They don't eat meat for whatever reason- it could be they can't digest it, environmental issues, animal rights issues, etc., and it's their prerogative, what they want to eat. I don't care or mind it at all.

my opinion is that they must be paying more attention than the people eating at mcdonalds.

They eat nothing that has a face.

Letuce leaf them alone!!!!!

They respect animal by not eating them.

I actually applaud them for it, if the reason they're doing it is a good one. I don't have a strong enough will to become one, I'd never be able to survive just eating vegetables. Hope they get enough protein, though.

If they enjoy being a vegan then good for them

On average, you'll eat 8 spiders each year...so I don't actually believe in vegetarians. ;-)

If they enjoy being a vegan then good for them

Its not for me, but each to thier own, they stand up for what they believe in, good for them.

If people want to do that, that's fine with me but personally I like meat!

my opinion is that it is a good thing to do for many reasons...but not realistic for some people..so, when its becomes militant, judgemental or pushy..its a real drag. I was vegan/vegitarian for over ten years..my health suffered as a result...you have to put alot of time and energy into it if you want to do it right.

If god did not want us to eat meat she would not have made it taste so good

it can be admirable to some degree. it can also be bullshit

Good for the animals and the environment. Yay. I am a veggie, by the way. Although, I can't help but succumb to the seductive prowess of meat every once in a while. :(

I'm vegetarian, so yeah i'm okay with it! when i was younger (i'm talking 6 or 7) I didn't eat meat solely because i loved animals so much. I'm not under any false illusions anymore that i'm making a huge difference by not eating meat, I understand the food chain perfectly well but... I just can't stand the thought of it. I think both vegetarianism and veganism are a personal choice that should be kept personal. if other people want to eat meat it's fine by me. I just dont :)

I could never do it. I love meat too much lol

At times in my past I have eaten a vegetarian diet for health reasons. I have never given up totally honey, eggs or dairy products. I have given up dairy for almost a year once. I felt MUCH better without cow's milk but goat's milk or raw milk didn't affect my health like cow's milk. It can be difficult to eat completely nutritious meals but it can be done. I found that I did miss animal protein. I did better with it though I didn't usually eat meat from the store. We ate a lot of meat that we produced or hunted ourselves. We both feel better when we stay away from commercial meats and dairy products.

Vegetarian: awesome. Vegan: just not HEALTHY. Me: I like food too much to cut out any major group. Imagine all the things I couldn't COOK if I couldn't have meat! It's downright depressing!

Whatever floats someone's boat- but I think it's silly. Humans are omnivores- our teeth and digestive system evolved for eating meat. People who don't eat meat are missing out on many necessary nutrients. However, taking a step back and looking at the big picture, most people eat too much meat, and too little vegetables and fruits. So compared to what a standard American eats, a vegetarian diet is much better. The BEST though would be a diet with lots of fruits and vegetables, plenty of fish and poultry, and every once and a while some lean red meat. ... and this answer should be filed under "do as I say, not as I do". :)

My friend was a vegan her health was so bad she had to change to vegetarianism. That is really scary, I have always wonder if that is why she looks so old......

To be a lacto-ovo-vegetarian is my personal choice. I shall not hate you for making another choice. I have been an omnivore before, but I choose to become a vegetarian for years for various reasons: - ethics (respect for animals) - health (I think vegetarian nutrition is usually healthier, even if it were just because vegetarians think about what they are eating) I would eventually be vegan, but it would be too complicated for me, I am afraid, to maintain my health and my social contacts.

Personaly, i dont have anything against vegetarians and if they chose to live that way then they can for me, becuase they arent doing anything wrond really.

If I wasn't such a picky eater, I might be one.

I have the utmost respect for them. No matter if their reasons for not eating meat is for health reasons only of if they don't believe in using animals for food, there is abundant healthy food out there to provide for a long and healthy life. Plus, more pork chops for me! ;-)

I have friends that are vegetarians they are great normal people. My wife and I are moving slowly in that direction.

