UNKNOWN, BUT MEATS LIKE BEEF IS MUCH TOO HIGH AND IT DEPENDS WHERE YOU BUY IT AT IF ITS SAFE. I PERSONALLY HAVE NEVER MET A VEGETARIAN ANY WHERE. ITS POSSIBLE THAT MEAT GROWERS ARE FORCING PEOPLE TO BECOME VEGETARIANS. I BOUGHT A NORMAL 2 INCH THICK STEAK, FOR ONE STEAK IT COST ME $20.00 YET IF YOU BUY IT TODAY, IT FROM 1/4 TO 1/2 THICK FOR $8.49

I think PETA rubs a lot of people the wrong way and they associate them with vegetarians.

The few that I know give off an "elitist" attitude whenever the conversation is about where to eat. There are some places that I really don't care to go to but if my friends really want to eat there, then I suck it up and find something to eat. It is more important to be with them than to make a big deal about 1 meal I might not fully enjoy.

I think some omnivores have hidden feelings of remorse for paying others to do the dirty work for them as far as treating animals inhumanely, and ultimately murdering them. They prevent such thoughts from surfacing in their conscious mind by immediately going on the attack. Just a theory, but it makes sense.

I think it is because many people, even omnivores, do care about animals, agricultural efficiency, and the environment. When they see that it is possible for someone to be perfectly healthy and not eat animal products they feel badly that they are supporting the severe persecution of animals, inefficient food production, and environmental harm that livestock operations create for no better reason than to satisfy their taste buds. Omnivores feel more comfortable believing that they'll die if they don't eat animal products. Vegetarians are living proof that omnivores rely on myth to evaluate their eating habits. ... I think that is the biggest reason why omnivores have a problem with vegetarians -- simply by vegetarians enjoying good health, they prove that eating animals, their milk, and their eggs is a selfish choice, not a necessary evil.

I think sometimes, for whatever reason, people are threatened by what they do not understand. Not all veggies try to convert anyone, sometimes it is just a sterotype.

It's unfortunate but all the vegetarians I know, do tend to preach about it an awful lot. I personally no longer have a problem with their attitude. I stopped arguing with them a long long time ago.

If you're a good prison guard among all the bad ones that torture prisoners for fun everyday, how do you try to cope seeing this everyday? You are a minority so you can't physically stop the other guards from their evil acts of fun; what do you resort to? You'd try to talk some reasons into them once in a while as to why it is wrong to torture the prisoners. That is all you can do. If you do this too often however, the bad guards would accuse you of trying to convert them. I see the same situation happening in the wider world here; not with prisoners, but with animals. The vegetarians being a minority trying to save a few lives (in a no-way-out situation). How can there be enough of vegetarians trying to irritate 99.5% of the global population which are meat eaters? Note, also that a lot of vegetarians do it for health reasons and don't give a damn about animals anyway; so that would make the number even lower. The math doesn't work out! So, this is an exaggeration that has gone out of proportion. It is likely that meat eaters (not all, but most) are quick to become irritated with other people holding a mirror to their face, if you know what I mean.

i think people have a problem with themselves not vegetarians. they could be made to feel guilty about their eating habits when confronted with someone who has had the guts to do the research and then decide whether they are okay with that or not. its hard i know. most people eat and want to carry on eating meat without ever wondering how it got to the plate. ignorance is bliss.

There are lots of vegetarians like that. I can't stand veggies/vegans who 'preach'. I feel they are people who just like to be different and would grab on to anything to preach about without having any real empathy for the cause. They simply alienate the people they are trying to appeal to. I have 'converted' 4 people to veganism just by living healthily and happily, answering questions openly and laughing along with the inevitable jokes and micky taking at bbqs and such. People do have a real empathy for animals but they are overwhelmed and put off by the combination of the longheld myths about dietery requirements and the way militant vegans make it look so hard and boring to be vegan. Veganism is happy, fun, healthy, tasty and normal. The best advert for it is to live well.