If everyone did become vegetarian and vegan the way " PETA " wants everyone to be, would are world be

All I know is, PETA is way too extreme for me. I don't think they even want people to own pets. I think most humans were meant to have some meat as a part of their diets. And I seem to know a lot of unhealthy and overweight or stick-thin vegetarians...

Well, technically you have a point that our ancestors ate animals, however, it is also narrow minded of you to assume that PETA is only looking to stop people from eating meat. The lifestyles that people live now are incredibly different from our ancestors and we need less protein. We are generally lazier. The fact that we eat so much fat and protein is one of the reasons for the incredible obesity rates.

Personally, I feel that everyone should eat what they want and quit trying to press their dietary lifestyles on everyone else. If you want to eat meat, eat it, and if you don't then don't. Just shut up about it. (And, for PETA, just because you don't the hamburger, that doesn't make the cow any less dead, now it just means that the cow died in vain).

Hmmm, prehistoric ancestors? How do you know - do you have pictures? Please share. Were you there to meet them? I think it's narrow minded to pass judgment on other people for the choices they make and I'm not even a vegetarian. Some people actually believe the earth is only about 7,000 years old and that our earliest ancestors actually were vegetarian. With that being said, the human body can thrive on a vegan diet. I know families who are on it and the are the strongest, most vital and healthy people that I know. There are many other sources of fat that don't contain carcinogens (cancer causing chemicals) like sodium nitrites and sodium erythrobates found in most red meats and pork. Oh, and by the way - the common person doesn't even know what PETA is or does so their influence I'd say is minimal or even negligible. Narrow minded is what narrow minded does. So maybe you're the narrow minded one for never having tried being vegetarian or vegan before spouting off against other people for their personal choices. Some people who have the average american diet and just drop out the meat will do damage to their physical health. But, if you're substituting the right plant foods in their place, you can get a much more nutritionally dense and have the right balance of fats such. The average person does need some education on basic nutrition to understand and have the right balance before going vegetarian or vegan. I can see your point in talking about teenagers who suddently proclaim that they are going vegan and just drop all meat products out of their diet while continuing to eat other junk foods and fasting when their bodies need calories and plenty of calcium to grow and they don't know anything about supplements and the right foods to eat when you are vegetarian or vegan. When a person just changes their diet for the sake of proclaiming that they are a vegetarian or vegan. That is an issue. People need to understand what it is and how to go about it. So, it's very expensive to be vegetarian or vegan, but it's also expensive to be a heavy meat eater, so I include elements of both in my diet but there's no sense in being extreme in either case and doing things like not eating wedding cake at somebody's wedding because it contains processed sugar! There's also no sense in the overindulgence of those horrendous fat and cholesterol , salt and carcinogen laden brats and sausages several times per week either. There is a healthy way to consume meat as well as a healthy way to be vegan or vegetarian. There is a very unhealthy way to avoid eat meat, sugar and animal products. There is also a healthy way to go about that too.

I agree. Everyone's body is not equipped to live without animal products. It's one thing if you like to eat don't eat meat or dairy but it's quite another to condemn people as "murders" and "unethical" for not conforming to what PETA deems as a "healthy" lifestyle. I had a friend who became a vegan and almost had a stroke because he body was lacking iron. PETA people are insane and delusional.

I don't see vegans with heart disease, high cholestrol, gout, obese, etc. It seems some animal products could possibly be necessary, but certainly not to the amounts in the average American diet. If vegetarians are able to find healthy alternatives to meat to save killing animals, I say : More power to them!

True. Think of how many hundreds of thousands of people would be out of work if everyone quit eating meat.

I don't disagree with PETA about the cruelty to animals but they have to be killed to eat. You can't wait on them to die of old age.

what we need is less animal cruelty... so it would be best if we found alternate sources of food. technology is advancing far enough to provide supplements for most anything we need... I hope in a few more years there is "artificial meat" like the products from Morningstar that will taste good enough and be healthy enough to make people switch.

cheers!

Wow, would be messed up, only PETA is against animal cruelty. Such as hunting for fur, abusing animals before slaughter etc. And no I don't belong to PETA. But do see their point.

The world would be overrun by cows spewing methane and manure to scr*w up the environment.

Plants would be over-fertilized by too much manure, thereby ruining plant crops, ending the food supply for all.

I am a vegetarian, but not a vegan. I don't think anyone's beliefs should ever be pushed onto anyone else. People should eat what they like if they want.