Should we all strive to become vegetarians/vegans?

Evolution has given us the ability to cast off the bloody chains of nature and to be better animals. We have the power to be kind to one another and I believe that this should apply to animals as well.

We've come to the point to where practically nobody has to eat meat to survive. Modern medicine and agricultural technologies have advanced to the point where we can all live as vegetarians/vegans and live healthier lives because of it.

And since we have this power, why shouldn't we?

I hear the same old excuses everytime:

"Meat tastes good"

- Wrong. Seasoning makes meat taste good. Try a hamburger without the salt and all that other junk.

"Animals eat other animals"

Some animals also eat their young. Should we eat our young as well? Obviously we are capable of being better than other animals.

But that's just my two cents.

People can do whatever they want. I'm a vegetarian, but I won't force it down anyones throat. People like meat, so let them eat it.

No.

People can do whatever they want. I'm a vegetarian, but I won't force it down anyones throat. People like meat, so let them eat it.

zenogandia

People can do whatever they want. I'm a vegetarian, but I won't force it down anyones throat. People like meat, so let them eat it.

zenogandia

People can do whatever they want. I'm a vegetarian, but I won't force it down anyones throat. People like meat, so let them eat it.

zenogandia

No we should not...

Yomanjdf? Is that you?

Are you trying to convert people to becoming vegans again?!

Yomanjdf? Is that you?

Are you trying to convert people to becoming vegans again?!

Hallenbeck77

[QUOTE="Hallenbeck77"]

Yomanjdf? Is that you?

Are you trying to convert people to becoming vegans again?!

MetalDogGear

How do you qualify "too much"? Keep in mind that a vegan or vegetarian diet also necessitates the slaughter of animals. Millions of animals are killed every year by pesticides, farm equipment, farmers, trucks transporting food, and pollution caused by agricultural processes. Don't pretend like you're not to blame for needless slaughter, water contamination, and pollution as well. thegerg

Quite a contradiction you have there.

I think, each person should make their own decision. We shouldn't be forced to become something we don't want to be. I love me some STEAK! But most of all.. I love sea food more then anything! Although, my lady is a vegetarian and I respect that. I cook vegetarian meals for her all the time and she doesn't mind the fact that, I'm not a vegetarian.

[QUOTE="MetalDogGear"][QUOTE="Hallenbeck77"]

Yomanjdf? Is that you?

Are you trying to convert people to becoming vegans again?!

Hallenbeck77

[QUOTE="ghoklebutter"]

[QUOTE="thegerg"]How do you qualify "too much"? Keep in mind that a vegan or vegetarian diet also necessitates the slaughter of animals. Millions of animals are killed every year by pesticides, farm equipment, farmers, trucks transporting food, and pollution caused by agricultural processes. Don't pretend like you're not to blame for needless slaughter, water contamination, and pollution as well. thegerg

Quite a contradiction you have there.

why the fvck would we all be veggies?? we would have a world over population with animals and it would be against the law to drive them over :S and let alone all the **** that's on the streets and all thatnilzg

Funny seeing this topic as I'm on day 1 of being a vegetarian...jeremiah06

[QUOTE="jeremiah06"]Funny seeing this topic as I'm on day 1 of being a vegetarian...ghoklebutter

I wonder why this topic keeps coming up on OT over and over.

no, however, as of Tuesday I apparently beat Cancer (Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, Stage 2) as the PET scan revealed the Cancer is gone. So I'm apparently in complete remission, and if there is no relapse within a couple years, I can be considered cured. Chemotherapy is a b*tch though, and I didn't even have as bad side effects as some others have.

I have learned so much about the disease that my personal eating habits will be changed and headed more vegetarian, perhaps more organic. By the way people, Broccolli is among the most important vegetables you can eat to avoid Cancer. But so is eating fish (salmon, tuna, fish like that, not tilapia) several times a week.

I can't speak that other people should strive to become vegetarians, that is their choice.

[QUOTE="nilzg"]why the fvck would we all be veggies?? we would have a world over population with animals and it would be against the law to drive them over :S and let alone all the **** that's on the streets and all thatghoklebutter

[QUOTE="ghoklebutter"]

[QUOTE="jeremiah06"]Funny seeing this topic as I'm on day 1 of being a vegetarian...jeremiah06

[QUOTE="jeremiah06"][QUOTE="ghoklebutter"] How's it going so far? I find being vegetarian very easy, although I do eat meat these days.ghoklebutter

Giving up soda? What world is this? D:

Giving up soda? What world is this? D:

CHOASXIII

[QUOTE="CHOASXIII"]

Giving up soda? What world is this? D:

ghoklebutter

Not surprised tbh.

yes, but the transition should be made easier by vegetarian alternatives to normal diets that people can live with, who knows maybe they'll have some processed vegetable products that'll taste just like bacon and steak and chicken and all that and once that's done then maybe people will make the transition effortlessly, until then though no tofu hotdogs are craplamprey263

Alright, the stupid website wouldn't load for like an hour.

Obviously there are evils with every action. I don't deny the animals that lose their homes and get killed in the soy bean fields.

I don't deny the pollution that plant production produces.

These are all true.

However

We should minimalize our impact on nature. And veganism/vegetarianism is far less destructive than meat production.