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by Stepper
on December 29th, 2010
voted:
Yes
by Shunyata
on August 6th, 2010
voted:
Yes
by AB is an asylum run by the inmates, ciao!
on August 1st, 2010
voted:
Yes
by Stormarm
on December 31st, 2010
voted:
No
by medicgirl
on December 29th, 2010
voted:
Yes
by DA BEN DAN yanggui zi
on December 29th, 2010
voted:
Yes
by Fenchurch
on December 29th, 2010
voted:
No
by engineer is Terminator
on December 29th, 2010
voted:
Yes
by SassyPink
on December 29th, 2010
voted:
Yes
by Don Gorgeous George on January 5th, 2010
by Komatsu
on January 5th, 2011
voted:
No
by spider128
on January 4th, 2011
voted:
No
by Kittyknowsbest
on January 4th, 2011
voted:
No
by anti-emo is ready for winter
on January 3rd, 2011
voted:
No
by PocketNut is as sure as a peanut on January 3rd, 2011
by aspgirl21
on January 2nd, 2011
voted:
No
by gberbasada
on January 1st, 2011
voted:
Yes
by jesicamartin on December 30th, 2010
by Marisa
on December 30th, 2010
voted:
No
by MR2David
on December 30th, 2010
voted:
No
by sapatos on December 29th, 2010
by A
on December 29th, 2010
voted:
No
by dazed on December 29th, 2010
by AB is an asylum run by the inmates, ciao!
on January 2nd, 2011
voted:
Yes
by Anonymous
on January 1st, 2011
voted:
No
by juanalacubana
on December 31st, 2010
voted:
No
by Shauna
on December 31st, 2010
voted:
No
by Banana Breath plays the piano
on December 30th, 2010
voted:
No
by punagirl on August 9th, 2010
by Doogie on August 1st, 2010
by Anonymous on August 1st, 2010
by Tamilze on August 1st, 2010
by Zack on August 1st, 2010
by DaJoe
on May 12th, 2012
voted:
No
by TELLITASITIS
on May 12th, 2012
voted:
Yes
by TheWalrus on January 11th, 2011
by jennalee11
on January 12th, 2011
voted:
No
by Anonymous
on January 11th, 2011
voted:
No
by Spookburger on February 26th, 2011
by Werewolf87
on January 12th, 2011
voted:
No
by skep
on January 10th, 2011
voted:
No
by Anonymous
on January 19th, 2011
voted:
Yes
by Michael
on February 9th, 2011
voted:
No
by JCarmon
on May 25th, 2011
voted:
Yes
by Patricia_T3639
on May 12th, 2012
voted:
No
by theyuha
on December 30th, 2010
voted:
Yes
by RefreshPerspective on August 1st, 2010
by Gingerminx on August 1st, 2010
by Sarah M on August 1st, 2010
by Lawdawg7051 on August 1st, 2010
Would non-veg eaters change to vegetarianism on visiting a slaughter house.....?
by anil m on April 25th, 2011
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Was Jesus a vegetarian?
by formichinoo on March 26th, 2011
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Is TVP (textured vegetable protein) fermented or unfermented?
by recently.deceased on April 20th, 2011
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What do you think of "loose" vegetarians?
by Michelle on May 11th, 2011
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If chicken, pork and beef were considered vegetables would you consider being vegetarian?
by Weylon on August 7th, 2011
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your arguement forgot to include taste. taste adds more satisfaction to a meal, and therefore make the person happy. happiness is important. meat tastes way better than veggies. how many flavourful dishes can you prepare with vetables, fruits, dairy and that nasty tofu? not as many as meat, seafood dishes.
cows are a big contributor to green house gasses. vegitarians like you only consume the milk from dairy cows. you guys don't help eat the cows, leaving them to release more greenhouse gasses, and polute the environment. why?
obviously, being a lacto-ovo vegetarian is healthier than omnivorous, and it is convient too because you get all the nutrients you need to survive. but remember that every egg you eat was maybe going to hatch into a chicken. that chicken could've changed the world, who knows.
by Simply Pengu on December 29th, 2010
To begin with, the question specifically addressed health, not happiness. The two are not exactly uncorrelated, but neither are they significantly so, particularly with regard to the topic at hand.
The taste of meat is, by the way, an subjective judgment. I for example wouldn't agree that it tastes better. I happen to find most of it as a matter of fact quite revolting. Conversely, the number of tasty meals I can make using vegetarian foods is quite large, and this is before consulting one of thousands of cookbooks.
