a vegetarian, the amount of land our crops grow on wouldn't be nearly as much. So we'd need to clear out more land. That means taking out any natural producers in the way so we can grow our own. Do you know what happens when you take a producer out of an ecosystem? BOOM it collapses. 

 

The  primary consumers now have nothing to eat, and they die. Same goes with secondary, tertiary and so on. All the animals are starving now. Yay. Decomposers will have a hard time cleaning up that mess. We've destroyed countless ecosystems all for our new food source. And think about how the animals died.Long, dragged out starvation. I'd prefer having my neck slashed.. (not saying the manor in which animals are slaughtered today are good, but with some changes it can become 'alright' if you get what I mean)

When we were uncivilzed the ecosystems were balanced.

[Paratrix 68]

Let's assume that suddenly not eating any animals doesn't have an affect on the ecosystem. So veges are our main food source right? What do you need to grow them? Land. If everyone has a vegetarian, the amount of land our crops grow on wouldn't be nearly as much. So we'd need to clear out more land. That means taking out any natural producers in the way so we can grow our own. Do you know what happens when you take a producer out of an ecosystem? BOOM it collapses. 

 

The  primary consumers now have nothing to eat, and they die. Same goes with secondary, tertiary and so on. All the animals are starving now. Yay. Decomposers will have a hard time cleaning up that mess. We've destroyed countless ecosystems all for our new food source. And think about how the animals died.Long, dragged out starvation. I'd prefer having my neck slashed.. (not saying the manor in which animals are slaughtered today are good, but with some changes it can become 'alright' if you get what I mean)

I don't understand most of this as a lot of it doesn't make sense. How does someone "have a vegetarian"? If you're saying that growing crops requires more land than keeping animals, then you couldn't be more wrong. Producing meat for human consumption requires 5 times more land than producing crops for human consumption. As we would be using less land (if everyone became vegetarian) and not more, then that solves your other problems.

[r_Mr.Perfect.XXX0 1]

i also agree

[Paratrix 68]

i also agree

With what?

[thunderousrailgunner 1,934]

Plants are not sentient, they do not feel pain. (He / she is wrong)

Thats What I Indicated  ;)

[Paratrix 68]

Thats What I Indicated  ;)

Oh ok, sorry (:

[Paratrix 68]

80% of Vegans/Vegeterians return to a normal diet at come point according to a study late last year.

And most of those people are probably meat eaters who just decided to become vegan / vegetarian for a day.

[pizzaslad 471]

I don't understand most of this as a lot of it doesn't make sense. How does someone "have a vegetarian"? If you're saying that growing crops requires more land than keeping animals, then you couldn't be more wrong. Producing meat for human consumption requires 5 times more land than producing crops for human consumption. As we would be using less land (if everyone became vegetarian) and not more, then that solves your other problems.

Really? Because I made one typo means anything else I said is unrecognizable.

 

To your point, I doubt the amount of land used to raise animals today would be enough to grow all the crops needed to sustain a world of vegetarians. As you might know, certain crops need certain places to grow. So not all the land used for animals would be filled by some crops. So in the areas that they do grow, you'd still need to clear the area (meaning the problem still exists). It's just sheer demand