why do people like being vegetarians?
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< I think it's because it is healthier,some people just don't believe in killing animals,even for food,and for some it is because of religious beliefs.Some religions don't believe in eating meat.
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Yes, human beings are omnivores but then again so are pigs. Eating meat or going vegetarian is a conscious choice one makes
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Good for you! I've been a happy veg for about 6 yrs. now. Peta has a lot of info about being & becoming a veg. There are a lot of magazines about vegetarianism and I can also reccommend a cookbook called "The Starving Students' Vegetarian Cookbook" (ISBN: 0-446-67675-6) The most important thing to consider when becoming a veg is getting enough iron, this is found in leafy greens, especially spinach. You might find a supplement (they're best eaten with a sufficient meal.) Protein can be found in soy products and love your peanutbutter!
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Meat is a major source of essential nutrients, including: protein, Zinc and Vitamin B12.  Note, vegetarians often have low intakes of Zinc and B12 because they avoid meat.\n\nBest wishes.
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We are programed to eat meat from  a young age, then we are hooked and get defensive when this question is asked as I can see by the other replies. \n\nWe know deep down that it is wrong and unnecessary, many vegetarians become that way after watching how the animals for food live and die. It is very sad.\n\nPeople would rather be ignorant to what happens to the animals than give up something that tastes good. \nIf a dog or cat was killed in the same way as a cow there would be an outrage, but what is the difference?\n\nIts all conditioning.\n\nOne more thing all 8 essential amino acids can be found in a vegetarian diet (to the comment earlier)
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well basically what you eat does have alot of affect on your habits. forexample carnivores who eat meat are stronger and vicious than other herbivores. so i think that explains their victory and defeat
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Being a vegetarian has it's pro's and con's.  Because you are not eating meat, you need to get the vitamins you will be lacking, so you have to take a multi-vitamin, and find another way to get your protein.  Many vegetarian's lack vitamin b-12 which is an important vitamin.  Also, many vegetarian's become carbaholics.  I think it's good to eat meat.  In moderation of course.
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People who eat meat aren't hypocrites. We were meant to eat meat. Humans have been eating meat since the dawn of time. Humans however, have NOT been raising animals in tiny little cages and slaughtering them for the sole purpose of ripping their skin off and wearing it since the dawn of time. I also don't believe in hunting unless what is killed is eaten. You don't see lions on the African plains chasing down a gazell to remove it's fur and cover up with it.
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My last girlfriend in highschool was vegan (and so was her best friend)  I spent a lot of my time trying to convince them that plants had feelings too.  I don't think they ever went for it though.  \n\nAnyway, I think it depends on why they're vegetarians.  If they're not meat-eaters because they don't like the taste/texture or it makes them sick (some people just can't process meat) then no, I don't think it's wrong.  But for those "holier-than-thou" vegetarians that don't eat meat because animals are living things, then yes, I think that eating plants is false logic.  \n\nFR
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For a start, let’s get one thing clear; despite their claims to contrary the vast, vast majority of people who call themselves ‘vegetarians’ are no such thing. They are ‘non-meat eaters’, and it is not the same. Eggs, milk, honey, yoghurt and cheese are not vegetables; they are animal products and if you eat them you are not a vegetarian. Don’t bother with the moral snob’s holier-than-thou argument – “You’re confusing ‘vegan’ with ‘vegetarian’!” -  I reject it as completely as I reject any notion that meat eating is wrong. \n\nSimply, a ‘vegan’ doesn’t use any animal products at all; a ‘vegetarian’ doesn’t eat any at all. That’s it. I am not interested in any other definition of the words, and these self-serving ovo- or lacto- rationalisations are good for a laugh but little else. If you use milk, eggs, honey, yoghurt or cheese in your diet you are not a vegetarian. All you are doing is transferring the moral burden of slaughtering animals to those of us who do eat their carcasses (and by and large don’t care about what happens to them in the process of becoming carcasses, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall notwithstanding) by pretending that you don’t. \n\nIt always amuses me to read the pretentious gibberish from well-meaning prigs in the BBC, Minority Inclusion Twits in local government or other overpaid, interfering busybodies to the effect that vegetarians can lead a healthy lifestyle as long as they take into account that: \n\n“Foods such as eggs, nuts, seeds, beans, pulses, vegetable protein foods and soya products all contain protein. There are also small amounts in grains and dairy products.” 1  \n\nGet that? Eggs lead the way, folks. If you can’t get all the nutrition you need from a real vegetarian diet (and you can’t) then try using a fake vegetarian diet and telling everyone you’re a morally superior person because you don’t eat animals! Except you do. But hey, as long as you can convince yourself that chickens lay tofu, bees are actually a species of strawberry and milk comes from some kind of mutated juniper berry, you’ll be fine. \n\nIn the same vein – while I am concerned about dignifying their existence by even mentioning them - let me point out that “pollo-vegetarians”, “pesco-vegetarians” etc. etc. are no more vegetarians than I am. It’s like my claiming that I am a “bovo-vegetarian” or a “porci-vegetarian” because I eat beef and pork. Poultry and fish carcasses are meat, and people who eat them are meat eaters. End of argument. \n\nThe only kind of farming that supports an exterior, non-primary economy is intensive, inorganic farming, and if you find that ‘cruel’, then start eating rocks. Every cheese omelette you knock together supports that ‘cruelty’, and you’re stuck with that whether you like it or not. If you chose to doubt any of this, ask any dairy farmer what they do with their bull calves now that we are no longer allowed to eat veal. (I lived on the stuff when during a visit to Austria, by the way.) Choose the greenest, most tree-huggingest ‘organic’ farmer you can find, one with a t-shirt made of woven hemp and nettle flax with a self-righteous slogan ending with ‘No Thanks’ on it, and ask him a straightforward question – “What do you do when your milking cows give birth to bull calves?” Ooo, look, he’s staring at his toes and shuffling his feet in embarrassment. Here’s the skinny, folks – they shoot them and burn the bodies, because nobody is allowed to eat them so nobody will buy them, and they are worth nothing.  I mean, let’s not be too obvious about it but the modern dairy cow has been bred for milk production, not meat. Male calves of the pure dairy breed are seen by many farmers as a pest, vermin, a nuisance to be disposed of by any means possible.  Prior to the opprobrium heaped upon veal production and its virtual disappearance from the UK market, half a million calves about 2 week
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I am on the verge of becoming a vegan. I am a vegetarian because i can't stomach the sight of meat or bloody anything, i also don't like the fact that milk comes from an animals tit and humans are the only species in the world that drink breast milk past adolescence!! that is disgusting! I think that meat is hard to eat because of animal cruelty. My sister in-law is a vegan and she became that way for many reasons, one is that she had to eat a lot healthier because she has Lupus! and two she is a vet and cares for animals on some huge level, and she knows how all animals are treated when they are raised for meat.or eggs or milk. I will eat organic turkey meat but really nothing else from animals. this is a complicated decision to make because it is a huge change in life style and i have only been strong with it for about a year. There are tons of websites out there! research! try Organic foods just to eat healthier you don't have to hug any trees or anything.