I feel no different about them than anyone else. They just have made the decision to eat what they do. Possibly for their benefit. They have a very strong will power (I could never do that) and I wish them the best!

To each their own. Eat what you like. The only thing I don't like is when vegetarians basically look down on you for being a "meat-eater," as though you were some sort of barbaric neanderthal that just hasn't 'evolved as much as them.' Some vegetarians can get their 'snob' on better than anyone I know. Not all of them, but there are some. Let me eat my meal in peace.

I'm not a true vegetarian but I don't eat red meat. This is not for moral reasons, but for health reasons. There are weeks I'll go without eating any meat at all. It's really no different from people who are lactose intolerant, or who choose to make healthier decisions when eating. I can't imagine why anyone would view that in a different way...

I think some of em are hot

I dated one for a long time...it was really hard to find a place to go eat. I love meat but she could never go to steakhouses with me...

Honestly, I hate vegatarians. I think it is an unhealthy choice. We're not going to stop killing animals just because some people don't eat it. Animals are still getting killed. Humans are meateating creatures and we're not the only creatures eating other creatures. It's what we are saposed to be eating. I have many friends who are vegitarians, they know my views. One friend who joined "for health reasons" decided she now cares for the animals and tells everyone that's why she became one. She also cringes and turns away when I eat meat. Eating with her is always fun, not. What's the deal with "vegitarians can eat fish"? Do fish not qualify as living creatures? I guess I am done. I was happy to see this question. :)

I think, also I am.

They are missing out, but smart to focus on their health. Vegetarianism is a two-edged carrot stick.

I think people are entitled to eat what they choose. I do not equate what a person eats with what my opinion of them as a person is going to be.

vegetarians are quite nice but i could not eat a full one without some kinda meat to go with. lol

Not really. Most of my partner's family are vegetarians. Actually, they are vegetarian by Indian standards, which would make them vegans by American standards. To each his/her own. Their eating habits are none of my business, and I respect their beliefs and choices.

I like 'em in a good stew.

I know 2 people that are vegetarians, so I am limited in exposure. (I am a carnivore.) The 2 people I know always seem, well, sickly. Their skin is very sallow, they complain all the time about things they "find" in supposedly meat free foods, their hair always seems dry and mousey, and they tend to get more colds than any other people I know. It could be that they have other issues, but to an "outsider" like me I blame it on the lack of meat.

No, I don't think they do??? > > > > JUST KIDDING!!! I Love them Slow Smoked over Mesquite & a Little BBQ Sauce for Flavor!!! John

It takes a lot of work to be vegetarian. As a reformed vegetarian, it was hard for me to get the right amount of protein. But, I was young and probably didn't invest the time I should have into the right recipes. I just liked my salads a lot!! It is a lot easier to go out to eat now...... and more expensive!! lol!

Although there are worse things you could do to your body , being a vegitarian is not the smartest thing you can do. vegetarians think their better than most people because they dont eat meat.... but the fact is vegetarians are stupid. (to be blunt) ITS NOT HEALTHY, have you ever seen a healthy vegetarian..NO you havent. thats because their body dosen't have the proper nutrience it has from MEAT..... humans keep cows alive for 2 reasons....for milk, and for eating...we are keeping cows alive, no one has them as pets... its unhealthy, un-wise, and just plaine stupid.

I'm sorry. I burst out laughing because I read "Onions or vegetarians" I was going to say "Onions every time", but there's just no point, now. None at all.

They have strong will! I can't imagine life without eating hotdogs, bacon and other meat products.

Well, I am a vegetarian so I have to say that I have a good opinion of them. LOL I've been a vegetarian (not vegan) since 1984 and I can't imagine ever eating a piece of beef, poultry, seafood or pork again. But I respect the decision of others to eat meat - my 3 teens are not vegetarians so I do cook it at home for them. Just something else for me. :)

They are ok just like everybody else I suppose.

