Are you a Veggie? Why or why not?

I'm a vegetarian because I love animals.

i'm a vegan because i really started to wonder why other people were vegetarians. I used to be the biggest meat eater and couldn't understand why someone would choose not to eat meat. I tried looking at if from their perspective and started to think about what would happen if i did this. I realized that if people can survive without killing a being then why wouldn't we? I figured it would equal less suffering in the world. After a couple of years of being a vegetarian i became a vegan.

Hitler was not a vegetarian. He claimed to be one but repeatedly said that he liked goose liver dumplings. He said things like he didn't eat meat, drink or mess around with woman to give the illusion of self control.

I'm a veggie! :-) I did it for health reasons, i don't feel comfortable with all the hormones and steroids that they put in the food, i had no idea until i read this book called Skinny B A S T A R D (it's hard to say the title of a book when they bleep it out) And then when i knew i could get all the same nutrients without eating meat and that i didn't need milk (who would've thought.....Hmmm) i was surprised and angry that they meat and dairy industry kept telling me i needed it when actually i didn't...So yea, i just got back from eating dinner with my omnivore bf, his mom, and her bf, while they all had chicken wings and this weird casserole type thing that had biscuits mix on the bottom, ground beef on top of that, and a thick layer of cheese on top, i had 2 healthy choice naturals entrees, Pumpkin Ravioli and Asian Pot Stickers, which is like dumplings but they have tofu and some other things in there too, yummy! and some orange juice

No, I'm not.

The biggest reason is the hypocrisy behind it: how is killing a plant any less worse than killing an animal? Both are living things. Nobody celebrates the death of the animal, covers themselves in its blood and dances around, you know. You say we have nothing in common with plants, therefore its OK. Well, we have nothing in common with Lobsters, either. Wait until the plant advocates wake up and insist the Human Race refrain from eating entirely, lest some organic sensibility be offended.

It's a fad and an inconvenient one. How many times did my late mother, an accomplished cook, cook all day for an evening dinner party only to be told "Oh, I can't eat this: I'm a vegetarian-but don't worry, we brought some soy burgers, now where's the kitchen?" Happened once too often. And IF you're a vegetarian, WHY ON EARTH would you try to approximate meat via veggies and cereals. Oh, that's gotta taste good! Felafel reminds me of birdseed seeped in oil.

It's ecologically unsound. Plants benefit the world as much as animals. Nature culls its various populations so that there will not be overpopulation. One of the ways She does that is two have creature eat plant or creature, or in some cases, plant actually eat a creature. If only Man practiced population control, by having his young people refrain from making babies at least until they're 21.

The myth of animal mistreatment is blown out of proportion: what do you think Abattoirs were like just 100 years ago? They had no way of humanely dispatching the animal: they clubbed it with a sledge hammer. The creature is stunned nowadays, and "never knows what hits it." That's the only way meat can be handled on an industrial level, and there's where the real gripe lays. Only Human Beings harrumph indignantly about the mistreatment of animals, while simultaneously treating their fellow man like dung on a day-to-day basis.

A healthy growing child needs to benefit from animal proteins, even if its only eggs, milk or cheese.

Finally, Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian and look at the trouble it got him into!

Yes I'm a vegetarian. I'm vegetarian because I disagree with the way the animals are treated, and we don't need meat to survive anymore.

I am a vegetarian only because i believe that animals shouldn't have to risk there lives just to be eaten. There are plenty of other foods god put out here for us to eat so why not take advantage of the good foods. Eating vegetables keeps you leaner if eat the proper amount and if you exercise daily. I have been a vegetarian for almost 4 years now and i am proud of it. The reason i started being a vegetarian was because i sat down one day and thought of how come animals don't kill humans to eat there meal and we do that to them. A horrible thing in these slaughter houses now is that the people there torture the animals. On youtube i watched this video of these guys throwing pigs and piglets into boiling water to kill them. For cows they hang them up by there feet and let all the blood go to their head, then they slit their throats with a butcher knife. Why put them in misery if they wanted to kill them they should just hurry and do it. Well anyways i get all my nutrition from eating fruits vegetables and grains and so far i am doing perfectly.

I have been a vegan for over seven months now. I didn't like the thought of eating a dead animal. It's just so gross to me. I also did it for health benefits because animal products are high in cholesterol.

I"m not a vegetarian myself, but it does irritate the crap out of me when people put down people who do choose to be veggies

I am vegetarian, just because it makes me feel really really bad to eat animals.

the taste of meat makes me sick! i have been a vegetarian since i was 11, not only did the meat make me feel sick when i was little i watched a video called Meet Your Meat, that made that twice as worse.

animals are friends not food.