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There would be no world hunger if we were all vegetarians.  It takes 8 pounds of protein from wheat to make one pound of protein from meat.  With the food we spend to feed cattle, we can use it to feed the hungry.\n\n\nAlas, I am a hypocrit...I'm not a vegetarian.
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well they dont really like it but they can live with it. and by the way hasint it been changed to some plastic material instead of pig skin.  i am a vegietarian and i am not woried about it as long as i dont have to touch anything that has been make out of animals then i do not care.
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Yes we are vegetarians we totally agree with you!!!!!!!!!\nAt least we know some people care about animals!!!!!!!!  Not  Only for the animals sake but people are so unaware of all of these chemicals and steroids that they are putting into these animals to make them bigger quicker to get money now. We have no idea what all of these chemicals,etc...are going to do to our children as they grow in the future.  By  the way please don't turn  a blind  eye to how animals are being tortured for their body parts while they are still alive.  God did not put these creatures here for us to mistreat just because we are more intelligent.  Maybe we should start taking I.Q. Tests and just clean out  the world of the less intelligent ones.
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People turn to vegetarian because they r afraid with their re-birth.(A Animal)
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Vegetarians won't eat any meat but vegans won't eat any product or byproduct of an animal. They are missing out on soooo much.
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http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/index.php?showtopic=8724\nMust Buddhists be vegetarian?\n\nNo.\n\nWhy the fuss then?\n\nThough the Buddha never made it a compulsory rule that all His followers have to be vegetarians, He strongly encouraged us to be. In the Bodhisattva practice of minimising harm to all beings and benefiting them as much as possible, the practice of vegetarianism as far as possible plays an essential role. We can see this in many of the Buddha's recorded teachings.\n\n\n\n“The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great Compassion.”\n\n\n-Mahaparinirvana Sutra (The Buddha)\n\n"...Ananda, I permit the bhiksus (monks) to eat only the five kinds of pure flesh* which are the product of my transcendental power of transformation and not of animal slaughter. You, Brahman, live in a country where vegetables do not grow because it is too damp and hot and because of all the gravel and rock. I use my spiritual power of compassion to provide you with illusory meat to satisfy your appetite. How then, after my nirvana, can you eat the flesh of living beings and so pretend to be my disciple?..."\n\n\n"...All monks who live purely and all Bodhisattvas always refrain even from walking on grass; how can they agree to uproot it? How then can those who practise great Compassion feed on the flesh and blood of living beings?..."\n\n”...How can a monk, who hopes to become a deliverer of others, himself be living on the flesh of sentient beings?...”\n\n\n”...If a man can (control) his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal products, I say he will really be liberated. This teaching of mine is that of the Buddha whereas any others that of evil demons..."\n\n\n-Surangama Sutra (The Buddha)\n http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/Shurangama/Shurangama.htm\n\n”The Bodhisattva, whose nature is Compassion, is not to eat any meat… For fear of causing terror to living beings…let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain Compassion, refrain from eating flesh.”\n\n\n-Lankavatara Sutra (The Buddha)\n\n"If a bhikkhu sees, hears or suspects that it has been killed for him, he may not eat it."\n\n-Mahavagga of Vinaya Pitaka (The Buddha)\n\n"Let him not destroy, or cause to be destroyed, any life at all, nor sanction the acts of those who do so. Let him refrain from even hurting any creature, both those that are strong and those that tremble in the world." \n\n-Sutta-Nipata (The Buddha)\n\n"I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings." \n\n\n-King Asoka's Edicts \n\n\nAll true practitioners of the Bodhisattva path eventually relinquish meat-eating. In His previous lives, the Buddha as a Bodhisattva would rather cut His own flesh to feed an eagle than let it eat a smaller bird. All advanced practising Bodhisattvas are thus necessarily vegetarians, since they cannot bear the pain of sentient beings.\n\nWhile nothing we eat makes us impure, our choice of diet is an action with implications. If our choice of diet arises from greed, sustaining the greed obviously makes us impure