It is the human god given right to eat meat. Who are they to reject gods gifts?

We taste like chicken, just like everyone.

I have been a vegetarian for just over 5 years now. If you don't believe that being a veggie is healthy i suggest you look up the vegetarian society website. Here are a few facts for you. Vegetarians are at lower risk of: Heart disease. Colon cancer. Breast cancer. Pancreatic cancer. Prostrate cancer. Oesophageal cancer. Diverticular disease. Gall stones. Kidney stones. Osteoporosis. Appendicitus. Food poisoning. If you don't believe this, check it out on www.vegsoc.org/info/health1.html. The vegetarian society also shows how healthy a vegetarian diet is and all the benefits to you, as well as to the enviroment and animal welfare. Hope this helps, xChristinax

I don't see anything wrong with being a vegetarian, but I also feel that if we weren't meant to eat meat, why were we given canines and incisors?

I believe that our bodies have evolved around the eating of meat, and that there are certain nutrients that are needed from it that simply are not in other foods, certain amino acids for example. Although, in a way I'm a hypocrite, as I couldn't kill an animal myself.

that's a meaty question.............

I admire them for their devotion to it. It isn't always easy to be a vegetarian and ensure that you are eating a nutritious diet. I would like to be a vegetarian..but I still eat chicken:(

Vegetarians are sexy!!

As long as they don't try to proselytize to me, they're welcome to live their life as they see fit.

Doesn't really matter to me. I like meat though and I wish they would not rub it in your face so much. Kinda like you are an inferior caveman who has resorted to giving into basic evil impulses in order to personally offend them.......ok, maybe it's kinda exaggerated but you get the point.

i am a vegetarian so what do ya think about that

G'day Kylie Maree, Thank you for your question. To each his or her own. As long as they don't expect me to give up meat. Regards

Go for it. just do not expect me to join in.

I think they lead very healthy, positive lives. They have to be very knowledgeable about food combining so that they can get their nutritional needs met. They have a reverence for living things. I think they are very good people! :)

Well, someone once said that they were a vegetarian because they could not eat something that once had lived. I thought that vegetables were alive too. Albeit a different life than a cow or a chicken. I think we are evolved to eat meat. We have the teeth and digestive system for it. I like meat. I think that people should be allowed to eat as they please...and not interfere or force their choice on other people.

They're wonderful, amazingly beautiful people. And I'm not baised at all.... Erm, I am one, and I just think it's a personal choice. I don't expect anyone else follow that choice...but it's the right one for me :)

Don't know I like bacon too much :) +3 how's you'r flying lessons going with that red cape?

Vegetarian is an old Apache indian word for lousy hunter. :-)

It's their choice. But I hate the ones who go around dictating what other people should eat, and saying we should all stop eating meat. Eat what you want, and hate what you want, just don't force other people to hate the same thing.

i am a vegan... I think all of us under the blanket of being vegetarian should be respected, wgatever our reason maybe. My reasons were health related so I have nothing against people who eat meat

As far as I know, mankind is omnivorous - i.e. we are physically designed to eat both meat and non-meat, so any diet that mandates only meat or only non-meat would seem potentially dangerous. I am also concerned that many vegetarians do not seem to realise that their diet is incomplete, which to me is evidenced by the large number of pasty-white vegetarians you see - they look permanently ill and tired, and, yes, undernourished. (I also accept that some vegetarians and vegans do manage to have a fully-balanced diet.)

They have their own rules which is great. I experience vegeterian eating habits in most times of the year when my body needs break from digesting meat/poultry stuff. but I also eat a combined diet during times of university coursework to give my body and mind everything essential for my coursework.

