How is being an lacto ovo vegetarian bad?

First, you're not a lacto-ovo vegetarian. You're a pescetarian. And being a pescetarian isn't bad, nobody said that.

Now, imagine if everybody just decided that even though they were only one person, they'd stop eating meat. Then, that would be everybody, and the companies would change their ways! So, we're being the bigger people, the ones that will do what's right even if it's not what everybody else is doing. And by the way, over the course of a lifetime, any kind of vegetarian DOES save many animals' lives. I hope I don't sound like I'm yelling at you. You're doing the right thing!

First off, I'm not going to yell at you.

Second, vegetarians don't eat fish unless they are pescetarians. Lacto-ovo vegetarians eat no meat, but eat dairy products and eggs.

You say that being a lacto-ovo/pescetarian vegetarian is not bad because the products will all be made anyway, no matter what we say. However, there is a glitch in your process of thought. When one person decides to become a vegetarian, they are giving up meat completely. Therefore, less animals are being killed annually than if everyone in the world were omnivores. Also, it's not all about the killing of animals, but supply in demand - what people want, they usually get. If people decide they want to eat meat, companies are going to supply it for them, but if we choose not to, the companies will not.

You also say that being a vegetarian, but not vegan, is NOT a bad thing. This can be true.

Many farms over-milk their cows, and force them to produce too many eggs, to the point where the chickens are being abused. That's the big problem with being a lacto-ovo vegetarian.

The name it's self says it all OVO-LACTO vegetarian! Ovo, like ovum, means egg, while lacto like lactose means milk, to be an ovo-lacto vegetarian means that you only eat eggs and milk but you do not consume animals flesh (anything with a face). I'm pretty sure the last time I checked any biology book fish fall under anamalia. Anyways, like other people have already said, we actually use up tons of water and grain to feed the animals we eat, and the average person actually has a much larger impact than they understand. The point I'm trying to make is how you view it is completely wrong. If everyone though like you and said "hey I'm one person, what difference does it make?" no one would be a vegetarian and millions of additional animals would die or be miss treated each year. Think of vegans and vegetarians as trendsetters, slowly more and more people will joint, and the impact will become that much greater.

First of all, you aren't an ovo-lacto vegetarian. You aren't a vegetarian at all. You're a pescetarian. There's nothing wrong with that, but you should know the proper word.

Someone could ask you the same question about a lot of things:

Not eating land animals won't stop their slaughter and mistreatment, so why bother?

Not going off to fight in a war isn't going to prevent war, so why not just join the military and fight in a war?

Not popping that pair of earrings in your pocket isn't going to stop shoplifting and theft, so why bother?

Not driving drunk yourself isn't going to prevent others from driving drunk, so why not hop behind the wheel after you've had one too many?

The point is that doing the right thing yourself isn't going to make a huge impact in and of itself. In general, one person can't make too much of a difference. Now, if they influence others, they absolutely can, of course. But for me, my decision to go vegetarian (and my decision to not kill or steal) are not about trying to make others behave in a certain way, but about not being responsible for things that I don't want to be responsible for. The fact that I can't solve a problem doesn't mean I should contribute towards it.

First of all, you aren't a Vegetarian if you eat fish. If you MUST have a label, you're a Prescetarian.

Second of all, removing oneself from the cycle DOES lower the demand, however imperceptibly. According to some estimates I've read, Vegetarians can save up to 300 animals a year, as well as saving TONS of grain, as we funnel 6 pounds of grain to get one pound of beef.

Being a laco-ovo Vegetarian is a bad thing because all you accomplish is creating more demand for tortured animal's secretions, some of which are rendered ridiculously unhealthy by the hormones they're fed.

And, even though this is ridiculously idealistic, if we show how healthy Vegans really are, maybe even more people will join us. The movement has been snowballing since the 80s.

You aren't a lacto ovo you're a pescatarian

and people who don't eat dairy are vegans vegetarians eat dairy.

because fish are still animals too.

watch earthlings part 5

It is estimated that 90% of the world’s fisheries are overfished; more than 40% of the world's marine fishery populations are heavily to fully exploited; and 25% over-exploited, depleted or recovering.

The fundamental cause of the crisis is that the oceans' resources are considered infinite and inexhaustible. Deep water, rough water and distant water are no longer obstacles to modern fishing fleets, leaving no natural refuges for fish to escape and replenish.

In the distant past, fish, as a resource, were used at a sustainable rate and people caught only as many fish as they needed. Since the 1970s with the improvements in modern fishing technology, an increase in the number of people fishing, and an increase in global population, the impacts of fishing have been escalating.

Modern fishing fleets use a range of technology including aeroplanes, larger nets, radios, sea-floor maps, and video sonar to locate schools of fish. With improved technology and the introduction of purse seine nets, longline fishing, drift nets and factory trawlers, whole schools of fish are able to be caught easily.

http://www.vnv.org.au/Articles/Fish.htm

Firstly, vegetarians don't eat fish. A lacto-ovo vegetarian eats no flesh, but does eat eggs and dairy. Omnivores (or pescatarians) eat fish.

As for your other question, it's all about supply and demand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand

Less demand for dairy products and fish in the market eventually = less fish and dairy.

These are my reasons for not including dairy or eggs (or any animal derived product) in my diet:

1. I don't know which is worse, being brought into the world solely for slaughter or being brought into the world to be used for your milk/eggs and then slaughtered. Put very simply, when a dairy cow can no longer produce milk, she is slaughtered and made into cheap beef. Same with chickens. When they no longer lay eggs, they are slaughtered. Plain and simple. This applies to organic, free-range, and factory farmed.

2. One word - Veal. I assume that any one reading this would know what veal is, but if not I will explain it to you. In order to produce milk, a cow must give birth (no, cows aren't just milk machines, they give milk for the same reasons humans do). If the cow gives birth to a female, that female is raised to also produce milk. If it gives birth to a male, that bull is raised for veal. This means that the calf is confined to a crate just big enough for him to stand up and turn around. He is given formula to ensure that he doesn't build up too much muscle. While we take the milk intended for him. No thanks.

3. Related to Number 2 (sort of). When male chicks are born in a layer house, they have no economic value. They are often ground up alive, suffocated, or simply thrown in a dumpster. Reading this statement makes my stomach turn.

4. It greatly decreases the lifespan of the animal. A cow can live to be well into it's thirties. The average age of a dairy cow is 5.

5. Its cruel. In other words, we do not need these products to survive and forcing cow/chicken to live in such horrible conditions simply because we like the way something tastes is wrong.

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