"Why I'm Vegetarian..."

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Permalink Reply by WrathsKitty on October 17, 2008 at 5:48pm

hmmm tough question surprisingly!! originally it was because i couldn't eat meat i had a lisa simpson moment and had the little sheep saying 'liiiisa dont eaaaat me' lol. but you know replace lisa with bec. but now i am older and i see it in a compleatly different way. i think people have a disconnection with their food. they go to the shops and grab a steak and its all wrapped nicely in plastic and trimmed clean and i guess looks appealing to them. but really where did it come from? how did it get to this little wrapped parcel?. No one seems to think about this stuff because it is so easy not to and its easy to eat when you dont think about where it came from. if people had to go out and hunt food or work in an abotuar (sp?) they would think differently about meat.

also its environmental i think its better for the environment to be vege because of the amout of waste/run off/energy/carbon dioxide produced in meat production.

oh and we have evolved to no longer eat meat, like we dont need the amount of protein that is in meat because we r not hunting animals and running around collecting seeds/fruit. this is evident in todays obese society, even our teeth are flat now, evolved to eat plants not rip apart fleshy carcases.
and now that i have a daughter it is more important to me than ever. i dont want her going and eating all the sh*tty food that is out there and destroying her health. i say down with maccas and kfc and all that crap. i cant stand seeing little kids no old then 2 eating junk food and chocolate...i constantly think 'why does a child need that?' we are cultivating a fat, meaty, unhealthy generation and i dont want to be a part of that!

ummmm yeah...end rant! <3

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Permalink Reply by Capricorn on January 5, 2009 at 6:44pm

I fee much the same way.

Gandhi, one of the wisest souls in fairly recent history, once said, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."


How true! Ah, the beautiful words of Gandhi Ji!

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Permalink Reply by Dancing Flame on January 15, 2009 at 9:37am

I am an evolving vegetarian. I've always been aware of the fact that meat meant that some animals had to die. It really didn't bother me because the natural world is made up of carnivors and omnivores, and herbivores. It just seemed natural. Slowly I began to understand that we no longer needed to eat meat to have a balanced diet. Once I read about the inhumane practices of factory farms, I stopped eating meat. After several months on a vegetarian diet I no longer have a taste for meat and I've become quite a good vegetarian cook. A great side effect is how great I feel physically and the extra pounds I've dropped.
What I really don't like is the judgemental attitudes of the extreme carnivores and herbivores,What we eat and don't eat is a personal and spiritual choice.

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Permalink Reply by Anwyn on April 3, 2009 at 1:55pm

good question!

I have had many friends whom I've lived with who are vegetarian and or vegan and I always wondered how was it that they couldnt or didnt want to eat meat.

This past summer I was feeling more and more weighed down, more and more disconnected with my body. I was tired, and I knew my eating had something to do with it. When I looked at what I was eating, it was all meat. So I originally thought to stop eating meat for just a week, but after that I week I felt so light and so much better that it just stuck.

And here I am seven months later still going strong!

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Permalink Reply by Dave Pellani on April 3, 2009 at 8:47pm

I think you're on to something!!

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Permalink Reply by GypsyFoxx on April 29, 2009 at 5:42am

Because animal carcasses gross me out. Tendons and bones of animals gross me out. I cannot even eat a chicken if it's a whole roasted one, or thinck meats make me want to puke. I'd rather eat veggies and rice...that's just me. I like hamburger...but I don't eat alot.

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Permalink Reply by Chris on October 30, 2009 at 8:25pm

i stopped eating meat when i was at camp, but when i came home i stay a vegetarian. my parents and brother (older than me) makes fun of me. i didnt like eating. i do eat fish but not all the time. my mom wanted me to have something that was meat but fish. i do eat eggs. my mom was worried since i was so young when i stopped eatting meat except fish

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Permalink Reply by Areeya on October 31, 2009 at 1:00pm

I stopped eating beef and pork in 1991, because it made me physically sick. When i started feeling better I worked my way back up to chicken and fish for about 9more years,but stopped eating those too in 2000. I like to walk a cruel free path, and also believe that you ingest the energy of whatever you eat. If the animals live torturous lives that end in horror too... I think that energy is assimilated into your being when you eat them. Just my opinion of course. From a healthy lifestyle position, I am a Raw Food and Vegetarian Chef and have heard many of the arguments of how one can not get some nutrients except from meat. Hmmm... though I am most certainly not an MD or prescribing anything, Factually, spirulina has the full spectrum of B vitamins INCLUDING B12 that some say can only be found in animal flesh, and Udo's oil has the full spectrum of Omega fatty acids INCLUDING Omega 9 though some say it can only be found in fish oil(which only has 3 and 6, NOT 9), so for myself I have found that animal flesh is completely unnecessary. Sometimes I get a bit of raw organic dairy or egg. Never fertilized eggs which is just a bit on the creepy side for me, yikes... And even in the best organic happy conditions with the little guys walking around in the fields, the unfertilized egg still freaks me out a bit, so I just tend to stay away from it. Just my two cents. Happy Samhain all:)

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