Annoying militant "animals are better than people and deserve human rights" idiots.

vegetarians are people that only eat vegetables and it is good but according to my studies is not also good because if you intake only vegetables you can have inadequate supply of other nutritients that our body needs... ^^

By the way some of these answers arew going I would say that Vegetarianism is beginning to look like a new political party/religion - getting itself up there in the Emotive AB Categories. I have nothing against vegetarians who don't preach to me about what I should/shouldn't eat. But I really don't understand those that declare themselves vegetarian and then eat stuff that is meant to taste like meat - what is that all about!?

I have nothing against the philosophy in and of itself. But many vegetarians are ignorant of many facts, hold double standards, and are somewhat self-righteous. Did you know that you can survive without ever eating plant life? If you regulate your diet right, and keep an open mind to every component of an animals body, one could maintain a nutritious and healthy lifestyle solely on a carnivorous diet. The human body was built (either through divine creation or evolution, whichever you subscribe to) to eat and process animal flesh. We are omnivorous by design. To suggest it is more healthy to ignore an evolutionary ability as unnecessary is narrow-minded. I dont agree with the slaughtering of animals, either. But that is the nature of life. We eat lesser life. All life does it. And if you want to survive, you have to admit you are a part of the food chain. Eat or dont. No matter how you cut the cake, life still dies. Just because a plant cant cry and plead for its life makes it no more humane to kill it. Thats like slaughtering babies just because they are in the womb still... usually the same type of liberal that promotes both ideologies. Who is anyone to suggest plant life is any less deserving of life than an animal? Admittedly, if in the forest and forced to survive on my own... I would opt for plants and easy gatherer life over killing. But I may still do so on occasion, just for variety and nutritional diversity. I firmly disagree with hunting for pleasure, and with discarding animal components as unusable. I think if an animal should be killed, it should be out of self-preservation. And if for food, the entire animal should be consumed - if not devoured then at least to be used as tools and whatnot.

I Am A Vegetarian!... N I Love It!!! ... I Feel Soooooo' Gooooooooo'D

They never take the last piece of bacon so I love them!

Hats off to them esp. vegans. Just like the people who car pool, install solar panels or recycle, we are all better off for them. Except for egg-laying hens and dairy cows, the animals are better off for them too.

Vegetarian Animals!

I think it is nice of them to leave more meat for us to eat! :)

They are extremists, we have teeth made for tearing meat in our mouths so we are geared for eating meat not just veg!

i am one. but i now i can't expect the people around me to do the same. but people does keep irratating my with the same old q's for the last 17 years... don't plants have feelings... you kill plants... ect.

In mass? I think most of us have done our mandatory service to the religion of vegetarianism during high school and/or college. I think vegetarian men are a bit effete and vegetarian women are shrill. Sorry, but there you go. I was shrill when I was a college vegetarian too. For some reason it makes one defensive and demanding about it. For instance, when I was a vegetarian I made sure EVERYONE knew it. When I was invited somewhere I expected everyone to think about ME. We couldn't go somewhere unless there were vegetarian options (not salads) and my host(ess) had to provide me with a special entree. I'd never do that now. If I'm voluntarily restricting my diet from anything...or even necessarily restricting it, I'd either make do or bring my own. I don't feel the need to include everyone else in my dietary arrangements, to announce my food choices or to impose on other people. Let me state that I'm sure there are vegetarians out there who ARE considerate of other people and who quietly go about their vegetarian lives, but you asked about a vague, general "opinion" so there you are.

They're doing what THEY enjoy...not hurting anyone...what's to opine about?

Whatever floats their boat is fine with me. They can have my vegies..yuck!

I'm not sure, I've never tasted one before... I imagine they taste just as good as the rest. I'm a second hand vegetarian. Cows eat grass and I eat cows.

Properly cooked and served with a side they're probably quite tastey yo!... ;)=)

I'm not sure. They don't go around with a sign on them that says what they eat. However, I do understand why someone would choose to be vegetarian.

Not very tasty!

Love um. I'm one. Butt hole knee because I don't like the taste.

There great. Take them out for dinner (CHEAP) lol.