30 Reasons to go Vegitarian

[Sammy and Peanut]

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Wanna go vegetarian? No good reasons? Here are some for why you should.

[newpiggiemommy]

Thanks for sharing your opinion with us! I think it is great that you are so passionate about it!

[Ellen]

I didn't make it through all 30 reasons--I got to about 10 or so. I just can't even stand watching tiny clips of what happen in the meat industry...

Good points from what I saw, though. Especially "Parents shouldn't have to lie to their children about what they eat".

[newpiggiemommy]

Who lies to their children about what they eat?

[Ellen]

I'm sure someone's kid out there has asked them where meat comes from and how it gets there... Even if you the parent puts it lightly, the kid is still going to find out one way or another.

[newpiggiemommy]

My kids know they are eating dead animals. They don't have a problem with it. They just know that it is part of the food chain, just like when our snake used to eat live mice. My kids fed the snake and watched the snake eat the live mouse. It is all part of the food chain.

Before you jump down my throat about what I said, I will have you know that my family and I are trying to go meat-free for health reasons. I have been meat-free for two weeks and my children eat meat-free meals when at home. I can't control what they eat out of the house. My son has asked if he can still eat fish and my answer was yes for now. One step at a time! He is 10 years old and this is a major lifestyle change!

[Sammy and Peanut]

I am not sure who made this. It might have been the PETA. My mom finally said yes to me becoming vegitarian.

[Ellen]

Originally Posted by newpiggiemommy

My kids know they are eating dead animals. They don't have a problem with it. They just know that it is part of the food chain, just like when our snake used to eat live mice. My kids fed the snake and watched the snake eat the live mouse. It is all part of the food chain.

I'm not really one to jump down people's throats...but I guess I was more leaning to the side HOW the meat ends up on your plate (the process, how animals are treated during this process).

That is pretty impressive for your 10 year old!

[Sammy and Peanut]

I can't stand eating it. Yuck.

[thalestral]

Originally Posted by newpiggiemommy

They just know that it is part of the food chain, just like when our snake used to eat live mice. My kids fed the snake and watched the snake eat the live mouse. It is all part of the food chain.

Did you know that live feeding is illegal in the UK as it is considered to be so cruel? Humans and their treatment of domesticated animals is as far removed from the food chain as you can get. And I applaud you for moving to a meat free diet, it's just that the excuse of the "food chain" is common and completely wrong.

[cinnyminny]

I finally watched this video/ read the reasons and I decided to sign the pledge and try it out for 30 days. I tried about a week ago to be a veggie and I already failed. But after watching that I'm going to try harder because there's no excuse for it.

oh and I'm not looking for people to say "Good for you!!" or any sort of attention...I just want people to see that people who are "meat-eaters" are affected by these videos and do want to make a difference.

[Ally has U's]

If you can't read them or watch the videos it means you are not proud of what you eat and the way you live your life. If you cannot read them you are not ok with what you are feeding your loved ones. If you cannot read them it means you are afraid to know the truth.

If you cannot read them you should go veg.

[Pumpkin_RIP]

Wow, thank you for sharing this. I think i will become a vegetarian now because of you. It will be hard, especially since my whole family eats meat, but I will definitely try.

[NoCableIsSafe]

Originally Posted by Ally has U's

If you can't read them or watch the videos it means you are not proud of what you eat and the way you live your life. If you cannot read them you are not ok with what you are feeding your loved ones. If you cannot read them it means you are afraid to know the truth.

If you cannot read them you should go veg.

That's a rather close-minded view on these video's. Some people are extremely sensitive to video's of cruelty and can suffer short-term or long-term aftereffects of viewing them for crueltys sake.

Of course a video of an animal dying is going to be gruesome. Death is gruesome and it rightly should be - it's a horrible, final, fearful thing. It does not take a far-stretch of the imagination to realise what animals go through before they enter the meat industry as meat.

One should go vegetarian when one feels motivated to do so for their own reasons; whether it is health, moral, ethics or whatever their reason. Not because they made a human choice from freewill to not view a video highlighting the death and cruelty of battery farming. By all means, be aware; but if people don't want to listen then speeches like that have no focus or grounding to "convert".

[CF#5]

Originally Posted by NoCableIsSafe

That's a rather close-minded view on these video's. Some people are extremely sensitive to video's of cruelty and can suffer short-term or long-term aftereffects of viewing them for crueltys sake.

I have to agree with Ally. I've said similar things about people who wear fur and who refuse to watch the video of the animals being skinned alive. As far as I'm concerned, wearing fur is much worse than eating meat or wearing leather, although they're all terrible.

People who wear fur are killing the animals, just not directly. People who eat meat are killing the animals, just not directly. If they can't stomach what they're doing, they should stop doing it. Just because they're not personally killing the animals doesn't alleviate their responsibility. When someone goes to the grocery store and buys a slab of meat, that's basically the same as paying someone to kill an animal for you. That's not really any different than killing the animal yourself, and therefore, people shouldn't be allowed to escape the violent, tragic suffering they inflict simply because they're not inflicting it directly.

[Sammy and Peanut]

Originally Posted by Pumpkin_RIP

Wow, thank you for sharing this. I think i will become a vegetarian now because of you. It will be hard, especially since my whole family eats meat, but I will definitely try.

It is the same scenario that I am in, but I manage to scrounge something up when we have meat for dinner. For example, our dinner last night: Steak, mashed potatoes, corn, crescent rolls, and key lime pie(my uncle went to Florida last week!). This what I took: Mashed potatoes, corn, crescent rolls, and key lime pie, hold the steak. It's great to know how one person can make a difference.

[Res Judicata]

Yeah, one person can, altho