I don't by the way eat a great deal of tofu. Virtually none in fact, and almost exclusively as part of some Chinese take out. I find it generally hard to prepare in such a way as to give it any taste.
The number of non-tofu vegetarian meat substitutes would probably surprise you, particularly if you live in an urban area with stores that specialize in them. Even nationwide chain stores have a decent selection these days however, which was not always the case.
"vegitarians like you only consume the milk from dairy cows. you guys don't help eat the cows, leaving them to release more greenhouse gasses, and polute the environment. why?"
I'm sure you are joking here. The demand for beef in terms of the number of beef cattle required to satisfy demand is comfortably out of proportion with their dairy counterparts...something like 5:1. What's more, due to advancing agricultural methods and technologies, the number of dairy cows is decreasing almost in proportion to the INCREASE in dairy production.
This can never happen with beef cattle for obvious reasons.
You DO by the way know that your eating of a steak doesn't actually reduce the number of cattle for purposes of environmental impact do you not? Each steak you eat means one more that the supermarket needs to order which means one more that beef manufacturers must provide. If they don't have enough cows to satisfy demand, they breed more.
You didn't actually solve anything.
"but remember that every egg you eat was maybe going to hatch into a chicken. that chicken could've changed the world, who knows."
Agreed, but the "argument from potential" with regard to a chicken egg carries about as much weight with me as an Olsen twin.
While I do eat eggs by the way, I don't happen to eat all that many of them.
by Stepper on December 29th, 2010
health doesn't have anything to do with happiness? happiness is a component of physical and mental health. you get happy from enjoying life through all senses including taste. you cannot say all meat tates worst than any vegetarian food, that is ignorance and you may just say that for your own convience. also, taste is OBJECTIVE and can be quantified.
you didn't rebute about how meat, seafood dishes are more satisfying than possibly any vegetarian dishes.
i'm not joking about the eating cows either. am i wrong for saying you will happily breed for dairy cows, and keep only dairy population alive for their milk? i am actually very very very glad you vegetarians don't enjoy meat, you keep supply higher and lower costs for non vegetarians. thanks.
every cow we eat saves cost of keeping the cow alive. i contribute to a better economy of the meat and fishing industries and help farmers, and fisherman survive. omnivoree eaters allow for those lifestyles to exist.
i find that being a "lacto-ovo vegetarian" is a just a luxury. it is a more expensive lifestyle when you consider all the variables. lets say there is no supermarket and you had to survive, how the hell are you going to conjure up all the foods you need to stay healthy? you don't, you have to grab a squirrel and roast it over a fire to eat. the point is that vegetarianism is not a natural way of life for a human being.
here's my main points summed up incase you got lost in your own thoughts:
1) more expensive to be a vegetarian. the money you save being omnivore can be put to some other use like RRSP because everyone gets old.
2) doesn't help farmers and the fishermen.
3) not able to be vegetarian without a supermarket. not the natural way of life for a human needs. when something is not natural, it usually doesn't work.
4) and vegetarian food don't taste as good as the best gourmet meat seafood dishes. happiness contributes to a better life, can make you more healthy too.
by Simply Pengu on December 30th, 2010
hehehe, i have an irrelavent point to make about the subject but it does concern the reason people becoming vegetarians.
other than personal health improvment, people can be vetarians because they hate cruelty to animals or abuse to animals. those vegetarians may ignore the cruelty to the pack rats if the farmer decides to keep a farm cat around to eat the rats that are helping themselves to the harvested goods. tehy also ignore the cruelty to insects and bugs and microbes that are killed by pesticides, herbacides and other chemical agent.
by Simply Pengu on December 30th, 2010
If you think the cruelty of a cat killing a rat is equivalent to the cruelty of factory farming you are extremely naive. There is nothing cruel about nature. If you hunted your food like a cat hunts rats, there would be nothing cruel about that.
Also, when I was very young I ate meat, and it made me extremely depressed, so your argument is based on nothing but your own personal experiences.
by cantyoureach on February 26th, 2011
Stepper, your right, taste is important, to make people feel better with them self and their well being. im not a vegitarian and personally i prefer veggies because they actually have taste, while meat tastes like crap unless you use sugar filled toppings (BBQ sauce, ketchup etc.) but i have also voted a no because red meat is best and most commonly eaten and it is filled with iron, and most veggies dont carry that much iron.
by shadowgod7 on February 5th, 2012